HOW TO DESTROY YOUR SITE 10 COMMON MISTAKES TO AVOID
See what you need to do to prevent your website from falling in search engines but to rise to the top!
Hi, guys!
This is Yannis Divramis from the website and Divramis SEO Agency.
And today we’re gonna talk about how to destroy your website or ruin your website, 10 things to avoid.
I’m an SEO manager of my own branded SEO agency, Divramis.com.
We’re based in Greece, but we are doing SEO for international websites and companies all over the world for more than twelve years.
So how to destroy your site and common mistakes to avoid?
See what you need to do to prevent your website from failing in search engines but to rise to the top.
And one thing that I found very useful is an article from Ahrefs that is called SEO basics beginner’s guide to SEO success, written by Joshua Hartwick.
And he says that search traffic is usually consistent,t unlike traffic from other sources.
That means that SEO and organic traffic are almost the only solution for unstoppable traffic, for traffic that will not tap.
That means that, if you stop doing AdSense, for instance, you will have the other traffic source from SEO and organic results.
If you want to learn more about SEO, you can visit the Learningseo.io website that has very useful content.
Go to the introduction to SEO and has some guides included the one from Ahrefs.
1. No goal from the creation of your website
No marketing plan, purpose of existence and operation, we just made it to have a site
The biggest mistake, I think, in creating website is that you have no goal from the creation of your website.
No marketing plan, no purpose of existence in operation.
We just made it to have a site.
It reminds me of the early days of the Internet.
The first time I started building websites as a professional, it was 25 ago back in 2000.
WordPress was nonexistent.
It was another bit of evolution another CMS before WordPress.
And everyone was making websites in PHP or HTML, but they were very static and not so operational like the today website, not dynamic.
And we were visiting the big companies there back then and asking them do you have a website.
No.
Do one.
What for?
To find you online.
For instance, press Divramis.com, and clients will find you and will see your products and service, and they call you.
How can someone find me?
Google was nonexistent as well.
It was many other search engines like Lycos, Excite, Yahoo.
Not so good when serving content on the results.
And you had to press the exact domain in order to find a website.
And many of them had made a lot of money back then.
It was very, very easy.
But, many of them have left the website and start doing something else, leaflets or that stuff.
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So when you start your website, you need to have a clear call in your mind.
I’m building a website to rank first in Google and then to find new clients from Google.
Not the other way around, not to have a client that send him my website.
I need to find new clients with my new website or my already existing website.
New clients that will call me, new clients that will find me by searching the keywords I want.
For instance, if you are a lawyer in Athens, Greece, someone will press in Google Athens lawyers, lawyers in Athens, etc. and they will find you on the first page of results of Google and they will call you.
2. Wrong choice of platform Prefer WordPress and Woocommerce
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Wix
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Squarespace
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Joomla
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Custom CMS
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Open cart
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Magento
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Shopify
Execution and speed count
The second mistake is the wrong choice of platform.
You need to prefer WordPress and WooCommerce.
And here again, we have the SEO guide of Ahrefs that says how do you do SEO, get a good domain name, and it has another picture that says hosted versus self-hosted platforms.
I have the same picture.
That means that there are many other platforms there like Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Weebly, WordPress, and self hosted like WooCommerce, Joomla, Joomla, Drupal, etc and many, many others.
I have used all of them, and more and more of them.
And I think the best platform is WordPress for 2 reasons.
The one reason is that it’s very simple, easy to use.
Execution and speed count in this time.
Why?
Because if someone starts a website with a custom CMS and wants 10 minutes to write a blog post and you need only 5 minutes to do it in WordPress, then you have a competitive advantage upon them.
So you need to prefer something that is easy and Google-friendly.
Execution counts because many people say that you can do this and do that in SEO and you have these results like it is a magical formula.
So I search in Google for 10x website traffic overnight for less than $100 because I’ve seen the video by SEOJesus.
I don’t have something bad with this guy, but it’s very easy to say it, and it’s very difficult to do it.
Execution is 100% in SEO or 99%.
The other one is to have a goal or to have a marketing plan.
And who gets from AI Overviews an answer from Mailchimp that says that is almost impossible to do it overnight, at least organically.
It’s highly like unlikely and likely unrealistic.
You need at least focusing on a combination of targeted advertising or the marketing SEO can lead to a significant improvement.
So, I add this in order to understand that many people are offering solutions that sound easy.
For instance, websites advertise 10x in your traffic overnight.
But, this is almost impossible because it has to do with how much work you need to do in order to execute it, how much resources, you have to spend money, you need to have a website, a product, etc.
