An intro into SEO conducted in Saudi Arabia by Lee Mancini. Get insights into how SEO is a major part of any online marketing strategy. Learn some of the strategy and get real hands on tips and tricks which will greatly improve your ability to make your website rank in search engines and become an SEO Super Hero and beat up your competition.
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12. Agenda
1. History of Search
2. Search engine results pages
3. The evolution of search
4. The theory of Search Engine Optimisation
5. How Search Engines have changed
6. Three Pillars of SEO
7. SEO Process
8. Keyword Research
9. Demonstration and examples
14. What is SEO?
Rand Fishkin – CEO of Moz.com
“SEO is the combination of tactics and strategies,
including, but not limited to, optimization of
information architecture, usability, content focus,
audience targeting, design, development, keyword
research, keyword placement, link building, social
media marketing and any other online or offline
branding/marketing elements that support the goal of
receiving more traffic from search engines.”
16. How Did Google Get so Big?
Google changed the game with more academic approach.
• PageRank
• Citations & Links
• More accurate and useful to search users.
• Continually adapting the algorithms.
17. What Makes Google Different?
World’s largest
search engine
Processes 100
billion searches
a month
3.3 billion
searches a day
Over 65% of the
global search
market
Made $44
billion in ad
revenue in 2014
20. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Google 94.16%
Bing 2%
Yahoo 1.86%
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https://www.statsmonkey.com/sunburst/18494-saudi-arabia-search-engine-market-share-usage-statistics-
2014.php
25. Type of Content & Search Result
Early Results Page Todays Results Page
SERPs have became
much more varied from
the old ten text link
results making it harder
to stand out
26. Type of Content & Search Result
Image
Carousel
Ads
Text Results
with sitelinks
Google
News
Knowledge
Graph
27. Type of Content & Search Result
Map Listing
High
Volume
Keyword
Ads
Even though
“SEO Dubai” is a
high volume
keyword it is
difficult to gain
traffic as all
organic listing are
below the fold
32. Algorithm updates – Mobilegeddon
Mobile search
passed
desktop in
2015
Non-mobile
friendly
websites were
devalued in
Mobile search
33. New vs Old SEO
Old SEO New SEO
One keyword per page Focus on topics of information
Focus on Rankings Engagement with a Brand or Service
Create content for engines Create content for people
Low value content High value content for an audience
Set of ranking factors Ever changing ranking factors
VS
User
engagement
becomes an
important
ranking
factor
35. 3 Pillars of SEO
3 Pillars of SEO
TECHNOLOGY
REPUTATIONCONTENT
36. SEO Primary Ranking Factors
Relevancy:
How close a match a given web page is
to the term being searched upon
Google determines this from elements
on the page such as the page title, URL,
content and the anchor text of links on
the page
Authority:
How important a web page is in the eyes
of Google and at the heart of the Google
algorithm - called PageRank
Calculated based on number of inbound
links from other web pages and the
authority of those web pages
On Page Factors Off Page Factors
37. How is this typically achieved?
Projects are typically approached in four stages:
1. Research & Analysis (what key phrases are people searching
for?)
2. On-page Optimisation (to create new / optimise existing
website content including images, videos and pdf documents)
3. Off-page Optimisation (to increase a websites authority /
importance)
4. Social Media Optimisation (optimise your presence on social
media websites)
SEO offers: cost-effective customer acquisition, fixed costs,
measurability, brand visibility and credibility, repeat business
and a wider insight into customer behaviour
38. Links from other
websites are still
a predominant
ranking factor
for Google.
Social Metric still
play a relatively
small role.
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https://moz.com/search-ranking-factors
45. Keyphrase Research Tools
Keyword tools gives you a
number of suggestions
based on your seed
keywords. You are able to
download all the
keywords and volumes
46. Search Console/Webmaster Tools
In the search analytics section of
Google Search Console you can
see which keywords users are
clicking on for your website and
which keywords you are
appearing for.
47. Setting UP Webmaster Tools
http://www.wordtracker.com/academy/learn-seo/analytics/set-up-
google-webmaster-tools
Set Up Google Account
Set Up Google webmaster account:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools
Verify your account: HTML Tag or Google Analytics
Add a sitemap: XML Site Map Preferred
48. Google Suggestions/ Related Searches
Google SERPs provide suggestions
based on other searches that
might help you. We can use these
to get keyword ideas when
conduction research
49. Google Trends
Google Trends show the
popularity of a certain keyphrase
over time. You can compare it to
others to see if they are likely to
increase or decrease.
