7 Common SEO Mistakes

This is a great list of things to avoid when you're optimizing your web site for the search engines:

Natural link building happens over time and in many cases over year and years. Some spikes in obtaining links can happen naturally like hitting the front page of Digg or a similar website. These are the exceptions and search engines can often detect the exceptions.

What can get you in trouble is the unnatural link growth. This often happens when a webmaster decides they have a few hours to spend on link building and them go out and purchase 50 links in one day. The links generally show up in the search engine fairly quick and will put up red flags.

Keep you link acquisition speed the same as long as you can. Divide your budget for the year evenly and acquire nearly the same amount of links each month, throughout the month.

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