SEO is an ever-changing field, and standards have drastically changed over the years. Basically, you just need to adjust and do strategies that adhere to Google’s standard. In this article, we will try to identify techniques that kill our SEO.


1. Keyword Stuffing

Keyword stuffing means using too many keywords in the page title, meta title, meta description, alt text of the images and in the body of the content. In the past, this technique was used to help a website rank on the first page of Google’s results for their target keyword. But this just wouldn’t work today.

Google is continually updating their Panda algorithm, and manipulative practices like keyword stuffing wouldn’t work with the current SEO environment.

What you can do is use different variations of your target keyword. For instance, if you want to rank for “Japanese restaurant in Makati”, instead of using that keyword repeatedly, you can use synonymous/relevant terms or phrases such as “Japanese restaurant in Glorietta” or “Teppanyaki Restaurant in Makati”.

Click here to learn how to do keyword research

Free keyword tools are readily available on the Web today such as Google Keyword Planner. Meanwhile, a quick way to learn relevant terms to your target keyword is through checking the “Related Searches” section when you look up your target keyword on Google.

Related Searches
Click the Image to Enlarge

2. Lousy Content

Are you still publishing content that lacks depth and quality? Yes, I’m talking about the 250-word blog post that you quickly whip up just to keep your site “regularly updated”.

An important part of effective SEO is quality content. Remember that people go to the Web to look for information that will help them, and you are giving them that when you publish well-crafted posts and articles. Meanwhile, you will easily lose user interest if your content lacks depth.

Well-researched and informative articles lessen your bounce rate, because people will be compelled to stay and read what you have to say. As a result, you’ll be placed at a higher position on Google search results pages (SERPS).

Good content is also worthy to share. If you did a great job of engaging and compelling your users or audience, your posts can easily go viral. Aside from that, increase a post’s exposure by promoting it on social media platforms and asking other authors in the same niche to feature you in their content.

3. Inappropriate Links

Internal linking can do wonders for your site if you know how to do it properly. However, it can turn into a disaster if it becomes abusive and irrelevant.

Avoid linking to irrelevant pages within your website. Although linking to other pages in the site can help in your strategy, that doesn’t mean that you can just drop links within the body of your content even if they don’t have any relation to the topic being discussed on a particular post.

As a user, how would you feel if you clicked on a hyperlinked word or phrase only to find out that it’s irrelevant to the article you’re reading? More than being bad for your site’s ranking, it’s impolite and disrespectful. Remember, it’s all about user experience. Make their stay on your site worthwhile and see to it that they are getting the help, information, or solution they need.

4. Spammy blog comments

Spammy blog comments are the bane of SEO and can cause your website’s ranking to drop or worse, get penalized by Google. Yes, that’s your worst nightmare right there, and it can turn all your hardwork to nothing if you’re not careful.

Here’s a list of dos and don’ts that will help you veer away from spammy commenting:

Dos

Do contribute something to the conversation. Share your views and opinions about the post and interact with the author and other commenters. Only drop links if it’s relevant and avoid sounding too promotional.
Do comment on high-quality and relevant content and posts. The Spam Scoring System of Open Site Explorer helps determine how spammy a particular page is and gives you an idea whether it’s safe to drop a link there or not.



Do build an online reputation and brand awareness by using the name of the representative of your website when commenting. This makes you more relatable and trustworthy.

More so, don’t stop interacting when you placed a comment on a post. Read the other posts found in the site, continue reaching out to the author, and build a relationship not just with the site owner, but with other commenters as well.
Do put a name of a person on the “name of commenter” field. It is designated for that specific purpose, so don’t use it to link back to your site or promote your brand name.


Don’ts

Don’t use a keyword or keyword phrase and link it to one of the pages found in your site.
Don’t put comments that don’t contribute to the conversation at all. Example: “Great post! (link here)”
Don’t comment on heavily spammed pages.
Don’t use a vague identity. People need to know that you’re a real person.


5. Social Bookmarking

Links coming from social bookmarking will not improve your strategy and ranking. Most social bookmarking sites are already heavily spammed, so you should just put your efforts on another technique.

Meanwhile, this may still work if you promote your content on high-quality sites like Reddit, but don’t count on it too much. If you still want to incorporate this practice in your strategy, just keep it at a minimum.

