Comments on: Top 5 Worst SEO Mistakes

By: robseo

robseo — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:31:42 +0000

“The mistake webmasters make is to repeat the same title tag on every page of their site.” yes it is very common mistak.

By: richard

richard — Fri, 11 May 2007 07:30:10 +0000

useful article. duplication of content can be a big problems

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:32:46 +0000

Yup, thanks for pointing that out. WordPress doesn’t do it by default and it looks like I lost the edit to make fix it when I did the switch to the new design.

By: ozgression

ozgression — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:35:46 +0000

Chris, it looks like you make “mistake #2″ on this blog?

By: Hi-Tech

Hi-Tech — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:31:53 +0000

I’d say another mistake is to not have a sitemap – whether on your site or submitted to G & Y. It’s relatively easy to do and helps your site get fully indexed.

By: Myspace Layouts

Myspace Layouts — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:50:20 +0000

I would partially agree with the sitepoint 5 worse SEO mistakes being poorly written. Althought most of the ones listed are good points in general they are definatly not the worse. Also the part about Non Standard Page Titles is complete BS. Every good SEO knows not to use “stop words” or other meaningless words in a pages title as they are trying to suggest be done.

By: Ken Barbalace

Ken Barbalace — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:48:54 +0000

#1 and #2 are probably the most common mistakes and the easiest to screw up. #2 is especially easy to screw up with content management systems or similar database driven pages.

Even when one wants to use dynamic drop down pages there is really no excuse for not making them search engine friendly. Heck one can build completely dynamic menus using the :hover pseudo class and only need to rely on JavaScript to replace the :hover pseudo class for IE5 & IE6 (IE7 now supports hover mostly correctly).

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:19:50 +0000

Hi, we crossed paths on the Sitepoint forum and you made a few good points to help me out with SEO mistakes. I did a blog about what I have since learned. If you reach the bottom, you will see your name in lights! cheers

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:50:45 +0000

Erm no. session IDs will still stop your site from being indexed, or ranked correctly. Just using &id= will not. They aren’t the same thing or the same issue. Session IDs cause a problem because they are long strings of numbers of letters that are constantly changing, which confuses the crawlers.

You’ll notice they left in the part about sessions IDs in their webmaster help:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

Thanks for the link though, hadn’t read that.

By: JT

JT — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:23:34 +0000

#3 is incorrect. Google, Yahoo, and MSN all index ‘id=’ in the URL whether it’s a session id or a page id. This was recently confirmed by Vanessa Fox of Google. I do agree that you’re better off not using it, but if it’s used correctly, then you shouldn’t have too much of a problem. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/10/update-to-our-webmaster-guidelines.html