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Here are 3 huge mistakes I have made in regards to SEO:
Underestimating the power of links
One part of my SEO strategy that has never received much attention is link-building. It’s incredibly important, but for some stupid reason (call me lazy) I never got around to it. Well, at least I never got around to getting quality links, webmaster central says nusuni.com has thousands of links, but only a handful actually help at all.
I still think nusuni.com’s rankings have done fairly well despite the low number of links, however.
Not getting to know other bloggers early on
An absolutely enormous mistake I made early on (and even make nowadays) is the failure to contact other bloggers. Other bloggers can really help you out. Many times they will subscribe to your blog, give you tips, leave comments, etc, all of which can be beneficial to you, your readers, and your blog’s search rankings (links, etc). Plus it is always good to have someone you can e-mail or IM if you need help.
Not Using Titles To Their Full Potential
I have said many times before that titles are probably the most important part of a web page. Before I learned that I never really cared about them, and it really did hurt in my early days of blogging. Luckily now I’ve gotten so used to writing *fairly* good titles that I don’t even have to think about them, they just come naturally.
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July 3rd, 2007 at 4:07 pm
It’s much better to have all mistakes fixed as soon as possible. There is a batch of really BIG commercial sites that have a TOTAL MESS in their gigabytes of content, now there must be in REAL troubles
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Yeah, early detection is absolutely important, was talking to someone last night on AIM who has to go through and fix tens of thousands of lines of code for some chunk of software because their last programmer sucked, I feel bad for the guy lol.
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Okay, now think about folks from Wikipedia. They won’t ever have that mess of code fixed
July 5th, 2007 at 2:55 am
I’ve made quite a few myself, but it’s all a learning process foe me
July 5th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Yeah, like everything it’s just a giant learning process. Gets a bit annoying after a while though.
July 7th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I made the same mistakes a year back. you learn as you go
July 8th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Your third point on importance of title, I totally agree with. Title pay an important role in search engine position of site.
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July 10th, 2007 at 6:02 am
Thanks for sharing. I do agree it is important to know your fellow bloggers and readers.
July 11th, 2007 at 10:41 am
All of those are very important for generating Search Engine traffic. Nice list.
July 26th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
I feel that getting in touch with other bloggers in your area would be the most important thing to do, actually even more important then building links. This is because if you know people with common interest, links wil definitely come in.
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