6. Spammy Anchor Texts in Forum Signatures

This post is really helpful. Thank you!

House for Sale in Cavite | Cavite House and Lot | Cavite Real Estate


Using keywords on your forum signature and linking it back to your site will not work today. It would be more advisable to use the name of the owner of the site or the person representing it.

Besides, it’s a bit of a hard-sell marketing ploy and this can easily turn off your target audience.

Instead of spamming your forum signature, what you should focus on is joining high quality and relevant forums. This is a good avenue to share helpful content and reach your target audience. If you stick with forums aligned with your niche, you can expect to see highly-targeted traffic to your website.

7. Link Directory Submission

Link directory submissions are not harmful per se, but it poses a danger to your website when you get listed on directories that are low in quality. These directories have very lenient filtering procedures—that is, if they actually sift through submissions because most likely, they don’t.

If you want to give link directory submission a try, you can try to get listed on human-curated directories like DMOZ.com.

8. Sitewide Links

You’d rather have 50 domains linking back to you than 100 links coming just from one domain. Remember, it’s not the number of links that defines the value of your website, but the number of root domains that links back to it.

Sitewide Links
Click the Image to Enlarge

9. Article submission

Matt Cuts mentioned in a video that building links on article directories no longer works because it’s an abused technique. In fact, Google have detected this manipulative practice and puts no value on links that come from them.

What you can try is guest blogging. This can work to your advantage as long as you can follow quality guidelines.

Avoid manipulative techniques, because they just don’t work today. What you should focus on is creating quality content and prioritizing the experience of your audience.

10. Infinite (Endless Scroll)
While no technique is inherently bad, this design method is one of the most overused and misunderstood design techniques on the Web today.
While only truly useful for certain specific user intents, many sites use it with the idea it helps site engagement because visitors don’t have to click. Just give them a stream they will be happy. However, if a user wants to stream that glorious content is dependent on use case. That use case is highly specific and narrowly focused. In fact, when used incorrectly it can potentially hurt your site especially in terms of SEO, usability, and conversion optimization.
So let’s first define what infinite scroll is and how it is best used.
SitePoint defines infinite scroll as:

"A design pattern where content is fetched asynchronously from a database or master file and inserted into the user’s page as they consume the information. This results in a seemingly endless page that continues to load content as the user scrolls towards the bottom."

OK, so now we know what it is, next we need to know, what are the pros and cons of using this method?
infinite-scrollPros

Pagination: No need to paginate and users get one stream.
Clicks: Users do not need to click to read except possibly a load button (always advisable).
Fast Access: Quick access to page content especially on mobile and tablet. Just a flick of the fingers.
Good for Explorers: Infinite scroll is good for content that is based on exploratory actions and intent. It is also best when it consists of items that the user can easily break down into categorical taxonomies.
What is that?
So for example, if you had a site about beer and you wanted to show all your IPAs, infinite scroll would enable the user to browse all items in ONE category. The benefits of effect are lost when the user is expected to determine placement of items in the hierarchy.
It is also good for sites like Facebook and Twitter that display chronological information. These sites have a natural time flow that almost demands infinite scroll. However, they are some of the few sites that use it the way it was intended.

So what are the negative affects of infinite scroll?

"Endless scrolling is not recommended for goal-oriented finding tasks, such as those requiring people to locate specific content or compare options." – Jakob Nielsen

So what does this mean it is not good for people who are goal-oriented searchers? In most cases we are referring to e-commerce, however it could be news sites or basic informational queries. Whenever the use has a specific intended goal bent on item retrieval.
Now what are my drawbacks?
Cons

Scrollbar Issues: Breaks the scrollbar, which users rely on to understand the length of the page and how much is between them and the end.
Placement Confusion: No way to know where you are in the scroll or page if your users need to leave and come back.
Page Speed – SEO Issue: Page weight while Google is leery of fully crawling infinite scroll it will trigger some types of implementations and if it does just how much are you feeding the spider in terms of page weight and response delays.
Memory Issues: If you put too much scroll into the page, you are consuming browser memory with each flick of a finger and you can cause browser performance issues.
Specificity of Content: Often infinite scroll is used to replace good page and site architecture. It seems to be a very prevalent byproduct of the page design experience. This can cause usability issues, as the content is not categorized in a meaningful and/or consumable fashion way, while also not being specific to the page.
Usability – Conversion Issue: Not good for users who need to perform goal-oriented tasks such as locating specific content.
Footer Stickiness: Difficult to add a usable footer which for many sites is one of the highly visited portions of the page and will frustrate the user who cannot reach it.
Sentiment: This method can be psychologically draining for task-based goals. This experience can make a user feel overwhelmed and associate a negative experience with using your site.

