When it comes to starting a business or keeping your existing one growing, it is vital to keep your online presence strong. Long gone are the days when people would search through the local business directory to find what they need. Now, your business is up against hundreds, thousands, or maybe millions of competitors worldwide. How do you ensure that your business comes up on top when it comes to online searches? By incorporating an effective SEO strategy, that’s how.

Why does my business need an effective SEO strategy?

An effective SEO strategy will ensure your business gets onto the first few pages of Google – and that’s where it needs to be for the best customer conversion rates. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy to find out the secret formula to achieving your spot in this highly coveted online space, as Google’s search algorithm is quite covert as to its requirements and also seems to change as often as the weather. With somewhere in the region of 200 factors that affect a site’s ranking, how do you know what techniques will work… and which won’t?  Click Consult are experts in the field of SEO and have created a free e-book which you can download here. The e-book contains all the information you need to understand and implement your business’s SEO strategy so download your copy and get your business growing today.  In the meantime, here’s a little more information on why an effective SEO strategy is vital for your business’s success.

How does my business start its SEO strategy?

With so many different businesses each offering different products or services to each of their markets, it is impossible to come up with a single SEO approach that would be effective for all. To ensure that you embark upon the best SEO strategy for your business means that you have to understand exactly what your business needs. In order to do that, you need to pinpoint exactly what it does, and for whom. What do you want your business to achieve? How do you plan to achieve it? What does your business offer or, more to the point, what does it offer that others don’t? Finding the answers to these questions will enable you to work on the next step: identifying your target market. Contrary to what you might think, targeting anyone and everyone does not work and will be a waste of money and time for you and your business. Take some time to carry out some market research to find out who your target market is. Once you have identified who they are you can identify what they need. And that is where your business will step in.

The Importance of Keywords

Now that you have done the groundwork you can begin to build up from it. By identifying your target customer base and their needs, you can identify the keywords that they use in searches to find businesses like yours. This keyword strategy is vital to get right, so identifying the keywords that potential customers use is something that cannot be avoided. Undertaking thorough keyword research is the first step to a successful SEO strategy, and doing it thoroughly and well is imperative.

Why is link building important for my business and how should I do it?

Advice on links comes and goes in their favour but overall, the one thing we can be certain of is that link building always does count when it comes to ranking so don’t be fooled by those that tell you otherwise. However, it isn’t quantity of links that will ensure higher ranking for your site and Google’s constant efforts to clamp down on link farming should prevent you from being tempted to go down this route. Google loves backlinks from high quality, relevant sites so keep this in mind when creating your SEO strategy. How do you do this? With content…

Content is (Still) King

Now that you have carried out your keyword research and developed a keyword strategy for your business, it’s time to start producing content that publishers will be screaming to publish on their sites. This isn’t something that should be rushed or taken lackadaisically as, to put it bluntly, Google doesn’t like poor content. Speeding through and distributing poorly written or irrelevant content just to get something – anything – out there on the www won’t work and doing so can and will have a negative effect on your website’s ranking. Ensuring your content is strong, relevant and informative means that not only will you set your business up as a master in its field, but it the valuable advice will soon have your business known as a go-to authority, increasing backlinks to your site.

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