4. Using Keywords That Are Wrong

A great way to improve your SEO is by building your content around keywords that are relevant to searchers. Doing this will not only increase the clicks on your site, but will also improve your ranking greatly.

Getting the keywords right entails conducting extensive keyword research. Many tools are available on the web to aid your keyword research needs, and Jaaxy is created at your disposal. These tools will show you how keywords compete and other details about keywords.

An important thing to note is you must avoid getting drawn into using short-tail keywords. Though search engines prefer them to the long-tailed ones, you have to understand that big companies prefer them as well. This means that you’d be getting into competition with these big corporations. So, always aim for low competition keywords.

5. Stuffing Your Content with Keywords

As much as it’s important to rank high, adopting this practice will turn out to be rather desperate and counter-productive. Stuffing your content with keywords is an effective way to derail the intent of your content.

This strategy may have worked before, but because of the dynamism in the world of SEO, it’s outdated now. Rather, you’ll make search engines flag your content as spam.

It’s best to rather focus on giving content of great quality to your readers and then the traffic will come naturally.

6. Producing Content that is off Point

It’s okay to create content that targets specific keywords but you derail the whole idea when you include irrelevant keywords. Remember that search engines are in the business of proving search results that tally with the search intents of searchers.

So, keep in mind that search engines won’t bother ranking your site when your content is not useful to the search terms of users.

7. Neglecting the Use of Internal Links

Internal links make navigation on your site easy for your readers. It makes your site user-friendly enough to save your readers from spending so much time looking for useful content.

It even gets interesting because it gives users the impression that your site is stuffed with rich content. So, this is sure to make readers explore your site for more relevant content.

8. Not Optimizing Images for SEO

Images and videos are very helpful to your readers. Including images that are relevant to your post gives your readers a visual idea of what they are reading. This will help people understand your content better.



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FKelso Premium Plus
very good information, Israel. It's astounding to me how much you know about online practice.
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Israel17 Premium
Hey Fran, thanks for your amazing comment! Glad you found this SEO training informative and helpful! Thanks for the compliments! You rock!

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laurenjean Premium
Thanks a mill, Israel. Im pretty sure I've made every one of these mistakes.

I've found my SEO technique has improved enormously since the All-in-One SEO update, which has prompted me to take greater care to include meta descriptions, SEO titles and internal links.

I also picked up some fabulous tips on a Premium Plus course by Tim McKinlay. I made a number of tweaks to my sites and have been inserting internal links to related posts and I'm seeing a nice boost in traffic. Interested to see where this leads.
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Israel17 Premium
Good to know, laurenjean! There's nothing so sweet like spit-testing a couple of strategies in SEO and picking what works. You have an amazing experience in the world of SEO.

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Jessiefido Premium Plus
Isreal, my friend, how you find the time to keep churning out fantastic training after fantastic training I'll never know!

Almost daily your knowledge and wisdom expands my outlook and learning within the online world.

You are much appreciated my friend!
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Israel17 Premium
Good to know you are learning more and more from these vital resources by the day, Jessiefido! Thanks for the words of encouragement, my friend! See you avoid those killer mistakes that can negatively impact your ranking!

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Jenny28 Premium
Thanks for sharing Israel.
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Israel17 Premium
Most welcome, Jenny! Thanks for reading my SEO training! Much grateful!

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vvidmar Premium Plus
Thank you for this training. I am still working on my use of long-tail words :)
So if I understand correctly, if I use Achor text in my posts, that will positively affect my SEO ranking? Thank you for your reply.
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vvidmar Premium Plus
hi, and thank you for your fast reply :)
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TheAbiePPlus Premium Plus
No worries, you are so very welcome.
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Israel17 Premium
Sure, vvidmar! As anchor texts are used to build internal links and internal linking is used to make navigation easier for the audience, it's no doubt you'll see better results in rankings and traffic. Thanks for stopping by!

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Hey
Abie got you covered.
Please reach out if you need help or a hand.
Wishing you well, continued success and a terrific day.
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