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Google My Business & SEO

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Improving your local ranking on Google Thinking about achieving SEO success for your and nearby locations, Google My Business is the solution! Google My Business helps you achieve marketing success for your business while leveraging location based strategy. What is Google My Business? Google My Business is a FREE tool by Google wherein you can create your business page with all the information like: Address / Store Hours / Service Information & Type / Areas of operation / Add Photos & Videos and much more. Google My Business (GMB) page helps businesses manage their online presence for local exposure. So for example : When you search for “restaurants near me” on Google, it pulls up a list of GMB pages (businesses, who have created their Google My Business pages and are verified). Your GMB page also has directions to your physical store location so that makes it easy for your visitors to find your business location easily. Starting your GMB listing! Here is a quick guide...

Measuring SEO Effectiveness

Business and Life is all about constant improvements, likewise SEO – as its’ an on-going process, it needs constant improvements. But improvements can only be made when something is measured / tracked. There are various components that affect SEO performance and measuring those components is what makes it better. There are various tools available for measuring SEO performance but one of the factors that I use is Google Analytics Tool. Google Analytics (GA) is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. It covers various aspects like: Location from where the website was accessed Total Organic Clicks Time Spent by users on a particular page Bounce Rate Pages browsed by visitors & much more…. Today we will discuss about the factors that are most important when measuring SEO performance and keeping Google Analytics tool in picture. Installing Google Analytics: Setting up Google Analytics for your website is simple and straightforward: 1....

Link Building Strategies

Content and Links are two major factors in SEO. In this blog we will be talking about the types of links and some strategies for link building. First we will understand the types of links in SEO: IMPORTANT LINKS FOR SEO 1.       Internal Links: Links within your website to the respective content page 2.       Outbound Links: Links from your website to others 3.       Inbound Links: Commonly known as backlinks – that is other websites linking to your own website. Internal Links: Internal Links are the links within your website. These are basically the links you add to your website to allow users to navigate through different sections / products. It is important to have a good internal link structure.   Things to remember: 1.       Always include relevant internal links within your website to the content while you publish a new piece of content. 2.    ...

Content Optimization & Strategy – Part 2

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We have already discussed two key points on content optimization, here’s a brief on the next two key points: ·          Correct Usage of Keyword ·          Correct Stuff 1.     Correct Usage of Keyword : While planning your content strategy, you have already made an analysis about the keywords and user intent, so this section doesn’t explain about which keywords are being used in your content; but it is about how well the keywords are being used in your content. It is important to understand that keyword stuffing is not a very great idea when it comes to SEO. ·          Nowadays, search engines are smart enough, so it is worth noting that common synonyms can be used in your content instead of directly using the primary keyword. Just don’t stuff your content with full of primary keywords, replace some with related terms / keywords. · ...

Content Optimization & Strategy - PART 1

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SEO without Content Optimization is just as your car without wheels. Your website cannot rank high on search engines without good content.  One of the top ranking factors for SEO is content – as said by Google. Content means not any content can perform well, before you publish content, there are certain factors to be taken care. Below is a small guide that can help you build a comprehensive content for your website. 1.      Strategize 2.      Designing of good content 3.      Correct Usage of Keyword 4.      Correct Stuff Frankly there’s no guide to high quality content but it’s always up to us who geek out to study search results. We will be going through each of the points mentioned above that covers majorly about content optimization. We’re going to cover first two topics in this article and the next ones in another 1.     Content Strategy: You need to have a ...

Keywords: Key Factor of SEO

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Basically we will first understand some concepts. What is a “search query” A “search query” or “search term” is a word or a phrase that users type into search engines to find relevant information they are looking out for. What is a “keyword” SEO keywords are the keywords / phrases on your website that makes it possible for your website to be visible to users on search engines. How “ Keyword Research ”  can get you at the top notch Keyword Research is basically finding out the words / phrases users are looking for when they are in search of specific products / services which is related to your business. For example: If you are an owner of a fast food restaurant, you need to find out what people might be looking for in and around your area – this will help you optimize your content to better match their requirements – sounds difficult? – it isn’t so. Keyword Research is a key factor when considering it for your website’s SEO. SEO is an ongoing process so the w...