I would like to know your biggest failure in an SEO project
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love to know what mistakes people have made in the past that can help me and others not to make the same mistakes going forward ...thankyou
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thanks for you comments from someone very experienced like yourself in the old school methods now needs to adjust and that takes a lot of effort and re-training
my biggest mistake must be putting my website on the bottom of a escort site on each page thinking it will help my ranking lol still waiting for them to come off !! ....you live and learn )
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I have made many mistakes and learnt from them, The first mistake in 2013 is to not google how to do SEO because many of the links and pages are directed at old school SEO from before the penguin and panda updates. Keyword density is now 1% unlike many sites say! Obvioulsy Duplicate content is a no no, asking in here is a start .Do not use keyword stuffing. The mistakes I made worked for me last pre Penguin and i had many pages ranking page 1, but since the Penguin, I have had to clean my site and make sure I have no old school SEO running through it. Some plugins can destroy your rankings my advice would be to double check before adding some new plugin offering amazing results. I have added plugins that have killed certain aspects of my site. Content is king and the new new rules of SEO is social ! The more people that love your content and share the more google appreciate the effort. Depending on what you site is aiming for (Which market) Do not get backlinks from low pr sites, Good backlinks is the key, again you can see online so many companies offering high PR sites backlinks for $20 etc, Stay away, be on control of your own links the atleast you know what you are linking too. Just write amazing content and share share share.
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Thanks Keri I have added a bit more be nice to know . do you make mistakes;)
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I've changed this to be a discussion question. Could you give us some more context regarding this question and what type of information you're looking for?
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