Suggestions?
First make sure you are using infinite scroll for the right page type, user intent, and site goal. Don’t frustrate your users for "cool tech."
If you are merely using it because you think people will read more, the usability studies do not show this to be true if the intent is not matched to the method. I.e. if they are looking at an exploratory user, users will likely report a positive experience (if implemented correctly). However, if used for a task-oriented experience the user is likely to find the use of forever scroll tiresome, disorienting, and unhelpful in assisting the user in locating your content. When a user cannot locate what they are looking for they will often find a site that better meets their needs.
Second if you decide 'YES" this does match my user intent, site, and conversion goals, make sure you have implemented the method and the tracking according to Google’s instructions. If not implemented correctly it will cause SEO issues, which means not being found and not converting visitors.
11. Lazy Loading
Lazy Loading is the latest in a not-so-short list of scripted solutions that cannot be properly spidered by Google for content indexing.
What Is Lazy Loading?
Lazy Loading is when the next part of the page, whether it is images or content, does not load until you interact with that part of the page in a manner that initializes the object in that page to load (example: your content is not visible until you scroll to that part of the page, then it appears).
What Does This Mean for Your Site?
This means your content or images will not be indexed by Google if they are below the load point because Google spiders will not try to interact with your script and load the rest of the page. Since your content or images are not loaded and essentially invisible to the spider, only the visible part of the page is indexed.
This issue can hurt your site in terms of traffic for say Google image search or devaluations by the Google algorithms for thin content, as you do not have enough above the index point to pass muster.
SPECIAL NOTE: Lazy Loaded images will also not load into G+
Suggestions?
Follow this advice from John Mu and Google on how to handle the lazy loading of images and content, however, unless you are in real need of this method the solutions are awkward and clunky and not easy to implement. It would be better to take the age-old instruction to "design out the issue" if possible, rather than be married to something that is going to eat up development time with little value for your users or site.
Design out the issue?
Often the people that design a site or page have little technological experience and design in strictly visual terms i.e. "Is it pretty?" Often these items are very difficult to actually implement at a technical level or a different solution might save 50 percent in development time. So before you approve a design you should have your development and SEO team review the design to see if there are elements that will be complex to implement and can be designed out. Designing out complex implementation issues can save your team a lot in time and resources.
12. Not Mobile-Friendly
If your site is NOT mobile-friendly, stop what you are doing right now and go make a plan to get it there. This is one of those Come To (Insert person here) moments in your website’s life that if you rely at all on organic search traffic (or even Facebook) has to be fixed or you will lose traffic. Loss of traffic means loss of money, then jobs, then well we all know how that goes, so let’s not think past that.
Is Being Mobile-Friendly That Important?
Over the past two years, Google has been very explicit that sites needed to start taking mobile into account. On January 24, it even released a mobile algorithm that started removing sites from mobile search for not being mobile-friendly. OK maybe not completely gone, but far enough down you would need a ladder and rope to find you.
If your site is not mobile-friendly and generally this means is "responsive," "adaptive," or "responsive/adaptive," and in mobile search you do not see the words "mobile-friendly" next to your listing, you will lose some or all of your rank in Google SERPs, if Google sticks to its guns.
So what is responsive? Adaptive? And responsive-adaptive? When talking about your website? These are techniques that allow your site to be best seen in the desktop and mobile.

