SEO the Things to Avoid

[justtupeu]

Nice tips.. Thanks

[bwb]

Don't use the same Title Tag throughout your site. Try using a unique Title tag for each web page and use your most important keywords in the Title tags that hold theme relevance to that page.

What about say for an article having: THE ARTICLE TITLE and then the same thing that is on all your pages' titles after that? So maybe: THE ARTICLE TITLE : AT ARTICLE SITE.COM YOUR GUIDE TO ARTICLE BLAH

Avoid using JavaScripts or JavaScript links. Spiders cannot crawl links in Java Script so its better that you don't use JavaScripts but if you must use it then make sure that you use a text link at the bottom of each page.

I'm pretty sure this will change over time as google has been testing java enabled bots, plus this is being used by lots of people for more black hat type stuff.

Always remember to use navigation menu at the right side of each page of your site, why? because search engines count the first few phrases appearing on the page, this way you would provide the search engines the content first.

Do you mean they give the first stuff on the page higher rank? I disagree with this, h1 and other html tags do this... but it shouldn't cause you to change your navigation sturcture and worst case you can use css positioning to fix this.

Can you share any links where you are getting this info etc?

[Bernard]

Originally Posted by bwb

What about say for an article having: THE ARTICLE TITLE and then the same thing that is on all your pages' titles after that? So maybe: THE ARTICLE TITLE : AT ARTICLE SITE.COM YOUR GUIDE TO ARTICLE BLAH

While it's better than having the same exact title repeated, it's not so good for helping the sub pages rank on terms specific to their (sub-)topic (ie. the stuff after THE ARTICLE TITLE).

A while back I remember reading some results posted on another forum from a test someone did indicating that Google only indexed/used something like the first 10 words of the title tag. Not sure if that is still valid, but I think it is best to get the most important keywords at the beginning of the title tag.