![]() Unlike paid search ads, you cant pay search engines to get higher organic search rankings. Why is SEO important for marketing? SEO is a fundamental part of digital marketing because people conduct trillions of searches every year, often with commercial intent to find information about products and services. Search is often the primary source of digital traffic for brands and complements other marketing channels. Greater visibility and ranking higher in search results than your competition can have a material impact on your bottom line. However, the search results have been evolving over the past few years to give users more direct answers and information that is more likely to keep users on the results page instead of driving them to other websites. Also note, features like rich results and Knowledge Panels in the search results can increase visibility and provide users more information about your company directly in the results. New to SEO? Start with this quick and easy to understand video about search engine optimization. Itll quickly cover the basics.: Search Engine Land worked with Common Craft to produce this video. How can I learn SEO? |
![]() Optimize Your Site. With your keyword map in-hand, the next step is implementing on-page SEO, including.: Updating the content on the pages to include the keywords.; Creating new pages for unassigned keywords with text and, potentially, graphics, audio, and video.; Launching a new, keyword-rich section, such a blog or education portal. Focus on the relevance of the textual elements of each page the title tags, meta descriptions, headings, body content to the keyword themes that searchers use. Produce Regular Content. Create ongoing content tailored to your audience. You dont have to kick out a new blog post or other content every day. Thats unrealistic for many ecommerce sites. Just publish unique content at least monthly, if not weekly. Consistency is key. Content does not need to be only text. Use illustrations, product photos, how-to videos, or any other content that helps shoppers. Delivering value is vital. If the content doesnt fill a need or engage your customers and prospects, youve wasted your time and theirs. Boost Link Equity. Link equity is the quantity of high-quality, topically-relevant sites that link to yours. Link equity and contextual relevance are the top two organic ranking factors. |
![]() To learn more, visit Multiple domains and SEO. If you use a custom domain as your primary domain, this hides your built-in domain from search engine results. Search engine and page descriptions. Squarespace includes fields for editing your sites search engine and page descriptions. These might appear below your site title in search results depending on the search terms used. AMP, or, Accelerated Mobile Pages, creates lightweight versions of web pages to help them load faster on a mobile device. AMP works with Google to prioritize results in mobile searches. Google rich image search for products. Squarespace structures product information so Google can display additional information in rich search results. These search results can include the product name, a product image, description, price range, availability, and product page URL. Built-in mobile optimization. Google's' technology gives mobile-optimized sites a higher priority in search results. As such, all mobile-friendly Squarespace sites are also search-engine friendly. As long as you dont disable mobile styles or overload your site with too much content, your site is ready to be found in mobile searches. Built-in meta tags. HTML meta tags in a site's' code help search engines identify a site's' titles and page descriptions. |
![]() In-depth SERP analysis. Basic keyword management. Limited SEO reporting. Read Ahrefs Review. Granular Crawler With AMP and Backlink Tracking. DeepCrawl is a top-to-bottom site crawler, and it does this job well. However, a lack of any other kind of SEO capability will keep marketers looking for all-around tool sets looking for other solutions. The most granular and comprehensive website crawling tool we tested. On-page SEO recommendations. Responsive modern interface. Google Analytics and Google Search Console integration. Site crawling is all it does. No keyword research, position monitoring, or web-wide indexing features. Depth of crawled data can be overwhelming if you don't' know what you're' looking for. Read DeepCrawl Review. Deep Crawler for Experienced Users. Majestic is another SEO tool focusing on website crawling. It does well here with powerful backlink tracking and domain analysis, but its reliance on custom metrics is a bit limiting, since outside of its own indexing, the platform doesn't' offer much broader SEO functionality. Broad array of backlink indexing and domain analysis tools. Deep crawling capability. Useful help and FAQ resources throughout. Added campaign functionality. No keyword difficulty rankings and management. No SERP results or landing page alignment. |
![]() Because of this, SEO is absolutely vital to the success of your website. Not only does SEO help the success of your site, though. Optimizing your site provides users with an overall better experience. For example, when you focus on page speed, a search engine ranking factor, Google will reward your site for loading quickly. On the other hand, search engines will also penalize your site for loading slowly. Slow loading pages, pages that don't' provide valuable answers but are stuffed with keywords, an unresponsive website and more will get your site penalized and dropped in rankings via search engines. Focusing on the overall health of your site will give search engines the opportunity to rank your pages well in the SERPs. What is on-page SEO? On-page SEO describes practices used on your website that users can see to attract the attention of search engines and visitors. It also includes everything involved in creating the best possible user experience for readers. Understanding on-page tactics is key to understanding SEO in general and how it works. |
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![]() If a person performs a search for bands, is their intent to find musical bands, wedding bands, band saws, or something else? Your job as an SEO is to quickly provide users with the content they desire in the format in which they desire it. Common user intent types.: Informational: Searching for information. Example: What is the best type of laptop for photography? Navigational: Searching for a specific website. Example: Apple Transactional: Searching to buy something. Example: good deals on MacBook Pros. You can get a glimpse of user intent by Googling your desired keywords and evaluating the current SERP. For example, if there's' a photo carousel, its very likely that people searching for that keyword search for photos. Also evaluate what content your top-ranking competitors are providing that you currently arent. How can you provide 10X the value on your website? Providing relevant, high-quality content on your website will help you rank higher in search results, and more importantly, it will establish credibility and trust with your online audience. Before you do any of that, you have to first understand your websites goals to execute a strategic SEO plan. |
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![]() To get that visibility, you must understand three core components.: What types of content people want or need. How search engines work. How to properly promote and optimize your website. While search engines and technology are always evolving, there are some underlying foundational elements that have remained unchanged from the earliest days of SEO. This is why, in collaboration with some of the fields top authorities and experts, we created this in-depth overview and tutorial to define SEO for aspiring SEO professionals and explain how search engine optimization really works now. |