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10 Things That Hurt Your Search Engine Rankings

10 Things That Hurt Your Search Engine Rankings

What Hurts Your Search Engine Ranking? Lets Find Out...

The engineers at our SEO firm have done tests on sites that they have built to really put SEO Website Design to the test and reach the boundaries of what helps and hurts Search Engine Optimization.

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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John Alexander
John has taught keyword research and SEO skills to small groups of business owners and Webmasters from over 80 different countries world wide since 2002. John is also the Director of Search Engine Academy ; Co-director of Training at Search Engine Workshops offering live, SEO Workshops with his partner SEO educator Robin Nobles, author of the very first comprehensive online search engine marketing courses at SEO Training Online and the SEO Workshop Resource Center.
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Stephanie Robey
Stephanie Robey is President and CoFounder of Pivot Positive, LLC - an Internet marketing business focused on helping people start work at home ventures. Previously, she was employed at The Search Agency with over 20 years experience in graphic design and 10 years experience in online marketing. She was responsible for launching the Conversion Path Optimization (CPO) unit where she and her team have conducted hundreds of optimization tests for online companies across multiple verticals.

She is a successful entrepreneur having started and sold 2 companies and remains on the board of directors of the third, PhotoSpin.com   Stephanie began her career in the direct marketing realm creating and producing direct mail for many of the major cable television companies and directly attributes her understanding of Internet marketing to those early offline experiences.  Stephanie is a graduate of San Diego State University with a BFA in Graphic Arts and also holds an Executive MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University.

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(Visit Bill's Website) I started this company after seeing a gap between the large SEO Firms that lacked in design ability and the traditional advertising agencies that have the design capabilities yet they lacked in SEO Web Design knowledge. We are here to bring the two worlds together. We have some of the best forward thinking SEO web design experts in the industry, and some of the top programmers and designers to build what you envision.

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