October News 2018

Understanding Google Algorithm Updates

Each year, there are over 400 different algorithm updates made by Google. Each has the potential to affect the ranking of your site in it's search engine.

Google's aim is to provide its users (which is not you as a website owner) with the best possible search engine results. They do this because they want people to choose their search engine over their competitors. The more people who use it, the more exposure for Google Ads users who pay for their advertisements to be shown in Google search engine results pages (SERPs). The more traffic advertisers receive, the more likely they are to continue to pay Google for ads.

In order to provide relevant results, Google uses an algorithm. A search engine algorithm is basically a set of rules which tell the search engine what to do when scanning a website and returning results to a query. While no-one knows exactly what rules are set for an algorthim or how many algorithms there are, they are generally looking for information about:

• the keywords you've used on your site and where you've put them
• organic naturally occurring links to your website from other sites
• the level of mobile responsiveness your site provides

Using Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free tool provided by Google which provides you with useful information about the people who visit your website.

Take a read of our article on using Google Analytics to learn more about how it works, how to get it and where to go to get more information, including a free course run by Google.

Understanding & Lowering Bounce Rates

Using Heading Tags for SEO

Heading tags, also known as page headings, are a misunderstood part of SEO. Because of this, they are often incorrectly used or not used at all. However, they are easy to implement within each page on your website and can help improve the SEO of your website.

A heading tag is an HTML (web code) section on a web page which tells search engines that a piece of text is a heading or title. The code which surrounds a heading tag tells the search engine that the text is more important than other text on the page. A heading tag code looks like this:

<h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5> or <h6>

In the Website World CMS, you have control over the heading tag you want to use for a specific sub heading. An <h1> heading tag is automatically applied to your page title. The other heading tags are up to you to implement.

Take a read of our article Using Heading Tags to Improve SEO to learn more about what they are, plus how to use and write them.

Understanding Website Usability

When it comes to understanding website usability, a good place to start is an all encompassing definition: it's about how easy or hard people find to use your website. Website usability matters because if a site is too complex, too hard to understand and challenging to navigate, people will go elsewhere. This results in a high bounce rate, low conversions and maybe even a drop in your traffic and SEO rankings. The good news is though, fixing a site's usability is generally pretty simple. 

Things on a web page which affect it's usability include:

• headings
• amount of text
• images
• buttons and calls to action
• menu and how it is organised
• colours
• position of things on the page
• mobile responsive
• white space

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Website Migration with Perfect SEO Link Juice

We can now import websites from most other CMS and shopping platforms, maintaining perfect SEO link juice and full replication of the existing template and content. 

The migration service takes a perfect snapshot of all SEO meta tags and URL filenames, ensuring that all pages are in the right place, and specifying the same SEO information, just as Google is used to seeing prior to migration. 

After migration, you can then use our SEO tools to manage your meta tags yourself, and further improve your google ranking, without worrying about implementing 301 redirects. That step is not necessary, as your site map has been maintained.

To learn more about how this works, here are two articles for you to read:

• Migrating Websites With Perfect SEO Link Juice
• Migrating / Copying / Importing Websites Just Got Easier