10 Common SEO Mistakes

If you notice your website with any of these, either bury your head in the sand or change it immediately to see better search engine rankings!

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 its readable to the user and is an accurate description of your page.

2. High keyword densities - Including your targeted keyword is obviously important but dont think for one minute putting the keyword in every link on the page and in every paragraph will make your page more relevant - it wont.

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

4. URLs not containing any keywords - Yes, Im 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 pages 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 dont 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 - Its not hard to do and it will help with your indexing like you wouldnt believe!