Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Beware of These SEO Mistakes

To err is human. We all know that. But it is also important to learn from your mistakes. In SEO too, there are some mistakes that are very commonly made and ignored by webmasters. If taken care of, avoiding these very mistakes can boost your rankings manifold.

Incomplete keyword Research

If you have not studied the ingredients and the recipe of a dish carefully, you will make a fool of yourself in front of your guests with a dish that doesn't taste or look like the way you or your guests had expected it to. Similarly, there is no idea making an amazing looking website that doesn't target your visitors in the right way. Your keyword research has to be fool-proof and very detailed. This might be little cumbersome and time consuming, but in the long run, this also means better visibility for your site.

Sites that take ages to load and open up

The internet is one of the fastest means of receiving or transfering information. In fact the net talks in terms of a fraction of seconds, not even minutes. Considering this, think of a website that is taking more than 2-3 minutes just to open up. Do you think the visitor will have the patience, time, or excitement left to wait for such a website to open up? I don't think so. Do away with all the marathonian graphics that maybe the culprits for this slow loading. Graphics are good only as long as they are very important and inevitable to the purpose of the site, otherwise all they do is to frustrate visitors.

Insufficient Linking

Are you not linking well with other related sites? If your are not, then God save your site. Because linking plays a very significant role in getting your site noticed and read. If you have quality relevant content in your site and are enterprising enough to search for links, you are in the race.

SEO is not just about buying some online visibility tricks and then rest is assured. It's a lot of sweat and blood work that needs to be done to reach those first ten or twenty pages in major search engines. Being cautious of the above mentioned mistakes can make a gulf of a difference to your rankings, visitor frequency, and sales.

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