A bad SEO technique is as bad as not having any SEO done at all. As a SEO savvy webmaster, this is something you never want to do. To avoid this, you’ll need to know the mistakes that webmasters make. We’ll tell you about those in this lesson.

Mistake #1: Bad Navigation

In the hopes of attracting search engine spiders, many webmasters neglect the simplest and perhaps most important part of a web site: the design. Webmasters fail to remember that not just spiders will be on this site, but also human people. These people don’t want to go to a site with a bad design and horrible navigation. If they come across such a site, they are inclined to never visit it again. Webmasters should never forget to think about their visitors and what they’d like to see. If they do, they’ll end up making a bad impression and losing potential visitors.

Mistake #2: Too Many Keywords

When SEO first came along, some webmasters began to find ways of getting an advantage above others. One such popular tactic was that of keyword stuffing. If you don’t already know, keyword stuffing is the process of placing a lot of keywords in a piece of content in order to attract more search engine spiders and boost their traffic. However, search engine web sites caught on to this and began to program spiders to ignore sites with larger than allowed numbers of keywords. Nowadays, web sites are ignored for having too many keywords. Don’t make this same mistake—stick to a keyword density of 3-5% and you’ll be fine.

Mistake #3: Not Enough Keywords

While some people stuff their pages with keywords, others don’t use enough keywords. Don’t think that using a keyword 5 times in a 1000 word piece of content is enough. It’s not. It barely makes a dent from a SEO standpoint and will not do much to bring spiders to your site. That’s why you should make sure you use enough keywords in a page of content. Like we said above, 3-5% is sufficient.

Mistake #4: Incorrect Title

As you probably already know, the title tag is the first thing that visitors and spiders see when they come to your site. It is supposed to be a description of what your site is all about. When a title fails to be an accurate description of the site, it is considered to be an incorrect title tag. If you have an incorrect title tag on your site, you can pretty much kiss SEO good bye. It really is that important. A correct title tag would be something like Name of site.com   Home of ‘niche’. A bad title tag would be keyword, keyword.

Mistake #5: The Same Title Tag

This is a very common mistake among those webmasters who want to create a site that is the same throughout. Having the same title tag on every single page of a site is bad because it makes the site seem unoriginal and fails to describe what each page on the site is. When making title tags for your site, make sure they are page specific.

Mistake #6: Bad Content

Many webmasters are so obsessed with title tags and keyword usage that they forget about the actual content. The content is a huge part of the SEO process. Content that features poor grammar and spelling can really harm a site’s chance to rise in search engine rankings. You have to remember that not just spiders, but actual humans will be reading your site, so you should remember that it is at least readable for them.

Mistake #7: Hidden Text

Hidden text is essentially just like keyword stuffing. It involves writing a bunch of keywords in the page and making them invisible to everyone else. Only spiders can see them, and the hope of this is to gain more attention from the search engine spider. However, that does not occur anymore because of the fact that spiders are smarter than that. They will not pay attention to a site with keyword stuffing or hidden text, period.

Lesson 10 Wrap-Up:

In this lesson, you learned about the top mistakes webmasters make in SEO. Hopefully by knowing about these, you won’t end up making the same mistakes they did.

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Lesson 10 – Common mistakes that webmasters make

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So what can you do about it? Well you could hire an SEO expert, although this is going to cost you several thousand pounds and there’s no way of guaranteeing results. Alternatively, you could sit down and start pouring over the existing research and conducting your own testing to find out which optimisation strategies are most effective.

Additionally, you could try to implement keyword criteria, meta tagging, appropriate linking to your website and increasing content relevancy within the search engine criteria, although this is going to be virtually impossible unless you have years to learn and the energy and inclination to do so.

This is where Submit Suite can help. The Website Submitter application is an all encompassing tool, designed to promote and enhance rankings within the various search engines. Covering all the submission processes for all the different search engines, Website Submitter also submits your site to over one hundred thousand different directories with one click.

