SEO The Things To Avoid

[dsouza]

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.

Don't use any other META tags such as author, date, etc. unless you absolutely need it. This will just increase your page size and will not do any good to your site.

Most major engines cannot read frames so I will advice you that you don't use it but If you must use frames, include important body text within a <no frames> tag.

Avoid using completely Flash designs because a majority of major engines can't index flash sites and Flash sites take some time to open fully so it my be frustrating for visitors who don't use a broadband to wait hours for the site to open.

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.
Keyword stuffing: Keyword stuffing refers to the extremely repetition of a keyword when it is not even needed. Many people stuff keywords in their pages in order to increase their keyword density and thus get a high ranking. But be careful as I said its very very risky please don't try this it may get you banned.

Invisible or Tiny text: Many webmasters use tiny text and invisible text in order to rank high by showing lots of text to search engines but at the same time making it invisible for the humans this also viewed as spam.
Never submit more than the allowed number of pages per engine per day or week. Each search engine has a limit and exceeding their limits can be seen as spamming the search engines.

Do not participate in link farms or link exchange programs. Search Engines have identified them as spam and they don't want you to use it.
Don't use "&id=" parameter if you want maximal Googlebot crawlage (many sites use "&id=" with session ID's that Googlebot usually avoids URL's with that parameter).

Don't stuff your page with keywords and no content. The search engines will penalize you for this and view your page as spam.

Do not put redirects or META refresh tags on your page for any reason. They will get your pages banned from the search engines. A common trick used to be to create a page 100% text and highly search engine friendly but of 0% user value, then have a redirect to the real page. This doesn't work anymore - avoid it

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.

Make your site is search engine friendly. Its no use having the best site in the world which no one can find. And for every one's sake don't mess around with hidden layers to get a high listing on the engines. It is JUST NOT worth the risk!

Don't link to a bad neighbor, because linking to a bad neighborhood can get your site banned from the search engines as soon as his site gets banned by the search engine the search engine may ban you also.

You can read more of my articles from my seo articles directory. You can also read my search engine optimization tips here.

[MrNiceGuy007]

nice it'll be a lot of help to those looking for infos about SEO and the business of marketting

[Sonal]

Hi, Nice sharing with all of us. But I think this is all a basic for a search engine optimizer. This is will help for a new in seo world. Thank you for sharing with all.

[e_marketing_india]

Search engines have become lot smart in the past few months.

Google has become over-smart and has evolved several new techniques to maximize profits through PPC

If each and everyone is ranking on top, who would prefer to spend money on PPC ?

With this strategy in mind, Google is following a process to even go to the extent of websites which are trying to score higher rankings on search engines.

After about 10 years people will post threads like :-

"If you want to score higher rankings on search engines, then do not use SEO Optimization. If search engines see websites which is being optimized, they will put you in Sandbox"

[Kaabi]

Pretty good list. Ha ha, funny observation e-marketing india.

[esco_448]

Originally Posted by e_marketing_india

Search engines have become lot smart in the past few months.

Google has become over-smart and has evolved several new techniques to maximize profits through PPC

If each and everyone is ranking on top, who would prefer to spend money on PPC ?

With this strategy in mind, Google is following a process to even go to the extent of websites which are trying to score higher rankings on search engines.

After about 10 years people will post threads like :-

"If you want to score higher rankings on search engines, then do not use SEO Optimization. If search engines see websites which is being optimized, they will put you in Sandbox"

I totally agree with you

[peterko]

Agree, that's very possible, in a while the search engines will start panishing optimized websites, simply because they might be considered as artificial.

We all alredy know that SEs like everything natural, content, links, anchor texts etc. So, unpredictable search engines, especially Google, will benefit the sites which look simple and natural, even without optimization.

Have a great day

[khat]

That's not good.. I am an SEOptimizer I will lose my job if that will happen..Hope google will still want web pages to be optimized forever..

[Rexibit]

Very nice. Search engines are a fickle thing and it is always good to read a refresher every so often by someone else to see common ideals.

[x3mario]

Great reminders to all of us.

[kaede1107]

nice advice. i'll bookmark this one. thanks for sharing.

[alex27]

Thanks for your post..this is a big help for me since I'm just starting to learn seo.

[LailaScott]

That's basic but a very good reminder for all of us. Thanks for that!

[potchie]

"If you want to score higher rankings on search engines, then do not use SEO Optimization. If search engines see websites which is being optimized, they will put you in Sandbox"

oh god.. so what must be the method here..

well for me.. it depend on your process.. iam doing this SEO thing 2 years in my life.

[ezhel]

if google will be smarter, then who else will market their website?and if google will be manipulating marketers then who will patronized them?definitely marketers needs an expert to keep a high rankings or to be on top,obviously internet marketing has a big competition and everyone was striving to be on top,that's why they need SEO, marketers wouldn't allow their competitors to be ahead of them...I guess google will still be considerate on those sites who are well optimized and this will varies depending on the techniques they've been using.

Originally Posted by e_marketing_india

Search engines have become lot smart in the past few months.

Google has become over-smart and has evolved several new techniques to maximize profits through PPC

If each and everyone is ranking on top, who would prefer to spend money on PPC ?

With this strategy in mind, Google is following a process to even go to the extent of websites which are trying to score higher rankings on search engines.

After about 10 years people will post threads like :-

"If you want to score higher rankings on search engines, then do not use SEO Optimization. If search engines see websites which is being optimized, they will put you in Sandbox"

[ermonrice]

Very informative post, helpful to those searching for more SEO tips

[morph07]

Originally Posted by e_marketing_india

If each and everyone is ranking on top, who would prefer to spend money on PPC ?

With this strategy in mind, Google is following a process to even go to the extent of websites which are trying to score higher rankings on search engines.

Definitely Google already anticipate this will be happening. That's why i really admire Google when it comes in money making. Now, its just a matter of when will be that day...

[wisam74us]

Thanks for sharing, I think the offpage factor (inbound links) in your thread needs more do and do not. Link building unlike before (inbound links at the worst scenario will not harm) could get your site banned.

[Copybuild]

thanks for that great piece of information.

[Mousee]

Some specialists say that search engines became more friendly to Java scripts. Are they mistaken?