The Big NO'S For SEO

[juststeven]

Update 18/07/2013: This article is outdated.

Some not to do's when it comes to SEO!

‘Submit your site to google a thousand times using those awesome submission sites’, Em no
So people think that by submitting there site to Google loads of times on the same day will give them a better ranking. Well no, Google will blacklist your site so stick to around 1 once a week.

‘OMG! 1$ for 10,000 backlinks, that’s cool’, Em no
A lot of sites claim that they will submit your site to 10′s of thousands of sites for a really cheap deal well no as 99.99% of these people submit your site to every whois,find ranking site on the web and you know what, Google hates that! It has a fair percentage of these sites blacklisted so it will only decrease your ranking doing this. Make sure your getting your site submitted to quality sites before you buy!

Relevance Is Key
A big mistake most people make is submitting to sites that are completely unrelated to your sites subject. For example if your site was about clothes and you submitted on a racing car site, Google would find you out. It looks for relevance. That is the quickest way for your ranking to drop.

 

[sapper]

Some not to do's when it comes to SEO!

‘Submit your site to google a thousand times using those awesome submission sites’, Em no
So people think that by submitting there site to Google loads of times on the same day will give them a better ranking. Well no, Google will blacklist your site so stick to around 1 once a week.

‘OMG! 1$ for 10,000 backlinks, that’s cool’, Em no
A lot of sites claim that they will submit your site to 10′s of thousands of sites for a really cheap deal well no as 99.99% of these people submit your site to every whois,find ranking site on the web and you know what, Google hates that! It has a fair percentage of these sites blacklisted so it will only decrease your ranking doing this. Make sure your getting your site submitted to quality sites before you buy!

Relevance Is Key
A big mistake most people make is submitting to sites that are completely unrelated to your sites subject. For example if your site was about clothes and you submitted on a racing car site, Google would find you out. It looks for relevance. That is the quickest way for your ranking to drop.

First one is true

Second one is true

Third is not completely correct, Google will give a lower ranking for lesser ranking for non-relevance, but what counts more is the reputation of the page that the link is coming from, if that page has a high rank, then Google will rank the link well.
The Panda and Penguin updates are more to do with content and quality now than popularity, this has been done to stop link farms working, now Google algorithms will assign each page a reputation, based on it's content, and accuracy, so we need to stop thinking of PR in terms of Page Rank, and more in terms of Page Reputation.

 

[juststeven]

Some not to do's when it comes to SEO!

‘Submit your site to google a thousand times using those awesome submission sites’, Em no
So people think that by submitting there site to Google loads of times on the same day will give them a better ranking. Well no, Google will blacklist your site so stick to around 1 once a week.

‘OMG! 1$ for 10,000 backlinks, that’s cool’, Em no
A lot of sites claim that they will submit your site to 10′s of thousands of sites for a really cheap deal well no as 99.99% of these people submit your site to every whois,find ranking site on the web and you know what, Google hates that! It has a fair percentage of these sites blacklisted so it will only decrease your ranking doing this. Make sure your getting your site submitted to quality sites before you buy!

Relevance Is Key
A big mistake most people make is submitting to sites that are completely unrelated to your sites subject. For example if your site was about clothes and you submitted on a racing car site, Google would find you out. It looks for relevance. That is the quickest way for your ranking to drop.

First one is true

Second one is true

Third is not completely correct, Google will give a lower ranking for lesser ranking for non-relevance, but what counts more is the reputation of the page that the link is coming from, if that page has a high rank, then Google will rank the link well.
The Panda and Penguin updates are more to do with content and quality now than popularity, this has been done to stop link farms working, now Google algorithms will assign each page a reputation, based on it's content, and accuracy, so we need to stop thinking of PR in terms of Page Rank, and more in terms of Page Reputation.

Thanks for the feedback 🙂 I may update this in the future but it is still important to try and build relevant backlinks is it not?

 

[sapper]

Relevance is a key, but relevance + page rep, is far better, and page rep on it's on is far better than relevance, that is why it is so much better to backlink from .gov & .edu sites if you can

 

[juststeven]

Relevance is a key, but relevance + page rep, is far better, and page rep on it's on is far better than relevance, that is why it is so much better to backlink from .gov & .edu sites if you can

Thanks for the clarification 🙂

 

[MrJohn]

Relevance is a key, but relevance + page rep, is far better, and page rep on it's on is far better than relevance, that is why it is so much better to backlink from .gov & .edu sites if you can

I wouldn't say that. You don't get as much value from a random .edu or .gov site as you do from a relevant site that is somewhat reputable. Plus you don't get any referral traffic from a site that is not relevant to yours, which means you are missing out on even more traffic.

 

[sapper]

Relevance is a key, but relevance + page rep, is far better, and page rep on it's on is far better than relevance, that is why it is so much better to backlink from .gov & .edu sites if you can

I wouldn't say that. You don't get as much value from a random .edu or .gov site as you do from a relevant site that is somewhat reputable. Plus you don't get any referral traffic from a site that is not relevant to yours, which means you are missing out on even more traffic.

Did I say non relevant .gov and.edu sites, there are many on almost any subject, for instance if you get involved in the football governing bodies site and leave a link, and you run a football site as I do, then that is relevant isn't it ? one has to assume some degree of intelligence in members or we are all sunk.

 

[MrJohn]

Relevance is a key, but relevance + page rep, is far better, and page rep on it's on is far better than relevance, that is why it is so much better to backlink from .gov & .edu sites if you can

I wouldn't say that. You don't get as much value from a random .edu or .gov site as you do from a relevant site that is somewhat reputable. Plus you don't get any referral traffic from a site that is not relevant to yours, which means you are missing out on even more traffic.

Did I say non relevant .gov and.edu sites, there are many on almost any subject, for instance if you get involved in the football governing bodies site and leave a link, and you run a football site as I do, then that is relevant isn't it ? one has to assume some degree of intelligence in members or we are all sunk.

I guess I jumped the gun a bit, but usually online people tend to go for the .gov and .edu links even though they are not relevant. You are definitely correct though, as long as they are relevant, they can be solid links to build to your site.

 

[MasterA]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Beverly]

Another big no-no for SEO is allowing your site's content to go stagnant. Google loves new content, so adding new content to static pages, even the home page or adding new blog posts will be very useful to attracting Google's attention and keeping your site relevant in search engines.

 

[Quacker Jack]

Interesting content. The world of SEO is still relatively new to me, so thanks for the information. 😉