If you run or manage a website of any shape or form, you’ve probably heard of SEO. If you haven’t, you need to do some research and get familiar with at least basic SEO techniques, otherwise your search engine rankings will suffer.

With this in mind, I’ve put together a list of some of the most common SEO mistakes that inexperienced web developers and website owners tend to make. These can range from small mistakes that are easy to fix to large problems that could be severely impacting your site’s performance, and include:

1. Failing To Use A Professional SEO Agency

Unless you have significant SEO training and experience, I’d always recommend at least consulting with a professional agency to make sure that you have a viable SEO strategy. Doing this should help you make sure that you’re getting the most out of your website.

Ultimately, SEO professionals can be expensive. However, the fact that they know exactly what they’re doing and how to do things will certainly work in your favour. If you try and take control of your own SEO, you will probably make mistakes, will be inefficient, and will take a lot more time to do things than you should.

A professional SEO agency who know all the SEO quirks won’t do this, and using one will free up your time, allowing you to take care of the things that you’re good at.
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