What are SERPs?
SERPs is a bit of industry jargon you may have heard used on various websites and is actually an acronym for Search Engine Results Page(s).
So whenever we refer to SERPs in the blog and elsewhere, it is in relation to the results pages generated by search engines in response to a search query. This incorporates everything from PPC adverts and organic search results, to news and local listings.
Why Does Fresh Content Help SEO?
SEO professionals are forever extolling the virtues of fresh content when it comes to improving the ranking of a site within search engines. The reason for this is simple, indexing of pages or, more importantly, the frequent indexing of your pages.
Whenever we update a website we give search engine crawlers fresh information to index. The more they visit your site, the greater your chances of improving your ranking for the all-important keywords on each individual pages. By improving linking structure, both externally and internally, we provide an easier passage for the spiders to crawl a site all of which goes to improve your ranking opportunities.
What Are Negative Keywords?
When building a PPC campaign you need to factor in both keywords and negative keywords. Whilst keywords represent those search terms that you would like your adverts to appear for, negative keywords are quite the opposite.
Defining your negative keywords is vital to ensure that adverts don’t appear for any searches that aren’t appropriate to your website. The success of any PPC campaign is usually measured in its effectiveness in attracting targeted visitors with minimal outlay, therefore it is necessary to ensure that any advertisements are as focused as possible, remove any redundant terms that could be ruining the Click Through Rate (CTR).
Why Does Website Content Need To Be Unique
There are a number of reasons for why you should write unique content for each page of your website. Duplicated copy, whether plagiarised from another site or from your own pages, can do more damage than good; particularly when it comes to visitor perception and search engine rankings.
Simply copying and pasting content from one page/site to another may provide a quick and easy solution, but it won’t benefit your website. Each page of a site ought to be fundamentally unique, therefore it needs to be treated as an individual entity; this includes having its own body copy, Meta and headings.
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Why are Headings Important for SEO?
Headings come in a number of HTML forms. The highest of which is H1, with H2, H3 and H4 headings providing ample support. But why are they important to SEO?
A web page is just like any newspaper article, essay or press release in so far as it requires a certain structure. This structure is, or at least it should be, a single heading (H1 heading) followed by the primary body copy which is interspersed with sub-headings (H2, H3 and so forth). This guides the reader through the content and highlights the key points.
How Does Website Content Improve SEO?
Content is an essential part of any website. It provides visitors with vital information, encourages them to navigate through the site (preferably to your major revenue pages) and engages with them. However, content also provides search engines with vital details regarding a website’s relevance to certain phrases.
Search engines all have their own unique complex algorithm, which manages their ranking system. Within this algorithm are numerous contributing factors, all of which are taken into account and used to create SERPs that will accurately reflect a user’s search term. One of the most important ranking factors is the content of your website.
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Could SEO Harm My Website?
Over the years there have been lots of stories of people being dropped from Google due to poor SEO practises. Indeed, for an SEO company like us, it’s not rare for us to be work with people who have suffered as a result of some unethical optimisation.
When it comes to SEO, there are three layers of practitioners:
White Hat – Good, ethical optimisation within Google’s rules
Black Hat – Deliberately flouting the rules to make quick gains, often not worried about the consequences
Grey Hat – Slightly questionable practises, although not illegal in the most part; usually somewhere in between the two, which often means that it may be punished.
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How Will Analytics Help My Website?
Analytics acts as the eyes and ears for a website. It produces in depth information on visitor habits, providing an insight that would otherwise prove impossible.
It doesn’t simply track the amount of clicks a website receives; most packages will be able to analyse how they found you, which pages they visited, how long they spent on the site and the page they exited from. This data is extremely important in the ongoing management and optimisation of any website.
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In April, a new conversion column started appearing in AdWords reports and eventually the main AdWords homepage; it was called “Conversions (many-per-click)” and the old Conversion column was changed to “Conversions (1-per-click)”. This was done with no real fanfare at the time, especially considering the importance of the column. But what is “many per click” and is it better than plain old conversions?
Why is Link Building Important to SEO?
Links are the lifeblood of the Internet. If there were an online currency, it would be represented by this network of interconnecting sites. As with any currency, your fiscal strength is determined by the amount you have in the bank; the more you have, the stronger your position.
The search engines have to act as a moderator for the Internet. It is there job to sift through the trillions of pages and order them in terms of relevance. To do this they first need to be able to judge a site’s authority, one of the key factors used to determine authority is by reviewing the linking structure.
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What is PPC Advertising?
PPC is an acronym for Pay Per Click. It is the most prevalent and popular form of advertising on the Internet and works by charging a pre-determined amount each time an advert is followed by a visitor.
Sponsored adverts appear with the vast majority of search engine results pages (SERPs). They can often be seen in a coloured box at the head of the main search results as well in a column running adjacently to the right.
Does your email marketing and Google Base traffic get mixed up with your direct, referral and organic traffic?
In today’s modern, online world where return on investment (ROI) is at the centre of all spending decisions, it is essential that you are able to separate all of your marketing activities in Google Analytics.
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What is Local Search?
As a branch of SEO, Local Search is a process, or series of processes, designed to optimise a website within a specific geographical locality.
The primary benefit of Local Search is that it increases your website’s visibility when people look for businesses and services within their area. This helps to narrow your site’s focus, whilst helping to ensure that it is seen by consumers who are more likely to be interested in what you have to offer.
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What is SEO Copywriting?
In the simplest terms possible, SEO Copywriting refers to the writing of copy that has been optimised for use on Internet websites.
Whilst a Copywriter in the past may have produced content for advertising or marketing purposes, an SEO Copywriter is required to create site content that seamlessly integrates key terms and phrases. The reason behind it is to create website content that will inform users, whilst helping individual pages to gain strength and rank higher for their unique keywords.
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What is Black Hat SEO?
This is a term used by many industry professionals to describe anything that is deemed to be against the rules of search engines or is otherwise ethically questionable.
Black Hat SEO has been in operation for almost as long as search engines have been ranking sites. Modern algorithms make it far more difficult for websites to achieve a misrepresentative position as a result of underhanded SEO work. However, that wasn’t always the case.
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