50. Google Trends
We can use trends to
find seasonality or
events that spike
interest
54. High
Low
High volume,
low conversion
Low volume,
high conversion
Cost,competition
Keyword popularity,
search volume
General phrases:
“cycling”, “bikes”
Even more descriptive phrases:
“how to repair a flat tire”
2-4 word phrases:
“road bike reviews”, “bike to work”
The Long Tail of Search Marketing
59. Competition
Competition is a PPC metric
that can inform our decisions
on the difficulty to rank
Suggested bid is also an
indication of competition.
Higher the suggested bid =
higher competition
61. Key-phrase Map
URL Primary Keyphrase Secondary Keyphrases
http://www.regus.ae/international-business/new-market-presence/virtual-offices.aspx virtual office dubai virtual office in dubai, dubai virtual office
http://www.regus.ae/office-space/united-arab-emirates/abu-dhabi office space in abu dhabi office space abu dhabi
http://www.regus.ae/office-space/united-arab-emirates/dubai office space dubai office space for rent dubai, serviced offices dubai
http://www.regus.ae/products/meeting-facilities/meeting-rooms.aspx meeting rooms in dubai meeting rooms hire dubai
http://www.regus.ae/products/offices/ office space for rent dubai office space for rent in dubai, serviced offices in dubai
http://www.regus.ae/products/offices/business-centres.aspx business centre dubai business centre in dubai, business centres dubai
http://www.regus.ae/products/offices/home-working.aspx working from home dubai home business in dubai, working from home in uae
http://www.regus.ae/products/offices/office-space-to-rent.aspx office space for rent in dubai office space for rent in abu dhabi, serviced offices dubai
http://www.regus.ae/starting-a-business/ how to start a business in dubai business setup in dubai, starting a business in dubai
62. Keyword Research Round-Up
Research Factor Summary
Relevancy
Keyphrases must be relevant to your
product or service
Search Volume
Volume can result in more traffic but not
all high volume keyphrases are worth
targeting
Competition
Competition can give you an idea of the
difficulty to rank.
User Intent
Keyphrases should be split into user intent
categories.
Content & Search Results
Search results vary and it is not always
worth ranking highly
64. On-page Optimisation
On-page optimisation refers to all measures that can be taken directly within the
website in order to improve its position in the search rankings.
These include the following common elements:
• Title tags
• Meta descriptions
• H1 tags
• Alt Tags
• Copy optimisation
• Internal linking
• Schema Markup
• Website architecture
What is
this page
about?
66. Title Tags
• The most important element on the page.
<head>
<title>SEO Services Dubai | Sekari</title>
</head>
Can be found in the html head
of the page
Appears in SERPs as the blue
text
Appears in TAB of your browser
67. Guidelines for Title Tags
Keep them
under 60
characters
Use the
Primary
Keyphrase
Use the
Brand Name
for
awareness
Make sure
the title is
unique to
the page
Make sure
the title is
relevant to
the content
41
characters
Use a
separator to
separate
keyphrases
& brand
69. Guidelines for Meta-Description
Keep them
under 155
characters
Use the
Primary
Keyphrase
Use the
Brand Name
for
awareness
Make sure
the
description
is unique to
the page
Entice the
user to click
through to
the page
122
characters
Feature any
specials or
offers to get
a better CTR
70. Titles & Meta Descriptions
Can
negatively
affect click-
throughs
Exceeding the
character limit
means the
results are
truncated
73. Guidelines for Header Tags
h1 should
feature the
primary
keyphrase
Helps
separate key
parts of the
page and
give
structure
Think of it as
the title of a
chapter in a
book
Sub-heading
to feature
secondary
keyphrase
h1
h2
h3
74. How Onpage has changed? Google now
understands
relationships
between key-
phrases and this
has changed the
way we have
optimized pages.
75. How Onpage has changed?
Google has a vast
number of
commonly used
synonyms which
allows us to write
more naturally
77. Internal Linking
Use keyphrases as
anchor text to give
search engines an
idea of what the
destination page
is about
<a href=http://www.regus.ae/meeting-rooms title=“meeting
rooms">meeting rooms</a>
78. On-Page Summary
Research Factor Summary
Titles
Need to be unique and contain primary
keyword. Less than 60 Characters
Meta Descriptions
Need to entice a click through to the page.
Less than 155 characters
Headers
Give a heading to the document like a
book chapter.
