Add Content Expiry Headers

If you’re a bit familiar with the ways of SEO, you’ll be aware that duplicate content is a problem that can happen to anyone and could seriously harm your rankings. But in some cases, it’s difficult to know where you stand. Visual content is more important than …

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Need to Branch Out

Constantly changing consumer behaviors and the demand for more personalized, meaningful experiences have retailers facing huge challenges this year You want your page title to accurately describe what your page is about but you also want it to be “clickable”. Meaning, you want it to draw a searcher’s attention …

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Niche Directories are all the rage

If your website is trying to rank quickly for a specific topic, and yet there is not a piece of high-value content that addresses that topic, the probability of showing up in the Google search results is small. Google has several bots: Googlebot (desktop), Googlebot (mobile), Googlebot Video, Googlebot Images …

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Focus on topic depth vs. backlinks

A site’s age has an influence on that site’s ranking. A site that has been around for a long time can be seen as more reputable. Plus, it gives Google a background in determining a site’s trustworthiness. Basically, site age lets Google know your site is legit …

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Use more than one search engine

Mobile SEO is a challenge for digital marketers. The screen being small and of low resolution hinders searches from scrolling down to the bottom of a page, let alone be going to the next page. The other point that has become increasingly important is that relevant anchor text should be …

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What exactly are Search Engines?

Which articles and posts get the most clicks? Not surprisingly, posts containing countdowns and Top 10 lists are heavily clicked. Not only do they get an enormous wave of traffic when first launched, but they’ll continue to attract traffic for months and even years later. While building backlinks, developing …

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Sponsor events, teams, or organizations

It is imperative that website owners and site developers engage in user testing. Without actually measuring what users are doing when they visit a site, one can’t possibly know how a website is performing. There’s no need to spend more time on the optimisation if your content is …

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See how your site looks to Google

SEO is a set of practices and techniques to optimize a website to get it to the top of the search result listing for specific keywords or terms. If everyone’s mobile device had a screen size and the power of a desktop computer, then there would not be much …

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Include your keyphrases on the page and get credit for them

Search engine optimisation (SEO) refers to the efforts required to ensure your website is discoverable by search engines and in turn, your target customers. The better optimised your website is for search engines like Google, the greater chance you have of ranking for keywords or search queries that your customers …

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SEO for Raw Traffic

Search volume refers to how many times a particular phrase is searched for. It’s a handy way to gauge how much traffic you’ll receive from a specific query, though you should know that volume tends to fluctuate over time. For SEO purposes, you should definitely monitor the click …

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Try to use the keyphrase once or twice per paragraph

The sheer apparent complexity of SEO is enough to turn some people away entirely. Paid results are auction priced advertisements & are produced for as long as the advertiser’s budget lasts relative to the cost per click they have paid for their targeted search terms. If you want to dominate …

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Domain to Domain Relevance

Links don't matter that much for ranking in the Featured Snippet when you already rank on page one of Google. A crawler is a Search Engine bot or a Search Engine spider that travels all around the web looking out for new pages ready to be indexed. In this scenario …

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Link Building

You can make sure you have chosen the right SEO phrase to win in two steps. First, think about what you would search for to find that content. We use search every day, but sometimes don’t pull on our own experience when writing for SEO. Even if the phrase …

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Focus keywords and focus keyphrases

Keyword cramming is old news and will probably result in a penalty anyway So, don’t do it! Instead, focus on creating real, interesting and valuable content. Check the readability score of your content with the Flesch reading ease test, and aim to get above 60% Search is very, very …

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Always endeavour to gain the trust of Google

Offering your content in multiple languages - Your potential linkers might not all speak English, so get your content translated as soon as possible. When you do this, remember to submit to non-English directories as mentioned above! Hopefully your website is laid out in a way that allows users to easily …

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Social media as a syndication platform

Keyword stuffing is simply the process of repeating the same keyword or key phrases over and over in a page. It’s counterproductive. It’s is a signpost of a very low-quality spam site and is something Google clearly recommends you avoid. Always Add Value. Add value in every blog …

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Woo your audience

There’s always something written somewhere that you can quote and use. You could also link back to the original article for some sweet SEO gains and to form a relationship with the website or person that is the source of the quote. Search engines want to show the best …

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Who links back to my site?

