SEO

Guidelines To Create An SEO-Friendly Website

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) can help you increase the visibility of your website when your target audience is searching for services or products related to your business. The process involves optimizing your website and content and staying informed about your competitors.

Reasons to Design an SEO-Friendly Website

a) Greatly improve customer experience

A good customer experience ensures that visitors will return to your site the next time. Also, the more time customers spend on your site, the higher your rankings are.

b) Gain the favor of web crawlers

SEO helps you update your site according to the latest search engine requirements, enhancing your rankings significantly.

c) Increase customer engagement

An effective SEO strategy can help you attract more customers and ensure that they spend more time on your site. This is very important in improving your rankings.

d) Achieve a higher ranking

You must work on your website content, site design, and SEO strategy to rank higher. Higher rankings ensure better sales and stay on par with competitors.

e) Excellent returns

SEO activities are known to deliver the best return on investment. You quickly get the desired returns when you achieve a higher ranking and relevant site traffic.

Points to Consider While Designing an SEO-Friendly Website

a) Easier website navigation

Buyers prefer a website that has relevant, organized information. Don’t forget to incorporate a sitemap page to easily find and visit the required link.

b) Select an SEO-friendly domain

Your domain name should have keywords related to your services or products. This helps your target customers find your business quickly. Your domain name should be unique yet relevant to your industry.

c) Optimal & easy-to-understand content

Your website content can affect its loading speed. Keeping your website light to ensure an excellent user experience is essential.

d) Mobile-friendly site

Many people access websites through their mobile devices. A mobile-responsive website ensures that your target customers can reach out to you through their various gadgets.

e) Reach out through social media

Social media can help you drive traffic to your site, improve your online presence, and increase sales.

f) Add captions to your images & videos

Adding captions ensures that website crawlers can find your content. Insert appropriate keywords into your captions so people can find the content easily.

g) Update your content

Creating new content is a must to increase your pages’ rankings.  The best way is to remove old, low-ranking articles and add new, fresh information to attract a new audience.

h) Include internal and external links in your strategy

  • Internal links can help a visitor navigate your website easily. It aims to introduce other pages of your site to visitors.
  • When external links direct users to your website, search engines consider your site reliable and trusted.

Web Design Mistakes to Avoid

a) Repetitive heading tags

Adding appropriate & unique headers (H1 and H2 tags) in suitable locations can help improve your rankings. Also, adding keywords is a must.

b) Non-responsive website design

If your website is not mobile-friendly, you may lose a lot of customers. If your site is not compatible with mobile phones, you should get this issue fixed as soon as possible.

c) High-resolution images

Large size images can affect the loading speed of your website. The best way to upload images is to compress and resize them. Use Google PageSpeed Insights tools to check the loading speed of your pages.

d) Too short of content

Many designers do not add much content to the site to optimize the page loading speed. They forget that it is equally important to add good, informative content to your site.

e) Adding the infinite scrolling feature

This is one of the effective ways to hold your users on your site for a longer time. Splitting a website’s content can make it easier for web crawlers to crawl them.

Lastly …

Whether creating a new website or improving your current one, keep the target audience and search engine algorithm in mind. Talk to the SEO experts at GREENstick Marketing and follow the above guidelines to improve your rankings. If you need help, we are just a call away.

Chris Beckwith-Taylor

Chris Beckwith-Taylor is a marketing innovator, known for progressing the multifamily industry forward with his behavior-based, data-driven approach to digital strategy. Beckwith-Taylor currently guides all strategic digital and technology initiatives across Green Stick Marketing's growing business portfolio. Before launching his marketing agency, Chris was the Vice President Of Marketing at The Franklin Johnston Group, where he was responsible for the strategic marketing and leasing efforts across the organization's 20,000-plus conventional, senior, and affordable assets. Chris also worked as the National Marketing Manager for Fore Property Company, where he ran the lease-up efforts for new apartment developments in Denver, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Orlando, and Portland. Prior to joining Fore Property Company, Christopher managed the advertising for over 150 multifamily communities at CoStar, a commercial real estate information and marketing provider based in Washington, D.C. Beckwith-Taylor’s marketing experience began in 2006 as a leasing consultant in Chicago for Village Green, a management company based out of Farmington Hills, Michigan. He last served as a Regional Marketing Director there, overseeing sales, marketing and assisting with business development initiatives.

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