3 Simple and Silly SEO Mistakes to be Avoided

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization is the most crucial thing for your website or blog. Allow me to let you know that, some of the SEO techniques are not useful for your website. You might have been using a number of these for quite some time already. However, you should know that some SEO techniques are useless.  What are the common SEO mistakes that one must avoid ?

Everyone want their site/blogs to be on the search engine’s list, but for that you need to apply SEO tips and strategies. Website experts and owners employ various techniques to optimize their sites. Of course, they need to secure the visibility of their site. Thus, different SEO techniques and strategies are implemented. However, you need to get rid of SEO techniques that are not really helping your site. Check out the 3 common SEO Mistakes that you should avoid.

Flash Graphics/Animations

I have seen many people look forward to use flash animations in their site. All they want is to attract their visitors with it. It might look good for your website and can potentially attract visitors but it is the biggest mistake for SEO. Extreme use of flashing won’t allow the search engines to optimize your site. The embedded texts associated with Flash are virtually unnoticeable or invisible to the search engines. Thus, if spiders and crawlers cannot read it, they cannot index it. In addition, some of the portable devices, like iPads and iPhones, are not compatible with Flash, thus it cannot be displayed. So I would recommend not to flash up your site, rather use a clean simple elegant theme, easy to navigate and it will bring more visitors to you

Poor/Excessive Keywords

Well with any doubt we all know, the use off keywords is the most common SEO technique. Keywords are very important for your site but also bear in mind the law of balance. Poor keyword content is critical to your site’s visibility. Too much keywords will not help either. If you keep on inserting all your target keywords everywhere, you are putting your site at risk.

The use of excessive keywords is known as ‘Keyword Stuffing‘. Keyword stuffing is dead now. We should stop using this trick now to rank better in Google. Google can penalize your site for Keyword stuffing. Search engines might mark your site as suspicious. So do use keywords, but use it wisely.

Slash Chase

Site Links or we say Backlinks are the best SEO technique to increase your blog’s traffic. It creates a trade of knowings of your blog on other sites. However, you need to be very careful in using backlinks. It should be counted as one page. Thus, if your link has a slash symbol (/) at the end, make sure that it has a slash (/) symbol on other parts of your site. The result of not having the same link, even if it is just a slash, is that search engines will count it as a different page.  Check the compatibility of your backlinks.

These are the most simple SEO mistakes that many people often commit and it can be avoided with just the rectifications of the above steps. Good Luck !