SEO Benefits Of A Quality Website Structure

The main benefits of having a great navigation structure for both search engines and people
are:

Indexation - If the search engines such as Google can follow your structure from Homepage
right down to the lowest levels, then it will get to “crawl” (see) every page on the site. It means
that as long as the rest of the site is optimized correctly, every page on the site should be
indexed in the search engines.
Following on from this, any new pages you add should get indexed more quickly as the site can
be crawled more easily.
Usability - It gives a better impression of the website to the search engine due to its usability
for humans. Big search engines look for this mainly.
You should always focus at designing a simple website structure, as you should be going to
innumerable unknown users.
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SEO Research and Analysis

even more challenging and complex by the constant evolution of best practices and
optimization opportunities.
Fortunately, a great variety of resources that make the job easier are available on the Web.
Many leading SEO practitioners regularly post their thoughts on blogs or in forums, or speak
at conferences. This creates many opportunities to interact with them, learn from their
experience, and keep your skills sharp and up-to-date.
In this chapter, we will talk about those resources and how to leverage them to be more
successful in your SEO efforts.

SEO is rapidly evolving. Search engines are constantly changing their algorithms, and new
media and technologies are being introduced to the Web on a regular basis. Staying current
requires an ongoing commitment to research.


One of the easiest ways to research what is happening in the world of SEO is to study the
websites and periodicals that cover SEO in detail, but ongoing testing of SEO hypotheses should
also play a role.

SEO for Lead Generation and Direct Marketing

Although lead generation via the Web is less direct than an e-commerce transaction, it is
arguably just as valuable and important for building customers, revenue, and long-term value.
Millions of search queries have commercial intents that can’t be (or currently aren’t) fulfilled
directly online. These can include searches for services such as legal consulting, contract
construction, commercial loan requests, alternative energy providers, or virtually any service
or product people source via the Web.
Here are some factors to think about when considering SEO for lead generation and direct
marketing:

When to employ
Use it when you have a non-e-commerce product/service/goal that you want users to
accomplish on your site or for which you are hoping to attract inquiries/direct contact
over the Web.

Keyword targeting
As with e-commerce, choose phrases that convert well, have reasonable traffic, and have
previously performed in PPC campaigns.

Page and content creation/optimization
Although you might think it would be easier to rank high in the SERPs for lead generation
programs than for e-commerce, it is often equally challenging. You’ll need a solid
combination of on-site optimization and external link building to many different pages on
the site (with good anchor text) to be competitive in the more challenging arenas.

Search Ranking Algorithm-Social sharing data

Include social sharing and follow buttons on your site, your blog, and in
your emails

social sharing strategies increase traffic and increase profits. For
those internet marketers wondering how big can social media be in terms

of helping businesses online explode

 Twitter Followers -> Email Subscribers: Twitter is a great communication

channel. It helps you contact and stay in touch with anyone you want. But

it doesn’t directly make you real money. Email marketing is still the

most profitable online marketing channel.


Facebook Fans -> People Talking About This: Facebook’s EdgeRank was

designed to keep companies from spamming their “fans”. So it only allows

you to reach the fans that actively engage with your brand. “People

Talking About This” is the closest metric you have to increase your

“viral reach”. The higher that number goes, the better chance you have of

reaching more people. And the bigger your page will grow because you’ll

start reaching more “friends of fans”.

Techniques To Improve Page Rank

You can follow up certain methods for improving your page rank. One of the very common
methods followed often for this purpose is to increase the numbers of pages of the website and
interlinking them with each other. However, you need to take care so that your website is
significant and it contains meaningful content for use. Otherwise, your website may obtain a
negative ranking in the search engines if your website has empty pages without any particular
substance.

Link building is another method for improving page ranking. The incoming backlinks play
significant role in this direction. It is again a mathematical formula for improving page rank. A
high ranked page link certainly improves your page ranking. Some other advertising strategies
can also help you out in this direction.

Page ranking has utmost importance for your website. A high page ranked website always
attains higher page rank backlinks. However, this depends on other traits of your website like
quality content and other services.

SEO for Raw Traffic

Optimizing a site for search engines and creating keyword-targeted content helps a site rank
for key search terms, which typically leads to direct traffic and referring links as more and more
people find, use, and enjoy what you’ve produced. Thousands of sites on the Web leverage
this traffic to serve advertising, directly monetizing the traffic sent from the engines. From
banner ads to contextual services such as Google’s AdSense program to affiliate programs and
beyond, web advertising has become a massive industry—$25 billion plus, according to
eMarketer.

Here are some factors to think about when considering SEO for raw traffic:
When to employ
Use it when you can monetize traffic without actions or financial transactions on your site
(usually through advertising).
Keyword targeting
Keyword targeting in this scenario can be very broad. The goal here isn’t typically to select
specific keywords, but rather to create lots of high-quality content that naturally targets
interesting/searched-for terms. Instead of singular optimization on specific terms, the
focus is on accessibility and best practices throughout the site to earn traffic through both
high volume and long tail queries (for more on what long tail is, see Chapter 5).
Concentrate efforts on great content, and use keyword-based optimization only as a
secondary method to confirm the titles/headlines of the works you create.
Page and content creation/optimization
A shallow, highly crawlable link structure is critical to getting all of your content indexed—
follow good information architecture practices.You’ll also need to
employ good on-page optimization (titles, headlines, internal linking, etc.) and make your
articles easy to share and optimized for viral spreading.