SEO Mistake 1: Not using keywords correctly.
Many people who don't have much experience in SEO are concerned about being banned from the search engines for keyword spamming so they limit the use of keywords on their website pages. As long as your content sounds natural and is easy to read then the chances are you have not overused your keywords. Make sure your keywords are included in the first and last paragraphs, in your headings and in your title and meta tags.
SEO Mistake 2: Trying to fool search engine spiders.
Search engines are a lot more sophisticated than most of us realise. They recognise hidden text, keyword spamming, and cloaking (which is showing different content to the search engine spiders than to your visitors). All of these practices will simply hurt your page ranking and can in fact cause your website to be banned by the search engines, which means no one will find you - and no traffic means no profits!
SEO Mistake 3: Using Flash
Flash is a great presentation tool and can be your website look very exciting and user friendly, unfortunately for most website owners it’s just not necessary and can harm your page ranking. Search engine spiders cannot read content embedded in Flash files, which means they’re not indexed so will not show up on search ranking.
SEO Mistake 4: Using Only Your Company Name as a Title Tag
Your company name shouldn't be the only contents in your title tag. Feel free to include it, however it’s also important to use your primary keyword for each webpage title tag. This is more useful for your customers and helps the search engines identify the various pages on your site. Also it makes it easier to find from within the browser history.
SEO Mistake 5: Using A Splash Page
A splash page is a web page with a large graphic or company logo, and a link to enter the site. This is an ineffective strategy for a number of reasons:
- No keyword rich text on the page, nothing for the spiders to index.
- Only one internal link on the page
- These pages often have a redirect which often causes spiders to ignore them
If search engine optimisation is important to your business, you may need to skip the splash page.
Your home page should be very easy to navigate, full of useful contents with keywords and link visitors and spiders to other main website pages.
If you have committed a few of these mistakes as you were trying to out smart the spiders then simply correcting them can increase your page ranking almost immediately. Take some time to evaluate your SEO strategy and eliminate these SEO mistakes.
