Search engine placement, optimisation and Web marketing
When publishing your creativity to the internet, uploading a site is only 50% of the task. Without intensive:
1. Optimisation of your site's code to ensure 'search engine friendly' code;
2. Optimisation of your site's keywords and content to compliment your intended search terms and target audience expectations;
3. Submission to relevant search engines;
4. Utilization of other methods, such as link purchasing, CPA ads, banner placement, link swapping, advert placement and email marketing;
your prospective target market won't know you exist!
I offer all of my clients a tailor made service to ensure they are visible on the web.
Besides site optimization and submission to over 800 search engines, I constantly monitor and adjust the site content to ensure longevity of their public listing. I email them a monthly report, showing the ranking of their chosen keywords among the relevant search engines. I monitor the webserver logs to see where their traffic comes from, which pages are most popular, and how to better funnel traffic into and out of their site. GoogleAdsense integration also provides passive income and analysis features.
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Technologies utilised
- HEAD meta optimisation techniques
- Content , keyword and link manipulation
- WEBCEO program utilization
- GoogleAds placement and integration
- Link buying and management
- CPanel and HELM web control analysis
- Webserver logs analysis
- Banner placement
- Search engine submission
Steps in a typical SEO project I would undertake:
1. Pre-SEO analysis and generation of qualitative report
Analyze client's business; industry; competition; target market; SEO, SEM and web marketing goals; and budget. Set benchmarks for later performance analysis.
Without a thorough understanding of what the client realistically wants to achieve and the business background, meaningful SEO and SEM is difficult. Determining the client's strengths and weaknesses in that relevant industry helps service or product placement immensely, and as SEO is ultimately pure placement, this is vital.
Then either ::
2a). Analyze current web site:
Metatags
- relevant fields exist with ideal character lengths
- keywords match content, keyword density is high, content reflects keywords and description, etc.A good indicator of your site's spider visibility is to check the site with a plain text browser - eg. Lynx, or to run a metatag analyzer - go to to this excellent site and enter 'your domain name' for an instant revelation.
Content
- check for good webdesign and SEO practices - eg. check img and alt tags, validate HTML, option of moving non-essential images and as much layout as possible to .css, check accessibility, etc.
- match content to meta and create good relevant density (not just single word density, but also phrasing! most people search by phrases, not single words)
- advise as to the creation of relevant, often updatable, original and engaging content.
- Note on Flash sites (?!)
Flash sites are notorious for not being indexed or being indexed poorly. Besides the likelihood of the design phase being expensive, SEO at design time has to be undertaken in order to guarantee rankings.
Current rankings, keyword popularity, site placement, age of site, link backs, etc.
- check rankings and placement of site
- check chosen keyword relevancy and popularity
- evaluate current marketing practices and results (eg. CPA campaigns, banner placements, etc.)
- set benchmarks for later performance analysis.
- give overview report (site aesthetics and usability report, market dynamics and competition report, qualitative keyword report -> make recommendations
- effect recommendations if client approves them (ftp and access to relevant source files necessary)
OR
2b). Assist and consult on project development
I would consult of all aspects mentioned previously in 2a), assisting with, edit or consult on, copy and content preparation
3. Resubmission or initial submission of completed project to search engines
Once the project is finalized and goes live, I undertake an intensive submission process - +300 search engines. A disposable email account is set up to confirm submissions and to shield client from spam. A site map (eg. sitemap.xml) is submitted and linked to the index page. Often updating the timestamp and content on this will bring more immediate results than updating and resubmitting individual pages.
4. Additional methods of promotion:
CPA methods
- Advertising on Facebook and other social media sites, Industry specific locations, etc.
- Buying links (not organic) from www.textlinkbrokers.com, www.backlinks.com, www.buylinks.com or similar
- Buy per click/ per impression advertising, eg. GoogleAds
- Integrate other sites Ads into your site, with filters to eliminate direct competition, eg. AdSense
- Paid banner advertising
Organic backlinking and exposure - the free stuff!
- Submission to Industry specific sites and directories, global and local - creating profiles, etc.
- Banner and link swops
- E-Newsletters delivered to a client-supplied mailing list (Not sure if you have any experience with this - But I have spent a lot of time creating, troubleshooting and successfully sending bulk emails, plus some with Goldmine (bulk mail distribution). Saying you will send a email newsletter is more difficult than it sounds - I have watched many designers fail and have had to pick up the pieces with a complete technical redesign.)
A note on the dreaded 'SANDBOX' for new sites
Many industry professionals are of the opinion that search engine delay a proper listing of a site for a (varying) time before listing. I have experienced this on a first hand basis - often seeing delays of 1-3 months. Methods to ensure that the client gets hits immediately once a site goes live can include:
- buying a domain name instead of registering a new one (new domain names are penalized) having a domain name that is a few years old will dramatically decrease ranking lag...
- buying inbound links via CPA programs, Ads, etc.
- viral, email, flyers, etc. marketing to take up the slack. :: eg. all other above and below the line methods of promotion
5. Periodical analysis and presentation to client - recurring services
- analysis on a client-determined basis to determine efficiency and efficacy of current SEO program, keyword dynamics, site updates, etc.
- quantitative reports on site performance, with reference to CPA, visitor stats (from weblogs), visits vs. sales ratios, rankings, etc.
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