Image Alt Tags
Describe what is in the image and use key-
phrases
Body copy
Well written, use key-phrases and
common synonyms
Internal Linking
Use key-phrase for the anchor text. Helps
with crawability of the website
80. Schema Mark-Up
A specific vocabulary of tags (or microdata) that you can add to your HTML to
improve the way your page is represented in SERPs.
Ratings Price Specifications
Leads to
improved click
through rate by
making the
result attractive
82. Data Highlighter in Search Console
Click start
highlighting
and follow
the prompts
Search Console
has a tool to
highlight your
data saving you
from using
schema
83. Data Highlighter in Search Console
Highlight the
information
on the page
and select
what the
information is
88. Duplicate Content
Search engines do not like duplicate content.
1. Considered a spamming technique and can get you
panelised.
2. Search engine does not know which page to include or
exclude and will not list all of the pages.
3. Search engines don’t know which page to add the link
metrics and may dilute link metrics or not apply them at
all.
4. Don’t know which version to rank and will look for the
original version
88
89. HTML & XML Site Maps
Sitemap is the gateway to your
website for search engines.
89
91. www. Vs Non www.
http://www.sekari.com
http://sekari.com
http://sekari.com/index
91
92. Be aware of robots.txt
Intro to Technology
Hermes Retreat
doesn’t rank 1st
for its own
brand name
due to technical
issues.
Even a warning
in the SERPs
about their
robots.txt file
93. No Index, no follow
Intro to Technology
The meta robots
noindex tag has been
left on after the
website has gone live
meaning they have not
been crawled and
indexed by search
engines.
96. Relevance is how well a local listing
matches what someone is
searching for. Adding complete and
detailed information about your
brand in a specific country can help
us better understand your business
and match you to relevant search
results.
1. Relevance
97. Just like it sounds -- how far is each potential
search result from the location term used in a
search? If you don't specify a location in your
search, we'll calculate distance based on what
we know about your location.
2. Distance
98. This describes how well-known or prominent a
business can be. This is based on information
we have about the company from across the
web (like links, articles, and directories). Some
businesses are more prominent in the offline
world, and we try to reflect this online as well.
3. Prominence
Stand Out, Be Found
99. Starbucks.me
regus.ae trying to rank in Saudi
Domain & URL Signals
Strongest
signal for
local search
Geo targeted
by default
115. In a February, 2014 Google Webmaster video Matt Cutts
stated that,
“…backlinks, even though there’s some noise and certainly a
lot of spam, for the most part are still a really, really big win
in terms of quality for search results.”
Meaning that link building is still a crucial step to be made
by any company seeking to be seen in the SERP’s
120. Some good websites to keep learning
about SEO
www.searchengineland.com
www.Moz.com
www.Searchenginewatch.com
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/
en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-
guide.pdf
120
121. THANK YOU
93%
Of Online Experiences
Begin with a Search Engine
https://www.slideshare.net/secret/spdmv5eSUSd3da
122. Thank you!
T: +971 4 4342816 • F: +971 4 4342801 • E: info@sekari.com
SEKARI JLT, Unit 2804, Mazaya Business Avenue BB1, Jumeirah Lakes Tower, PO Box: 634312 Dubai, UAE
www.sekari.com • twitter.com/sekarisearch • linkedin.com/company/sekari
• Managing Director of Sekari &
Zeentree.com
• 20 years in digital marketing
• 15 years in the Middle East
• 2000, Sold Media2b for Venture Capital to
BA Media Group Plc
• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Jumeirah,
Emirates Hotels and Resorts
Lee Mancini
lee.mancini@sekari.com
https://ae.linkedin.com/in/leemancini
Notes de l'éditeur
Intro workshop and we will try cover everything as simply as we can but if you want to ask a question please feel free to do so. We will start with what SEO is, We will then look at Early search engines, how google changed the industry and how they grew so big. We will then look at the differences between Organic and Paid search. We will then cover how search engines have changed over the years and what this has meant for SEO. We then go into what makes up an SEO campaign and then cover keyword research in detail. At the end we all conduct our own key-phrase research.
Most of you here today will know what SEO is to some degree but for those of you that are unsure and a reminder for the others in the room Rand Fishkin one of the leading figures in SEO considers SEO to be….. Essentially SEO is a way to use search engines to drive more traffic to your website and increase brand awareness in the process.
We all use Google but how
Changed the way search engines worked
Classical information retrieval technique developed in the 1960s
Talk through diagram
Lead to inaccurate results and the spammy practices and keyword stuffing and cloaking.
