Top 4 SEO mistakes of bloggers
First step Design, second step optimization
That is the most common mistake of designers. SEO should be adapted during design of your site, not after.
Allowing auto-generated title tags (from the post title, category name, etc.).
Don’t let the blog software reuse the post title or category name as title tag. There will be moments where you would need to use a different page title and a different post title. How would you be able to accomplish this? If you are a WordPress user, it is worth to check SEO Title Tag plugin.
Index *.* - Dont let everything to be indexed
Some pages shouldn’t be indexed by search engines (e.g. Contact form, email this or printer friendly pages). Printer friendly pages would cause a dublicate problem for your content. Email or contact forms are content-less pages. So exclude them in your robot.txt file.
Canonicalization problem (to have more than one url for same page)
http://www.domain.com
http://www.domain.com/
http://domain.com
http://domain.com/
Google sees 4 different URLs and 4 different pages while in fact there is only one. This is called as canonicalization problem. For solution of this problem you need to edit your .htaccess file. Check here for a quick fix.
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