JIpuchy
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Whats you biggest SEO mistake?
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noellarkin
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- Mar 14, 2021
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Not buying enough domains.
Not automating everything.
Not learning blackhat earlier.
Being a naiive content+outreach+branding chode.
Not automating everything.
Not learning blackhat earlier.
Being a naiive content+outreach+branding chode.
username700
Banned - Selling via PM
- Feb 25, 2021
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Ignoring SEO experts' advice
RandomPhantom
Regular Member
- Nov 7, 2008
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Had a popular and very active forum running some open source forum script. Decided to switch to vBulletin.
Lots of people was linking to individual posts from their websites and blogs to the old post URLs.
The gigantic mistake was that I didn't redirect the URLs from all old post URLs to the new posts.
The forum did basically die after that.
This was years ago tho.
Lots of people was linking to individual posts from their websites and blogs to the old post URLs.
The gigantic mistake was that I didn't redirect the URLs from all old post URLs to the new posts.
The forum did basically die after that.
This was years ago tho.
paisawaisa
Elite Member
- Mar 23, 2022
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Trusting google employees for the advice they gave.
FromAfrica
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- Feb 11, 2022
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No joining BHW 10 years ago, when i first heard about it
I was a born again Christian and though the word black and hat is a place where dark web people, hangout
If i can remember, i visited blackhat then and left, the looks and feel was a bit different from what we now have know
I was a born again Christian and though the word black and hat is a place where dark web people, hangout
If i can remember, i visited blackhat then and left, the looks and feel was a bit different from what we now have know
Roger Marquez
Elite Member
- Apr 17, 2017
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Not testing enough
- Mar 21, 2013
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If you have ONE worst mistake, then you haven't been in SEO for very long
I have one worst mistake for every update cycle. It changes all the time. The SEO I did in the 1990's is completely different from what I do in 2022. What was a mistake then, might work now and so on.
I have one worst mistake for every update cycle. It changes all the time. The SEO I did in the 1990's is completely different from what I do in 2022. What was a mistake then, might work now and so on.
Roger Marquez
Elite Member
- Apr 17, 2017
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The question was the biggest, sure you will have lots of mistakes if you´re doing SEO for as long as you have but, for me personally, at least, the biggest mistake I´ve ever made in SEO is not testing enough.
I obviously have made many other mistakes but that one is by far the one that has caused me the most.
I obviously have made many other mistakes but that one is by far the one that has caused me the most.
Myitsolutions
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- Nov 2, 2019
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If you didn’t buy my PBNs, then it can be your biggest SEO mistake can be
#justsaying
#justsaying
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Buying Cheap PBNs.
rankpowerhouse
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- Apr 4, 2022
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Years ago I spent a lot of time on a consumer finance site. It was an off-shoot of another niche finance site I'd made that was performing amazingly well on Google for a super competitive keyword.
So, I'm working on this more ambitious consumer finance site; I've got the branding down, I have excellent content, I have a lot of regional data that was being dynamically produced based on a users' search - it was really smart and that same technique is what was helping my niche site do so well.
But the issue was that this consumer finance site would not rank. I kept refining things, adding more content, improving the UX, and of course, building great backlinks. I was getting really creative with the ways that I acquired them.
After months and months of work and not seeing it rank at all, I started to think I must have gotten a penalty or something. I started to move away from this project and instead focused on something else.
Maybe a year later I revisited the site and I just happened to look at the source code when I saw rel="noindex" in the <head> tag.
I could not f***ing believe it!!
I had checked my source code so often, searching "index" and seeing rel="index" in there...
What I had done was added two separate lines far enough away from each other in the head tag that you wouldn't notice by glancing at it.
One tag said "index" and the other said "noindex", and Google was honoring "noindex".
That is definitely my biggest mistake. I felt like such an absolute idiot after discovering that.
I suppose it was bittersweet, too, because the fact that my site wouldn't rank had shaken me a bit at the time. I thought myself so knowledgeable of SEO and here I was struggling like a noob. My confidence was knocked.
After realising my dumb mistake, I got back on top of my game.
So, I'm working on this more ambitious consumer finance site; I've got the branding down, I have excellent content, I have a lot of regional data that was being dynamically produced based on a users' search - it was really smart and that same technique is what was helping my niche site do so well.
But the issue was that this consumer finance site would not rank. I kept refining things, adding more content, improving the UX, and of course, building great backlinks. I was getting really creative with the ways that I acquired them.
After months and months of work and not seeing it rank at all, I started to think I must have gotten a penalty or something. I started to move away from this project and instead focused on something else.
Maybe a year later I revisited the site and I just happened to look at the source code when I saw rel="noindex" in the <head> tag.
I could not f***ing believe it!!
I had checked my source code so often, searching "index" and seeing rel="index" in there...
What I had done was added two separate lines far enough away from each other in the head tag that you wouldn't notice by glancing at it.
One tag said "index" and the other said "noindex", and Google was honoring "noindex".
That is definitely my biggest mistake. I felt like such an absolute idiot after discovering that.
I suppose it was bittersweet, too, because the fact that my site wouldn't rank had shaken me a bit at the time. I thought myself so knowledgeable of SEO and here I was struggling like a noob. My confidence was knocked.
After realising my dumb mistake, I got back on top of my game.