Gap in the market
As a result there was a gap in the market for a smarter more accurate search engine and in stepped Google.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin were academics at Stanford University
Developed PageRank
People think it is named after the ranking of pages or the value of pages on the web
Academic principles
Example paper on dolphin intelligence you would use papers by leading marine biologists.
Take this principle to the web
All links not equal joes cupcake blog and bbc food network blog
Google assigns a score to each webpage
This lead to more accurate results and Google grew from strength to strength.
This is a very simplistic explanation of the algorithm and Google is constantly adapting the algorithm.
Most SEOs say that there are over 200 factors that determine rankings but links are still considered the most important.
This algorithm has lead Google to be…
We can see that Google is the dominant player in most countries around the world with 67% market share in countries like the UK, Australia, Brazil & Mexico.
However there are countries were Google does not dominate the search engine market.
The three main Search engines that dominate market share are Baidu in China, Google has struggled with regulations in china but these have recently been lifted so Google might see an increase in users. Yandex in Russia and Naver in South Korea.
I imagine most of you know the difference between paid results and organic results.
Paid results are the top 3 results here and all the results down the side.
We can see these days Organic search takes up very little space above the fold.
Despite this Organic search still accounts for 80% of all clicks from the SERPs.
Organic results are more trustworthy
compete with millions of pages
Paid on the other hand cans get up there by paying so the biggest budget gets the most clicks which can lead to some inaccurate results.
High volume equals high clicks
Both drive traffic from the same source
Differences in tactics
Sekari highly recommends a combined approach.
It took them a few years but they made some significant changes to tackle poor quality content and webspam.
They started with Penguin & Panda.
rocked the SEO world. Up to 5% of search queries
Panda and Penguin updated & improved.
The third major update, was a total revamp of the entire algorithm was Hummingbird in August 2013.
understanding the intent of search and lead to semantic search being possible,
Google now understood the relationships between keyphrases.
What did each of these changes mean for SEO and search engines?
We start with Panda,
Websites that copied other peoples content or had more ads on the page than real content were punished.
The next update was Penguin,
Here Google’s goal was reduce the number of websites by using link farms or schemes.
JC Penny
Hummingbird
The goal here was not to punish websites
improve the results by determining what the searchers intent and sematic relationship between queries was rather than just ranking websites according to the query.
“car insurance” and “auto insurance”
We have spoken a lot of search and how it is has changed but a key component is the rise of mobile and mobile search.
Mobile searches passed desktop search in terms of number of searches per day in March this year.
This has meant Google has had to adapt their mobile search results.
mobile friendly icon
Mobilegeddon,
It is important to keep mobile in mind with your SEO campaigns and make the necessary changes.
Let’s take a look at a few strategies that have changed over the years due to these algorithm updates.
Old Seo vs New SEO.
Have to stay ahead of the game
The key take away from all of this is that Google better understands user intent and engagement
it uses this data to change its results constantly.
How do we go about creating good SEO campaign and platform
We consider SEO to be made up of three pillars all working together to make a successful SEO campaign.
These are: technology, content & reputation.
One doesn’t work without the other
Page title – most important on page factor – shows at the top of your browser window and is what appears in the link text of organic serps
Off page and inbound links – PageRank – this is a way for Google to work out if you know what you are talking about and that your content is of high quality
The more powerful the pages that link to you, the more your authority increases in the eyes of Google
So the name of the game is to get as many links as possible from as many high authority sites as possible
To make any significant improvement in rankings, need to address off page factors
Create content that is useful and interesting
Links that have your desired keywords in (such as the title of documents etc)
1. Domain-Level Link Features: 8.22 / 10
Based on Iink/sititation metrics. such as quantity of links: trust domain level PageRank, etc
2. Page-Level Link Features: 8.19 / 10
PageRank. trust metrics quantity of linking root domains: links. anchor text distribution,
qualityxspammincss of linking sources. cu:
3. Page-Level Keyword 8. Content-Based Features: 7.87/ 10
Content relevante scoring, onpage optimization of keyword usage: topiemodeling
algorithm stores on (ontent, Content quantityu‘ qualitvs‘ relevante. (‘l(
4. Page-Level Keyword-Agnostic Features: 6.57 / 10
Content length readability Open Graph markup, uniqueness: load speed. structured data
markup HTTPS, Etc
5. Engagement 8. Traffic/Query Data: 6.55 / 10
Data SERP engagement metrics, (Iickslrcam data: vmtor tramplusagc signals,
quantityu‘divcrsItyu‘CTR of queries, both on the domain and page level
6‘ Domain-Level Brand Metrics: 5.88 / 10
Offline usage of brandfldomain name, mentions of brandu‘domain in ncwsvmcdiau‘prcss,
