7 Recent SEO Developments Every Website Owner Should Be Aware Of

7 Recent SEO Developments Every Website Owner Should Be Aware Of

Anyone who owns a website that is the online real estate for your business should know that trying to get it ranked highly using SEO is not a one-time event. In reality, it requires multiple actions, and further, what tactics and strategies might boost rankings today could do the opposite tomorrow due to Google’s ever-changing ranking algorithms and rules.

The quest to know everything about SEO will never end, even for the most knowledgeable and experienced SEO exp[arts, simply because Google is on a continuous journey towards doing its search results the best it can do for its customers, aka people who search on Google.

No one knows every facet of the algorithm that Google uses to rank websites, and we imagine that even within Google itself, no single person has 100% access or knowledge of that algorithm. However, Google regularly publishes updates and details, informing those who need to know that its ranking factors have changed.

Some of these changes are relatively minor, while others are hugely significant, often to the extent that they can wipe out a business overnight if that business was relying on a ranking factor that Google has altered, removed, or reversed to the extent that it is now a negative factor, having been a positive factor previously.

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A Guide To Building Backlinks For Lawyers And Other Legal Websites

A Guide To Building Backlinks For Lawyers And Other Legal Websites

Anyone who knows anything about SEO will tell you that, if you are a lawyer with a website or manage a legal website and you want that website to rank higher on Google, then you must acquire backlinks. Although ranking factors such as user experience and having quality, relevant content on your website are extremely important, backlinks act as a booster that feeds rankings, and the more and better the backlinks you have, the higher you should rank.

This is why link building plays a huge role in SEO, and the subsequent aim of getting a legal website ranked on page one, and if possible position number one. Unfortunately, many do not fully understand how to create a link-building strategy, so we thought we would give you some simple pointers as to how.

Link Building Defined

The simplest explanation we have of link building is it is the process of gaining links aka backlinks from other locations online such as websites and social media pages to your legal website so that when someone clicks on one of those links they arrive on whichever page of your website the inbound link goes to.

The Importance Of Link Building

Whilst Google keeps much of how it calculates rankings very much clouded in secrecy, they release enough information and there has been enough SEO research, for us to make reasonable assumptions. One is that backlinks are one of the three most significant factors that Google assesses when ranking website pages.

Google regards a backlink as an endorsement, and the more authority a website has that links to another, the stronger that endorsement is. It is akin to a budding actor being praised by an Oscar-winning actor such as Anthony Hopkins. When Google sees that a backlink goes from a high authority website, the website it links to gets credit for that, and a lot more credit than it would for a link from a one-page website with zero authority.

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Site Bouncing

How to Stop Visitors To Your Site Bouncing Away Immediately

You might be thinking that bouncing isn’t a word you would associate with online businesses, but it is actually one of the most important elements that determines the effectiveness of your website’s SEO.

If you don’t know what we mean by bouncing, it’s the term used to describe a visitor landing on a website and within seconds clicking away again. Just as a ball bouncing outside is in contact with the ground for a split second and then isn’t, the same applies to visitors who come and go in an instant.

The problem for website owners is that visitors bouncing is not good, especially as these bounces can be detected by Google. If someone searches for a local pet groomer, clicks on one of the results, but when they get to the pet groomer’s website, they take a quick glance and leave, that’s a big red flag for Google.

It’s a red flag because they want their search results to be the best that they can be and so want to rank websites in their results that visitors are satisfied with when they click through to them. One of the measurable factors that indicate that satisfaction is the length of time those visitors remain on the website in question

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Top 5 Tips For Designing An Attractive Website

Web design can be fun, but it can also be time consuming and confusing. If you’ve never designed your own website, it can seem near impossible. But don’t worry, it’s not. There are numerous tools out there to help you create the perfect site, even if you have no design skills whatsoever.

To help you get started, I’ve put together a short list of things to consider when you’re starting the web design process. My top five tips for designing an attractive website include:

  1. Keep The User Experience At The Front Of Your Mind

If you want to build a successful website, you need to make sure that it’s user friendly and easy to navigate. This means that you should always keep the user experience at the front of your mind when you’re designing your site. Consider how people will react to different design elements and think about whether or not including something is going to add to or take away from your site.

  1. Keep Things Simple

It’s also important to make sure that you keep your website simple. This ties in directly with the user experience, because cluttered website which are difficult to navigate simply aren’t very user friendly.

Although it can be tempting to add numerous different elements to your website to make things interesting, you should think about the value of everything you add. Only include things which will truly add value to your website and audience.

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Collect Customer Information

How Do I Collect Customer Information On My Website?

The first thing you need to establish is exactly what customer information you need, and how you plan to use it effectively, as simply gathering customer information for the sake of it is a waste of time. More to the point, if visitors to your website give their information in expectation that you are going to send them something or reply to them, and you don’t, their first impression of your website is likely to be a very negative one.

If you’ve met with a professional digital marketing agency and have established a plan for marketing to your visitors and customers, then that should determine the way in which you are going to communicate with them, including marketing to them as well. The two most common ways this is done is by telephone and email, although good old-fashioned mailings via the postal service, still work in many industries.

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The Ultimate Beginners Guide to WordPress Web Design

Designing a new website can be extremely difficult, even if you have some experience or training. Luckily, platforms like WordPress can help you streamline the web design process, especially when you know how to use them.

Setting up a new WordPress website doesn’t have to be too hard if you’re willing to spend a bit of time getting familiar with its design interface and the tools available to you. With this in mind, I decided to put this article together to help you come up with a plan to create your own site.

Step 1: Choose a Hosting Provider

Choosing a web hosting provider is the first thing you need to do when you’re building a WordPress website. There are numerous providers out there – including industry leading names such as HostGator and GoDaddy – but it’s important to do your research to make sure that you find a host that’s suited to your needs and budget.

Step 2: Set Up Your Website

Once you’ve chosen a hosting provider and registered your site, you need to install WordPress to your hosting servers, choose a domain name, and connect it to the WordPress interface. Luckily, most web hosts will guide you through this process, so I won’t go into it in too much detail.

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Simple SEO Tactics

3 Simple SEO Tactics Every Business Should Employ

Within the field of SEO, there are so many different techniques and tactics that can be used, trying to list them all would be nigh on impossible. Just as we got to what we thought was the last tactic, Google would inevitably make a change to their algorithm, and we would need to find another one.

That is why when we discuss SEO with clients or those who want to learn more, we try and keep it as simple as possible. This is not to insult their intelligence, but merely because some of the most straightforward and basic techniques, are the ones that bring the best results.

Take these 3 for example…

Research Your Market and Audience

In just about every field you can think of, those who do the most research are the ones who invariably get the best outcomes. The reason is they do not waste time on tactics that will not work, but instead focus on those which will.

By researching your audience, you can adapt your SEO in terms of keywords, content creation, what images or videos to create, what other websites you want a presence on, and even which products to produce.

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