You Will Destroy Your Blog With These SEO Mistakes

You Will Destroy Your Blog With These SEO Mistakes Make Money Online Queries? Struggling To Get Traffic To Your Blog? Sign Up On (HBB) Forum Now!You Will Destroy Your Blog With These SEO MistakesUpdated On 23/04/2017Author : Alicia ATopic : SEOShort URL : http://bit.ly/2ozraT0 CONNECT WITH HBB ON SOCIAL MEDIA Follow @HellBoundBlogWhat is bad SEO tricks and why it matters?Well, a greatly written blog does not mean anything if no one knows of your existence. Thats the reason why bloggers had been trying to figure out ways to get to the top of the search engine results, ever since the early days when search engines were first introduced. Being at the top usually guarantees more traffic to the blog. This is the essence of SEO (Search Engine Optimization).Today, there are tons of tips easily available on how to improve your SEO.However, in this article, rather than tell you what you should be doing, lets take a candid look at what you should NOT be doing. Yes, there are unethical tricks that some bloggers use to try to increase their si tes ranking. You should avoid them. Well, at least you should, if you intend to stay around longer on cyberspace! Here are some of them.Keyword StuffingSearch engines conduct searches based on keywords requested by users and attempt to match them with appropriate sites. This led to keywords stuffing by bloggers.This technique used to be a very popular technique many years ago. The idea is to get as many keywords, albeit some being unrelated, stuffed into the post. Other ways include camouflaging keywords in the same color as the sites’ background as well as reducing the font size to very small.This trick will eventually be caught by search engines bots and the site removed from the index.What you should do: Dont stuff, just sprinkle your keywords and make sure they make sense.CloakingAnother sneaky trick some webmasters used was to show separate content to the search engines crawlers and to the sites visitors. It was meant to increase the sites ranking through usage of targeted ke ywords and then misled search users to click on their link.It would probably work in the beginning but do be warned that search engines are pretty smart these days and will detect it sooner or later and ban the site.What you should do: Create quality posts with well-researched information. Earn your visitors’ respect and don’t destroy your hard work by being impatient!Link BuyingWas popular and still is. Many are still buying links from high traffic sites to improve their own sites ranking. There’s lots of debate about whether this is right or wrong but lets leave that to another post.READWhy You Need To Be Careful While Going For Cheap SEO ServicesInstead, lets look at what search engines would do if they detected this method on your site. They would not take it into consideration when calculating the ranking. It has been reported that they have even banned sites because of this. Though not all are being caught but it pays not to take the risk.What you should do: Put your mon ey into other more effective Marketing Strategies.Links SwappingRight, this last one is not exactly deceiving. When I started Blogging many many years ago, it was THE thing to do. I put your link on your site and you put mine on yours. I did find it somewhat phony especially when I didnt quite fancy that blog. But it did work in terms of SEO.Today, this is not so effective anymore in raising your page ranking. Search engines just don’t take much note of it in their search algorithms, and if done too much they will de-index your page!What you should do: You can still link to other sites. But now, do link to those that are relevant to your topic or business and if you think your readers would benefit from them too eg a reliable source of information. If you could get another credible site to link yours without you needing to link them back, thatll would be absolutely great!SEO these days are more about creating a more informative and relevant surfing experience for your readers. So dont play dirty.As a powerful Jedi Master once advised This is a dangerous time for you, when you will be tempted by the Dark Side OK, this may be overly dramatic but you get what I mean. Avoid bad SEO practices and say no to black hats techniques. You may find that the journey is slightly longer to get to the top (of search results) BUT you will definitely find yourself staying at the top longer.This article is written by Alicia A. She is a web designer and developer. Loves WordPress themes and plugins. Blogs at 100WPThemes.com. If you wish to write for HBB, kindly check this.