toolbaru‘browser data of Site usage, entity assocnation, etc
7. Domain-Level Keyword Usage: 4.97 / 10
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8. Domain-Level Keyword-Agnostic Features: 4.09 / 10
Domain name length: TLD extension SSL (ertifitate etc
9. Page-Level Social Metrics: 3.98 / 10
Quantitva‘uuallty of twcctcd links, Faccbook shares Googlc t 15: etc. to the page
Now that we know what makes up a SEO campaign how do we go about putting together a process for improving your websites visibility. This is where the SEO process comes in. All SEO starts with keyphrase research. We need to determine how users are referring to your products because this can very different to how you refer to them internally. Once we have a keyword set that we want to target we can develop a content and url structure and optimise each of these pages for the correct keyphrases. Once we know the website is optimized and technically sound we can start with our link building campaign to the main pages on the website, this process takes time and it can be a few months before you see results, we can then analyse our results in terms of rankings, traffic and leads and the process starts again, selecting the keyphrases that have not performed well and we start the process again, finding new keyphrases.
As we can see KW research is the most important part of the SEO process, select the wrong keyphrases int eh beginning and you will have a difficult time trying to rank for them. Keyphrase research is the practice of finding keywords that people enter into search engines to find your products.
Sounds easy, just type in a bunch of keyphrases into a tool and the ones with the most searches are the ones we go for, or we know what we call our products and the world knows about our products, we will just target this term. But there are a number of factors that make a good keyphrase these are..
Searches per month.
paid search behavior.
not always accurate
local and global search volumes,
It is important to know what region and language you are researching
not commercial in nature
High volume equals high clicks
Competition is a PPC metric that is based on how many people are bidding on a certain keyword phrase. It gives us an idea of how popular the keyword term is and how much effort it will take to rank for this term. Low competition can mean easier to rank for.
However we do not use this metric much, it can be used to identify low competition keywords that we can drive traffic to the website via, generally low volume = low competition and therefore less valuable
Relevance, search volume and competition can only take you so far
user intent
It can be difficult to determine what the user intent is just from a keyphrase. User intent generally fall into 4 categories. Navigational, informational, commercial, transactional)
By determining the user intent we can see whether our content has the potential to rank or not and either choose different keyphrases or adapt our content.
Most of you here today will know what SEO is to some degree but for those of you that are unsure and a reminder for the others in the room Rand Fishkin one of the leading figures in SEO considers SEO to be….. Essentially SEO is a way to use search engines to drive more traffic to your website and increase brand awareness in the process.
Content refers to the onpage copy, title tags and meta,descriptions headers, the readability and relevance as well as the structure. Take this Wikipedia page.
Keyword association
As a result there was a gap in the market for a smarter more accurate search engine and in stepped Google.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin were academics at Stanford University
Developed PageRank
People think it is named after the ranking of pages or the value of pages on the web
Academic principles
Example paper on dolphin intelligence you would use papers by leading marine biologists.
Take this principle to the web
All links not equal joes cupcake blog and bbc food network blog
Google assigns a score to each webpage
This lead to more accurate results and Google grew from strength to strength.
This is a very simplistic explanation of the algorithm and Google is constantly adapting the algorithm.
Most SEOs say that there are over 200 factors that determine rankings but links are still considered the most important.
As a result there was a gap in the market for a smarter more accurate search engine and in stepped Google.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin were academics at Stanford University
Developed PageRank
People think it is named after the ranking of pages or the value of pages on the web
Academic principles
Example paper on dolphin intelligence you would use papers by leading marine biologists.
Take this principle to the web
All links not equal joes cupcake blog and bbc food network blog
Google assigns a score to each webpage
This lead to more accurate results and Google grew from strength to strength.
This is a very simplistic explanation of the algorithm and Google is constantly adapting the algorithm.
Most SEOs say that there are over 200 factors that determine rankings but links are still considered the most important.
This algorithm has lead Google to be…
As a result there was a gap in the market for a smarter more accurate search engine and in stepped Google.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin were academics at Stanford University
Developed PageRank
People think it is named after the ranking of pages or the value of pages on the web
Academic principles
Example paper on dolphin intelligence you would use papers by leading marine biologists.
