The Website Mistakes I See Most Often (And They're Not What You Think)
After building websites for twelve years, the mistakes that cost companies the most aren't design mistakes — they're strategic ones.
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After building websites for twelve years, the mistakes that cost companies the most aren't design mistakes — they're strategic ones.
AI is a powerful SEO tool — for research, analysis, and optimization. It's a terrible replacement for expertise, experience, and editorial judgment. Here's where we draw the line.
Google rewrites roughly 61% of title tags. That number doesn't mean title tags don't matter — it means most title tags aren't aligned with what users are actually searching for.
Every time you post content on social media instead of your website, you're building someone else's asset. Your website is the only digital property you actually own.
Most people open Search Console to check rankings. It does much more than that — and the most valuable insights are in the data most people ignore.
A blog post published in January 2024 is still driving traffic in April 2026 — at zero marginal cost. A social media post from January 2024 doesn't exist anymore. The math isn't close.
Writing for featured snippets and answer boxes means a 40 to 60 word answer under a heading that matches the query. Google extracts the cleanest block. Rank is a different job.
Parasitic SEO exploits high-authority domains to rank content that wouldn't rank on its own. It works — until it doesn't. Here's why legitimate businesses should avoid it.
Most Core Web Vitals advice tells you what the metrics are. This post tells you how to fix them — with the specific changes that produce the biggest improvements for the least effort.