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Teaching All Staff to Contribute to Solid SEO

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Most businesses aren’t fluent in the “language of SEO and HTML” and, quite frankly, unless they’re in the Internet marketing industry, there’s no need for them to be. However, because driving traffic to your website is so critical, it is important that you—and your staff members—know some simple things that you should be doing on a regular basis to ensure that people are finding your site, learning about what you have to offer, and making positive and proactive purchase decisions. Even if you’re outsourcing your website development and SEO work to a vendor, it’s still important that you understand the basics. Main Street ROI has organized some key SEO tips into four easy to remember categories: Research, Relevance, Reputation and Revenue. Let’s take a look at some of the top items in each category that can help your staff ensure that your efforts are serving you well. Research The first step in effective SEO is understanding the word and phrases that your target audience is likely usi...

Managing Website SEO and User Experience

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One generally comes through a common phrase when designing a website i.e. don’t focus on search engines while designing the website, instead the focus should be on delivering a great user experience. Very few people have a clear idea about the difference between the two. The general question that is raised is – can a good user experience as well as effective SEO strategy be implemented at the same time for the betterment of the website? Providing answer for it is difficult for any one as there is very thick line between both of these essential qualities a website must equipped with. The answer for the question is – YES, but there are some restrictions which have to be taken care of. The website’s navigation should be proper so that users can easily navigate within the website and it becomes easy for them to locate what they are looking for. The most importantly, we should try that they keep coming back repeatedly. A website when provide more and more comfort to its users became their f...