Take this principle to the web
All links not equal joes cupcake blog and bbc food network blog
Google assigns a score to each webpage
This lead to more accurate results and Google grew from strength to strength.
This is a very simplistic explanation of the algorithm and Google is constantly adapting the algorithm.
Most SEOs say that there are over 200 factors that determine rankings but links are still considered the most important.
SEO in the past was a simple process,
Do some keyword research, discover, build page for each.
Chocolate donuts.
Search engines finally understands
In todays SEO world this page would be over optimized and suffer in the rankings as a result.
We can see that Google is the dominant player in most countries around the world with 67% market share in countries like the UK, Australia, Brazil & Mexico.
However there are countries were Google does not dominate the search engine market.
As a result there was a gap in the market for a smarter more accurate search engine and in stepped Google.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin were academics at Stanford University
Developed PageRank
People think it is named after the ranking of pages or the value of pages on the web
Academic principles
Example paper on dolphin intelligence you would use papers by leading marine biologists.
Take this principle to the web
All links not equal joes cupcake blog and bbc food network blog
Google assigns a score to each webpage
This lead to more accurate results and Google grew from strength to strength.
This is a very simplistic explanation of the algorithm and Google is constantly adapting the algorithm.
Most SEOs say that there are over 200 factors that determine rankings but links are still considered the most important.
As we mentioned before in the past we would create separate pages for each keyphrase. This is no longer necessary as Google after hummingbird understands semantic search much better and pages can rank for a number of different phrases based on a topic. In the above example Marvel comics.
As we mentioned before in the past we would create separate pages for each keyphrase. This is no longer necessary as Google after hummingbird understands semantic search much better and pages can rank for a number of different phrases based on a topic. In the above example Marvel comics.
As we mentioned before in the past we would create separate pages for each keyphrase. This is no longer necessary as Google after hummingbird understands semantic search much better and pages can rank for a number of different phrases based on a topic. In the above example Marvel comics.
As we mentioned before in the past we would create separate pages for each keyphrase. This is no longer necessary as Google after hummingbird understands semantic search much better and pages can rank for a number of different phrases based on a topic. In the above example Marvel comics.
We can see that Google is the dominant player in most countries around the world with 67% market share in countries like the UK, Australia, Brazil & Mexico.
However there are countries were Google does not dominate the search engine market.
We can see that Google is the dominant player in most countries around the world with 67% market share in countries like the UK, Australia, Brazil & Mexico.
However there are countries were Google does not dominate the search engine market.
We can see that Google is the dominant player in most countries around the world with 67% market share in countries like the UK, Australia, Brazil & Mexico.
However there are countries were Google does not dominate the search engine market.
We can see that Google is the dominant player in most countries around the world with 67% market share in countries like the UK, Australia, Brazil & Mexico.
However there are countries were Google does not dominate the search engine market.
Technology are the underpinnings of the website,
Essentially it is important that search engines can find your website and when they find they can crawl and index all of the content.
As an SEO we would run a technical audit
Many factors affect how google ranks one website page over the other.
However, two key ones are ensuring that the Google crawler can crawl your website efficiently by placing XML Site Maps
And ensuring that there is no duplicate content.
Another penalty is for cloaking. In other words putting text in the code that is not visible by the user on the website.
Technology issues can really impact your results.
And when you dig down into their website we can see that after they developed their new website they left on their noindex meta robots tag. This tag is to prevent Google from indexing your website wile you are developing it. However a simple mistake like leaving it on the live website has cause Google to deindex their old website and not index the new website at all. Resulting in a massive loss in traffic and revenue.
We need to have content to grab these users at the moment of search or intent
We need to have content to grab these users at the moment of search or intent
We need to have content to grab these users at the moment of search or intent
We need to have content to grab these users at the moment of search or intent
We have briefly discussed links and reputation is the pillar that is influenced by link building and outreach. Reputation is made up of links & citations, brand authority signals, social media shares and authority. In terms of links it is the quality and relevance to your website that count the most. A change to the algorithm a few years ago saw big brands out ranking smaller businesses. Social media has started to play a bigger role in SEO however not as much as people predicted a few years ago. Social media is a good way to share and have people engage with your content. this then has an indirect impact on SEO through people linking and sharing it further.
As your reputation grows search engines will favour your content and crawl it and rank it quicker than a newer website. Search engines know that if users are already engaging and linking to your content you are likely an authority on certain topics and therefore are more likely to rank your content.