Responsive: Uses one code set and techniques such as viewports, breakpoints, and CSS "media queries" to make the site render properly in all types of devices by estimating how it will appear on that screen size. It does not use device detection. The issue typically with these sites is proper loading of images into the mobile version and not serving a mobile site to a desktop user who has resized their screen.
Adaptive: Design uses device detection and progressive enhancement to adapt the site to the user in a specific manner. The issue is you cannot know all device types and trying to render to as many as exist on the market today could keep a team of developers rather busy.
Responsive-Adaptive: Is an excellent technique that uses Responsive design for all your main components, but special scripting for items such as image loads, so you can serve the lightest pages on the mobile surface.

Special Note: Did you get a mobile usability warning in your Google Webmaster Tools? If so, fix the issues immediately. You have been put on notice that your site will not be viewed well as further mobile algorithms are pushed out.
Suggestions?
If you have a Wordpress site most themes today are responsive; if yours is not, find one that is and switch to that. (A lot easier than trying to make a no-responsive WP site work properly) If you have a site that is built outside Wordpress, find someone who is an expert in coding responsive sites and get going. There is no workaround for this anymore as m. sites are not long for the Google Search results.

In this article, we have tried to identify 12 deadly mistakes that kills SEO. Hope you all learnt from it!

SOURCE: http://www.naijatechscout.com/2015/12/12-deadly-mistakes-you-are-making-that.html

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SEO is an ever-changing field, and standards have drastically changed over the years. Basically, you just need to adjust and do strategies that adhere to Google’s standard. In this article, we will try to identify techniques that kill our SEO.


1. Keyword Stuffing

Keyword stuffing means using too many keywords in the page title, meta title, meta description, alt text of the images and in the body of the content. In the past, this technique was used to help a website rank on the first page of Google’s results for their target keyword. But this just wouldn’t work today.

Google is continually updating their Panda algorithm, and manipulative practices like keyword stuffing wouldn’t work with the current SEO environment.

What you can do is use different variations of your target keyword. For instance, if you want to rank for “Japanese restaurant in Makati”, instead of using that keyword repeatedly, you can use synonymous/relevant terms or phrases such as “Japanese restaurant in Glorietta” or “Teppanyaki Restaurant in Makati”.

Click here to learn how to do keyword research

Free keyword tools are readily available on the Web today such as Google Keyword Planner. Meanwhile, a quick way to learn relevant terms to your target keyword is through checking the “Related Searches” section when you look up your target keyword on Google.

Related Searches
Click the Image to Enlarge

2. Lousy Content

Are you still publishing content that lacks depth and quality? Yes, I’m talking about the 250-word blog post that you quickly whip up just to keep your site “regularly updated”.

An important part of effective SEO is quality content. Remember that people go to the Web to look for information that will help them, and you are giving them that when you publish well-crafted posts and articles. Meanwhile, you will easily lose user interest if your content lacks depth.

Well-researched and informative articles lessen your bounce rate, because people will be compelled to stay and read what you have to say. As a result, you’ll be placed at a higher position on Google search results pages (SERPS).

Good content is also worthy to share. If you did a great job of engaging and compelling your users or audience, your posts can easily go viral. Aside from that, increase a post’s exposure by promoting it on social media platforms and asking other authors in the same niche to feature you in their content.

3. Inappropriate Links

Internal linking can do wonders for your site if you know how to do it properly. However, it can turn into a disaster if it becomes abusive and irrelevant.

Avoid linking to irrelevant pages within your website. Although linking to other pages in the site can help in your strategy, that doesn’t mean that you can just drop links within the body of your content even if they don’t have any relation to the topic being discussed on a particular post.

As a user, how would you feel if you clicked on a hyperlinked word or phrase only to find out that it’s irrelevant to the article you’re reading? More than being bad for your site’s ranking, it’s impolite and disrespectful. Remember, it’s all about user experience. Make their stay on your site worthwhile and see to it that they are getting the help, information, or solution they need.

4. Spammy blog comments

Spammy blog comments are the bane of SEO and can cause your website’s ranking to drop or worse, get penalized by Google. Yes, that’s your worst nightmare right there, and it can turn all your hardwork to nothing if you’re not careful.

Here’s a list of dos and don’ts that will help you veer away from spammy commenting:

Dos

Do contribute something to the conversation. Share your views and opinions about the post and interact with the author and other commenters. Only drop links if it’s relevant and avoid sounding too promotional.
Do comment on high-quality and relevant content and posts. The Spam Scoring System of Open Site Explorer helps determine how spammy a particular page is and gives you an idea whether it’s safe to drop a link there or not.



