What are the most common SEO mistakes that you've seen?

[christiwraich]

In my opinion, keyword cannibalization, wrong keyword selection, building backlinks that are not related to our niche, and keyword stuffing are the most common SEO mistakes that we have seen in day-to-day life.
Are you doing with the same mistakes or anything else?

 

[hipcat]

Too many webmasters forget the importance of user experience when creating their site and focus too much on trying to please the Google bot....

 

[christiwraich]

christiwraich

Absolutely right! Many webmasters are trying to please the Google bot. Even though they are consistently working on link building. As a result, they are not getting good marks in search results.

 

[luxeweb]

Inconsistency and mismatch of the subject of the site, the search queries for which it is promoted in Google

 

[dragonballshirts]

Common SEO Mistakes

Slow Site Speed
Page Load Time
Possible Fixes
Bad Reviews on Google
Faulty Google My Business Verification Code
Lack of Location-Specific Pages
Duplicate Content
Broken Images and Missing Alternative Texts
Outdated Content and Information on Site
Not Optimizing Your Website for Mobile
Contact Form Isn't Converting
Broken Links
Low Text to HTML Ratio
Pages Not Indexed
Improper Length of Title Tags and Meta Description
Long Messy URLs
Faulty Redirects

 

[christiwraich]

christiwraich

Yes of course. But I think bad reviews on Google are not SEO mistakes. Reviews are based on the quality of service that we offer to the users or customers. It is not a point of SEO mistakes in my opinion. Can you elaborate on this?

 

[Traffic]

Buying anything with mispelling as a typos. Most search engines will auto correct at search level.

 

[raghuram01]

SEO marketers make the biggest mistake by focusing on content instead of links

 

[Kocerroxy]

I think the crucial mistakes are the optimization of the site, like speed, time of loading page, and missing mobile upgrade. After these come what contains the website, keywords, and backlinks.

 

[Shobhit_22]

Hey Kocerroxy,

I agree with the common SEO mistakes that you have specified. Along with that, I would like to add more points to it that we see nowadays. Here it goes:

1. Unable to set your Audience
2. Not focusing on search intent while preparing a content strategy
3. Choosing the Wrong Keywords
4. unorganized navigation & orphaned pages
5. Degradation in Mobile and Voice Search
6. Not Using Internal Links
7. Skipping Title Tags & Meta Descriptions and Forgetting to Provide Context with Schema
8. Content Irrelevancy
9. Publishing Duplicate Content
10. Not using Google Analytics data
11. Not Improving Your Bounce Rate
12. Not using Google Search Console data
13. Ignoring 404s or broken links
14. Non-secure HTTP sites
15. Poor page loading metrics

 

[henny]

I think wrong keyword selection is the most common mistake. Another mistake is thin content or bad content in SEO content writing.

 

[bigbenunited]

Common SEO Mistakes are

Duplicate Content
Slow Website Speed
Short URL's
Hidden Linking
Bad Reviews on Google
Not Optimizing Your Website for Mobile

 

[johanbehl]

I am sharing some common SEO mistakes that most of the website owners do on their sites. Here mentioned below:

• Duplicate Content
• Duplicate Content
• Missing Alternative Tags
• Improper Length of Title Tags and Meta Description
• Outdated Content and Information on Site
• Broken Links
• Low Text to HTML Ratio
• Pages Not Indexed
• Slow Site Speed
• Bad Reviews on Google

 

[Traffic]

Every place there is a space for meta tags, keywords if you don't actually fill them out is a penalty.

 

[Traffic]

• Duplicate Content
• Duplicate Content

You could copy a site and have the person flagged that created it if more popular as plenty have done it. Duplicate can also be down to same scripts or same layout templates there is plenty that will trigger it. Bing is nailing duplicate content. Even AI will set off the duplicate alarm also. More reason to find a niche and write own content without bots.