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Not like there are any good SEO mistakes, but at least some mistakes are learning lessons you can recover from. A dumb SEO mistake is one that puts your site out of commission, with no hope of recovery. For instance, think of eHow and their constant tendency to publish thin content. Remember how hard they got smacked during the first Panda algorithm update? Of course, that site has since recovered but it took countless years and revisions to the site to make it more relevant and dejunk all that spam and who can say if they are nearly as popular as before.
With that in mind, what's one really dumb SEO mistake that you made for your own sites or that you know of having been made on another site?
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TommyCarey
Xrumer: I had xrumer on a dedicated server for years and sold profile links to clients. I not only sold to them, I used them myself. And since I had unlimited access to these links, I abused the hell out of them
Blog comments: Just like xrumer, I had unlimited access to blog comments since I owned scrapebox. I let it run overnight and made roughly 50,000 auto approved comments to my website and that was a horrible idea. I basically destroyed that site because I couldn't bring it back to the first page no matter what I did
Footer links: I was partnered up with a hosting company that offered free hosting but the person would have advertisements on their websites. My partner had over 400,000 websites and I was paying him $400 a month to get my dofollow link in the footer of all these free websites. Now this was way before I was doing SEO for myself and I didn't think this would hurt me. I was getting around 3,000 clicks a day on my ads, but no sales because all the websites I was advertising on weren't relevant to my niche. After about 5 months of advertising on all these websites I figured out it was only hurting my rankings, not helping them
Well, those are a few things I messed up in my early days of Online Marketing and SEO
I'm sure there are a lot more fun stories out there, let's hear them
- Razzy Oh man, I'm not going to just list one :D [u][b]Xrumer:[/b][/u] I had xrumer on a dedicated server for years and sold profile links to clients. I not only sold to them, I used them myself. And since I had unlimited access to these links, I abused the hell out of them :( I think I build over 300,000 profile links to one of my pages a long time ago and almost over night I was on page 10 for all of my keywords :D [u][b]Blog comments:[/b][/u] Just like xrumer, I had unlimited access to blog comments since I owned scrapebox. I let it run overnight and made roughly 50,000 auto approved comments to my website and that was a horrible idea. I basically destroyed that site because I couldn't bring it back to the first page no matter what I did :( [u][b]Footer links:[/b][/u] I was partnered up with a hosting company that offered free hosting but the person would have advertisements on their websites. My partner had over 400,000 websites and I was paying him $250 a month to get my dofollow link in the footer of all these free websites. Now this was way before I was doing SEO for myself and I didn't think this would hurt me. I was getting around 3,000 clicks a day on my ads, but no sales because all the websites I was advertising on weren't relevant to my niche. After about 5 months of advertising on all these websites I figured out it was only hurting my rankings, not helping them :( Well, those are a few things I messed up in my early days of Online Marketing and SEO :D I'm sure there are a lot more fun stories out there, let's hear them :D - Razzy
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