Showing posts with label SEO tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SEO tips. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 October 2015

SEO Optimization tips and tricks in 2015 - 16

SEO

In the early days of the internet, SEO optimization was easy.

-Pick out the keyword you want to rank.

-Pump out content with your keyword laced generously throughout your page, including in your title and meta tags.

-Add in a few backlinks.


Chances were good that your content would rank! Then the search engines got smart.

In 2014 and beyond, content marketing is becoming the backbone of SEO. What’s the difference from old school SEO versus SEO optimization 2014+ style?

Below, we’re sharing an SEO infographic. It’s a look the strategies that used to define SEO and those you need to use today in order to drive organic search rankings and avoid future search engine penalties.










Mindset

- Focus more on how people engage with a particular brand, product and services.

- ROI Focused.

- Analytics, Content Creation, Social media marketing and then keyword research .


Keywords


- Focus on keyword intent and search user needs

- Focus on long tail searches

- 70 Prcent of search traffic comes from long tail keywords

- Focus on conversion rate and performance metrics


Content


- Create Content to Provide real value to the audience

- Focus on audience, it will attract

- Based on the Survey of 400+ company by Econsultancy 45% of companies say content Marketing is "Highly integrated" with their strategy.










Link Building


- Only Quality Backlinks will work.

- Most Quality backlinks can be built with relationship building



SEO Key Takeaways

Make sure that content marketing is the backbone of your SEO strategy:

-You must make sure your content is valuable, easy to read, and focused on topics your users care about.

-Long-tail keywords will usually result in better engagement.

-Avoid spammy backlinks. Seek out only high-quality, natural link opportunities.



Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Google Analytics Questions and Answers - Tricks and tips SEO - Google Analytics Tips ans tricks

1- A customer named Mike visits your website via organic search at 8:54 AM and spends around 3 minutes browsing some more pages. Meanwhile, Mike opened up a new site and went to the search engine to enter some search queries. Mike again visits your site at around 9:05 AM but this time through paid search. Mike now has 2 different windows opened and both of these windows has your site opened. Mike browses some more pages of your site and finally closes both the windows at 9:17 AM How many sessions are created and how long does the session/sessions last?

Answer: 2 sessions are created. The first session starts at 8:54 AM and ends at 9:05 AM lasting 11 minutes. The second session starts at 9:05 AM and ends at 9:17 AM lasting 12 minutes.

2- For a bakery shop website, the following sessions are made in a week:

Monday: Chocolates > Pineapples > Strawberry
Tuesday:  Vanilla > Strawberry
Wednesday:  Butterscotch > Chocolates > Vanilla
Thursday:  Chocolates > Exit
Friday: Vanilla > Strawberry > Pineapple

what is the bounce rate and exit rate for the Vanilla page?
what is the bounce rate and exit rate for the Chocolate page?


Answer: A- Bounce rate for Vanilla page is 0% (no sessions began with Page A, so it has no bounce rate).
B- Exit rate for Vanilla page is 33% (3 sessions included the Vanilla page and 1 session served as an exit from the Vanilla page so 1/3*100 = 33%)

A- Bounce rate for chocolate page is 50% (2 sessions started with the Chocolate page with one leading to a single page session)
B- Exit rate for Chocolate page is 33% (3 sessions included the Chocolate page and 1 session served as an exit from the Chocolate page so 1/3*100 = 33%)



3- Consider the following scenario:

Person A clicks over your site from facebook.com, then returns to your site from google.com to convert.
Person B clicks over your site from google.com then returns directly to convert.
Person C clicks over to your site from digg.com, then returns to your site from facebook.com to convert.
Person D clicks over your site from google.com, then returns to your site directly and then again returns to your site from facebook.com to convert.
Person E clicks over your site from nytimes.com, then returns to your site from bing.com to convert.

which channel has the highest number of assisted conversions?

Answer: google.com because it participates in 3 non-last interaction sessions and assists in conversions.

4- Your client recently offered some FREE e-books downloading from his site. He wants to know, how many people are downloading the books. How can you do so with the help of Google Analytics.

Answer: We can do so with the help of event tracking in Google Analytics. The following codes will be used:

<a href=”pdfs/my-file.pdf” target=”_blank” onclick=”_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','Download','PDF',this.href]);”>Download my file</a>

This code will track every click on the download button and send the data to Google Analytics.



5- Mr. X is the owner of Asia's largest online florist shop but he recently faced a strange situation while browsing Google Analytics. His own website was listed as a referral traffic source. It was strange for him to see his own website listed as a referral traffic source under GA. How will you correct the issue?

Answer: We can add the main domain on the referral exclusion list located under tracking info. This will exclude all the self-referred traffic.

6- A user visits your site via clicking on the saved bookmark in his browser. What sort of traffic source will it get counted under?

Answer: It will get counted under direct traffic.

7- Is Exit rate a metric or a dimension?

Answer: It is a metric.

8- Mr. A has around 10 different PDF calenders displayed on the calenders page of his website. He wants to track which calender is getting the maximum clicks. How can this be possible?

Answer: For tracking the clicks, we will create a virtual pageview using the below code and add to every link displayed on the calender page

_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/calender1.pdf']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/calender2.pdf']);
etc.

Note : the above content / Question is taken from www.seosandwitch.com thanks for tricky question and information. and images take from google. thanks to owner of images.