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#seohorrorstories at #SEOCamp Paris by @aleyda from @orainti
SEO HORROR STORIES
The worst & most common SEO mistakes to avoid in 2016
#seohorrorstories at #SEOCamp Paris by @aleyda from @orainti
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Bonjour #SEOCamp Paris!
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Je donne des conférences
Je fais du SEO
ORAINTI.COM
Je suis Aleyda Solís
@ALEYDA
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Je partage
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Je blogue
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It all started on Halloween last year…
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There are sadly so many scary #SEOhorrorstories
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I see dead Websites…
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It’s painful, but important to share to
“heal” & learn from our experiences
#seohorrorstories at #SEOCamp Paris by @aleyda from @orainti
This is traumatic
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#seohorrorstories at #SEOCamp Paris by @aleyda from @orainti
So in Halloween took the best “seasonal”
opportunity to do it on twitter *
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* Great to learn & share, not only pointless promotional campaigns
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Got a response… and invited
other SEOs to do it too
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…. and it went huge!
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With more than 1,600 tweets et 811 contributors,
it became a trending topic
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Covered also by main
industry blogs
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#seohorrorstories at #SEOCamp Paris by @aleyda from @orainti
I did a post sharing some of the top on-page
focused #SEOhorrorstories & on how to avoid them
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https://en.onpage.org/blog/seo-horror-stories-what-are-
the-most-common-fundamental-mistakes-to-avoid-in-2016
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#seohorrorstories at #SEOCamp Paris by @aleyda from @orainti
Today we’ll go through some
of the most common &
critical to avoid…
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Shhh! There’s no need to be afraid
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Some are even funny… requiring mostly
that we train & evangelize our clients
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Although others are more serious, requiring certain
proactive SEO actions & management. Let’s see…
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Blocking the site crawling from
search engines by mistake
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Monitor changes on the robots.txt & server
performance and be alerted from changes
OnPage.org offers these features
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Erroneous Site Deindexation or
Canonicalization
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Monitor changes from your content & HTMLs
and be alerted when they change
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Versionista, OnWebChange or NetWatcher
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Open test or pre-production
environments
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Configure Google Alerts for your pre-production
or test environment, eg: site:test.brand.com
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Do it with Google Alerts
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Internal site content
duplication
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Especially loved by one of our
favorite friend mascots… scary stuff
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Schedule automatic crawls every week for the most
critical areas to be warned of duplication issues
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Non-relevant, chained or
looped redirects
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Besides monitoring & checking your own crawls you
should do it also for your log files to identify non-
desired bot behavior
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Check how to do it with Loggly in http://searchengineland.com/7-fundamental-
technical-seo-questions-to-answer-with-a-log-analysis-and-how-to-easily-do-it-245903
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Incorrectly assigning traffic
loss to SEO issues
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Create Google Analytics Alerts for organic traffic loss.
If there is, then follow the checklist of “Why my Web
Traffic Dropped” to do a prioritized traffic analysis
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http://www.whymywebtrafficdropped.com/
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Linking as a spammer without
being aware of it
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Especially loved by another
of our favorite mascots…
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This can be avoided by doing regular scheduled
link audits & monitoring new link alerts
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Track new & lost links with CognitiveSEO, new links &
mentions with Buzzsumo & do link audits with Kerboo
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Completely blocking content
on CDNs
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Careful though… as you don’t want to
generate content duplication issues with them!
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Add the canonical header to your CDNs pages &
resources to avoid duplication issues; and allow the
crawling of those resources *served* through the CDN.
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Configure this with the SEO settings
that your CDN should have
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Wrongfully predicting Mobile
traffic based on current behavior
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Verify the potential by checking your top competitors &
industry audience mobile search queries behavior
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Use Sistrix to identify current mobile search visibility for
competitors and the device segments of the Google
Keyword Planner when doing a keyword research
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#seohorrorstories at #SEOCamp Paris by @aleyda from @orainti
Stop! It’s enough… too many
#SEOhorrorStories to process
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Stop! It’s enough… too many
#SEOhorrorStories to process
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It’s time to be proactive &
implement the changes to
avoid these situations…
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#seohorrorstories at #SEOCamp Paris by @aleyda from @orainti
Besides SEO education & on-going communication &
collaboration, setting a “proactive” SEO monitoring
system to stay alert & solve these issues quickly is key
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http://www.stateofdigital.com/seo-alerts-monitor/
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There’s a twitter account RTing & sharing them so you
can follow-up & share yours too with the hashtag
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@SEOhorrorstory
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Merci! Vous avez des questions?
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You can also follow me: @aleyda -
and let’s chat there too!