The benefits of SEO are obvious. If you are an insurance broker in Orlando Florida, you want the influx of business brought upon by customers performing a google search for the services that you offer and in your area. Often times, when looking for services, consumers will perform an internet search to comb through vendors in their area before asking for referrals from friends.
Being listed at number one not only puts you in front of more potential clients and customers, but it instills a sense of quality in their minds. Google is a very well respected company, and when they list you as the number one authority in your field, it is a stamp of approval that goes a long way for consumers.
Your SEO score can be improved through content tweaks, as stated above. We live in the era of content, and when it comes to digital marketing, content is king.
- To begin a successful SEO campaign, first you have to identify which key search terms you want to be ranked for. This is done through careful research. It’s important to target high volume terms that many people are searching for, that are also relevant to your industry. Google has a number of tools available to aid in this research, detailing the monthly numbers of searches for any key term you enter.
- Once you have a plan of attack, adjust the content of your website so that it falls in line with your research findings. Consistently create new blogs and update your website’s information pages to include the key terms you want to be ranked for. Words, phrases, and relevant information need to be peppered throughout your pages, shining like a beacon on a VERY crowded street. When someone performs a search, Google’s bots crawl the web gathering information. Your content needs to stand out amongst the crowd.
- These bots also check your site’s metadata, the descriptive information built into your pages. It is important to have your metadata and title tags optimized. A common mistake that many people make is having a title tag that states who they are, and not what they do. Google already knows who you are. What it’s looking for when compiling search engine results is what you do. A title tag that says “Johnson’s Dental Associates” isn’t going to do much for you. But if your title tag reads “24 Hour Emergency Dentist Surgeon Orlando FL” then you’re letting Google know what you do, and that information goes toward your SEO ranking.
- The final and most important step of the SEO process is backlink generation. This is the most time consuming and difficult piece. Google needs to see relevant websites linking back to you. Typically, SEO specialist marketing firms will submit link bearing content to a variety of directories in an attempt to have links published on various sites. Many companies attempt to cheat the system by creating dummy websites featuring links back to their main site, to trick Google into increasing their ranking. This worked…for a time. But Google caught on and now tactics like this will actually hurt your SEO score. Backlink generation and the time it requires is one of the biggest reasons to bring on a marketing firm to handle your ongoing monthly SEO efforts.
SEO is not an overnight process. There is no guaranteed timeframe for first-page penetration, nor is getting onto the first page assured. Each case is different, and matters such as competition, key term search volume and more come into play. Typically, we estimate seeing a return on investment in SEO at around the six-month mark.
Because of this, many companies choose to subsidize their SEO efforts with Google Adwords, a service offered by Google in which you bid on key words and pay based on the number of clicks you receive. Adwords begins working immediately, giving the SEO time to gain momentum. Then, once the SEO is providing a return on investment, Adwords can be phased out.
SEO is the present and future of digital marketing. We live in a Google search society, and as such, our standing in the world of SEO becomes more important by the day. SEO is not something you take on for a short time and then abandon. It is a living breathing thing that must be nurtured on a consistent basis. It is time-consuming consuming, and at times frustrating. But it also can be lucrative, empowering, and rewarding in the long-run!
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Last Updated on May 2, 2017 by The Orlando Law Group