Increasing the search engine ranking of your website is probably one of your top priorities if you’ve landed on this blog post.
Did you type “increase organic ranking” into Google’s search bar, discover our blog title, and click its blue-hyperlink title to learn more? If so, then you are a part of our website’s “organic traffic,” and the fact that you’re here will help to naturally increase our website’s “organic ranking” on Google.
So, thanks for that!
Your website’s daily visitor count is impacted by two factors, which are organic web traffic and traffic from paid advertisements and other lead generation strategies. Interestingly, Google values and rewards organic traffic more than any other form of traffic. This means that your website’s Google search engine ranking is actually based solely on organic traffic.
But we don’t need to convince you of the importance of increasing your organic ranking on Google and other search engines. We know why you’re here, so we’ll cut to the chase right after we try to convince you that if you really want to increase your organic ranking, you should contact our digital marketing specialists and we’ll tailor a customized SEO and SERP strategy for you that works. FTx 360 is a transparent digital marketing agency that serves both B2C and B2B businesses of all industries at affordable prices. Don’t believe us? Use this Build Your Own Quote form and see for yourself! Chances are, we’ll get back to you with a personalized quote before you even finish reading this article!
Now, let’s get down to SEO business… Here are 8 tips to increase organic ranking…
Google uses mobile-first website indexing algorithms, which means that if your website is not mobile-friendly, we have some very bad news for you. Your site isn’t getting ranked. Yikes! Drop everything right now and take the time to turn your desktop-configured website into a responsive, mobile-friendly one. Google has published an extremely helpful Mobile-first Indexing Best Practices Guide you can use. The same guide will help you confirm that Google bots will be able to crawl and index your website without issue.
You’re probably aware of the importance of using outbound links, also known as external links, in your web content. But what are you doing to increase the number of backlinks to your website? Backlinks are when other websites use your web page URLs as their own outbound links. When other websites link to your site, it elevates your standing with Google, and if those other websites hold a high Google ranking, then it can benefit your site’s ranking even more. Think of it as popularity by association, which is another form of “social proof.”
Let’s get down to brass tacks. The more backlinks you have to your website, the greater the chance that Google bots will presume you’re an authority in your field and should therefore be elevated in the SERP ranking. In the spirit of popularity, you’ll need to get social if you want to increase your backlinks. Meaning, you might need to send a few emails or—gulp—pick up the phone and ask reputable, non-competing websites, bloggers, and other influencers if they would like to exchange links with you wherein they hyperlink to your URLs on their sites and you do the same for them.
One of the biggest impactors of your Google ranking is the frequency with which you publish new content. New content, whether it be a new product description page, new landing page, or entirely revised website, provides Google with additional SEO keywords that it can use to recommend your website to search engine users. As users discover your website via Google, Google will assess the inbound traffic and reward your website accordingly by elevating its ranking. If you’re only publishing new web content on your site once a year, your organic ranking is probably going to fall lower and lower down in the search results.
The easiest “fix” to frequently generating new SEO might seem easier said than done, but we believe in you and know you can do it! By simply adding a blog to your website and committing to regularly publishing an article, you will naturally add SEO keywords to your website and the long-term accumulation will positively impact your Google ranking. Ideally, if you published two articles per week that each totaled 2,000 words, your SERP ranking would rise faster than a bun in an oven, but no one expects you to set the bar that high. In fact, regularity is more important than article length. If you can only publish one micro-blog every other week, then do it, stick to it, and the results will speak for themselves.
Elevating your search engine ranking is only helpful if you’re generating the right kind of web traffic. What is the right kind of web traffic? Web traffic that contains interested consumers who quickly convert into paying customers. It’s really not going to matter if you’re #1 on Google SERP if 100% of your web traffic contains twelve-year old French girls who are in no position to buy the used cars you’re selling in Boise, ID. Make sure your keywords and longtail keyword phrases will successfully target your ideal customer by using Google’s Keyword Planner.
A meta description is the readable description about your website that Google users see beneath your website title in the search results. Meta descriptions are elements of the HTML of your website, and typically range from 100 – 160 characters in length, or 22 words. Relevant meta descriptions that include a few targeted keywords tend to perform the best. Because the meta description of your web page is the main deciding factor of whether or not a user clicks or scrolls, you’ll want to make sure that the content is compelling, clear, and also attractive. With that in mind, be sure that your web domain page titles, otherwise called <title> HTML tags, are concise yet descriptive; and make sure that your ALT tags, which are additional HTML elements, include essential keywords.
Finally, after all the work you put into increasing your organic ranking on Google and other search engines, it’s important that you’re able to track your web visitors and tally all the leads your website generates on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. This is because elevating your SERP ranking is really only half the battle. The other half involves making sure the results really are benefiting your business in the form of expanding your customer base and increasing your revenue. The Google Search Console and Google Analytics can provide SEO insights that you can leverage to adjust and improve your SEO and SERP strategies.
That concludes our tips to increase your website’s organic ranking, which means it’s time to either roll up your sleeves… or give us a call. The marketing specialists at FTx 360 would love to work with you to drive web traffic and boost engagement!
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