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5 key ingredients of SEO, and some refresher tips

1. Quality content

  • Create original, trustworthy content that provides tangible value to your audience.
  • Include reviews from real users and insights from industry experts.
  • Enhance user experience with multimedia content including images, audio and video.
  • Review for grammatical and typographical errors before you post.
  • Build smart FAQ, Contact and General Info pages.
  • Link to reliable external resources.

2. Website information architecture

  • Group pages on your website into logical sections.
  • Provide role based navigation based on end user expectations and requirements.
  • Provide visual cues to users to help them navigate the site.
  • Build a site map page.
  • Provide quick links to high traffic pages.
  • Review and update on a periodic basis, based on user response.

3. Social engagement

  • Include social media share tools to encourage your audience to disseminate your content.
  • Engage your prospects, users and industry leaders on popular social media platforms.
  • Respond to comments and questions about your organization and products on social sites proactively.
  • Encourage high traffic blogging sites to link to your site.
  • Share your links and content on popular social bookmarking sites.

4. Search engine technology

  • Tune into latest updates and news from prominent search engine providers and SEO experts.
  • Monitor your websites performance against predetermined key performance indicators using webmaster tools.
  • Make sure your web content is crawler-friendly by following recommended best practices.
  • Evaluate how your site is doing in comparison to your competition for targeted keywords and phrases.

5. Website Analytics

  • Evaluate traffic from organic searches on search engines.
  • Tap into trending topics by monitoring popular keywords and search terms.

 

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