Do build an online reputation and brand awareness by using the name of the representative of your website when commenting. This makes you more relatable and trustworthy.

More so, don’t stop interacting when you placed a comment on a post. Read the other posts found in the site, continue reaching out to the author, and build a relationship not just with the site owner, but with other commenters as well.
Do put a name of a person on the “name of commenter” field. It is designated for that specific purpose, so don’t use it to link back to your site or promote your brand name.


Don’ts

Don’t use a keyword or keyword phrase and link it to one of the pages found in your site.
Don’t put comments that don’t contribute to the conversation at all. Example: “Great post! (link here)”
Don’t comment on heavily spammed pages.
Don’t use a vague identity. People need to know that you’re a real person.


5. Social Bookmarking

Links coming from social bookmarking will not improve your strategy and ranking. Most social bookmarking sites are already heavily spammed, so you should just put your efforts on another technique.

Meanwhile, this may still work if you promote your content on high-quality sites like Reddit, but don’t count on it too much. If you still want to incorporate this practice in your strategy, just keep it at a minimum.

6. Spammy Anchor Texts in Forum Signatures

This post is really helpful. Thank you!

House for Sale in Cavite | Cavite House and Lot | Cavite Real Estate


Using keywords on your forum signature and linking it back to your site will not work today. It would be more advisable to use the name of the owner of the site or the person representing it.

Besides, it’s a bit of a hard-sell marketing ploy and this can easily turn off your target audience.

Instead of spamming your forum signature, what you should focus on is joining high quality and relevant forums. This is a good avenue to share helpful content and reach your target audience. If you stick with forums aligned with your niche, you can expect to see highly-targeted traffic to your website.

7. Link Directory Submission

Link directory submissions are not harmful per se, but it poses a danger to your website when you get listed on directories that are low in quality. These directories have very lenient filtering procedures—that is, if they actually sift through submissions because most likely, they don’t.

If you want to give link directory submission a try, you can try to get listed on human-curated directories like DMOZ.com.

8. Sitewide Links

You’d rather have 50 domains linking back to you than 100 links coming just from one domain. Remember, it’s not the number of links that defines the value of your website, but the number of root domains that links back to it.

Sitewide Links
Click the Image to Enlarge

9. Article submission

Matt Cuts mentioned in a video that building links on article directories no longer works because it’s an abused technique. In fact, Google have detected this manipulative practice and puts no value on links that come from them.

What you can try is guest blogging. This can work to your advantage as long as you can follow quality guidelines.

Avoid manipulative techniques, because they just don’t work today. What you should focus on is creating quality content and prioritizing the experience of your audience.

10. Infinite (Endless Scroll)
While no technique is inherently bad, this design method is one of the most overused and misunderstood design techniques on the Web today.
While only truly useful for certain specific user intents, many sites use it with the idea it helps site engagement because visitors don’t have to click. Just give them a stream they will be happy. However, if a user wants to stream that glorious content is dependent on use case. That use case is highly specific and narrowly focused. In fact, when used incorrectly it can potentially hurt your site especially in terms of SEO, usability, and conversion optimization.
So let’s first define what infinite scroll is and how it is best used.
SitePoint defines infinite scroll as:

"A design pattern where content is fetched asynchronously from a database or master file and inserted into the user’s page as they consume the information. This results in a seemingly endless page that continues to load content as the user scrolls towards the bottom."

OK, so now we know what it is, next we need to know, what are the pros and cons of using this method?
infinite-scrollPros

Pagination: No need to paginate and users get one stream.
Clicks: Users do not need to click to read except possibly a load button (always advisable).
Fast Access: Quick access to page content especially on mobile and tablet. Just a flick of the fingers.
Good for Explorers: Infinite scroll is good for content that is based on exploratory actions and intent. It is also best when it consists of items that the user can easily break down into categorical taxonomies.
What is that?
So for example, if you had a site about beer and you wanted to show all your IPAs, infinite scroll would enable the user to browse all items in ONE category. The benefits of effect are lost when the user is expected to determine placement of items in the hierarchy.
It is also good for sites like Facebook and Twitter that display chronological information. These sites have a natural time flow that almost demands infinite scroll. However, they are some of the few sites that use it the way it was intended.

