Website Promotion Content Interplay & Importance

Website Promotion - SEO - Digital Marketing 

Without website promotion you will not get business from the Internet. Without content your site will not be ranking high enough on browsers or search engine SERPs you will not get business. This applies to professionals as well who are seeking response from the Net to increase their services or business. You may be hosting a website for any purpose it may not solve your problem without high ranking and for that you require SEO or search engine optimization which is part of Digital Marketing.      

There is another option for you and that is Google Ads or any other PPC. Well if you can afford or it works for you well and good. But promotion is a long term solution which you can add along with PPC.  Not everyone can afford Advertisements hence there is no option without SEO Campaign. 

Ethical optimization practices will fine tune your website as far as coding, architecture and user friendliness is concerned. It will also help in updating or re-engineering your website contents.  

In this blog entry we are discussing contents or rather algorithm friendly contents. Without good  writing ability you cannot provide promotional services and they have to be written with the user in mind but should assist the search engines to  decipher it for indexing and ranking.  Most important aspect of your site is to be visible to relevant users, off topic visitor with no positive intent in mind will only end up using the bandwidth which can be a costly affair.   

Content is a comprehensive word in search terms, you will only rank on what you mention on the page unlike before. In earlier time you could rank on any term which your anchor text promoted. Not any more after incidence of Google bombing.  Hence before making a long list of terms to rank on make sure what your write up is speaking about. This is not a disadvantage since search has to be on topic and focused in order to  deliver. 

Remember there are lot of metrics that the bots use nowadays to index and rank. But contents and authoritative links are important. What importance the latter holds for ranking should not concern the webmaster since one major advantage of link building is getting referrals. Yes there should be a conjoint effort and include both ethical optimization and referrals. The latter helps you reach out to the customers or clients bypassing the search engines. In the current scene content should be focused on not only that meant for web pages, but also whence you are writing to create a link. If done well both efforts can lead to natural organic growth which the SEs prefer.  

If you write naturally than Semantic terms would flow in your write ups and this would help avoid infusion of search terms beyond reasoning. If a percentage of keyword is unnaturally high than you may be shown the door or the ranking for that term may plummet.  

Why Contents? 

Well contents are conversations more in use than attributes like videos, images or graphs. And this will remain. Users or visitors to a site seek answers to their query and that is best provided by contents followed by the other attributes mentioned above. Users seek quick answers to their query, and  optimization brings them the most relevant answers to their query via blog, website, videos, images, graphs and knowledge panels.    

Hence pay attention to what has been penned during the SEO Audit, wean out duplicate or repeat information, copied write up and come up with what is most relevant to the user's query. 

Webmasters

As webmaster you will not be effective until unless you learn all aspect of writing for search engines and users the latter being the most important. Hence begin practicing now if you have not yet done so, practice daily till you achieve perfection. The contents will help in Digital Marketing whence you promote them on many social media sites. Learn to  write compulsive and catchy slogans or call for action sentences. Be versatile in search engine optimization technical and content wise.     

And while you are at it learn to format and plan user friendly "UX" web pages so that the readability also increase and so does goal conversions.  

Remember a website is an investment and it has to be boosted by regular promotion. Hire a professional if you cannot do it yourself without hesitation. Businesses seek all venues for opportunities and the Net is one one them. A big one with bright future.    

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About Author

Uday provides affordable search engine optimization or SEO Services and Contents for Digital Marketing. 

He also teaches Internet Marketing in summers in Jabalpur in India his hometown. 

Uday is a freelance Naturalist and birder and mixes all vocations to make a living, 

He can be contacted at:

pateluday90@hotmail.com

9755089323

  

Changing Face of SERPs & WebMasters Guidelines

Overview

With paradigm shift in search engine optimisation brought about regularly at the behest of changes to the algorithms of major search engines, webmasters are facing an uphill task. While the gist of the shift is attributed to the search engines pushing the clients towards paid advertisement on which major chunk of their revenue depends there are other reasons surfacing as well.  

Though webmasters role remains central to optimisation the rein on the SERPs is now in control of the companies with popular search algorithms. There is another sacred reason for the reins loosening from the webmasters. Through the last decade of development of search on the result pages the companies like Google have been according greater weightage to quality and relevancy. This has been brought about by regular evolution of algorithms and emerging associated technologies which have made the robots much smarter.    

On the SERPs people seek answers as well as amusement and unraveling of mystery of sorts. Yes a good lot is there for simply whiling away. The result page is like a Pandora's box for you never know what you may come across - this remains in the focus of users till this day. They are not interested in seeing the same results day in day out especially the brands which they are aware of anyway. The search is also for the lesser known embedded deep in the piles of results capable of springing surprise or a rarity. Hence with decreasing role of webmasters the diversity on the SERPs is taking a back seat giving rise to oft repeated results with which the users are getting tired off. This is what I call as demystifying the Internet. There will definitely be less takers. 

Internet is like a celestial void you never know what lies in the ahead.

With greater control of the contents and the backlings,the companies have brought about these changes as mentioned here earlier. This has also meant less control of results for the webmasters and elimination of black hat techniques.

BackLinks

In contemporary the impetus on backlinks has certainly decreased but not eliminated. Greater impetus is now placed on contents and related attributes of web design like the speed, architecture, images, videos, graphics and so on. The technical side has also experienced a weightage with better coding, usability, fluid navigation and quality design being preferred. There has been efforts to maximise search results with easy navigability with introduction of knowledge box, metadata and the carousel. 

But the fact remains that only ten results are usually looked into. Hence the race for the first page. 

More and more metrics are being included in indexing and ranking algorithms. This has made the whole process of optimisation holistic. The social media presence is one of the yardstick of measures or rather a number of activities where in online reputation aids search engine as to who will reach higher for relevant search terms.

Internet Marketing 

Hence Internet Marketing is the right term for promotion on Internet. Albeit this is inclusive of SEO or search engine optimisation as a key process. It used to depend heavily on link building earlier. Though building links is imperative even if the engines devalue it, a webmaster's effort should be holistic with content creation and social media participation being the major role players in the contemporary scenario. 

Coming back to link building it is an effective method to create referrals and place content on social media apparatus. Links are easy and free advertisement medium albeit they carry less value up the SERPs but nevertheless spammy links will penalise your site as well as devalue your online reputation on the social media. 

Webmaster Alternative : Online Presence 

With ever constricting space on SERPs the webmasters have to find alternative route to expose their client site to prospective or targeted audience. This is where Internet Marketing comes into the picture. Social media activities, push on the messaging sites using email and SMS should be an associated activity. This way there will be less reliance on SERPs and costly Ads. You will be able to provide targeted exposure to the site without being much on the result pages. 

This only means that content creation is imperative without which you should be looking for another job. On the design and development side association with coders and programmers is a must that is if you know the attributes of sound design and can instruct the designer fraternity in touch to make necessary changes.