Search Engine Optimization Specialists

Search engine optimization is far too important to leave to chance – you have to get it right. Whether your business is small or large–or somewhere in between–if you rely on Web traffic for sales or marketing, you need to either master search engine optimization (SEO) or you need to hire an SEO specialist.

aaXia CMS and Search Engine Optimization

SEO refers to Search Engine Optimization. SEO is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a Website from search engines. SEO can also be referred to as SEF, or Search Engine Friendly.

about CMS: By converting your existing site into SEO friendly links and metadata, your site will be listed and found much easier with search engines, Google in particular. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to change metatags (search engine reference scripting, usually hidden in the code and unaccessable unless you are a web designer!), or modify site text for an optimized keyword search.

 

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More about SEO 

The United States Census Bureau research shows that a whopping 89% of internet users search online before they buy a product – even when they intend to buy that product from a local business. Pew Internet conducted a survey that found 92% of adults online use search engines to find information, and nearly 59% of them do it daily. Of the daily searches, 46% are for information about products and services. What does that mean for you?

You’ve heard the term SEO, know what it stands for (search engine optimization!), and, by now, probably know it’s important. But as you launch your brand, create content, and start to build out your online presence, you’ll likely still find yourself wondering: What are SEO best practices, exactly? How do I make sure my company gets found in the vast sea of the internet?

To demystify those tricky rankings, read on to learn more about what (really) matters to search engines and how to integrate SEO into your content strategy.

What factors most impact a brand’s search engine ranking?

Since search engines don’t publish their algorithms, knowledge of how a website gets ranked comes from research, experimentation, experience, and a few other sources. That being said, there are a few “accepted” truths to a brand’s ranking, which is determined by hundreds, if not thousands, of onsite and offsite factors. For example:

Onsite Factors

Make sure you have unique, high-quality, and relevant content on your site—both the content the user sees and the meta data that only the search engine reads (which includes the page title, meta description, and image tags).

What does this mean, exactly? Create your content with the user in mind, making sure to focus each page or article around the keywords and phrases you’ve decided to target. [For example, if you know you want to be associated with phrases like “eco-friendly fashion,” create blog posts and post photos that relate to that topic.]

Offsite Factors

Search engine spiders are constantly crawling the Internet and indexing content to understand the purpose of it. So, the more Google sees your company referenced in relevant content on other sites, the more your search engine rankings will benefit.

For example, let’s say I am a New York realtor who wants to rank highly for the search term “New York realtor.” If Google sees 10 articles about New York realtors on high-trust, high-traffic real estate publications and online newspapers that point back to my website, it views this as 10 votes of trust. In theory, these 10 sites are recommending my site, so Google is more likely to recommend it to users. The more topically relevant the referring site is, the better.

How important is content creation—really—in raising a brand’s ranking?

Very. Search engines are designed to get you off their site as fast as possible by helping you find what you are looking for on the first try. On that first engine result page, they are going to serve around 10 results that have a diversity of information to “shotgun” a wide array of information to the user. Creating good and unique content on your site gives Google a reason to elevate your listing.

For example, if a person types in “fashion,” Google may give pages for fashion magazines, the definition of “fashion”, and news about “fashion”. So if you are a fashion site, the more original information you have about fashion (versus just having links or recipes you’ve pulled from other sites), the more robust your content looks to Google, and the more likely you will rank for that coveted recipe slot for “fashion”.

What’s the biggest misconception about SEO (and the way that companies approach it)?

Often, companies put too much emphasis on the keyword rankings and not enough emphasis on the results. How highly you rank means nothing if visitors don’t actually click on the result.

Also, don’t be afraid of the “long tail keywords,” (those that have 3–5 words in the phrase) which often have much higher conversion rates. By the time a searcher has drilled down to “men’s black North Face fleece,” he is much closer to the point of purchase than when he started his search with “North Face fleece.”

How should brands pick the keywords they use for SEO?

Picking a word or “keyphrase” is both an art and a science. The art is getting into the mind of users and knowing what they will type into the search field to find what you offer. Think about yourself as a user—what would you search for to get to your site?

The science is picking which of those search terms will bring in the most high quality traffic. Google Adwords offers a free keyword tool that can help you get started.

In your opinion, what’s the best way that companies can measure their SEO success? 

Set and begin monitoring realistic goals early on. Whether your goal is sales, lead volume, web traffic, in-store foot traffic, or something else, there is a tool out there to help you track it. Need some inspiration? Check out Mongoose Metrics, a call tracking solution that tracks the source of the lead and the keyword the call was tied to. Another great tool is Google Places for Business, a free portal that manages your Google Places listing and provides stats on how it is performing.

Regardless of your business goals, make Google Analytics your best friend. This is one of the best free sites out there for monitoring your web traffic and providing insights on which keywords bring in the highest quality traffic.

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