5 On Page SEO Mistakes that one should avoid

Search Engine Optimization is an excellent way to drive blog traffic. But what happens when one is doing on-page SEO in the wrong way or repeating mistakes…then the same SEO will destroy the blog and will not only decrease the Page Rank but may also penalize your blog with Google Algorithm Update. So you should know the common mistakes repeated by most of bloggers, especially newbies, while doing on page SEO.

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5 On-Page SEO Mistakes that one should avoid:

Although the list of on-page SEO is quite long, after going through the practical approach, I have selected some common mistakes that one should avoid.

Odd Post Title or Page URL:

What happens when your blog post or page title has URLs like yoursite.com/p123 or something similar to that? In that case, the search engines will be unable to understand the post or page title, and alternatively, it will not appear in the search Engine Ranking. So while selecting Post Title or Page Title, try to use meaningful keywords to enable the title.

Duplicate Title Tags:

The first thing that attracts visitors and can cause huge targeted traffic is the use of SEO optimized Title Tags. But what happens when we repeat the same title in more than one of our posts, then Google takes it seriously and considers it as a spam action. According to Google, every page of your blog should have unique content, and there should be no duplicate title tags or even content.

Improper Use Of Keywords:

Keywords are the main source to be on the first page of search ranking. For this, we mainly select keywords( by using Google AdWords Keyword Tools) and try to put them at different places in our title as well as in the content.

But we should focus on the quality and their proper use because irrelevant keywords will give us nothing, and even if we have selected the right Long Tail keyword, then its proper use is necessary so that we may avoid keyword spamming.

Too Many Advertisements:

Everyone wants to get some reward from blogging, and for this, they normally use advertisements like Google AdSense,buy-sell ads, or even something else. He also tries to keep these ads above the fold, so that visitors may see them without scrolling.

But this is against the blog’s health and will not only irritate the visitors but may also increase bounce rate, and alternatively, the blog may be penalized by Google Panda and Penguin.

So try to avoid too many advertisements and try to keep them within the limit.

Low-Quality Backlinks:

Backlinks are considered to be an important source of getting traffic and to increase Google Page Rank. For this, we usually do Guest Blogging and blog commenting. But one thing we should keep in mind is niche-related blogs. Because unnecessary backlinks from low-quality blogs will affect the blog’s Page Ranking.

Also, we use some other ways to get quick backlinks to increase search ranking, but we should keep in mind that Google is smart in that sense because building too many backlinks in a short period may penalize your page rankings.

So while doing SEO, we should avoid the above on-page SEO mistakes, so that we can improve the search engine rankings of our blog and can drive a lot of organic traffic.

2 thoughts on “5 On Page SEO Mistakes that one should avoid”

Jill Mendez
June 20, 2013 at 11:09 am
It is good to read posts like this. SEO experts do know this mistakes but it is also good to read it over and over again to help us remind what need to be done on a site even on a blog.
- Rafaqat
  October 4, 2013 at 9:37 pm
  of course seo is the main thing to promote blog and to get organic traffic,so it is important to avoid these black hat seo mistakes.