When you’re putting together your marketing strategy, you would be throwing away an opportunity if you leave Search Engine Optimization (SEO) out of your plans.
SEO refers to the practice of optimising your website for search engines taking into account the algorithm, audience preferences and user experience. The ultimate aim of any SEO strategy is to increase your website’s visibility, drive more traffic to your site, and ultimately, increase sales and revenue.
In today’s digital age, having a strong online presence is essential for the success of any business. Since the pandemic the number of businesses online now has increased, it’s more important than ever to have a competitive marketing strategy and that should include SEO.
Increase Organic Traffic & Generate Enquiries
As we’ve already said, the purpose of SEO is to drive more organic traffic to your website. By optimising your content for relevant keywords and phrases, you can attract more visitors who are searching for information related to the services and products you offer. However, it’s important to focus on search terms that are going to deliver impact for your business.
There would be no benefit focussing on branded competitor terms or search terms where there’s a lot of traffic but low relevance to you and a visitor isn’t likely to convert. Done right, organic traffic can lead to more leads, sales, and revenue and transform your online activity, but it is the strategy that will make SEO successful.
Improve Your Search Engine Rankings
As a discipline, SEO is all about optimising your website and content for search engines and users. By doing so and focussing on relevant search terms, you can improve your search engine rankings, which has the potential to bring more visibility, more clicks, and more traffic.
However, a modern SEO strategy should consider all areas of the search results page where you can appear. For local businesses, the strategy should include a local optimisation to help you appear higher in the local pack and have an engaging Google Business Profile.
If your website has lots of resources and useful information, your strategy should include schema optimisation to take control of featured snippets and essentially gain ‘position 0’.
It Can Be Very Cost-Effective
Compared to other forms of digital marketing, SEO is relatively cost-effective.
While it does require an investment of time and resources to get started, the long-term benefits of SEO make it a worthwhile investment for businesses of all sizes.
We particularly recommend SEO for small to medium businesses where channels with a large up front cost are out of reach for the moment.
Create A Better User Experience
SEO is not just about optimising for search engines; it’s also about optimising for your users. The recent updates from Google have explicitly stated that the user should always come first. Your content and website should be easy to navigate and understand to provide answers to their questions and ultimately be helpful.
Beyond the content itself there are many ways you can improve your website to give a better user experience. By improving your website’s load time, navigation, and mobile-friendliness, you can provide a better user experience for your visitors regardless of what device they’re using.
Get long term results
Unlike other forms of digital marketing, SEO provides long-term results. While it may take some time to see the benefits of SEO, the efforts you put in today can pay off for years to come. Channels that rely on constant campaign spend will only generate you traffic and leads for as long as they’re turned on, SEO can continue to generate engagement months after the initial campaign has run.
That’s not to say SEO shouldn’t be an always on channel. By consistently optimising your website, you can continue to attract more organic traffic, improve your customer experience and paths to conversion, and grow your business.
The key takeaway is that SEO is a critical component of any digital marketing strategy.
By optimising your website and content for search engines, you can attract more organic traffic, improve your search engine rankings, and ultimately, grow your business. While it may take some time and effort to see the benefits of SEO, the long-term results make it a worthwhile investment for businesses of all sizes.
We’ve worked with businesses of all shapes and sizes in a variety of sectors, each time we’ve seen the benefits to the business when they activate a well thought out SEO strategy.
To find out more about how we work, what a typical strategy looks like for one of our clients or to get a proposal speak to a member of our team.
Fri, 28 April 2023