Beware of the Top 5 SEO Mistakes in 2012

Even the most professional SEO’s often make mistakes. So it is always a good idea to have a little idea about the commonly made SEO mistakes that can cost you a great deal when it comes to search engines rankings are concerned. To get rid of the SEO mistakes, what you must do is to check your affiliate or online marketing websites to find out whether they are totally error proof and if not spend some time to remove the errors from your websites.

Beware of the Top 5 SEO Mistakes in 2012

Titles tags that are not abide to the SEO rules

Use of relative keywords on title tags are very important if you want to rank high on search engine result pages. For this you need to have a clear conception about the title tags. The title tags are the clickable  link that is found on search pages. It is a must that you should have the most important keyword on your target tag. This will help search engine spiders visit your website and offer you a good ranking on the result pages.

Wrong keywords to target

Targeting the wrong keyword is another big SEO mistake that is most often committed. A proper keyword analysis is very important for increasing the visibility of your website. Only relevancy with your website does not make a keyword perfect for your site. You need to find out that the keywords that you are intend to target are searchable over the net and what is the search percent or how many people are exactly search with that particular search term. You can take the help of various keyword analysis tools that are available over the net which are complete free of cost. One such keyword research tool is the Google keyword tool. You can seek professional help too to find the right keyword for your site.

Too many graphics and flash designs

The search engine spiders that crawl your sites cannot understand the flash designs that you put upon your website. if you really want to have flash and graphics on your marketing website, be sure you incorporate a HTML version too. Most SEO’s do not create the HTML version in order to make the URL of the site to get located easily and so compromise in the search ranking. It is true that graphics are cool to look at but too many graphics are not good for your ranking. Make sure you have text with relative and good keywords on your site, especially on the title tag instead of graphics.

URLs sans keywords

Your URL should and must contain the most targeted keyword. It is not that your clients won’t find your website without a keyword enriched URL but the problem will be that search engines will not be able to locate your site as your URL will not be optimized with the keywords. So if you want to be ahead in the competition be sure your URL contains the keyword.

Poor content

Scrap or low quality content is another mistake that the SEO professionals often make. When we consider the content to be the king, so make sure that it is the best part of your website. However, it is the content that draws the visitors towards your website. People like qualitative and informative sites and so does the search engines. Appoint professional writers to write good contents for your website and update it at regular intervals for good SERP ranking.


Vijayraj Reddy is founder and editor-in-chief of SearchEngineFreak.com. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ or send him email at admin@vijayrajreddy.com

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17 Responses to “Beware of the Top 5 SEO Mistakes in 2012”

  1. Aadith says:

    The main thing is content .,Without quality content getting traffic is nearly impossible even if u are good at SEO.
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  2. Using flashy design is not good these days. Improve blog loading speed to get more hits from Google.
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  3. Abdul Rehman says:

    Hey Vijayraj, interesting article with important mistakes that people need to avoid. Google keeps upgrading and improving their algorithms all the time, and I believe that it will be a major hassle if many of these issues are not dealt with in time at our part. It is already becoming very tough for some internet marketers to keep up. :(
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  4. gauthamnekk says:

    Thanks for mentioning the mistakes, Everyone must follow this if they want to avoid penalized by google algo changes
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  5. yeah good tips btw
    will try not to do any of the above mentioned mistakes ……..i think content is most important to get more traffic
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  6. Sanjib Saha says:

    What i personally feel is the content is the real King , no doubt at all. But Keyword is the key to get success. As you have mentioned, proper keyword research is important, i copletely agree with it. Along with the SEO, quality is equally important. Only then the blog can succeed. Thanks for sharing the wonderful article.
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  7. thanx alot u for sharing the mistakes we should not commit,, actually m committing the first and thirst mistake but now i wont do it again
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  8. Sanjeev says:

    Good points Vijay. Hope they will help me. Thanks for sharing.

  9. TechGopal says:

    content is always king so it’s most important point which should be cared
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  10. Raj Kumar says:

    really nice article ………….i get to know about one of my mistake that is i use lot of graphics and pictures
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  11. Ujjwal Kumar says:

    nice article ………….specially for a newbie coz they repeat such mistakes a lot
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  12. Neha says:

    Javascript also should not be used.

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  14. Keyword selection and good content are the main drivers for blog success. As long as content is top-notch, search engines keep sending traffic.
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