Category: SEO

Getting your website on Google Search is an important step in making your website discoverable to your target audience. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to get your website on Google Search.

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Keywords are crucial in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and can help you rank higher in search engine results pages (SERPs). Here’s a step-by-step guide on keywords and their importance for SEO.

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Google Search Console is a free tool allowing you to monitor and maintain your website’s presence in search results. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to sign in to Google Search Console.

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We open the club and invite two guest members Barnaby Tompkins (Coltswold Hound) and Alison Creighton (Doodle Dogs) to have a website & marketing review where we will share SEO tips, content ideas and different ways they can draw more traffic to their website.

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Ben and Clare are put in the hot seat as they answer SEO Marketing questions! From findiing out how to find your Keywords to trying out Open AI to generate website content.

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During this weeks session we open the club and invite guest members Frank Szucs (Bauxit Painting & Decorating) and Holly Foskett-Barnes (Bristol Illustrator) to have a website review where we share SEO tips, content ideas and different ways to draw more traffic to their websites.

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We are joined by Abi Unwin (Abigail Jane Coaching) who will shared her journey into SEO. Earlier this year she attended one of Ben’s introductory SEO workshop and managed to boost her website Google Ranking ‘from page 15 to page 1 in under a month!’ and gained more sales.

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Extract from my post published on Start and Grow. You should read all of the tips in the article but I like this one the best.

2. Find out who you’re up against

Search optimisation is all about competition and ranking. By knowing who you are up against, and what they are doing to boost their SEO you can gain the upper hand.

Know your enemy…

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SEO expert Chris Richards (Utterly Digital) returns to guide us through phase two of our SEO audit. After completing the suggestions he recommended earlier this year we will see how these improvements have impacted the site and look at the next steps to help us build more traffic and gain more sales.

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During this weeks session we open the club and invite guest member; Italian Interior Designer Marta Rossarta to have a website review where we will share SEO tips, content ideas and different ways she can draw more traffic to her website.

This is a fantastic session where you can sit in the wings and glean ideas for your own website!

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We are joined by Bespoke By Laura and Poppins Tutoring to see how they are getting on with the improvements we gave them last month. Together we will run through an SEO Review of their website and offer tips and advice on how they can optimise their pages and get more traffic to their website.

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We invited SEO Expert, Chris Richard to review our new RI website! We don’t know exactly what ideas Chris will come up with but he always has insightful advice to improve our search ranking through his proven methods.

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This webinar is ideal for those who are looking to tighten up page titles, tweak meta descriptions and trim the sitemap. It also fits neatly between our other webinars #6 SEO Strategy and #17 Google Search Console (GSC) walkthrough.

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During this session we will look at a selection of different landing pages and check to see whether they are giving the right message, are user friendly and share some advice on how to improve them.

It’s important to take that step back and see your homepage through your customers eyes to make sure it is working in a way you intended.

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Ben shares the best way to find the keywords that people use to find services like yours online and how to optimise them.

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A clip from a joint webinar with Heidi from Minx Media where Ben goes through how to review and optimise your Google My Business profile.

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In this post, you’ll learn how find actionable advice on video SEO best practices in order to give you a step-by-step guide to optimising your videos.

Here are some tips for optimizing your videos for YouTube’s Home Screen:

Upload new videos on a consistent basis to give your audience an expectation of when they can see more new content.

Keep viewers engaged for longer and encourage them to come back for more. Whether it’s with a long video or several short ones, the longer you keep people watching, the more your content is likely to get surfaced.

Keep doing what works. When you create something that’s working for your audience, do it again. YouTube surfaces more content that your viewers like. Don’t be afraid to experiment, but do so mindfully. Observe feedback from your audience and give them time to adjust.

George Jarboe, Search Engine Journal

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This is the forth of 6 episodes in which I’ll be walking you through the foundation level of my Marketing Strategy. I’m going give you ideas, advice and guidelines in a simple, step by step process that will work for any startup or business new to marketing.

The episodes cover Planning, Stats and Analytics, Website Development, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media and Business tasks that you need to do to give you marketing strategy a great foundation.
If you want to jump ahead. everything I’m talking about is available online nowratherinventive.com/marketing-strategy

For now here’s part 4 and it’s about Search Engine Optimisation. Enjoy!

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Ben shares how to improve landing page SEO by optimising a specific page of your website to rank higher on Google.

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Improve landing page SEO

Optimising a specific page of your website to rank higher on Google 

What is On page SEO?

Work on your site to improve SERP (Search Engine Ranking Position)
All in your control (website platform dependant) Watch session #6 for general SEO Strategy.

Selmach Case Study
Sell high value metal working machinery a Competitor was starting to win business and their Laser landing page was not ranking in Google results.

The Method

Competitor Analysis | Make Changes to Page | Measure Result 

Step 1: Competitor analysis

Compare the Competition’s SEO to our page Keyword Correlation Report and interpret the findings into action.

Process 

• Group call – Client, SEO, Web dev
• Review the report – Needed interpreting
• Decide on easy wins
• Basecamp to assign actions 

Observations 

• Category Landing Page (LP) not in 100 SERPs
• Title tag not using optimised keyword
• Poor/few internal links
• No external links to landing page 
• Increase word count to over 1400 per page
• Add keyword or variations into content more 
• Use variety of content: Lists, images, tables 
• Use schema markup
• Page not in index. Yoast issue 

Step 2: Make Changes  

•  Made observation changes to the landing page. 
•  Add links from other pages.
•  Create the ultimate guide 

What we did 

•  Add keyword to heading: CNC Fibre Laser 
•  Optimise meta description. Not too long and include keywords 
•  Added product info, testimonials, FAQs, images, comparisons 
•  Add keyword variations into content 
•  Added FAQ schema markup 
•  Add links from related news articles back to LP 
•  Another review to check progress 

Step 3: Measure & Tweak 

• Measure SERP (Search Engine Ranking Position) Content update took one month
• After two months jumped to #3
• Then to #1 one month later 

What is a Keyword correlation report?

