Common SEO Mistakes – Free SEO Tutorial (Part 2)
Posted by La Hunter on December 19th, 2009
By Kenneth Koh
In this article, I’m going to document some important SEO mistakes that I came across. Visit this page regularly because I’m going to update it from time to time. Whenever I come across a new mistake that worth noting, I will list it here.
Simply avoiding these mistakes can drastically improve your search engine ranking.
Let’s start with the most common mistake of all……
1. Going after competitive keywords
General keywords are usually competitive keywords. If you do not conduct any form of keyword research, chances are you will think of keywords that are too general and hence too competitive.
For example, if a person runs an internet marketing related blog, he may want to optimize his blog for “make money online” (which has 149 million competing webpages!!). Someone running a Forex website may want to optimize his site for “forex trading” (which has 11 million competing webpages!!).
Aiming for competitive keywords with huge demand is not wrong, but it’s too ambitious. You may be building links like mad, but still wonder why you are not seeing any improvement in your search engine ranking.
The secret here is to go for keywords with some demand and low competition… Read Story Here
