Your Web Site Marketing Needs Google Love!
Does Your Web Site Marketing
Need A Boost ?
Web Site Marketing for small businesses became a whole lot more difficult in the past year. Big business could adapt and pay an Internet marketing consultant and his team whatever it took to adapt, to how Google was changing the search displays for organic traffic. Using the “new media” as the primary web site marketing tool for your business, is sensible and in fact, probably a must, digital sales and on line sales have increased in most sectors this last year. Mobile use and the growth in apps is staggering.
So make sure your web site marketing conforms to the requirements of Google, below i have attached a recent post from an Ozzie ! Matt Carter – But he hits the nail on the head. Original here
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” SEO Quality Score
There has been a lot of talk in 2011 about the changes at Google, which we all refer to as Panda. That Panda caused quite a stir in the SEO community and everybody seemed to have an opinion, or a horror story of the “Panda attacking them”.In this post I’ll explain some new things I’ve learned about Google and what they’re looking for and also reinforce a few things I’ve mentioned in webinars I’ve done recently on this topic.
Give Google What They WantI think the key underlying theme of all this, is to give Google what they want and don’t try to trick Google, well not too much anyway!If we take a step back and look at the organic listings in Google, from Google’s stand point, the most important thing for them is quality. Google introduced what is known as their “Quality Score” for Adwords campaigns some years ago now, and was a way to assess the quality of sites that were using their paid Adwords platform.Google does this so that they ensure the user experience from people who are clicking their ads is a good one.
The biggest threat to Google’s business is people not having a good experience when using Google and deciding, enough is enough, and choosing another search engine or other means of finding what they want. If this happens, Google is done for! So with that said, you can see why quality control at Google is pretty high on the agenda.However what’s more interesting is that many SEO marketers heard of the horror stories of people getting their accounts slapped with a low quality score from Google Adwords and having to pay sky high prices for clicks, or worse yet get their accounts shut down completely (which has now happened to a vast majority of affiliates who use to use Adwords) and perhaps somewhat naively thought “glad I don’t use Adwords…it will not effect me!” Along comes the Google Panda on the hunt for low quality sites to chew on, and all of a sudden the tables turn.My point is, all SEO marketers should have known that Panda was on the agenda, as the organic listings are just as important to Google as their Adwords, because people use Google for the free organics primarily, and click the ads as a result, so quality across the board is key.I think the difference is that with Adwords, Google has humans checking accounts more than organic, therefore accurate quality checks were easier to assess. However with more and more human reviewers checking organic listings now, and Google using their feedback, they have now worked quality into their algorithm, hence Google Panda.
What Should We Do Now Then?
The first thing to do is panic, run for your lives now!!!….no only joking, everyone always says the opposite of that, so I couldn’t help myself. Ok so the first thing I suggest doing is start looking at your SEO, and mainly your on page SEO, from a view point of quality rather than a view point of super optimized.
Content Quality is now a ranking signal and Google is looking for certain things that tell them that your sites is a quality one. Some obvious indicators are that you have well written, grammatically correct, original content. So be super careful when hiring writers to produce your websites content for you.I recently hired a writer and only checked one or two articles and even I skimmed then super fast, as I was too busy with other things. However after chatting with a friend about quality, I soon realized that I need to check my content more carefully.When I did check this content, to my horror I found spelling mistake and poor grammer all over it, and even worse the content really wasn’t that helpful. If I had arrived on a page with this content, I would have been dissapointed with it.At all costs try to make sure you content doesn’t come across as really salesy and only trying to make you money and not help the reader. This is low quality and somewhat sleezy content and while it might last for a while in Google, they will work it out soon enough, as quality control is only going to keep getting better at Google.
Website Features
Some of the things I’m about to list next, will not apply to everyone, as affiliate marketing sites may not be able to encorporate all of these.
Blog comments – if you can have blog comments, then have them on, and interact with your readers on the site. I do this on this blog, as you’ll see below and on other posts. If your content doesn’t lean towards having people comment on it, then you might want to look at your content and your style of site.
Social links – Social media is only getting bigger, and Google is looking for signals that websites are getting interaction and links from places like Facebook, Twitter and more recently Google +1. The first and most obvious thing to do is add a social link buttons to your content, as I’ve done below. The more interaction you get from these the better, and I assume Google +1 will be a big player soon enough.I also think, that if you have good content, which of course you will, is to ask your readers to help spread the word by giving you a Google +1. With that said….hint hint…go on click the Google +1 one for me! ha ha…
Low ad to content ratio – Another indication of low quality content is having too many ads in your content. Ads can be in many forms too, such as Adsesne, banners, affiliate links. Again just keep in mind what a quality user experience looks like for you, and don’t go overbaord with your affiliates links. Yes we all know that if you have less affiliate links it will reduce conversions, but the alternative is to lose your rankings when you get slapped with a low quality score and then your conversions are zero!
Important pages – make sure you have pages such as: disclaimer, contact, privacy and any other important pages that you see high quality sites have on them. This is a pretty obvious indicator to Google that you care about your site and take it seriously.
Over Optimization – This is actually something that my friend Jackson pointed out, and is a very good point indeed. Post Panda, you want to be careful not to over optimize your pages so that they look spammy. What this means is, when writing the title for your page, don’t just have the exact keyword, especially if the keyword looks odd.For example, if you are trying to rank for “Cheap Wart Cream” then just having that and that alone, does look a little strange, it’s not too bad, but let’s say you were a webmaster that is not intentially trying to rank in Google and is just writing about wart cream because its your hobby!!! ha ha…anyway, if that were the case, then I think you would not use a title like that, and would probably use something like this “Where to find cheap wart cream online”. You can see the second title looks more natural and less obviously optimized.
Logins – If you can have a way for people to login to your site, such as a forum, then this shows Google your site is important to people and is another indication of quality.In closing, the main thing to think about when doing your SEO, is always keep QUALITY in mind, and how to make sure the user has a good experience on your site. You ideally want the kind of site that people like to come back to, like to bookmark, like to read other pages on it. I always take time to write quality posts on this blog, and as a result I can see that people go back through older posts that I write, to see what else they can learn. This is what you want to create on all sites from now on I believe. ”
Now you see there is more to web site marketing than just having a website online, knowing how and where to promote it, to get the best results is the key.
The majority of business owners do not understand the importance of web site marketing, the quality required and the consistent regular updates. many sites just sit there unloved, but are expected to bring in new business, HOW. For free assessment of your web site go here.
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