So what are the negative affects of infinite scroll?

"Endless scrolling is not recommended for goal-oriented finding tasks, such as those requiring people to locate specific content or compare options." – Jakob Nielsen

So what does this mean it is not good for people who are goal-oriented searchers? In most cases we are referring to e-commerce, however it could be news sites or basic informational queries. Whenever the use has a specific intended goal bent on item retrieval.
Now what are my drawbacks?
Cons

Scrollbar Issues: Breaks the scrollbar, which users rely on to understand the length of the page and how much is between them and the end.
Placement Confusion: No way to know where you are in the scroll or page if your users need to leave and come back.
Page Speed – SEO Issue: Page weight while Google is leery of fully crawling infinite scroll it will trigger some types of implementations and if it does just how much are you feeding the spider in terms of page weight and response delays.
Memory Issues: If you put too much scroll into the page, you are consuming browser memory with each flick of a finger and you can cause browser performance issues.
Specificity of Content: Often infinite scroll is used to replace good page and site architecture. It seems to be a very prevalent byproduct of the page design experience. This can cause usability issues, as the content is not categorized in a meaningful and/or consumable fashion way, while also not being specific to the page.
Usability – Conversion Issue: Not good for users who need to perform goal-oriented tasks such as locating specific content.
Footer Stickiness: Difficult to add a usable footer which for many sites is one of the highly visited portions of the page and will frustrate the user who cannot reach it.
Sentiment: This method can be psychologically draining for task-based goals. This experience can make a user feel overwhelmed and associate a negative experience with using your site.

Suggestions?
First make sure you are using infinite scroll for the right page type, user intent, and site goal. Don’t frustrate your users for "cool tech."
If you are merely using it because you think people will read more, the usability studies do not show this to be true if the intent is not matched to the method. I.e. if they are looking at an exploratory user, users will likely report a positive experience (if implemented correctly). However, if used for a task-oriented experience the user is likely to find the use of forever scroll tiresome, disorienting, and unhelpful in assisting the user in locating your content. When a user cannot locate what they are looking for they will often find a site that better meets their needs.
Second if you decide 'YES" this does match my user intent, site, and conversion goals, make sure you have implemented the method and the tracking according to Google’s instructions. If not implemented correctly it will cause SEO issues, which means not being found and not converting visitors.
11. Lazy Loading
Lazy Loading is the latest in a not-so-short list of scripted solutions that cannot be properly spidered by Google for content indexing.
What Is Lazy Loading?
Lazy Loading is when the next part of the page, whether it is images or content, does not load until you interact with that part of the page in a manner that initializes the object in that page to load (example: your content is not visible until you scroll to that part of the page, then it appears).
What Does This Mean for Your Site?
This means your content or images will not be indexed by Google if they are below the load point because Google spiders will not try to interact with your script and load the rest of the page. Since your content or images are not loaded and essentially invisible to the spider, only the visible part of the page is indexed.
This issue can hurt your site in terms of traffic for say Google image search or devaluations by the Google algorithms for thin content, as you do not have enough above the index point to pass muster.
SPECIAL NOTE: Lazy Loaded images will also not load into G+
Suggestions?
Follow this advice from John Mu and Google on how to handle the lazy loading of images and content, however, unless you are in real need of this method the solutions are awkward and clunky and not easy to implement. It would be better to take the age-old instruction to "design out the issue" if possible, rather than be married to something that is going to eat up development time with little value for your users or site.
Design out the issue?
Often the people that design a site or page have little technological experience and design in strictly visual terms i.e. "Is it pretty?" Often these items are very difficult to actually implement at a technical level or a different solution might save 50 percent in development time. So before you approve a design you should have your development and SEO team review the design to see if there are elements that will be complex to implement and can be designed out. Designing out complex implementation issues can save your team a lot in time and resources.
12. Not Mobile-Friendly
If your site is NOT mobile-friendly, stop what you are doing right now and go make a plan to get it there. This is one of those Come To (Insert person here) moments in your website’s life that if you rely at all on organic search traffic (or even Facebook) has to be fixed or you will lose traffic. Loss of traffic means loss of money, then jobs, then well we all know how that goes, so let’s not think past that.
Is Being Mobile-Friendly That Important?
Over the past two years, Google has been very explicit that sites needed to start taking mobile into account. On January 24, it even released a mobile algorithm that started removing sites from mobile search for not being mobile-friendly. OK maybe not completely gone, but far enough down you would need a ladder and rope to find you.
If your site is not mobile-friendly and generally this means is "responsive," "adaptive," or "responsive/adaptive," and in mobile search you do not see the words "mobile-friendly" next to your listing, you will lose some or all of your rank in Google SERPs, if Google sticks to its guns.
So what is responsive? Adaptive? And responsive-adaptive? When talking about your website? These are techniques that allow your site to be best seen in the desktop and mobile.

