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[seoraju]

Can anybody help me to find about common mistakes which we should keep in ours mind while doing Search Engine Optimization?

[amki]

Can anybody help me to find about common mistakes which we should keep in ours mind while doing Search Engine Optimization?

Could we start with me being silly, seoraju?  I'm not trying to smart off at you or put you down.  It just popped into my head to say that the best place for you to start would be to post your question in the proper forum,  which would be the Main Discussion Forum, I think.  I don't see a forum just for SEO stuff.

I suspect that English is your second language, and I would never 'pick on' anyone because of that, so let's just laugh together as two people who are new to posting on this forum.

Now to try to be really helpful:  why don't you do a Google search for 'common SEO mistakes'?  Some other searches that might get some good results would be 'seo tips' or 'seo help.'  There's a LOT of SEO information on the internet, and if you add the word 'free' in front of the search terms I mentioned, you'll probably find a lot of ebooks that really go into SEO in a big way.  All you have to do to get them, usually, is just sign up for a newsletter.

I hope this has helped you and that you didn't mind joking a little bit with me.  It's the end of my day here in New Zealand, and I'm tired and silly and just letting off a bit of steam.   

[marysmith]

Not Starting Early Enough
Picking a Poor Content Management System
Use Crawler Unfriendly Development Methods
Duplicate Content Pages
No Canonical Redirect
Pseudo Duplicate Content
Thin Content Pages
 Poor Use of Internal Anchor Text
Over-Optimized Pages
Not Investing in Site Promotion

[jenn_k]

1.  Using the same keyword more than twice in a Title tag – Having the same keyword listed in your heading 3 times or more will in fact reduce the relevance and strength of those keywords.  Most important factor is that it’s readable to the user and is an accurate description of your page.

2.  High keyword densities – Including your targeted keyword is obviously important but don’t think for one minute putting the keyword in every link on the page and in every paragraph will make your page more relevant – it won’t.

3.  Not having a Valid XML Sitemap – Create one and submit it to the webmaster consoles on the major search engines.

4.  URL’s not containing any keywords - Yes, I’m still seeing utterly useless URL structures.  Just remember to include an accurate description of the page content in the URL.

5.  Using <H1> tags more than once on a single page – There should only be one <h1> tag per page.

6.  Not giving each page unique Meta data – should be relevant to each page’s content and unique – you will see benefits in doing this – trust me!

7.  Using the same anchor text in all links – Unless you have been around for years, just don’t bother using the same anchor texts in your links.  Make them as varied as possible, you will see see an increase in your targeted keywords if your site is optimized properly.

8.  Putting analytics code at the beginning of your body content – Doing this will slow down the page content load which will effect usability.  The amount of time is not large but noticeable to search engines, always put it at the end of the </body> tag.

9.  Not using accurate image descriptions - Stuffing keywords in image descriptions will do nothing for you and may even harm your rankings if used excessively.

10.  Not having a 301 redirect setup – It’s not hard to do and it will help with your indexing like you wouldn’t believe!

[Chris Lockwood]

Wouldn't it make more sense to ask for the best SEO tips, rather than mistakes?

Or are you trying to mess up your site?

[kirksmith888]

IMHO, knowing the mistakes and avoiding them is as important as knowing how SEO should be done.   

[rickyhelmore]

One common mistake while doing link building in SEO is to get links with out looking into the quality of links.
Good quality link is that that is from the site related to your site and the out bound link on that page should be less i. e 20 or less and also the links should not be nofollow.