5 Common SEO Mistakes

SEO either it is On-page or Off-page. It is very necessary to follow all the rules and guidelines of it. To keep this in mind, Today, I am going to share Common SEO mistakes you should avoid.

5 SEO Mistakes You Should Avoid

A better SEO will take your blog to the next level. In the similar fashion if you are misusing the SEO, You know I am talking about Black hat SEO. Your website might be blocked permanently from Search.

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Don’t Hide your Cornerstone Articles

Cornerstone Articles are articles which you can proud of. These are the articles which shows your website motive and your aspiration toward your website.

An article with a less internal link is less important in Google’s eye. Please take care of internal links properly. To keep Cornerstone articles alive you should give direct links or you can use it as an internal link into another post.

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Don’t use keywords which are too generic

Use the right keywords always. Like if you use a generic keyword like “rental car” It simply means you are dealing with all the car rental services.

You have to choose a very specific keyword which should be specific to your own business. Like focusing on long tail keywords. I have seen so many websites and web pages who try to rank with a very generic or common keyword and they fail every time.

The bigger reason is your big competitors. If you follow the long tail keyword then it might decrease your search volume. But you can compensate on the thing by adding some more post or pages on the same topic with different keywords.

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Unoptimized Images

Large Images will increase your page load time. It will lose your customer or viewer interest and Google also doesn’t take these websites seriously, which have a high load time.

Website Loading Speed

Faster the site speed more the google will favor it. Google itself has a tool for it for the accurate measurements of all these aspects called Google PageSpeed Insights.

You should use this tool to know what is right for your blog? In simple words reduce your webpage loading time. For this, you can also enable browser caching or Gzip compression which will lead to enhancing the full website load time.

One more thing you can do is, you can reduce your plugins number. You can check there might be some plugins and their functionality wich can be done by a single plugin. So you can replace that. It will also reduce your website load time.

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Fail to generate CTR

To enhance it you can focus on Meta Description and Meta title. The meta description should be a summary of all your web post content and it should also contain keyword and keyword related term

Mobile friendliness

You all know 60 per cent of your traffic is from mobile. It can be even more in your case as well. But, most of the bloggers are busy in making their desktop website version looks cool and amazing.

I hope you understood now which common SEO mistakes you should avoid. There is a lot to say. But I will cover those in different topics with different scenarios.