Organic SEO Tips – Part 2
This is the second post regarding Organic SEO Tips and tricks you can use to improve your organic SEO or search engine optimization.
1 – Creating a Useful Web Presence
If you can create a useful web presence then you will want to get some good traffic. More and More, Google is moving towards natural searching patterns, so if an article is written for the audience (people) rather than being stuffed with keywords aimed at search engines, keeping visitors in mind, then it should do well.
2 – Update your site often
Keep the site well updated, don’t let any content go out of date – this will ensure that your site will not be ignored by the search engines. One trick is to update your site with relevant breaking news or related topics as soon as possible – for example, one email company used Google alerts, and on a day when GMail went down, their site was updated within minutes saying “Fed up with GMail Outages – Buy our Email Solution” – this was reflected in their Google AdWords campaigns and showed how an opportunity in their business field was taken advantage of.
3 – The Right Content
Wherever possible try to create sticky content. Sticky Content, or having a sticky site, refers to how long people will stay on your site. If you can write articles greater than 250 words (some people say 600 words), but which are relevant, well written, and “solve the search” for the visitor, then you have ticked off another box for your SEO.
For Example, if you have a Spa website and you are trying to sell Facials, you could list all the facials you currently provide, on your products page. However, you could write some articles on why facials are good for the skin, what facials suit certain skin types, and perhaps even how to make a homemade facial scrub with oatmeal …. none of this will earn you money though. What you are trying to do is to bring in visitors, this leads to brand awareness and ultimately conversions.
Articles are a great way to supplement your website and enhance what people know about your business.
4 – Making the Site Social
Social Media is a buzzword we now all know. One way to get your website out there is to provide a widget (or button) on your site, which allows people to share your website’s link or content. This means your website address, blog post, or a snippet of your content, can be sent by email, posted on Facebook or Tweeted on Twitter all for free … and you don’t have to do anything. Just place a button on each page of your site and this can all happen. There are a few major providers, but I found that Add This (www.addthis.com) is best. Visit the site for more information.
5 – Most Important – Don’t try anything stupid
People often try stupid tricks – these are called Black Hat SEO Tricks. These include;
– Keyword stuffing: placing lots of keywords in the text and metadata
– Cloaking: a script that trys to trick search engines
– Invisible Text: Making the text the same as the background color
– Doorway pages: Invisible pages which try to get the site indexed
SEO requires patience, planning, and monitoring. If you use some SEO keywords and descriptions that bring you a large increase in traffic, you may try to improve on this but changing them further, but a good tip is to retain the old files in case the SEO changes backfire, you can always revert to the last most successful campaign. Try to record your visitor levels and your levels of sales (if you are a business site), in that way you can choose the best SEO combination that produces the best sales from your website. If you look at these Organic SEO Tips, they all require a lot of work and time to implement and it is a long-game, so stick with it. Best of luck !