A 15 minute introduction to search engine optimisation using commercial property examples. The webcast will include:
• How a search engine finds your website
• What you can do to help get your website found
• How a search engine ranks your website
• What you can do to get listed higher on a search page
20. Potential customer searches for your product or service Search engine displays the most relevant results in response to the search YOUR objective: Create pages that are highly relevant to the keywords your customers use
24. To get inbound links you must have great content on your site… Relevant /useful information? Content and links to experts? Helpful pictures/videos? Online tools or services? Content that gives a competitive advantage? Needed Products and Services? Blogs, Forums, presence on Social Media?
NB companies on average spend 60% of their marketing budget on their website. Some key messages for this presentation: It’s about awareness – getting your website ranked highly for searches on your PRODUCT type etc, NOT just on your brand name. Google algorithm is changing all the time - & way Google presents search results You have to stand out from a huge crowd Understand basics of Google results page Understanding basics of getting to the top of google results: Collect – getting crawled Index – getting filed properly by Google – categorised Rank – getting high in the results list on a given topic
Search engines look at each link to a web page as a kind of “vote” for the popularity of the destination page. The page with the most votes wins the popularity contest. So, how popular do you have to be to actually be considered “popular on the web”? Well, this diagram, which shows just 10 external links. That’s a bit misleading.
Great website content has two aspects: quality and quantity… … When it comes to “ quality ”, the VALUE of a web page is in the eye of user. Think about the business sites that you regularly visit and why you go there. Do you go to particular sites… … to get objective news and information in order to stay abreast of industry changes? … To read commentary, reviews, and remarks from experts and others? … How about too access online tools or services? … to size-up the options related to purchase needs? … or just to see pictures or videos of products? What these and many other, similar reasons have in common is that … … they provide potential business customers with the content they want to do their jobs better, and possibly, to gain a competitive advantage. To offer this kind of content takes a thorough knowledge of the target audience.