This is the question we get asked the most by our clients. The answer is not an easy one. Over 1 million new website addresses are registered every month, which is over 40,000 per day!
So how do consumers find their way through all these sites? Search engines! You know the major search engines used in the business like Google, Yahoo! and Bing. Millions of us use them every day to find everything from the latest news to buying our shopping. Even if you don't use them that often, these statistics illustrate just how vital it is for your site to be listed in them.
Listings on their own though are not enough, particularly in such a competitive market. These days your business also needs to achieve a high Google ranking to benefit from the considerable amount of traffic they can send to your site.
You've probably wondered at some point why some sites appears at the top of the rankings and some never seem to get close. This is because the majority of sites are not search engine friendly. Organic search marketing is an effective strategy that results in competitive ranking of your site which can lead to an increased amount of targeted traffic.
Optimising the content on your site can be tricky – you need to strike a balance between quality and quantity. If you say too much about the wrong, or even the right thing, then just like human visitors Google will judge your page less relevant for that topic. If you say too little then you don't give your users a reason to get interested or go further into the buying cycle.
Search engines are constantly refining how they rank websites and are placing a greater importance on meaningful and well written websites that are search engine friendly. Call us today so we can help you optimise the content on your site and make you more popular on Google!
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| U.K. web sales grew nearly 13% in the first half of 2012 Source: ecommerce-news.internetretailer.com, July 2012 |
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| Despite the economic woes, spending online continues to grow. In August 2011 alone, UK shoppers spent £5.2 billion on the web. Source: IMRG/Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, November 2011 |
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| 41% of UK firms are successfully winning customers through their social networking efforts. 48% use social platforms to engage with their existing customers. Source: Regus as cited by www.searchenginejournal.com, November 2011 |
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| 79% of search engine users say they always/frequently click on the natural search results. Source: www.searchenginejournal.com, April 2012 |
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| 28% of people in the UK have purchased something using their phone Source: gpmd.co.uk, March 2012 |