10 Critical Mistakes that Might Drown Your Google Ranking
1. Multiple pages, subdomains, or domain redirects with duplicate content.
2. Lack of a site map to highlight all your web pages.
3. Lack of unique Page Titles
4. Lack of unique Page Meta Descriptions
5. Frames or flash intros, especially on your home page
6. Ultra long URLs of the following sort that have no particular meaning: http://www.casalarga.com/index.cfm?method=storeproducts.showlist&productcategoryid=ac96dd03-c3fa-a96a-abee-1233123f91ba
7. Lack of internal cross-linking (pages linking to other pages on your site)
8. Lack of other, external websites linking to your website
9. Pages that are “under construction”.
10. Keyword stuffing (deliberately cramming your pages with keywords without incorporating them into well-flowing website copy)
4 SEO Components that Drive Website Rankings
A customer once told me, “I don’t really need SEO for my website. If anyone wants to find us, they can type our company name and we will be the first name to pop up on Google search results.”
I replied with the following: “SEO is a marketing strategy, like all your other marketing strategies, whose goal is to bring new leads and new business. If your other marketing channels are bringing so much business that you cannot handle it, by all means, don’t waste your time; don’t invest in website search engine optimization. But if you think that there is no such thing as “enough, no more customers”, then optimizing your website for online search is a must.
The Lowdown on SEO and Website Optimization
At the heart of every SEO strategy is a group of components that are very important for the successful ranking of your website.