Posting regular content is key to building trust with search engines and your customers alike. A posting schedule is easier to stick to when you’re writing regular content. Crafting quality titles for product pages, articles, blog posts, lists and all other written content is what gets that content noticed …

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Invest in a third-party monitoring service

Online search is a murky world for those looking to be found at the top of Google's Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Google is a very smart company. The sophistication of the algorithms they write is incredible; bear in mind that there are currently cars driving themselves around Silicon Valley …

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Carve out time for updating and improving older SEO content

Search engines no longer value pages filled with targeted keywords. Take time to write compelling Meta descriptions for all important pages of the site, and for any pages that can be shared socially. There’s no need to spend more time on the optimisation if your content is not appealing …

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The title tag gets a lot of weight in Google

Google is good at crawling all types of URL structures, even if they're quite complex, but spending the time to make your URLs as simple as possible for both users and search engines can help. Be careful not to include links within content that lead directly to the desktop or …

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How are you supposed to audit your site structure

Today, queries don’t just return a list of ten blue, ordered links. They return results with images, videos, profile pictures, and all manner of meta data that help searchers choose the best result. The images that you upload to a webpage also have an impact on SEO. It’s …

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Make Use Of Bullets & Numbers While Writing

The average top-ten ranking is two or more years old and the average age for the pages in the number one position is roughly three years old. Guest posting as a tactic has a dual benefit. First, it helps you reach the target audience of blogs who have similar audiences …

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Identify (and include) commonly searched keywords

Instead of writing on-page copy for the sole purpose of repeating a keyword multiple times, you should write about your product or service or idea naturally, and let your keyword variations naturally fall into place. If that doesn’t happen, go back and spring in some variations into the content …

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Making your site easy to navigate

Keeping track of your backlinks is just as important as building them. That’s because SEO relies on the quality of the backlinks your website gets. The more high-quality links you have, the higher you will rank in Google. Using a lot of engaging media like helpful graphics, interesting (and …

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Create an interactive tool for good SEO

Technical search engine optimization consists of making various internal changes to a website to make it more visible in search engines. More visibility means more credibility and better positioning in search engine results pages. Done properly, SEO brings more targeted traffic to your website. Customized information will make sure your …

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Getting websites found on search engines

Placing ads in front of potential customers has traditionally been one of the easiest ways to introduce your product to the world, but things have changed a lot over the years. While traditional advertisements still have their place, companies no longer have to rely on a chance encounter to get …

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There's more to online marketing than just SEO and content

There’s no denying that a website’s popularity correlates with how high it ranks in search engine results, and in a way, backlinks are like popularity votes. The more links you have leading to your website from outside websites, the more traction you’ll gain from search engines. If …

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Create Long & Statistics Based Content

If you’ve set yourself up with Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools, you can now get some free keyword ideas. Search Engine Optimization is all about making your website more visible to people who are using search engines to look for your product, brand, or services. Dynamic serving …

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How Many Words Can I Optimise A Page For?

Importance and relevance aren’t determined manually (those trillions of man-hours would require the Earth’s entire population as a workforce). Instead, the engines craft careful, mathematical equations—algorithms—to sort the wheat from the chaff and to then rank the wheat in order of quality. With website analytics, you …

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Check & Review Google Analytics Account

Every website has a robots.txt; this gives robots/crawlers/spiders a bunch of rules to follow, such as where they can/can’t crawl, and the pages they can/can’t index. You can check whether a URL is blocked by robots.txt with Google’s Robots Testing Tool …

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Use Social Bookmarking To Boost Page Rank

Write “linkbait” articles that will attract the attention of social networks. These articles can be valuable resources, controversial, or humorous. Record any results that appear to be effective, and re-test them on other domains or with other terms. If several tests consistently return the same results, chances are you’ve …

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Ensure each page has a unique target keyword

Technical SEO lays a solid foundation that gives your content the best chance to rank for relevant keywords and phrases. Prioritize keywords and phrases, plurals, singulars and misspellings. Companies that repeatedly add links to directories are also more likely to be seen as spamming, which raises automatic red flags with …

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Are you seeing the effects of Google +1 on your SEO?

Google scores ‘fresh content’ that’s updated regularly in a different way to a news article that doesn’t change. Gut, brain, intuition, emotional intelligence, whatever you want to call it, humans can’t be beat for determining relevance. Contextual link building is the quickest way to boost your site …

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Interview experts within your company

Would you like to make it easier for search engines to understand what keyword(s) your blog should rank for? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is another important strategy that helps grow your website traffic. The number of backlinks you have on your website plays a crucial role when it comes …

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