The Benefits of Search Engine Optimization
No matter what kind of website you have, chances are you want it to be seen by as many people as possible. Search engine optimization (SEO) services are the only surefire way to make sure that people know your website exists, and the pathway for getting to it. As an example, if you are running a business, the right search engine optimization strategy can put your website on the internet browsers of people all over the world.
The three top search engines are Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Each company has special software that visits websites, and attempts to place it into useful categories, with the relative sites listed in the top 10 options returned. While every person has their favorite search engine, the software underneath works pretty much the same. Search engine optimization is not difficult; however, specialists in this field have to keep up with the latest trends in search engine ranking methods. Manual directory submission service is good process for better ranking.
Each company that hosts a search engine uses a slightly different program. Search engine technicians and designers will try to make sure that search engine optimization techniques do not get ahead of their ability to deliver results highly relative to the search query. Google, in particular, is known as an industry leader in finding new ways to rank sites that will provide more relative results. Whether or not their changes alter your search engine ranking will depend on whether or not you keep up a regimen of search engine optimization SEO Company. More often than not, you will need a reputable and experienced search engine optimization specialist to evaluate your website and keep it in line with the latest search engine ranking trends.
While continuous search engine optimization may not seem important, a loss or drop in your Google ranking could have serious consequences. Since Google is one of the top three search engines favored by users, as goes Google, so goes the world, and so must go your website. A search engine optimization specialist has the time and industry experience to delve deep into the latest and newest features in search engine technology. They can then take this information and use it to make your website extremely friendly to search engine software, thus netting you a very good ranking.
Over the years, search engine optimization service has gone well beyond inserting certain descriptor words, or Meta tags into the html of the site. As an example, did you know that the domain name you selected can mean a significant difference in your ranking? Search engine optimization specialists know all the premier methods for improving your site’s rank. In addition, if you have already gone ahead and named your domain, a search engine optimization specialist will be able to help you maximize your site in other ways.
The internet landscape changes daily. With it also come vast changes to the ways in which search engines categorize your site so that others can find it. Professional search engine optimization, therefore, is a critical part of ensuring that your website achieves the world presence that you want it to have.
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Seven Ways to Improve your Click-through Rate
Getting into the top 10 Google results is only half the battle. How does your search result fare against the other SERP real estate? Here’s some simple tips I’ve gathered to help make your listing stand out.
Questions: Try using an intriguing question to spark the interest of the user. Questions leave people hanging, wanting to know more. If you ask the right question, your result will hopefully be clicked. RagePank offers some good thoughts on using questions in your title tag.
Keyword Dividers: If your title tag consists of several keywords, consider separating them by something more attention grabbing than commas. I frequently use double colons (::), the vertical bar( | ), or caret symbols ( >> ).
Short Titles: If you don’t care about stuffing as many keywords as possible into your title tag, consider shortening your title in order to make it stand out. Short titles are very scan-able
Company Name in Tag: The question about whether or not to include your company’s name in the title tag is a topic of much debate. If your brand name is well recognized, you could benefit from the additional trust implicit in the name. If not, you may simply be distracting from more important keywords and wasting valuable real estate.
Short URLs: Get Elastic shares some interesting data from Marketing Sherpa that suggests shorter URL’s increase click-through since they do not distract from the more important page title. While there may not be much you can do about the length of your domain, you may want to shorten your page files names.
Keyword in URL or Page File Names: This tactic is frequently used in Pay Per Click ads. By creating page file names with keywords in them, you make your listing appear more relevant. However, you may want to balance this tactic with the one above by not making unnecessarily long URL’s.
Indented Listings: Recently, I posted on creating indented search results. In addition to doubling your SERP real estate, and indented result creates a great visual marker that sets your listing apart.
Move higher: This seems like a no-brainer, but often we forget how much more clickable the number 1 spot is over number 2. Moving up a few results can have an exponential effect on your click-through rate.
Not every suggestion here will work for everyone. Be sure to test these tactics on less important pages, and then analyze the results. The key is to stand apart from your competition. If all top positions are using Questions in the title tag, you’re better off doing something else.
Justin Palmer is the website administrator for C28.com, which sells Christian T-shirts. Justin also writes an eCommerce and SEO blog, covering topics such as marketing with Street Teams and SEO metrics.
Justin Palmer writes an eCommerce Marketing blog (http://www.palmerwebmarketing.com)
Death to PageRank…Here’s Seven Better SEO Metrics
Now that Google seems to be artificially adjusting the PageRank of certain sites, we have one more reason to ignore it as a useful SEO key performance indicator. So what should we use to measure the success of our SEO projects? Below, I’ve listed the 7 SEO KPI’s that I track for my sites.
1. Unique keywords: By tracking the number of unique keywords your site is found for, you’ll see a global, birds eye view of how well your site is doing with the long tails. Sure, you want to be found for the important, high volume terms as well, but a healthy site will rank organically for a great diversity of keywords.
2. Organic Visits Per Page: Every page on your site should target a few keywords and draw in traffic for those terms. In other words, what percent of your total unique pages are doing a good job of bringing traffic? If you have 1000 pages, and only 200 unique keyword visits, you’ve got some issues that need to be addressed.
3. Conversion Rate Per Keyword: It’s extremely important to know which keywords outperform others. As a search marketer, your time is very limited. Therefore, you must focus on the terms which return decent ROI.
4. Pages Indexed: The number of pages your site indexed has indexed by Google and Yahoo can give you a rough metric of your site’s crawl-ability. If you find that the number of actual pages you have is much greater than the number of indexed pages, you may have issues with navigation or duplicate content. To view your indexed pages, simply use the “site:” command on Google or Yahoo (e.g. site:www.yoursite.com).
5. Yahoo Backlinks: Unlike Google, Yahoo actually shows you the approximate number of back links pointing to your site by using the link: command.
6. Google Backlinks: Unfortunately, the Google link: command is worthless. In order to see an approximate, although likely outdated count of your external links, login to your Google Webmaster Central account.
7. SERP Rankings for High Volume Keywords: Because web users are becoming more sophisticated and less predictable in their searching habits, I would caution about worrying too much about high volume keywords. However, it’s still important to monitor these keyword positions. SEO software such as WebCEO or WebPositionGold are great timesaver tools.
There are many other on-site SEO metrics, such as keyword density, that might be helpful if you are targeting Yahoo or MSN. However, with the dominance of Google and the relative emphasis they place on on-page factors, I rarely consider these.
Justin Palmer is the founder of Palmer Web Marketing, which offers SEO evaluation services and Do It YourSelf Search engine optimization guides. Justin is also the director of internet marketing for C28.com, which sells Teen Christian Christmas Gifts.
Justin Palmer writes an eCommerce and Web Usability blog. You can visit his blog at http://www.palmerwebmarketing.com
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