Issa Asad Florida Entrepreneur
Issa Asad Florida Entrepreneur

Search engine optimization is the industry standard, with companies fighting to get noticed in the deluge of new businesses that constantly flood the market.

“As with everything in business, there are good ways to optimize your SEO and bad ways to do so, and engaging in bad efforts at SEO are more likely to damage your search results than help them,” explained Issa Asad Florida businessman, entrepreneur and social media expert. Mr. Asad is the CEO of Q Link Wireless, Hello Mobile, and Quadrant Holdings, all located in South Florida. He is also the author of 4 e-commerce and marketing e-books that can be purchased on Amazon.

Such a situation is disastrous as not only do you wind up lower in results, but you have also wasted valuable time, energy, and money on a failed effort.

Here, Issa Asad Reveals 4 SEO Fails to Avoid:

More is better

The idea that having more webpages is better isn’t necessarily false as it is an incomplete explanation. What matters is not the number of pages, but the number of quality pages. This can hurt you by causing you to build your site the wrong way.

Rather than focusing on the number of pages you should instead focus on the quality of the pages that you add. One example is content length, Google has begun to favor pages with longer content. However this does not mean that you should be posting long pages just for the sake of it, as that will drive away your users, it is important to strike a balance between quantity and quality of information.

Multiple keywords targeting per page

Some content managers and marketers may think that if keywords are how search engines find your site then content ought to be loaded with them. How can it go wrong? Quite easily, as it turns out. Focusing on too many keywords per page dilutes the effectiveness of your keywords by making your content seem too broad. It is far better to focus on one head keyword and then variations of that keyword in order to maintain relevance.

Search engine results more than human results

Another common misconception is the notion that SEO should focus on being recognized by search engines, rather than the people searching. While your work speaks to crawlers, it is ultimately humans that find your site and pay for your products and services. By focusing on the ways that robotic crawlers understand your site you risk driving away the real people who are looking for the information that you are offering.

Focusing on meta keywords

Meta keywords are like a zombie hoard, they keep coming and seem to lack the understanding that they are dead. They contribute nothing to your site and serve only to waste your time and energy. Even worse, meta keywords, while contributing nothing to your results, can result in your site being inappropriately labeled as spam, driving users away from your site rather than pulling them in.