SEO mistakes that you mustn’t commit: People aren’t oblivious of the term spam and how search engines especially Google treats websites which it considers to have spam. Spam refers to any action by the website owner or a web professional that isn’t suitable and leads to a bad or inaccessible website. It is also the means by which many websites till now have tried to make success within a short time. However, these websites are never user friendly and they frustrate the users who are trying to find what they want to know on the internet and annoys Google. You surely won’t like to see yourself getting a severe blow from the search engine’s updates. Therefore a webmaster, trying to establish your business on the internet, you need to know of these prohibited actions, not because we think that you are one of those black hat SEO tricksters but because we want you to inform of things which are never allowed so that you don’t repeat them by mistake in future.

Websites that have thin content or poor content, plagiarized text, irrelevant and unnatural links, links from irrelevant or bad sources, keyword stuffing, improper keywords and more are sure to get penalized. In case you are affected with any of the Google updates, make sure that you don’t have any of these or are following certain actions that lead to these.

Irrelevant links to your website:If you have links coming from bad websites then you need to stop them immediately. Links are supposed to come from sites that will be similar to you, meaning that you two will have a common business goal or provide similar solutions. Don’t try to get links in an unnatural manner, the ones that you acquire naturally will be accepted by Google. You can however, involve in activities like blog commenting and social media activities that are both great and best sources for providing natural and a lot of quality links to you apart from bringing huge traffic to your website.

Website that has full spam:This can be taken by Google as a serious offence. Duplicate content, cloaking, expired domain, plagiarism, etc. are the worst mistakes that you make. These are in fact given the status of crime on the internet and hence make sure you never get into this. Try writing great and informative content after researching. If you are good, people will come to your site and like the content and keep coming back. However, you need to apply SEO services to make it successful.

Poor or thin content:We have just stressed in the previous point that how much it is important to have good content on your website. Content that is not enough in the word limit (it has to be at least 500 words for any website), have grammatical errors and others will get severely penalized and the website will go down to the bottom of the search results on that search engine.