Google has made dramatic changes in 2013, with the May 22 Penguin update having the biggest impact for small business websites. After some severe reductions in traffic, some webmasters are at least seeing traffic increases in August due, in part, to a Panda softening from Google.
In response, many webmasters are making big shifts in SEO plans. While long overdue, this is the right move.
Few businesses are looking to move to lower excellence SEO services as they now fear Google more than ever. But small businesses run very close to the margin and usually resist increasing the SEO budget, regardless of the consequences. Here are four reasons why small business owners should reconsider.
1. Google Asked You To
Few businesses are looking to move to lower excellence SEO services as they now fear Google more than ever. But small businesses run very close to the margin and usually resist increasing the SEO budget, regardless of the consequences. Here are four reasons why small business owners should reconsider.
1. Google Asked You To
While many will dismiss this as PR, Google has clearly communicated that they no longer will tolerate SEO tactics that used to work in 2008. Article rotating, keyword stuffing, excessive bookmarks, reborn domains, paid links, thin content, and duplicate content are all not OK.
Even if you haven't established an unnatural link warning, the writing is on the wall. Quality must increase for continued achievement in SEO. While this message is clearly self-serving for Google, it's significant to respect their power in the industry.
2. Recovering From Google Updates is luxurious
There are plenty of websites that have partially recovered from Penguin downgrades, but each case is different. The level of frequent traffic varies.
Technical issues on-site are the easiest to fix and should be addressed speedily using Webmaster Tools as the guide. Duplicate content needs to be removed immediately.
Keyword-stuffed titles need to be edited. Thin content, a beloved among many, should be replaced with real content marketing.
Off-site issues, such as bad link building, are mostly hard to fix. It is very ironic that firms now exist to send "link removal request" emails to other firms who were previously retained to build those links.
Small business needs to stop doing bad link building and embrace content marketing. They need to get creative and research with newsjacking.
3. SEO Has combined With Marketing
Many small business webmasters were using a "set-it-and-forget-it" SEO plan, believing that they need not worry about SEO after hiring a firm. This violates one of the major tenets of business process outsourcing, which is to outsource process and execution, but maintain strict performance monitoring and accountability.
It isn't surprising that many small businesses are feeling buyer's remorse, wishing they had done greater due-diligence in the vendor range process and better understood the risks associated with SEO.
It should be clear at this point that SEO is no longer a technical exercise and is quickly merging with marketing and public relations. Smart CEOs recognize the strategic importance of SEO in our digital world. For this reason, they find ways to amplify SEO in all marketing activities. Ironically, many companies have SEO opportunities they don't harness.
Even if you haven't established an unnatural link warning, the writing is on the wall. Quality must increase for continued achievement in SEO. While this message is clearly self-serving for Google, it's significant to respect their power in the industry.
2. Recovering From Google Updates is luxurious
There are plenty of websites that have partially recovered from Penguin downgrades, but each case is different. The level of frequent traffic varies.
Technical issues on-site are the easiest to fix and should be addressed speedily using Webmaster Tools as the guide. Duplicate content needs to be removed immediately.
Keyword-stuffed titles need to be edited. Thin content, a beloved among many, should be replaced with real content marketing.
Off-site issues, such as bad link building, are mostly hard to fix. It is very ironic that firms now exist to send "link removal request" emails to other firms who were previously retained to build those links.
Small business needs to stop doing bad link building and embrace content marketing. They need to get creative and research with newsjacking.
3. SEO Has combined With Marketing
Many small business webmasters were using a "set-it-and-forget-it" SEO plan, believing that they need not worry about SEO after hiring a firm. This violates one of the major tenets of business process outsourcing, which is to outsource process and execution, but maintain strict performance monitoring and accountability.
It isn't surprising that many small businesses are feeling buyer's remorse, wishing they had done greater due-diligence in the vendor range process and better understood the risks associated with SEO.
It should be clear at this point that SEO is no longer a technical exercise and is quickly merging with marketing and public relations. Smart CEOs recognize the strategic importance of SEO in our digital world. For this reason, they find ways to amplify SEO in all marketing activities. Ironically, many companies have SEO opportunities they don't harness.
For example, every employee should continue a "work" Twitter account and share industry news, blog posts and company specials to help spread content. This type of integrated SEO marketing implementation is the future, and will draw more budget dollars.
4. SEO ROI Remains High
The data suggests that SEO is still a vast investment. This means that small business shouldn't essentially shop for the cheapest SEO vendor, but consider the return they can make on their money if they pay out more:
• SEO remains a very high ROI activity.
• The cost-per-lead for SEO is still very striking.
• Google has significantly tightened the necessities for high-quality SEO.
• Integrated marketing strategies have big efficiencies.
Conclusions
All technologies and industries mature, and price-points typically change radically along the way. SEO is next the same playbook as most other young industries.
In the last few years we have seen SEO move from infancy to adolescence, with the Google algorithm updates as mileposts. While SEO will turn into more difficult and costly to execute, the return on investment remains high for small business. In the end, ROI is more significant than the absolute number of a budget line item.
For more visits: http://seonewsgoogle.blogspot.in/2013/08/what-is-SEO-optimization.html
4. SEO ROI Remains High
The data suggests that SEO is still a vast investment. This means that small business shouldn't essentially shop for the cheapest SEO vendor, but consider the return they can make on their money if they pay out more:
• SEO remains a very high ROI activity.
• The cost-per-lead for SEO is still very striking.
• Google has significantly tightened the necessities for high-quality SEO.
• Integrated marketing strategies have big efficiencies.
Conclusions
All technologies and industries mature, and price-points typically change radically along the way. SEO is next the same playbook as most other young industries.
In the last few years we have seen SEO move from infancy to adolescence, with the Google algorithm updates as mileposts. While SEO will turn into more difficult and costly to execute, the return on investment remains high for small business. In the end, ROI is more significant than the absolute number of a budget line item.
For more visits: http://seonewsgoogle.blogspot.in/2013/08/what-is-SEO-optimization.html
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