Additionally, Website Submitter boosts the all important backwards links, which play a major role in giving your website its ranking within the search engines. Website Submitter is the ideal website promotion tool, largely reducing the need for advertising online. With this simple software package, you can significantly increase the popularity of your website and ultimately benefit from increasing revenues.

Furthermore, Website Submitter is tried and tested, ensuring a stable software application to give you a distinct advantage over the competition. And there is no limit to the number of sites you can submit. The Website Submitter is an essential tool for anyone serious about improving search engine rankings and boosting their sales online.

So what are you waiting for? Improve your chances on the search engines today, by downloading Website Submitter from Submit Suite now.

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Website submission techniques

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The Search engine submission process bypasses that whole element of chance and makes sure that your website is given the head start of actually being included within the listings. This means that any additional optimisation conducted on your website will have optimum effect and you will be guaranteed to see some results in improving your search engine ranking.

But search engine submission can be a laborious and time consuming process. With different submission requirements for different search engines and so many different search engines to cover, submission can take hours of hard work and dedication. With Submit Suite, the process of submission is automated for you, removing this burden of tailoring individual submission requirements and filling out forms.

Submit Suite makes the submission process easy and allows you to free your energies for devising optimisation strategy. In addition to that, Submit Suite’s submission service also gives you an insight into some of the key tips and techniques for improving your site’s ranking within the most popular search engines, potentially increasing traffic and customers to your website.

With Submit Suite’s search engine submission service, you can benefit from years of search engine marketing experience and an unparalleled knowledge of what makes the search engines tick. Applicable to any website, you can ensure fast and effective submission for long term results. Combined with in-depth analysis of search engine criteria, you can ensure that your website is given the best chance of an elusive top ranking and enhance your chances of driving relevant traffic to boost sales.

The Submit Suite package is ideal for any online business, looking to grow whilst cutting overheads.

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Search engine submission

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Additionally, there are an ever increasing number of article directories and it is valuable to make sure you cover all the bases. That way, you can be sure you’re going to have the edge over most of your competition. Again, keeping track of all the directories that keep springing up and their submission requirements can be highly time consuming and you could easily eventually end up spending longer submitting your articles than actually writing them.

This obvious source of inefficiency can be cured by Article Submitter. Designed to automate the submission process, Article Submitter keeps up to date with the latest directory developments and knows exactly how to submit your articles within no time at all.

With an easy to use graphical user interface and unparalleled functionality, Article Submitter is an indispensable tool in the armory of any serious internet marketer. By submitting to more directories, you are improving the number of backwards links to your website, as well as increasing the exposure of your brand name through a diverse range of internet searches. Additionally, the knowledge expounded by your articles can reach its potential through extensive submission to over 255 article directories with the click of a button and drive traffic towards your website without the hassle and fuss normally associated.

And what’s more, Article Submitter continually keeps on top of the developments within article directories and their submissions procedures, as well as updating to deal with new article directories as they appear. With Article Submitter, you can be sure you’ll never miss an opportunity to submit your articles online.

Update on July 17th 2007:

Following the example on my previous test: How to get from PR0 to PR4 using only Directory Submission, I have done some experiments with an article I have published the last days. The article is named : Article Submission As Organic SEO Technique.

Here are the results of the tests:

Submission to article directories: 400 article directories using Article Submitter
Author profile: author profile contains 2 links to Submit Suite website
Indexed pages in Google with the article: 413

Search results positioning (extreme interesting) for the following phrases:

Article Submission As Organic SEO Technique – first position on Google and Yahoo
Article Submission Organic SEO Technique – first position on Google and Yahoo
Article Submission Organic Technique – first position on Google and Yahoo
Article Submission Organic SEO – first page on Google and Yahoo
Article Submission Organic – first page on Google and Yahoo
Organic SEO Technique - 2 results on 1st page in Google, 1 result on 1st page in Yahoo
Article Submission SEO – 3rd page in Google

And these results in less then 14 days after the article is submitted.

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Article submission experiment

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