Comparison of your page against competitor pages based on keywords you want to rank for.

On page SEO tips 

• Title, Meta Description and Heading must include keyword 
• Great the ultimate guide. 10x better than competitors 
• Use variety of content such as headings, lists, images, tables 
• Include keyword variations in the content 
• Make sure all related blog, product and supporting pages link to LP 
• Build external links from other websites to the LP 
• Use FAQ and other schema markup 
• Check in GSC that page is indexed!!! 
  

Helpful Links

• Why Use Schema, Duane Forrester shares some helpful insights on a previous podcast interview.
• Mark up your FAQs with structured data
• Comprehensive website SEO report to improve your search position and ranking against competitors.
• Book your Super-Correlation Keyword SEO Report for focused optimisation on your landing pages

Insight from an interview with Google’s John Mueller on Search Engine Journal.

‘Google doesn’t necessarily treat longer or shorter anchor text any different when it comes to rankings.

However, using more words in anchor text provides more context to Google about the page being linked to. And more context can indirectly impact rankings.

The more context Google has about a page, the more effectively it can rank said page for relevant queries.’

Do you want to see your website appear first on Google whenever you search for the key words relevant to your business? Do you often wonder why your competitors appear higher than you on Google when you think you are doing everything you should be?

In this workshop I will show you how to improve the ranking of your website on Google along with SEO tips, tools and techniques.

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If you are writing content for the web and you want it to rank highly, you need to think about your competition. Not only does it help focus your SEO efforts but it can often give you ideas on what you need to include on your page.

‘A SERP competitor could have only one page that competes with you, but if that page is ranking above you on an important SERP, they are your competition and you need to understand why they are beating you.’

https://searchengineland.com/search-competition-who-are-you-really-competing-with-338403

If you’re a Marketing Club member then you can find my competitor research process in the SEO Strategy webinar but I’d also check out this article from Andrew Dennis at Search Engine Land that goes through a simple process you can use.

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Back in July last year I spoke with Tess Coughlan-Allen about planning the content for your website, along with tips for getting started and a helpful tool to map out your content.

I firmly believe that websites should be built around the content first and is actually a key part of the design process.

If you are starting a new web project or revising your current site you’ll find real value in this conversation.

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How to improve your website content and structure with an aim of getting to page one in Google.

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What is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)?

Making changes to your website that you know (or believe) will gain a higher position in search engine results for a given keyword search
There are many search engines We’ll focus on Google:

Why people search

• Do something e.g. ’camping france’
• Know something e.g. ’how to fix washing machine’
• Go somewhere e.g. ’facebook’

First five results get 68% of clicks
Desktop & mobile ranking position CTR 2014 data from Moz.com
 

Terms you should know

• SERP – Search Engine Ranking Position
• Snippet – Information on a Google search result
• Impression – How often your snippet shown
• CTR – Click Through Rate. Number of clicks compared to impressions
• Keyword – A phrase used to find something online
• Long tail – A long and specific keyword phrase
•  Keywords and how to find them
• What keywords do people use to find services like yours online?
•  Keyword examples: “accountant” “cirencester accountants” “accountants in cirencester” “how to prepare end of year accounts”

Google Trends for simple comparison

• Broad, simple keywords
• Keyword Research
• Google Keyword planner for advanced searches
• Related searches on Google

Create content that search engines will love and people will share

• Find the best keywords to rank for
• Find out who else is ranking for them
• Create content that’s better than those pages
• Meta Descriptions: Writing a snippet is a great way to start writing content
• Blog Content
• Help Content
• Content Checklist
• Must have keyword on the page
• Keyword order and spelling often matter
• Content of page must be relevant to keyword
• Avoid ‘thin’ content. Write enough to answer the question
• Write for people not search engines
• Page structure development
• Link to main pages Adding keywords to images Simple URLs
• Link to page on your site <a href=“/bookkeeping/”>Bookkeeping</a>
• Link to a page not on your site <a href=“http://website.com/”
• rel=“nofollow”> A link to another site
• Add no follow if you don’t want to pass any Google SEO credit

 “If you create a page on a keyword that is 10x better than the pages being shown in search results (for that keyword), Google will reward you for it, and better yet, you’ll naturally get people linking to it!”
https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/on-page-seo

 Images

• Describe the content of the image in text <img src=“tabby-cat-in-wicker-basket.jpg” alt=“A tabby cat in a wicker basket”/>
• Add keywords in if you can. Can then show up on image search
• Short and human readable i.e. /blog/how-to-fix-washing-machine’
• Use hyphens ‘-‘ not spaces
• Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin

Getting linked

• Links from other websites (often called backlinks) can be most beneficial
• Self created
• Links by you to other sites e.g. directories
• Natural: Referenced by another website because your content is awesome
• Manual outreach: Asked for the link or guest blog post

   
 Do Measure Repeat

Use Google Search Console to track performance Tweak site slowly to look for improvements

•  GSC performance
•  SERP listings
•  Page errors and indexing issues

Other Important factors

• Site speed. Less than one second
• Mobile friendly
• Engagement / Long click
• Reviews and ratings (structured data)

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Continuing on our theme of SEO I thought this interview with Duane Forrester (recorded back in early 2019) would be helpful to show how structured data and schema is a key trust signal for search engines.

We discuss why we should be using structured data on our website, how this impacts conventional SEO and why it matters for voice and augmented reality.

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