Is Your Website Hindering Your SEO?

Good or bad...SEO affects your website. If you are having problems climbing above your competition it's time to take a close look at your website and decide if its affecting your SEO.

There are a few things that your website should NOT have:

1. Too Many Images. Images are great and they allow you to have a great looking website but search engines don't recognize links that are mad in graphics. Text format links are much better.

2. Flash. You can use it but use it creatively. Allowing flash to be one part of your website just for eye candy is a great idea. The rest of your website should be plain text.

3. Invisible Text. Search engines hate this so don't do it or you will be put on a black list.

4. Search Engine Vision. Oxymoron? Nope. Build your site for you users not for a search engine and the search engine will like you better. This means to leave doorway and gateway pages behind.

5. Randomly Place Keywords. Smart internet marketing comes into play here. You picked your keywords and that's great, but you still should put them in the right places including your Title tag.

6. Bad Links. Swapping links with a banned website is like supporting the bad neighbor with the trash in his yard. Reciprocal links are great as long as they are relevant links to good websites

Sometimes bad SEO can effect the best of us. But if you stay informed you will know what's right and what's wrong and you won't have to start all over.