Responsive: Uses one code set and techniques such as viewports, breakpoints, and CSS "media queries" to make the site render properly in all types of devices by estimating how it will appear on that screen size. It does not use device detection. The issue typically with these sites is proper loading of images into the mobile version and not serving a mobile site to a desktop user who has resized their screen.
Adaptive: Design uses device detection and progressive enhancement to adapt the site to the user in a specific manner. The issue is you cannot know all device types and trying to render to as many as exist on the market today could keep a team of developers rather busy.
Responsive-Adaptive: Is an excellent technique that uses Responsive design for all your main components, but special scripting for items such as image loads, so you can serve the lightest pages on the mobile surface.

Special Note: Did you get a mobile usability warning in your Google Webmaster Tools? If so, fix the issues immediately. You have been put on notice that your site will not be viewed well as further mobile algorithms are pushed out.
Suggestions?
If you have a Wordpress site most themes today are responsive; if yours is not, find one that is and switch to that. (A lot easier than trying to make a no-responsive WP site work properly) If you have a site that is built outside Wordpress, find someone who is an expert in coding responsive sites and get going. There is no workaround for this anymore as m. sites are not long for the Google Search results.

In this article, we have tried to identify 12 deadly mistakes that kills SEO. Hope you all learnt from it!

SOURCE: http://www.naijatechscout.com/2015/12/12-deadly-mistakes-you-are-making-that.html

Hello, unreasonable designer.

It's not everyone who right clicks on your content that wants to steal them...Some of us just want to read your content on different tabs(which BTW will give you more pageviews) and apparently can't do that after seeing this message on your blog "Hello, content thief. Right click is disabled on this website. Your ip has been logged"

You claim to know SEO yet your blog has a bad user experience for visitors, do you even know user experience plays a critical role in SEO?

I think there are 101 and one ways to tell a visitor that right click is disabled than calling them a "content thief"

You are chasing a lot of people from your blog if you are not aware.

And somepeople go still quote d long post na wa ooo

Ok

And you forgot to add copying content.

But great list.

Try to create original content too. Create content for users and not search engines. Little wonder you are not ranking for this article.

Harbdhul:


Hello, unreasonable designer.

It's not everyone who right clicks on your content that wants to steal them...Some of us just want to read your content on different tabs(which BTW will give you more pageviews) and apparently can't do that after seeing this message on your blog "Hello, content thief. Right click is disabled on this website. Your ip has been logged"

You claim to know SEO yet your blog has a bad user experience for visitors, do you even know user experience plays a critical role in SEO?

I think there are 101 and one ways to tell a visitor that right click is disabled than calling them a "content thief"

You are chasing a lot of people from your blog if you are not aware.

I'm 101% sure he/she copied that content from somewhere!!

all whats in that post can't be seen practiced on his/her blog!

All this Naija tech bloggers self?

Reddit is not just working for me.

ayindepremier:

I'm 101% sure he/she copied that content from somewhere!!

All this Naija tech bloggers self?

La copy la paste bloggers

ayindepremier:

I'm 101% sure he/she copied that content from somewhere!!

all whats in that post can't be seen practiced on his/her blog!

All this Naija tech bloggers self?

certainly! His blog's loading speed is nothing to write home about.. User experience rating is on the negative.

U tried. Though this your write-up looks like you lifted from somewhere.


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With all said, content na baba finally.