Do You Make Any Of These SEO Mistakes

Your rankings may fall rapidly, you may find it tough to get rankings or worst of them all you get banned from search engines.

However relax cause if you know what not do to and give search engines what they want by doing proper seo you are always on safe side.

These are somethings webmasters do that can cause problems:

1) Trying to cheat search engines. You cannot cheat them, so whatever method you think will help your rankings but you know it is sort of cheating than it is not good to do. That includes adding too many keywords (or repeating same ones) in title, keyword and description tag. Do not over repeat keywords in your website just to get higher keyword density or for some other reason.

2) Do not get too many links too fast. Getting link is important but they may create problems. If you know what black hat seo is, you should avoid it.

Getting many links from same IP address is not good. Getting links with same anchor text is not good neither. Do not stop getting links otherwise spiders notice that and think your site is no longer useful since no one is linking to it. Do not get a thousand links at once again cause it also looks strange.

To understand this point you must know why it is bad to do such things.

The search engines must not understand you are getting links to improve your rankings. You must get links as if people are linking to your site cause they find it useful. And if that is really the case then it is very rare that a ton of people will link to your site using same anchor text. So since it is rare, the search engines spiders notice that and if you keep doing things that are abnormal finally the spiders will penalize your site.

If you submit to directories, do not use always same title and description. If you do, it looks really ubnormal and spiders as I mentioned will notice that. Do it as if others are linking to your site, so change the submission information every now and then.

If you have more than one page on your site, and you should have more than one then do not get links always to your home page. Get links to your other pages as well sometimes. Again for same reason to look as if people are linking to you. Sometimes we say to look natural.

Keep your site organized by creating sitemap and a good menu for your website. Do not just create pages and pages and throw them somewhere on your site. Spiders want your site to be great for Google visitors. So make it great for your visitors and at the same time you are also giving spiders what they want. If you have a lot of pages there is no need to link to them all from the homepage. You can group links together. For example a page for your articles where you list links to your article pages. Another page for your resources where you list links to other resources you have on your site. Keep everything simple.

3) A site gets totally banned for one major reason: You link to another site that is already banned. That is why it is important not to make link exchanges with sites that are banned. Banned means they are not even indexed and not because they are new sites. You can remove the link to the banned site and that might solve the problem but there is no guarantee.

4) Check your link partners and remove those that are no longer linking to your site. There may be few sometimes. If you keep linking to those that do not link back you give them pagerank without receiving and rankings may fall a bit.

5) If you submit articles and you also put them on your website first thing you must do is put them on your website. Only afterwards start submitting them to article directories. That way your articles are recognised as yours by the search engine spiders. Many people will put your articles on their sites. By the time they are submitted and someone starts to put them on his site spiders have already seen them on your own site and marked them as yours. This is not a mistake but simple a better way to do things...

So apart from doing proper search engine optimization make sure you do not make any mistakes that can create some problems. Keep also in mind you can fix what mistakes you did and if you lost rankings you will either regain positions or at least stop loosing any more rankings. The method to fix is to undo what you did wrong after you identifying what you did wrong.

Karl Sultana site is called OutRankSmart and you will find out more about Search Engine Optimization And Link Popularity.