Website Overhaul & On Page Optimization for Quality Traffic

Planning is the first step toward perfection. In SEO you aim for free traffic unlike in the case of paid traffic from Google Ads, and social media marketing solutions.  Free lunch does not come easy remember?

An SEO or search engine optimization campaign is loads of work and that too with perfection. The aim is to drive quality traffic to your website. A well-focused website is the first need and has a look at the client's property. How well it is designed what are the plus points if any? Thus, the audit should be the first step to comprehending where the site stands if it has to perform well. A site audit will inform you of all the parameters that are missing or wrongly placed. Remember most websites are made with a design perspective in mind and not SEO attributes. This happens simply because most website owners and developers have no idea of search engine optimization as they are not expected to.   

Redesigning Website

The site audit is crucial and certain qualities found missing can be worked upon. To enhance the free traffic potential of the site you need to plan website redesign or on-page optimization. Website aesthetics do matter and its attraction potential matters as well but this is secondary for a webmaster. 

The audit reveals many aspects of the sites that need improvement. The first of course as you must have guessed is mobile friendliness since more than fifty percent of search is made online. Google Mobile-Friendly Test Tool is the most useful, not only does it inform you of your website status but it also offers advice on how to rectify if the website is not mobile-friendly. It solves your pain point.

Next test for  Web Core Vitals, these are much trending these days as  Google search engine guidelines recently announced. The best tool for this pain point solution is the page speed web development tool and GTE Metrix. This test informs you of all the vitals associated with website download speed.

These are some vital aspects of On-Page optimization and should be aligned positively by the developers. Professional search engine optimization companies follow the right practices for free traffic. The tools mentioned offer solutions as well so this is not a difficult task. There is more to attaining quality free traffic generation as on-page optimization proceeds...  

Seo Audit: Keep Check of Bandwidth

Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that can be transmitted from a website. For example, if the bandwidth is one then only one MB can be transmitted from the website. If you click on the website URL you will get a message that the bandwidth limit has been exceeded. In other words, it is the volume of traffic that can be sent over a connection in a measured time.

Bandwidth is usually calculated as megabits per second or Mbps. This aspect differs from speed and rather corresponds to the volume. It also differs from latency which usually is the time taken to download information. The question is how data actually gets downloaded in a fixed time and this factor is dependent upon the network speed, packet loss during the transmission, and many other factors that may hamper it.

For a single home computer bandwidth requirement may be less but if the whole family is using multiple devices like a smartphone, or laptop the number of computers than bandwidth requirement increases dramatically. hence if one resorts frequently to streaming, downloading, and gaming,  a greater amount of bandwidth may be required.            

For websites being optimized for greater traffic, the bandwidth need will increase according to the number of visitors using them. If for a long time if bandwidth remains fixed and there is a surge in traffic the invisibility of your site on SERPs will make it unpopular and will negatively impact your Seo campaign. As soon as you get the notice online that the bandwidth limit has been exceeded ask the hosting provider to increase the limit by another 25 to 30 Mbps and keep on increasing the limit till the website visibility of SERP is optimum. If the budget is low then increase the limit by 25 Mbps at a time. This will optimize the bandwidth usage and the client will not end up paying the extra charge.      

Hence while buying a hosting package always go in for higher attributes if heavy traffic and activities are assured. 

I come to an important optimization aspect if during the Seo Campaign the site ranks of terms that do not convert or do not solve the purpose then you are going to lose bandwidth hence always target well-researched terms.    

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About Author

Uday provides affordable search engine optimization or SEO Services and Content 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

  

SEO: Why Sudden Traffic Fall?

Why does your rankings and subsequently the traffic fizzle down one fine day? 

Well for search engine optimizers this is a big set back and lot of questions asked by the client has to be answered. 

Well if this happens firsts inspect the whole site do you find some elements missing especially the title tag and the meta? Is the content missing from some pages? Subsequently check the whole ranking chart in order to find in which terms you have rolled down. A major error could mean downslide in very large number of terms. 

Then move to the search console to find out the number of pages and which one have gone out of index. Inspect the Crawling through the attribute and use Fetch as function for each and every page.

Check pages for noindex meta if wrongly inserted. Also check the robot.txt file if wrong command is present...this can happen during the edits or can be a mistake made by the web designer. Discuss with him.  And yes check that Google Analytic Code is inserted properly in each and every page if the rankings seem to be unstable.

I hope you have been frequently taking care of broken links and 404s! 

Major changes to the site during redesigning can occur by error or by intent. Keep title, meta and content stable in the new format and see that the link architecture remains stable as well. As a regulatory measure site changes, migration etc should happen under your supervision strictly!   

Unprecedented errors can creep in the designing and coding, aspects that are being handled by web designer...which is most likely to be. Also go through the site to check for proper search terms being in the alt tags. Keep checking the download speed of your pages and the mobile friendliness.

Also keep in reckoning the performance of your web host....has the website had a stable performance due to good hosting. Also check for malware using a good anti-malware and antivirus.

Another crucial aspect is to check for ads above the fold. In their greed clients often insert Ads above the fold which is going to invite a sure shot penalty.

Also recheck if all the aspect of the website are following the search engine guidelines I mean the current ones. This is done to be assured of penalties that the bots can subject your site to and also check for manual penalty...often Google will inform you if that has taken place. 

Check you link profile thoroughly and use Disvow tool to remove any suspected external linking.  In case of a major drop do send a reconsideration request to the admins. Keep in mind link building in the present context is driven by quality and not quantity. Cheap links are a disaster for SEO practices there is no doubt about this anymore. 

Sometimes authoritative external backlinks may go missing if the provider has placed your link in archive or simply removed it and the content associated with it...as a matter of policy. You can request reinsertion but it is better to keep building qualitative links as a SEO measure. Do not be dependent upon few links.

Check always for duplicate content and all you pages being on site. Sometime site owners having many sites can insert pages from one site to another meaning the same page is within the architecture of each site. Each page on a website should be unique the solution is very simple. 

Sometimes due to some arrangement with a vendor or an agent your site content could be placed on his or her site with the know of the webmaster. In this case if the bots construe the content on the agents/vendors site as original you are doomed. Do not place your content on another site come what may. Ask your content writer to keep busy and churn contents for placement elsewhere.       

Complacency sets in whence you begin generating high traffic for your client site. This is one step close to disaster to frequent SEO audit or check to remain stable.

Find out if major algorithm changes have been brought about by search engines. If so learn to enhance your SEO technique accordingly.

Ranking and Traffic is never stable so as a webmaster always be on alert.

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Uday provides optimized contents in English for websites. 

He provides Digital Marketing Services(SEO).

He teaches Digital Marketing in Jabalpur
Contact: pateluday90@hotmail.com

Mob: 09755089323