Historically, traffic from search engines has been about a very singular
pursuit -- that of rankings. If you have too many keywords stuffed into your domain, this can be viewed as a spammy tactic that Google can pick up on. Visual content is more important than ever. It manages to supplement text in the best possible way (or even to replace it) and it certainly can affect SEO. Reviews tell what other people, your customers, think of your product. If you respond to reviews, you show your (potential) customers that you care about their opinion.
Distribute page authority and ranking power throughout the site
Sound SEO strategies aren’t susceptible to the whims of Google and the other search engines and depend far less on them than might be assumed. The following are
the two most important things you need to ensure: that (1) your page loads quickly (under 2 seconds) and (2) your page is as small as possible with the least number of requests. The basic premise is that a page will show up in search engine results
because the website had mentioned the terms that were being searched
for on the website page. Of course, many websites use the same keywords
on the same page. Googlebot uses sitemaps and databases of links discovered during previous crawls to determine where to go next. Whenever the crawler finds new links on a site, it adds them to the list of pages to visit next. If Googlebot finds changes in the links or broken links, it will make a note of that so the index can be updated.
SEO has truly come into its own as a marketing channel
The website with the most links, as well as the most valuable links, wins a higher “rank” in popularity. To optimize your
search engine results it is important to make your URL easily identifiable. Include words that are relevant to the site as opposed to numbers and symbols. People will recognize those keywords in the URL, and are more likely to click on your link if they think it will bring them to a relevant page. Make sure your website is optimised for mobile. When someone is searching for something on a mobile device, Google will now promote websites which are mobile friendly ahead of ones that aren’t. SEOs have tried many ways to sneak in links. One of the more creative ways was to embed a link into an infographic. When people would copy the infographic because they liked it, they were also copying links. Widgets were also used this way. No one appreciates them.
Keyword Research — Avoid at Your Peril
It’s easy to assume that Google already understands the content and relevance of each and every page on your website, but the fact is that it needs a fair amount of hand-holding. Fortunately, helping Google along really isn’t very difficult at all. The absence of a hard and fast definition of content allows for cross-genre experiments. Infographics, explainer videos, vlogs are products of such experiments. Visual images entertain users whereas written content provide them with new information. Infographics, which is the cross between the two, do both. The same applies to explainer videos. Title tags and meta descriptions are important elements of your website’s content. The title tag and the meta description tags should include keywords relevant to the content of the web page they describe. This helps Search Engines understand what the page is about and index your web pages accordingly for relevant keywords or keyword phrases. We asked an
SEO Specialist, Gaz Hall, for his thoughts on the matter: "How well written your content is and how much it brings value to the searcher is paramount to its success on Google's SERPs."
Anchor text links from a variety of different domains correlate with higher rankings in Google
Software programs cannot adequately interpret each of the various types of data that humans can—videos and images, for example, are to a certain extent less readable by a search engine If you have
two domain versions of your website, i.ewww.example.comand example.com and both www and non-www URLs are serving the same content (i.e the same homepage), then you might face problems regarding the duplicity of data. To avoid such situations, you must first choose the preferred domain (canonical), which is to be seen and then 301 redirects all the other non-canonical to the preferred domain. You should use large header tags and take advantage of CSS to alter these to fit into the style and colour scheme of your page. If you are using software such as Microsoft SharePoint Designer/FrontPage or Adobe Dreamweaver for example, these CSS details are created automatically for you. A solution which is also perhaps advisable is to make your CSS an external file; this way there is no need to repeat all of your CSS statements on each page, but simply just one. It is better to create a content that is user-friendly than exhaustive. Content should be easy and simple to read.