On Page SEO
On-Page SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Will Help Drive Traffic to your Webpage
On-site search engine optimization (SEO) helps to define the content and context of a web page.
Stay ahead of the competition with a results-oriented SEO strategy that improves rankings and wins over real consumers.
Search engines determine whether customers see your website or not. The trick is knowing how their algorithms work and how to tick their boxes. This is where search engine optimization can lay the foundation for a successful digital marketing strategy.
On-page SEO is a fundamental part of search engine success. No matter how good your content is, how great your products are, or how much money you've put into development, if your on-page SEO isn't up to par, then you're already a step behind the competition.
Doing SEO the right way isn't easy. The rules for how a page is ranked can be confusing and Google algorithms are constantly evolving. It's easy to lose track and get frustrated. Fortunately, our team of experts lives and breathes on-page SEO, so we can help you boost your visibility, drive traffic to your site, and outperform your competition.
Our Services: On-Page SEO Fundamentals
If you're finding it hard to keep up with these new and ever-changing SEO metrics, you are not alone. Don't worry: that's why we're here. We follow the evolution of search engine algorithms so you don't have to, ensuring that your site is well-positioned to beat your industry competition.
Google has publicly stated that they incorporate over 200 elements that determine ranking and performance in their core algorithm, including everything from your content to metadata, from title tags to your URL. Only a handful of those signals carry the most weight, so we focus on those areas and developing a custom plan fit for your business. This targetted technique allows us to provide maximum return on investment (ROI) in a minimum time frame, saving you labor and money in the long run.
According to Google, the most important ranking signals include:
Because these elements are the ones most important for improving where you are in SERPs, we address those first, before addressing any other potential areas of improvement on your site. Our team of experts will analyze your business, looking at your sitemap for these crucial elements, and then deliver a detailed report outlining what you need to focus on.
Our custom content audit is designed to help you in planning your on-page SEO strategy by giving you insight into where to direct your investment to avoid unnecessary expenditure, improving organic search traffic and winning over real consumers in the process. As long as you follow our recommendations, you are guaranteed to see a measurable improvement in search engine performance over time.
Answering Search Intent
Anyone who's even vaguely familiar with SEO knows about keywords. In fact, there was a time when getting a website to rank highly included a tactic known as "keyword stuffing" the overuse of a word on a page in hopes of getting it ranked well by Google. This was the era where "keyword density" (how many keywords per 100 words of content) mattered greatly, and speculation surrounding what the optimum keyword density might be was high.
But times have changed, and keyword density is a now relic of the past. The top priority now is to satisfy search intent: to return a search result that is most likely to satisfy a user's query. Thus, search engines now use bounce rates as a key metric to evaluate how helpful your content is to your target audience. Pages stuffed with keywords seldom offer a good user experience, so they now pay the price and perform poorly in SERPs.
This means the quality of your content is more important than ever. If you want your website to rank highly, you need to fill it with high-quality content. You must populate your site with the kind of content that organic searchers are looking for. By doing so, users will spend more on your website, reducing your bounce rate, providing data to search engines that your website is up to their standards.
Proper Use of Keywords and Keyword Phrases
When developing content, the best practice is to focus on a single topic, then support that topic by selecting the right keywords. It's best to focus on a topic rather than a keyword, otherwise, you'll wind up with a lot of similar content that offers a substandard user experience. Plus, you don't want to be competing with your own content. SEO success today is all about quality, not quantity.
As a starting point, we recommend the main keyword appear in the:
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Title
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URL (slug)
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First paragraph, elary on
After that, it's important to look for patterns. How are the top-performing pages in Google SERPs structured? If different from the "standard" above, then adjustments need to be made. It's important to learn from your mistakes and constantly revise your SEO strategy to keep up with the competition.
Mastering Page Layout
Google's top priority, like that of any brand, is to deliver the best possible user experience to its customers. That means in addition to mastering "traditional SEO" techniques, we also have to be mindful of UX (User Experience). In short, having the right content on a page is no longer good enough. That content needs to be presented in a way that provides a good user experience.
When it comes to page layout, sometimes the smallest of tweaks can have a huge impact on user experience. Break up your walls of text with subheadings, bullet points, and bright and engaging multimedia content. Keep your paragraphs short and your sentences shorter. Be bold with your formatting, but keep it easy to read. All of these changes play an essential role in winning over the hearts and minds of real consumers, convincing Google that your content is worth displaying.
