If you’re competing against industrial brands that existed decades before the internet, you probably have an uphill battle. Newer companies generally don’t have as strong a brand as older companies. By improving your website in specific ways, you stand a better chance of winning the long-term battle for search results, rankings, and search traffic.
3 Things Manufacturing Companies Must Understand About SEO
Published February 9th, 2018
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Does Brand Recognition Affect SEO?
Before we discuss what potential influence brand recognition might have on search rankings, let’s look at a recent history of SEO. As little as five or six years ago, SEO could still be disproportionately affected by certain tricks. These included keyword stuffing, exact match domains, fake business names, exact match link anchor text, and link […]
The Meta Description and It’s Role in SEO
The meta description is the 160 characters of text below the title tag and URL in search engine results. The meta description is there to tell the story of the page, and should be written to convert searchers into people to click on your results. The most interesting search results are the ones that get […]
Back Links and SEO
No discussion of SEO would be complete without it talking about back links to your site. Google has gone on record saying that on-page content, back links, and machine learning are the three most important factors in search rank as early as March 2016. For those who don’t know, let’s talk about what back links […]
301 Redirects and SEO
What are 301 redirects? A 301 redirect is a when you forward an old web address to a new one. For instance, let’s say you have a page on your site with a URL of http://example.com/contact-us, but you want to change it to a more SEO friendly URL http://example.com/contact. You would use a 301 redirect […]
Website Content Audits
Website content audits are a critical part of web governance. Larger sites can benefit the most from a content audit, as they are the most likely to have thin or outdated content. During a content audit, we take a full inventory of the pages on a site and evaluate whether they will be improved or […]
Content Planning for Your Website
Now that you’ve done all your keyword research and have plenty of ideas of what to write about, now comes the hard part. Creating content and sticking to the content schedule is the most difficult part of any SEO efforts. As we talked about before, it takes time to develop a voice for your business. […]
SEO Keyword Research: Finding Keywords that Will Drive Traffic
Published November 27th, 2016
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Keyword research is a huge part of any SEO effort. Targeting the keywords that your customers are typing into Google means you are more likely to be found in search. This sounds reasonable. But companies will produce either 1) not produce enough targeted site content, or 2) create content that is aimed toward the people […]
Know Your End Goal for SEO Campaigns
One thing many people forget with SEO is you should know your end goal. Why does your website need to exist? What metrics do you want your website to drive? What do you want your customers to do when they get to your website? Why are these questions important? People focus so much on getting […]
Should You Depend on a Social Network to be Your Content Platform?
Published October 27th, 2016
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A 2016 survey of small business owners shows that nearly half of small businesses don’t have a website. This number is astounding, because without a website, you are pretty much invisible online. According to a 2012 report by Fleishman-Hillard, 89% of consumers use a search engine before making a purchase decision. According to a 2015 […]