Google provides good advice on how to implement SEO on your website.
There's at least one web design company in Peoria I know of that often uses "black hat SEO", i.e. techniques to try to trick Google into thinking a website is relevant to customers.
By using these unethical techniques, a website might rise high in search results temporarily, but will suddenly drop in rankings, and may be penalized or even banned by Google.
As a business owner, CEO, or marketing manager, you should get to know what works, and what doesn't work, in SEO.
The biggest mistakes I see local businesses of Peoria, IL make on their websites are:
(1) not enough keyword-rich text that answers customer questions in an FAQ type presentation
(2) "we-oriented" text that blabbers on and on about the company, without really addressing customer needs or problems
(3) not providing photos or videos of the product in use solving a customer's problem
(4) poorly composed meta tags, especially meta description
(5) poorly implemented H (header) tags
(6) not mobile-optimized.
Here are Google Webmaster's preliminary remarks on SEO.
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Avoid the following techniques:
* Automatically generated content
* Participating in link farm schemes
* Creating pages with little or no original content
* Cloaking
* Sneaky redirects
* Hidden text or links
* Doorway pages
* Scraped content
* Participating in affiliate programs without adding sufficient value
* Loading pages with irrelevant keywords
* Creating pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware
* Abusing rich snippets markup
* Sending automated queries to Google
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