10 Things That Hurt Your Search Engine Rankings

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10. Having duplicate sites and wrong redirects (301 good, 302 bad)

9. Link Farms

8. Sharing links ( to many reciprocal links)

7. To many keywords in your meta tags or on the page(aka:keyword stuffing)

6. Duplicate Content

5. Sites made entirely of images and image text

4. Not Enough unique content

3. Non-unique meta data on each page

2. Improper linking strategies

1. Sites that are mainly built with FLASH

All these things hurt your search engine optimization and your rankings and could get you banned from the search engines. At Blue Wave design Studio we use only white hat tactics with SEO when doing your SEO website design and Marketing your website.

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