SEO tips for your website
Our SEO tips to improve your sites listing in the search engines
After your site was made live, we created a site map and submitted your site to the search engines Google and Bing.
Below are some steps that we recommend that you work through to ensure that your site is found easily by your potential customers when they perform a search in the search engines. If you would prefer that we do any of the following steps for you, please contact us.
Understand what Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is.
This is essential as a new website owner, to help with this read our page 'Search Engine Optimisation.'
Update your site often
This keeps the search engine "spiders" coming back to your site regularly. Keeping your website up-to-date is not only good for your results in the search engines but also for how your brand and business is perceived by potential and current clients. We offer web updating and support.
Consider your keywords
When updating your website, keep in mind that you always need to keep your keywords up-to-date as well. Read our article 'Where to start with 'Keywords' for SEO.
Create links to your site
In addition to the search engines that we have submitted your sites to, it is important to create as many other links to your site as possible. Search engines use the number of links to your site, to determine the popularity of your site, which in turn helps to determine how they choose to rank your site.
Some ideas for link building include:
Directories
Get listed on as many of the popular directories as you can.
We suggest the following as a good starting point:
Hotfrog
Google My Business
TruLocal
Yellow Pages
Type the word "directory" into Google and search through the listings provided - you can often find sites that are directly relevant to your business that are free to list on.
Social Media
Set up a Facebook business page, and regularly link the posts you make back to your website.
Other social media sites include:
Twitter
LinkedIn
Instagram
Pinterest
Del.icio.us
Digg
Youtube
...and there are many others - research the key ones to join for your industry!
Reminder - don't forget to make sure you put a link on your website to any of your social media accounts.
Associates
Encourage friends, family, business partners and customers to link to your website (and you can reciprocate with links to their sites)
Articles and Blogs
Another popular method of getting links to your site is to submit articles and blogs that you have written to appropriate sites.
We are here to help
If the above all sounds a bit daunting, or you don't have time to do it all, contact us to discuss your SEO requirements.
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