You need an SEO strategy in order for your business to succeed. We take a look at five aspects that you need to consider to ensure that your site is performing as it should be.
Strategy
If you don’t have a strategy in place, your efforts may be wasted. In order to effectively market your products and site to your customers you need to think like a customer. After all, if you don’t understand what your customers want, you will not be able to target them effectively.
Creativity
Even though SEO is techy and data driven, there is an aspect of creativity to bear in mind. It doesn’t matter how good your technical optimisation is if your content is not creative and you will find that you won’t attract or keep your visitors. Create content that is unique and high in quality to make sure that your visitors are engaged. Bear in mind that every industry has its own tone/voice so the content that you create needs to be tailored to suit your audience and not be generic. It may be worth contacting professional copywriting services for more advice here if you’re unsure of how to achieve this.
Technical
An important aspect to work on when it comes to your site is the technical on page optimisation. You need to be effectively managing content updates, domain migrations and redirects. The navigation on your site need to be hierarchical and clear and content needs to be unique.
Relationships
Relationships are key when it comes to marketing. It’s no different when it comes to search marketing and you need to create meaningful relationships with customers are other domains which are relevant. The aim is to develop relationships with publishers and writers so that they place relevant links to your website. Inbound links are also a great option for SEO.
Measurability
Make sure that you analyse and check what’s successful and what’s not working so well where your activities are concerned. This way you can amend your strategies where necessary. Google Analytics is a great way of tracking this progress.