The 5 Most Common SEO Mistakes

The 5 Most Common SEO Mistakes

I thought there would be sense in providing a consolidated list of things you most definitely DO NOT want to be doing if you want a high ranking in the search engines. There are 5 main things that literally hundreds of thousands of webmasters err on regularly.

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Your articles are great (i really wish i could aford you). You mentioned that frames are not healthy but my site is (today) number 2 on google (a week ago number one) and is with frames that are made via javscript. I have only tried to be honest in making the site and hoped for the best. The URL is URL
You taught me alot I hope someway this will help you. BTW, the key word that is important for us is "tefillin".
All the best and thanks again.

Not sure if you are referring to my article on the 5 SEO mistakes or not but nevertheless, congrats on your high ranking. I've had mixed results using the ole js frameset personally. I would advise if you are going to keep it, that you place the js in an external file. It seems to be working for you yet with such few competing sites you would very likely be top with a normal frameset and optimized noframe plus a few choice inbound links with your keyword as link text would suffice. I don't believe what you have done is spam, although I also don't think you need to do it either.

Excellent article webby.. I've printed it out and it's on my notice board

The mistake I have made is having too many pages with the same title tag but different content.

I'm going to work on that over the next few weeks, with over 1,800 pages it's going to take some time lol

Thanks Again.
Darren

Ouch@1800 pages.
Rather you than me lol.
Glad you found it useful :-)
Although there is nothing new really in it, the vast majority of sites still screw up by making at least one of the mistakes. I know some sites that do the lot lol.

I also have the problem of all the pages having the same title, but when I go to change that it's all grayed out - an uneditable region.

The article was good

I dont get what you mean Stinky. What do you mean specifically by all grayed out? Are using some kind of content management system?

Hi there,
Great article and thanks to everyone for this site. However, regarding the title, you say it should be left short to a maximum of 3 keywords or so. But I have seen sites with high rankings that spam the title. So will it actually do harm if your title is long? Or do you think it is just useless because the SE's only look at the first dozen characters or so? I am confused as to which I should follow. Thanks

Well it isn't that simplistic unfortunately. Those sites with high pagerank can get away with 3-4 keywords in a title tag making it commonly 7 words+. Those sites with little page rank may want to concentrate on one or two keywords per page meaning 2-4 words.
then you need to factor in the number of competing pages for your terms. The higher the competition the more you want to focus on single terms. A theme with little competition then you can target possibly up to 3-5 keywords calling for a longer tag. This at least has given a lot of success. Search engines most likely index the whole title tag but only show the first 60 characters(?)or so.
You mustnt forget EVERY page on your site is an entry point from search engines. Therefore you do not need to cram everything on your homepage. Spread out your keyword choice over all your pages.

Yes, I use dreamweaver with a template and can't edit that part.

Ahhh. Yeah I've seen that problem before.
Solution: load the page in notepad and change and save it manually from there. You shouldnt have a no edit on a title anyway. Each page is different and to have just the one title for all pages is not too clever seo wise.

I have some opposite views here. The sites with less PR need to have more keywords in title so that they atleast get some descent traffic. And sites which have a high PR can concentrate on 2-3 keywords per page for title.
And its nothing like getting away. You can have even 20 keywords in title. It will only help. Nothing to loose.

Gaurav.

Then those with low pr have two disadvantages.. Low pr and no keyword density in the title tag. If you have low pagerank the last thing you want to do is dilute the onpage optimization by going for numerous keywords. If they are VERY niche then ok 3-4 but with low pr you need to make up for that which means very focused pages. One or two keywords were page, but many of them.

Webby, I didn't know how to get the edited Notepad file back into my page- overriding the non-editable region - so I went in and stuck a title tag in BEFORE the noneditable region began and was able to change all the titles that way and made them more descriptive. In case that helps anyone else.

Edit the template, and create an editable region around the title, and another one for metadata. That way, you can put whatever you want in the head section for any page, JavaScript, style sheets etc. Should take one second to do.