SEO
Optimization:
Website design and navigation
Content quality
Backlink analysis
SEO techniques
Testing and progression
Why does a website need to be optimized?
SEO is a Internet marketing strategy that
focuses on driving quality traffic to your website through search engines. Ultimately you want people talking about you, your website and your brand.
Using search engine optimization techniques to get the search engines to notice, and like you, is the best way to guarantee this. A good SEO strategy will incorporate the following:
Website Design and Navigation - Steve Krug said it best, "Don't Make Me Think!“. Your navigation should be simple, easy to follow and encourage users towards your ultimate website goal. Searchers will decide whether a website is useful to them within 3 seconds. Therefore your design has got to be attractive, relevant and purposeful. Searchers need to be confident they are in the right place. If the searcher is reassured then they will stay longer and ideally navigate to your site’s end goal.
Quality Content - Your content MUST be recent, relevant and unique. Searchers and search engines will not tolerate old or new duplicated content. Ensure your message is your own, clear, accurate and up to date.
Backlink Analysis – Backlinks are valuable to the search engines in determining how authorative and valuable your website is.
SEO Techniques – Including cross browser compatibility, heading, meta, alt and title tagging strategies, spam filter considerations and more.
Testing and Progression - Your site is never finished, refining and testing is a continuous process. You will always be able to get more traffic, better conversions, more relevant copy, more attractive images etc.
Never stop refreshing your site.