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Define your Target Audience & their Interests

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Define your Target Audience & their Interests

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You need to define who the target audience is. You need to know your target audience's age, sex, geographic location and their needs. By understanding the target audience you can create a more effective SEO plan and create content and use keywords that are effective which will make an impact.

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An SEO strategy revolves around the keywords you choose for your website, social posts, guest blogs, and more. Review your list of target keywords and goal keywords (keywords you hope to rank on in the near future) on a monthly basis, and modify and add new keywords to stay on top of search and industry trends.

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You need to have high-quality, relevant content on your website as this will help your website rank well, boost engagement and will give your pages better bounce rates.

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You must measure and track multiple metrics in order to determine the effectiveness of your SEO efforts. You should evaluate and analyse important pages on your website to determine where your visitors make initial contact with your website and potential obstacles to higher conversion.

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Articles
Blogs
Videos
Landing Pages
Podcasts

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The ability to attract external links to a website plays an important role in how search engines rank your website. Some strategies for obtaining external links are sharing links with thought leaders and guest blogging. The best way to organically build external links is to produce original, in-depth content that other websites will want to reference and link to which builds your website credibility as well as your boosts your SEO ranking.

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Although social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Instagram receive much of the buzz about traffic, search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing continue to drive most website traffic. This makes it essential for you to perform search engine optimization (SEO) on all of your digital assets.

Search engine optimization refers to a set of marketing rules that focus on expanding the visibility of your website and content in the organic search (unpaid results) of the major search engines. It's real people reading your website, but because websites can't see images, create summaries, or make decisions about content - it's important that website content is formatted so a search engine can read it.

SEO consists of technical and creative elements including the keywords you choose to help people find your website, the way other websites link to you, how fast your website loads, and more. Effective SEO drives traffic to your website, improves your rank in search results, and increases brand awareness. This article discusses five of the most important elements for formulating a successful SEO strategy to ensure that your target audience can find you online.

1. SEO Plan

SEO strategies have evolved significantly over the last decade. It is no longer sufficient to simply select a few keywords and load them into the code of a webpage. Today, a comprehensive SEO strategy outlines the goals you expect to achieve through organic search, and documents, in detail, basic SEO elements that need to be present on each and every page including: Page Title, Meta Description, H1 Tags, Alt Text image, Body Content, Links & more. It should contain short-tail, long-tail, and branded keywords that bring in your target audience. Your plan should also focus on profiling your personas to find out what they are searching for, as well as what your competitors are doing online so you can overcome the competition online.

2. Keyword List

The core of your SEO strategy revolves around the keywords you choose for your website, social posts, guest blogs, and more. You will not only use your keywords to optimize for search engines and create different webpages, but across your entire marketing strategy for a consistent brand experience. Review your list of target keywords and goal keywords (keywords you hope to rank on in the near future) on a monthly basis, and modify and add new keywords to stay on top of search and industry trends. It's important to use a marketing software, like HubSpot or Google Analytics, to continually track keywords to see how you're ranking over time. This will help show you what needs to be changed or maintained in your SEO strategy.

3. High-Quality Content

Even if you master all of the technical components to search engine optimization, you must have high-quality, relevant content on your website. This content will not only help your website rank well, boost engagement, and bring customers through your marketing funnel, but it will give your pages better bounce rates (meaning visitors will stay on your website longer). Content comes in many types and channels, including:

Articles

Blogs

Videos

Landing pages

Podcasts

Webinars

Whitepapers

You can read our recent blog on content types you can utilize to help create a variety of great content for your brand.

4. Link-Building

Your ability to attract external links to your website plays an important role in how search engines rank your website. Arguably, link-building may be the most challenging and time-consuming tasks in the SEO process. Some strategies for obtaining external links are sharing links with thought leaders and guest blogging. The best way to organically build external links is to produce original, in-depth content that other websites will want to reference and link to which builds your website credibility as well as your boosts your SEO ranking. Focusing on this as a weekly initiative will help you maintain a consistent link-building strategy.

5. Metrics and Conversion

As a final step in the process, you absolutely must measure and track multiple metrics in order to determine the effectiveness of your SEO efforts. Evaluate and analyze important pages on your website to determine where your visitors make initial contact with your website and potential obstacles to higher conversion. If you're using HubSpot, you can track a page's individual performance using the Page Performance tool. This will help you see how traffic is being driven to that page and if it's converting.

Here's a quick explainer video that also helps to describe SEO tactics and the overall importance of search engine optimization to your marketing strategy.

If you're looking for the a list of things you should consider reviewing on your website, you can download our 50 tips for your website and SEO strategy. This also includes tips if you have an international brand to help make your SEO friendly to a global audience. You can also check out our blog on building a holistic online marketing strategy so you can see how SEO is part of the overall digital strategy.

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What is SEO? 5 Things to Consider in Your Search Engine Optimization Strategy

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Although social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Instagram receive much of the buzz about traffic, search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing continue to drive most website traffic. This makes it essential for you to perform search engine optimization (SEO) on all of your digital assets.