Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your SEO?

July 14, 2016

Small businesses often find themselves in a bit of a bind. On the one hand, they usually only have a handful of people at their disposal. On the other hand, they’re expected to know about all the many aspects of doing business. It can be tough, especially when it comes to technical matters, like SEO.
There’s no doubt that SEO is important. And the vast majority of small businesses accept that it is. But there’s a difference between knowing something is important and knowing how to use it. For that reason, it can be hard to tell whether you’re getting the most out of your SEO services. The following is some hard won, sage advice from the experts.
Focus On Engagement And Interactions
One of the best ways to get more from your SEO is to focus on customer engagement through your site. You can do this in a number of ways. For example, you could have a “click-to-call” option on your site. Or you could have an online appointment scheduling plugin. These customer engagement platforms are essential if you want to get the most out of your SEO. It’s unlikely you’ll be able to compete with bigger firms through brute force alone. That’s why you’ll need to choose methods that allow you to have many quality interactions with your clients.
Interactive options also increase the quality of your service, and hence the likelihood that people will visit your site. Features lick click-to-call, and online scheduling are consistently valued highly by customers. And for good reason. Click-to-call allows customers to contact a member of your team instantly. And online scheduling means that clients can book appointments with you at their convenience.
Compare SEO Services
The type of SEO service you choose greatly affects the performance of your business. Unfortunately, there are many SEO companies out there who promise the world at the start but deliver very little. Stay away from companies who claim they’ll have you at the top of Google ranking in six months. It’s just not possible to make it happen organically at this pace. And companies that try to force it could jeopardise your business.
Before deciding on an SEO company, do some research. Sites like 5DigitalQuotes, compare SEO company services. Hence, they help you to make a more informed decision about the type of company with which you’d like to work.
Give Information Up Front
As we discussed in the introduction, businesses have to know a lot. But an area where they fall down time and time again is homepage layout. When customers arrive at your site, they want to find what it is that they’re looking for quickly. Often, clients visit a site just to look for contact information. But businesses don’t see their websites from their customer’s perspective. And so customers often end up having to spend a lot of time searching for the content they need.
Some advice: put your contact details at the top of your home page. Place them in the header on your site if you must. Some more advice: put headline information on your home page. Clients can always click through to other pages to get more detailed information.

Mark Asquith

That British podcast guy, Mark is co-founder of Captivate.fm, the world's only growth-oriented podcast host. A Harvard, TEDx, Podcast Movement and Podfest speaker (amongst many more!), he's a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.

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