Signs Of Poor SEO

As much as we pay attention to finding the best SEO experts in the industry, we should also pay attention to identify poor SEO. Here are some signs of poor SEO.

The first sign is stuffing of long list of keywords in the Meta Keywords section. There are number of self-made SEO specialists who think that you can get good rankings for your website by just adding the keywords to the Meta Keywords. It is recommended that your Meta Keywords should be no more than 250 characters. So if you are going to add 40 to 50 keywords then you cannot expect any positive results. Such an approach will only dilute your efforts.

Secondly, the keywords added in the Meta Keywords section does not correspond totally or partially with the page content.

The third problem area is over stuffing of keywords in the sites content. Some webmasters think by repeating the same keyword 25 to 30 times or more will bring better results. This will only do harm to your SEO efforts so never go overboard with your keywords.

The fourth common problem is to have same title tag for all the pages of the website. Sometimes the same trend will be followed for the Meta Keywords as well. Every page will use the same template of title tags, Meta Keywords and Description. Good SEO will make sure that each page has a unique title and specific set of keywords relevant to the content of that page.

Fifth mistake is trying to optimize the page for many keywords. This again will dilute your SEO efforts. So you must limit the count to 3 to 4 words maximum per page. Just concentrate on 3 to 4 keywords per page and keep changing each page with a different set of keywords.

The URLs of the website will read as index1, index2, index3 etc. If you happen to buy some cheap web templates online, you will find all the pages named in this fashion. So having URLs like the above example will damage your search engine rankings. So good SEO will take care of the naming of the URLs in a search engine friendly way. It will include the main keywords in the URL.

Besides having the same page titles poor SEO will allow lengthy page titles. Recommended size of the page title is 80 characters.

If there is an undue attention to only one of the aspects such as content or link building or page tags, etc., it is a clear sign of poor quality SEO. Good quality SEO will consider all these factors and it will not compromise on one of these factors over the other. Good SEO will try to balance all these factors.

In poor quality SEO, the alt tags too would be missing.

These are just some of the common signs of optimizing one’s site poorly. These mistakes are often committed by self-made SEO specialists. You certainly would not like your site to have all the problems discussed above so make sure to double check that all these factors are effectively taken care.

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