Our on-page SEO team takes all of these elements into consideration when analyzing your website. Sometimes, all it takes is a fresh pair of eyes to look over your site and see what works and what doesn't.
Meta Tags are your Friends
Creating proper title tags is more than just structuring your content. Make sure your headings and subheadings are enclosed in header tags so that Google can recognize them. Similarly, alt tags help search engines recognize image content, so make sure each image has a relevant tag with a related keyword. Finally, meta tags are relevant, but not all tags are as important as they used to be. Make sure your pages have unique meta tags and that they're not duplicated across your website.
Meta tags are pieces of text that don't appear on-page, but describe your page's content strictly for search engines to interpret. This text appears exclusively in your website's source code, providing another source of information for Google to learn about your website and its content. Like any text that appears on-screen, you need to optimize these meta tags to provide the best possible impression to search engines. This helps your content appear more valuable, allowing it to show up in more organic search results -- and earn more organic traffic.
Quality Content Marketing Strategy
By now, everyone has heard the maxim ‘content is king'. More importantly, content is one of the top 3 ranking factors on Google. You could be selling the best products or services on the planet, but without quality content, you'll never achieve online visibility.
In the past, a website st with keywords and offering little, if any, value could rank at the top of Google search results. Today, Google's algorithm is much better at recognizing quality content that answers a search query. That means the content of each page should be carefully constructed to engage customers, provide answers, and deliver value -- not simply to reflect a search keyword.
But concepts like ‘value' and ‘quality' can be subjective, so our experts have built a checklist to quantify whether any type of content, from landing pages to blog posts, are of optimal value to consumers and search engines alike. In our research, great content shares the following characteristics:
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Informative and confident
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Easy to read
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Well-structured
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Original (not plagiarized or duplicated)
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Referenced (and linked to)by high-quality authoritative sites
How exactly your website meets those standards will depend on your brand vision, products, and audience. We're here to make sure all of your site content is of consistently high quality, and we use this proven checklist to evaluate how well your current content meets Google's sophisticated standards for search.
Managing Multimedia
In a time of infamously short attention spans, masterful page layout is only one aspect of keeping users on your site. If you want to reduce bounce rates and improve your chances of matching search intent, adding high-quality multimedia files can help. One of the most important types of multimedia to onclude on any web page is video content.
High-quality video content that answers search intent is one of the best SEO techniques. You can create content or curate videos from existing sources, then embed them in your blog or article. Make sure to support it with text content: describe the video and include a caption and a title. Much like image alt tags, this will make sure Google can recognize the video content and let them know to point users in your direction.
Updating Your Content
Creating a load of high-quality, well-structured content is great, but regularly creating new and unique content can be challenging. These days, it can seem like there's no such thing as a truly "unique" web page anymore. That's why a good on-page SEO strategy also covers updating old content to keep your pages fresh, relevant, and ranking highly for their respective search terms.
Even high-quality content that is still relevant can start slipping down the search results over time. This may occur because Google uses "freshness" as a SERP factor. If you find some of your "older" content slipping in the SERPs, consider updating it to reflect the most recent information available on the subtopic. This is often enough to reverse the slide and give your performance a significant boost.
Intelligent Internal Linking
There are two types of on-page links: internal and outbound. Internal links connect the pages of your own site together and, if used properly, can have a major impact in your rankings and online visibility.
It's important to understand exactly how to use internal links to your best advantage when it comes to optimizing search engine results. When making internal links, make sure to hyperlink the exact keyword relevant to the destination page. That will help search engine crawls to index your pages while also improving your position for the relevant KW or phrase.
Outstanding Outbound Links
Outbound links direct users to external sites. While some may bristle at the thought of sending users off-site, links to high-authority websites and sources may contribute to a more informative and positive user experience. Some speculate that linking to high trust / high authority websites provides a direct SEO benefit to the linking site. This works because Google understands high-value outbound links as an important contributing factor to your content's user value. Just make sure that all outbound links open external sites in a new page window, so you aren't losing traffic and increasing your bounce rate.
These elements are the fundamentals of on-page SEO and getting them right is the starting point for achieving and maintaining high search engine rankings. In addition to on-page optimization, our team of SEO experts can guide you through the best practices for technical SEO, Content Marketing, and link building, as well. Combined, these are the pillars of a comprehensive Organic Search Campaign.
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