Unimportant SEO Things
When it comes to SEO, there are many elements that can make or break your website’s success. While some of these factors may be important, others may not have as much impact on your rankings. In this blog post, we will discuss some unimportant SEO things that you should not focus too much energy on when trying to optimize your website for search engines.
First off, meta tags and descriptions are often seen as essential components when optimizing a page for SEO purposes; however they actually only play a minor role in the overall ranking process. Meta tags and descriptions help describe what the page is about so search engine crawlers can better understand its content; however they do not directly influence where the page appears in SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). As such, while it is still beneficial to include relevant keywords within meta tags and descriptions – especially if you want them to appear prominently in SERPs – focusing too heavily on them will likely yield minimal results at best.
Another thing that people tend to obsess over but has little effect on rankings is keyword density or how often certain words appear throughout an article/page’s text body compared with other words used therein . It was once thought that having an optimal keyword density would improve one's chances of appearing higher up in SERPs; however this notion has been debunked by Google who now states “Keyword stuffing…is wrong...and makes [pages] less useful [for users].” So rather than worrying about cramming specific phrases into every sentence just because you think it might give you an edge over competitors , instead focus more attention towards creating quality content which provides readers with value . This type of approach yields far greater rewards than any amount of keyword stuffing ever could!
Another area which does little-to-no good from an SEO perspective involves using excessive anchor text links within articles/pages . Anchor texts provide contextual information regarding linked web pages ; hence why Google frowns upon websites engaging in link schemes whereby multiple unrelated pages contain identical anchor texts pointing back towards their own site(s) - such practices come across as unnatural & manipulative so should be avoided at all costs! That being said though , including 1-2 internal links per piece isn't going cause any harm either way given their primary purpose remains helping readers find additional resources related topic discussed therein anyway ...so don't feel like omitting them altogether even if doing so won't necessarily boost one's standings vis à vis competing sites either!
