10 Things That Hurt Search Engine Rankings

April 23rd, 2008

10. Having duplicate sites and wrong redirects (301 good, 302 bad)

9. Link Farms

8. Sharing links (to many reciprocal links)

7. To many keywords in your meta tags or on the page(aka: keyword stuffing)

6. Duplicate Content

5. Sites made entirely of images and image text

4. Not Enough unique content

3. Non-unique meta data on each page

2. Improper linking strategies

1. Sites that are mainly built with FLASH


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