Thursday, August 28, 2014

5 Important SEO Takeaways

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August 28, 2014

 

If you're just getting started with SEO you might be realizing that it's unlike any other form of marketing that you've implemented before. There are lots of moving parts and variables that determine SEO success. The nature of SEO can sometimes be frustrating to website owners, but there's no denying that SEO is a necessary marketing component today.
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The other day we got a call from someone wanting to speak to our SEO manager, as in the person that manages Brick Marketing's SEO campaigns. This person, who said they work for another SEO firm, wanted to know if we worked with any lawyers. They specialized in "lawyer SEO" and were looking to trade links from our clients' websites to their clients'.  

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One of our SEO clients recently acquired another company and wanted to merge the two sites into one. Basically, our client's domain would stay live and be re-designed and rewritten to include all the relevant products that domain B (the company they acquired) would now be offering under our client's brand name. Domain B would be deleted one the new site was ready to go. We have also worked with a client whose site was acquired, and they became that domain B that would ultimately be incorporated into the other site.  

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Oftentimes SEO can feel like a huge game of hurry up and wait. You create tons of content (both static and fresh blog posts), agonize over the usability of your website, spend hours digging for the best possible links and hunting down new linking opportunities, measure and test every little conversion aspect and more. But even with hours upon hours of work behind you (and plenty more ahead) the organic traffic just isn't there.
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In a perfect world (the kind Google wishes we all worked in anyway), no site would actively build links; they'd simply create great content and let it earn natural links over time. And while there is no denying the SEO power of a great piece of content, most businesses can't afford to create content and just wait and see what happens.  

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Thursday, August 14, 2014

On Site SEO Basics That Still Apply

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August 14, 2014

 

It's true that SEO has undergone a few facelifts in recent years. The SEO campaign that you were implementing just a few years back has hopefully been tossed in the trash and replaced with something more current. Some SEO tactics that once worked and improved a site's placement on the search engine results page are now frowned upon and can have the opposite result and get a site penalized. That's why it's so important to stay on top of current SEO trends and carefully pay attention to what the search engines are telling us. Even with all of these changes some SEO best practices remain the same, specifically in regards to on site optimization.

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To the average web browser, a link is a link. You click on it and it brings you to a web page, it's as simple as that. But as website owners and Internet marketers, it's necessary to understand that there are different types of links that exist across the web. For SEO purposes, links can be put into two categories: follow links and no follow links. Follow links are "followed" by the search engines, meaning that they can pass search engine trust to your site. If you have a follow link from a high quality website, that helps to boost your inbound link portfolio in the eyes of the search engines and can help to improve your placement on the search engine results page.  

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According to IAB.net, nearly half of the U.S. population has a mobile phone with Internet access. Because smartphones are so pervasive, one in five page views happen on a mobile device. Very few businesses today don't have a website. In fact, coming across a business that does not have a website is rather unusual!  

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Social media is a necessary component of an online marketing strategy today. If you aren't active in social media you are missing out on chances to interact with your target audience, share information, generate traffic to your website, and increase your online visibility. If time and resources are being dedicated to your social media efforts, you need to make sure that those efforts are paying off. That's why it's necessary to analyze your campaign on a regular basis to determine if you are utilizing the social channels the correct way. 

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Content needs to be shared in the right channels in order to capture the attention of target audience members, but there are additional things that you can do to stand out in those channels. Remember, the Internet is full of distractions and noise. It's necessary to do everything possible to increase the click through rate of content. 

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Brick Marketing SEO Newsletter for August 12

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August 12, 2014

 

Due to the Google Penguin algorithm update and all of the subsequent updates to the update, website owners have become fearful of link building. While understandable, what website owners need to comprehend is that links still play an important role in how a website is viewed by the search engines. Yes, it's true that links can now harm a website for SEO purposes, but there are still good links too and links can also get a website to be viewed favorably. 

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Depending on what industry you work in, your priority keywords could have a very large search volume (10s of thousands of searches a month), or a relatively small search volume (maybe only a few hundred). If your website is sitting fairly comfortably towards the top of page 1 in the SERPs how much room for organic growth is there really to be had?  

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A significant number of potential SEO clients that we speak with have worked with an SEO company in some capacity in the past. They are getting in touch with us because that previous partnership didn't work out as planned. When we ask what went wrong we are shocked to hear the number of prospects that we speak to that say something along the lines of, "We were never sure exactly what our old SEO firm was doing for us."  

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One of the things that we find ourselves saying to clients over and over is that they need to be creating a steady stream of content on an ongoing basis if they want to see their SEO efforts succeed. Optimizing a site and building some great inbound links might result in a small improvement over time, but it's the content piece that is going to give it that necessary boost.  

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