One of the best ways to captivate and ensure visitors come to your new site is to make sure it’s fully loaded with engaging content right out of the box. The well-publicised Panda and Penguin updates have had a significant (and in my view, positive) impact on the discipline of SEO. Every “vote” or link to your site helps determine the value of your site. However, it’s not just the sheer number of links your website gets. The activity generated by social media suggests that your website is trustworthy, worth sharing, currently important to people, and is being referenced as a valuable resource.

Provide an excellent experience in SEO copywriting that brings about more SERP to page conversions

Generally speaking you want to use your keyword as the anchor text for your internal linking whenever possible. External linking (from other sites) shouldn’t be very heavily optimized for anchor text. If 90% of your links all have the same anchor text Google can throw a red flag, assuming that you’re doing something fishy. Google and the other search engines use image-recognition software as part of their search algorithm, so they know if those pictures have been used elsewhere before. The higher the organic search traffic the better, as more traffic means more people reading your blog post. A guest post on a website with traffic is similar to being featured in a newspaper, the larger the newspaper the more people will hear about what you have to say. Search engines like unique content and content that is updated on a regular basis. That’s one reason blogs tend to get indexed more quickly: they’re being frequently updated (which is also a good reason to build your business site on a blog platform).

There’ve been a lot of changes in search behavior and search guidelines in the last few years

People buy from businesses they trust, not businesses that publish low quality, untrustworthy content. You should include a sitemap on your website that holds an index of all your web pages. This way search engines can find all of your pages and index them easily. You should try to limit sitemaps to 50 links, so make sure the most important ones are in there. Some search engines reject sites with more than this number. You can find freeware to do this for you, or alternatively some of our web hosting packages include software to do this for you. It’s a new era for SEO, an era where you can no longer keyword-stuff your way to search ranking success. Nowadays, if Google finds out that you are blatantly overusing (or hiding) keywords on your site, your credibility (and rankings) could take a serious hit. However, this doesn’t mean that keywords are totally irrelevant. In fact, if you’re doing what Google wants you to do (creating high-quality content), keywords will work there way naturally into your website’s pages. Site speed is an essential element of any campaign and for good reasons. You’ve also got to prioritize index and site structure when reviewing your technical SEO – obvious choices but absolutely paramount.

Pick a Keyword to Target

Make sure the site makes good use of anchor text in its internal links. This is a free opportunity to inform users and search engines what the various pages of your site are about. Don’t abuse it, though. Outbound links to related pages helps Google figure out your page’s topic. It also shows Google that your page is a hub of quality info. There was a time when SEO really was a matter of determining which keywords could deliver the most traffic, then optimizing your website for those terms, and then building as many links as you could get away with. It was mechanical, and it was simple. But over time it proved to be fully unsustainable. According to SEO Consultant, Gaz Hall: "The problem is, not all backlinks are the same. A large and authoritative site in your niche may be more powerful than many general blogs with little or spammy backlinks. It’s important not to waste your time creating content for sites that won’t help you rank, but how do you determine if a site is worth getting a link from?"

Don’t shoot yourself in the foot with Technical SEO

All business websites are different and there is never any ‘One Size Fits All’ solution to how you should be structuring your SEO campaign or the types of SEO services you should be employing. DA/PA and CT/TF are all third party metrics meant to somehow replace the void left by the famous Google PR (Page Rank). Obviously none of them could replicate PR real values of nowadays (as those values are being kept secret for quite a while now). Which articles and posts get the most clicks? Not surprisingly, posts containing countdowns and Top 10 lists are heavily clicked. Not only do they get an enormous wave of traffic when first launched, but they’ll continue to attract traffic for months and even years later. The page title is still one of the most important ranking factors for Google, so you have to make sure it’s optimized correctly for every page. This means adding the relevant keyword to each particular page and making sure that your page title isn’t too long.