Category: SEO

With the majority of internet journeys beginning on search engines SEO is a crucial part of any marketing strategy. Our SEO analysts create blogs on a regular basis in order to provide some handy tips and tricks to stay on top of Google’s ever-changing algorithms.

How you can plan and prioritise so that your website performs on Google

Online Marketing by Tom0 comments

When coming into a new project you will see an endless amount of things to improve. In this blog we will be sharing our tips on how you can plan and prioritise so that your website performs well on Google.

Whilst being a cliché it is essential you don’t try and run before you can walk. Trying to throw a blanket of changes over everything early can lead to results becoming diluted. Some elements of marketing are best done in a systematic process. Whilst it may seem obvious, you simply cannot underestimate the importance of creating a marketing plan and workflow. Doing so will enable you to also pick out priorities, where your time will be used the most and where it is also best spent.

For example, before you try and make your website as search engine friendly as possible you need to make sure that there are no … [Read More]

How best to compare your website traffic

Online Marketing by Gemma0 comments

Do you have a mass of data from years of business but don’t really know how to accurately compare monthly traffic? Sometimes simply looking at one month compared to the last will not give you an accurate representation of improvements.

What you need to be looking at: Seasonal trends for your market Marketing consistencies Offline impact
Seasonal Trends

Now when I talk about seasonal trends I’m not simply referring to the effects of weather and public holidays. Instead you need to try to establish the trends of your individual marketplace. Some examples may be:

Traffic increases for one of our clients in February/March with customers preparing for the race season Another client has a peak in traffic in May/June due schools looking at plans for the summer holidays Marketing Consistencies

One of the biggest factors in increases and decreases will be extra marketing activity. For example overall traffic may decrease … [Read More]

Voice Search and the Implications on SEO

Online Marketing by Laura0 comments

We cannot deny that mobile phones are now completely ubiquitous in our lives. The fact that nearly everyone and anyone has a mobile device is something that we have adapted to. Not only this, but as the way we use our mobiles has changed over past years, SEO practices have adapted to this way of living too. However, as technologies move forward, do we need to be doing more to make sure our SEO strategy is in line with the new ways people are searching?

The likes of the Google Home or Amazons Alexa are gaining an enormous presence in not only UK homes, but across the world too. Gone are the days when you needed to pick up you mobile to search for something, in just a few simple words you can find the answer to pretty much anything. With these technologies making further advancements too, online shopping has … [Read More]

Don’t stress the ups and downs of SEO

SEO by Tom0 comments

Have you noticed your keyword rankings yo-yoing recently? One week you can be on the first page of Google and the next week your nowhere to be seen. These days this can happen even without even making changes to your website. Somewhat unfortunately, Google is constantly updating, unless you move with it you’re very much against it.

Google never stays the same. It is constantly making changes to its algorithms, looking for new and innovative ways to make searches more practical for the user. Recent developments in smart searching through mobile devices and voice operated systems have brought the latest waves of changes through.

Sometimes these updates will make no difference to where one of your keywords rank. However there are occasions when Google decides it is going to focus on an element that is seemingly lacking on one of your ranking pages and so consequently your position plummets. You’ll … [Read More]

SEO begins at the website development stage

SEO by Justin0 comments

The foundation of a successful website starts with a great design, user-friendly interface and a well developed user experience.

But unknown to most, these have become very important ranking factors and a big part of modern search engine optimisation (SEO). This includes things like page speed, site usability and a responsive mobile design.

Although SEO starts with considering the website content as the predominant ranking factor, there are other contributing factors that help bring information to the forefront. This includes outlining the title and description of the page with your most relevant keyword. The title should be the most relevant searchable term for that particular page.

By thinking of areas such as the page title, description and keywords in relation to SEO at development stage will ensure that your website is setup with the right structure to become Google friendly.

Search engine’s primary goal is to give you the most … [Read More]