What was your SEO mistake when you first started out?

Early on, I chased volume, more content, more links, without checking if it matched search intent. Once I fixed that focus, results followed.
 
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Once I shifted my focus to improving my sites overall quality instead of just building links I started seeing better long term results.
 
james.johna said:
I guess everyone must have committed at least one wrong step when learning about SEO.
What is the mistake you committed in the beginning which either wasted your time or even money? It would be interesting to hear some practical experience from people who have done this for long.
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I wasted time chasing links and quality building content
 
At the start i am focusing to much on the header tags and meta tags. I thought by using this with too many keywords in my blogs get me great ranking
 
PeakyBlinderss said:
My biggest mistake was expecting quick results. But it takes time, and i learned that the hard way.
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Yes, this is a very frequent one. The thing about SEO is that there will be a huge payoff when you don’t just focus on doing things for immediate results.
 
Boost Master said:
I think trying to learn everything at once is a common mistake Focusing on the basics first makes the process much easier
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Yeah, it’s pretty hard to try and figure it all out at one time. I would stay on the bsics, apply those to a project and go from there.
 
Sololeveling1 said:
Early on, I burned a bunch of money buying cheap PBN link packages, thinking volume was the secret to gaming Google.

It took getting hit by a penalty and spending months disavowing garbage to realize that five solid, relevant links beat ten thousand automated backlinks every single time.
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Yeah, been there before. Link building with links of low cost may seem impressive, but just one quality link from a relevant website could be more valuable to you in my view.
 
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