Because you will never spend money in something that you will not make any money.
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Why I told you this?
Because there are many people out there that they say they are SEO experts, and they use these tricks in order to trick you, not to take your money, but to click on their videos and their websites.
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3. Complete lack of content
So, the third mistake and the third omission is the complete lack of content.
Google doesn’t run websites.
It runs the content that is inside the website.
You need to have articles, posts to talk about yourself, to talk about the topic that people are trying to find information about in the search engines.
4. Complete lack of backlinks
The number four is complete lack of backlinks.
And many people say, I’ve done this skyscraper technique, content, page.
It has 2.000 or 12.000 words, and now, everyone will find it.
Everyone will love it.
Everyone will link to it.
I will be on the first page of Google, and I will have passive income from that.
This is, total, 100% untrue.
If you don’t have any backlinks, you will never get on the first of Google.
Why?
Because I noticed from my previous experience that I have posted many good, pieces of content and, the competition had not so good, not so insightful, not so long content, and they were still ranking up, better than me.
So you need backlinks and good quality backlinks.
Backlinks from other sites, going back to your post, full of the keywords you want people to search in Google and find you.
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5. Complete lack of branding
And number five is the complete lack of branding.
You need some branding.
As you can see, I preferred my brand name and my website name to be Divramis.com and not Divramis SEO agency.
It will be better to be Divramis SEO or Divramis SEO agency for Google and for ranking, but I prefer to have a personal brand website.
We have an SEO agency, and Divramis I think is a rare name.
Many people can remember it and, distinguish it apart from other brands.
And that is the reason I am using it.
So you need at least to have some something personal or the company logo, the company brand name inside, the contact page or in everywhere else.
6. The site is designed for fixed not Mobile First
Number 6, the site is designed for laptops and personal computers.
So you need to do something about this.
You need have mobile first indexing.
It should be designed for mobile first indexing.
7. Unprofessional website construction
The site was built by your nephew who knows about these things, he’s a doctor know it all a jack of all trades
I started building websites back in 2000.
The first websites were not in WordPress.
They were custom design HTML, but we still used professionals to do the website construction.
The website design should be a professional website design.
Even though it will be for mobile phones, you need someone to put it correctly.
The site was built by your nephew who knows about these things.
He’s a doctor, a jack of all trades.
This is impossible to do if someone hasn’t built 100 posts.
Today, it’s a bit difficult to start building websites from scratch.
You need at least someone to help you.
You need at least someone to do the website that has done it before.
It’s like visiting a doctor.
If you have cancer, you have to go to an oncologist.
You cannot go visit a pathologist or a general practitioner.
You need someone that is highly specialized in building websites.
8. Wrong Hosting
Number 8 is wrong hosting.
Some people think that if they pick the most famous web hosting that is GoDaddy it would solve every problem.
That’s wrong.
Big mistake.
You need to have, hosting in companies like MyIP or WPX, or, companies that are specialized in WordPress hosting.
Hosting is also a ranking factor.
You need to have a very, very, very fast hosting also and, not being hosted your website with other websites that had problems with spam in Google before.
So let’s see what ChatGPT says about how to destroy your site and common mistakes to avoid.
First is ignore website speed, forget about security, ignore mobile optimization, over complicate navigation, neglect code quality, skip regular backups, use to make plug ins scripts, ignore SEO, never test or update, ignore users’ final thoughts, etc.
What does it mean about hosting?
Speed is ranking factor.
Nobody stays in a website that has no speed.
9. Wrong choice of domain name
You need a brandable domain name or domain name without slashes, not so long, not more than 18 characters.
For instance, with my own website, Divramis.com, was the best solution in terms of branding, but it will be better if I would take divramisseo.com.
You need a domain name that has the main keyword for your industry and plus your brand.
This would be best.
For instance, BMW cars.
But BMW is so big that they don’t need cars in the domain name because they are selling cars.
Everybody knows it.
10. Irrelevant content or bad content
And the 10th mistake is irrelevant content or bulk content.
It’s better to have no content rather to write content that will harm your website.
For instance, we’re an SEO agency, so I cannot have a post here about illegal migration or about plumbing.
Many people are asking for guest posts, but it’s better to avoid them.
You need to keep your site within the spectrum of the content that you have.
This is called topical authority.
You need to have topical authority for your website, and you don’t need any other posts that are irrelevant.
That’s all, guys.
How to destroy your site and common mistakes to avoid.
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My name is Yannis Divramis.
I’m an SEO expert with an SEO agency, Divramis SEO agency.
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