The Top 10 SEO Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

seologs.com — Takes a look some common SEO mistakes that can ruin your chances of ranking in search engines. Also gives solutions for each mistake.

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inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Excellent basic outline of SEO that many, many sites would benefit from. I still see tons of sites not following the guidelines laid out in #1.
Redscowl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Quite a clear list. I like the Problem/Solution approach. Very readable.

About linking to bad neighbourhoods: I would leave the link out altogether, but if people wanna risk it, then nofollow is probably the way to go :)
bajones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0agreed.
Bogtha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have to disagree with this one:

> 9. Using Javascript navigation
> Search engines have a hard time following javascript links and reading text written with
> javascript. Using javascript navigation may hinder your site from getting completely
> indexed by search engines.
>
> Solution:
> Try using CSS instead of javascript to make drop-down site navigation.

This makes it sound like Javascript is the cause of the problem. It is not. The problem is using Javascript *alone* to encode the navigation. Well-written schemes encode the navigation as normal HTML - the same as the CSS approach - and then the Javascript takes the information it needs from the HTML.
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