Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Getting the upper hand on your competition can be difficult and even more so when you’re not sure how your own website is performing. There are many tools available online that help you see how you’re doing with your SEO, and most importantly where your website needs to improve. All website owners should take advantage of these free tools to discover your website’s strengths and weaknesses, and to see how you compare against your competitors....

Search Engine Optimisation is a constantly expanding and ever-changing field which can seem like a bit of a minefield if you don’t know where to start.

As a business owner it’s vital that you and your team understand the importance SEO plays to your online presence, and how best to stay ahead of the game.

Here is an overview of the white paper recently published by Searchmetrics - The 2014 Rank Correlation Analysis and SEO Ranking Factors for Google U.S.

Don’t be put off by the technical jargon in the title. This report is vital reading if you want to understand what differentiates high-ranking sites, and increase organic visits to your own site. It could be used as a basis for your SEO strategy and to help understand if you are doing the right things....

There’s no tool that tells you WHO is searching. But you can infer who’s searching by how they search... You can see from the graphic above that people also search using different strategies – or using different perspectives. I’m sure you’ve tried this when searching for things yourself.

Do they include modifiers in their searches (like corporate, small business, commercial)? Are they looking for a wholesaler, indicating that they are a reseller or want to buy in bulk? One of the most important ways to rank in the search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo) is to specifically create content for pages on your website that use the phrases that your ideal customers use in the search engines....