Improve Your Online Ranking With This Guide

Google has dominated the search territory in the world of internet over time. With over 5.6 billion searches made on Google search console every single day, Google’s first-page listing is a billion-dollar industry itself. With that amount of traffic being generated every day, no one is crazy enough to not leverage the potential their businesses are losing every second.

Therefore, in this blog, I will show you how to improve the online rankings of your business with this guide. The following points should be taken into consideration for improving your ranking to increase more traffic on your website.

Search Engine Optimization:

The basic starting step to getting your business up in the listings is through search engine optimization also known as SEO. This is a process through which your website gets Google friendly. There are a few algorithms which are used by Google that filters website for their ranking and SEO does the same thing by customizing your website in regards to the algorithms to ensure you get a higher ranking.

Search engine optimization further breaks down into 02 major categories on which the entire SEO structure is standing. They are as follows:

1. ON-PAGE SEO:

On-page SEO is responsible for up to 70% of the entire SEO process. This process is completely implemented on your website. It is better to use the Yoast SEO plugin if you are using the WordPress platform for your website. The tasks are as follows:

• Keywords:

This is one of the most important factors within the entire SEO. When searching for keywords for your business, it is mandatory to look for those keywords that are related to your business niche. Try Google Trends and Google Keyword Planner to help you with the selection. The main metrics combination you have to look at is high volume and low difficulty level. That is the sweet spot that you have to look for.

Once you are done with your keywords selection, it is recommended to insert up to 4 to 6 keyword per page of your website, and that is excluding the focus keyword. Too many keywords will result in degrading your page ranking, as the quality of the content will decrease.

Also to mention, the keyword density on every page should be a maximum of 1% of the total content present on the website page. For instance, if there is a 1000 words content, your keywords should not exceed more than 10 times within.

• Header Tags:

Header tags are predefined font sizes by Google through which keywords are integrated. These tags are separated through H1, H2, H3 and go all the way to H6.

The use of an H1 tag should be used a single time per page in which you will define your focus keyword. You can use the remaining header tags multiple times which shall include your long-tail and short-tail keywords.

• Meta Title:

When you search anything upon Google search console, the titles that show up are meta-titles of the website’s pages. It is necessary to use your focus keyword within the meta title so that, anyone who searches for the keyword, your page shows up right after.

As seen in the above picture, the mentioned title is called meta title and below it is the designated URL. The recommended character count is 60 to make it SEO optimized properly.

• Meta Description:

The description mentioned below is the meta title. The description allows the user to read what is in the designated URL. Add keywords within, that way if someone searches for something that has your URL within, your website’s URL will show up.

As shown in the picture above, the description refers to the content that is within the destination URL. The recommended character count is 160. In case your character count surpasses the recommended count, Google will save that, but anything after 160 counts will not be shown.

• Conical Tags:

These are similar pages that have the same content or the same material shown. I will give you an example, suppose your business website is services based. Usually what will happen is your website’s home page will have similar information to other pages, let’s say services page. In Google’s language, they are 02 separate pages on the internet that share the same information, and so, when crawled upon, Google will downgrade your website ranking due to duplicacy of content.

So, to avoid that from happening, we simply enable the canonical tags option within the mentioned plugin.

• Robot.TXT:

These are the URLs of your website which you do not want Google to index and show on their search list. These links include your privacy policies, terms & conditions, checkout page, cart page, etc. Sure these pages will be available on your website and everyone can use them, but they will not show up on Google. This is a good sign for privacy as well as security matters.

• 2 OFF-PAGE SEO:

After you are done optimizing on-page SEO on your website, then comes off-page SEO. This step is simply to provide backlinks to your website to increase traffic that will help drastically in increasing your website ranking.

Backlinks are driving traffic to your desired URL from other sources on the internet. Think of it as you post content on social media, and mention your website URL along with it. That is backlinking in other words. Interested people will follow your link which will lead them to your website. The more backlinks you have, the more sources you generate for people to keep visiting your website.

Social media is one of the best networks to go for. Using Facebook and other top 5 social platforms will generate a handsome amount of traffic for your site with backlinks from platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.

Another way to gather backlinks is guest posting. This method is to deliver a blog or an article on other websites and in return, you get to put your website’s URL for people to redirect onto your website. That is a win-win situation for both, your website has traffic and others have your blog. Remember, to create an attractive pitch for readers to open and go through your blog.

Conclusion:

Search engine optimization is a huge platform through which you can achieve a billion-dollar industry Google listings. With that amount of traffic present on Google alone, the process of getting there will surely be technical and a bit difficult, but, once it is leveraged smartly it can prove to be quick and not as time-consuming.

SEO is a major part of the digital world, and it is highly recommended to do it especially if you’re promoting your business or own an online business.