Marketing Monday Newsletter #50: Modern SEO


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Digital Marketing is an ever-evolving world. That means your strategies need to remain nimble and be flexible to keep up with all the changes. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) remains essential for online visibility and success.

However, the days of keyword stuffing and basic link building are long gone. Modern SEO is a sophisticated dance with search engine algorithms, focusing on user experience, content quality, and building a strong brand presence.

Following this outline will help your site gain visibility and site visitors.

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1. User-Centric Approach

Modern SEO prioritizes user experience. Search engines like Google aim to deliver the most relevant and valuable results to users.

Basically, all search engines want to deliver the best results for their users. This means your website needs to be:

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Mobile-Friendly: With a significant portion of searches originating from smartphones, a responsive website design that adapts seamlessly to all devices is crucial.

Optimize website speed, ensure easy navigation, and use understandable fonts for optimal mobile viewing.

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Fast Loading Speeds: Nobody wants to wait for a website to load. Implement website performance optimization techniques to ensure fast loading times.

Tools like Google Page Speed Insights can help identify areas for improvement.

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Valuable Content: The user is always paramount. Your potential visitors determine whether your content addresses their needs.

Attract attention by creating informative, engaging, and well-formatted content that answers their questions, ultimately driving traffic and acquiring new customers.

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Clear and Concise Structure: Make it easy for users and search engines to navigate your website. Use a clear hierarchy with relevant headings, subheadings, and bullet points for improved readability.
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Strong On-Page Optimization: Search in 2024 is about matching user intent with web pages. Decide which topic you’re going to cover on a page, and then cover it sufficiently to answer the user’s question. Link out to more detailed information with cross-links* to blog posts that give the user the option to get related information.

Optimize individual pages for topics relevant to your ideal audience, using keywords and synonyms incorporated naturally into title tags, meta descriptions, header tags, and image alt text.

*Cross-links links to other pages on your website, linking relevant keywords to related content.

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2. Technical SEO: Building a Solid Foundation
A strong technical foundation is essential for search engines to crawl, index, and understand your website.
A properly structured site has a greater chance of being featured in Search Engine Result Page (SERP) features such as, the “People also ask” section, product information sections, carousels* and showing up under other questions people have asked.

*In marketing, carousels are a type of social media ad that combines multiple images or videos into a single unit. They are called carousels because they have a rotating effect, similar to a carousel device like a conveyor belt or a merry-go-round.

If your website doesn’t have the following, it’s making an already uphill climb even harder:

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Website Structure & Schema Markup: A clean and logical website structure with proper internal linking helps search engines understand the relationship between pages. Consider implementing Schema* markup to provide search engines with additional information about your content.

*Schema markup is a type of code that helps search engines understand and display content in rich formats. It’s also known as structured data.

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Mobile-First Indexing: Google prioritizes mobile-friendly websites for indexing. Ensure your website is optimized for mobile devices and that the mobile version offers the same content as the desktop version.
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HTTPS* Security: A secure website with an SSL** certificate is crucial for both user trust and SEO. Google prioritizes secure websites when ranking search results.

*HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure: A protocol that encrypts data between a user’s browser and a website, ensuring secure communication and protecting user privacy.
**SSL = Secure Sockets Layer: encrypts communication between a web browser and a web server.

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Sitemap Creation & Submission: A sitemap acts as a map for search engines, guiding them to all the pages on your website. Submit your sitemap to Google Search Console to ensure proper indexing.
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Regular Website Maintenance: Fix broken links, update outdated content, and address any technical issues promptly to maintain a healthy website for both users and search engines.
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3. Content is King: Quality Over Quantity

Content is the cornerstone of modern SEO. Here’s how to create content that ranks well and attracts your target audience:

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Keyword Research: Identify relevant keywords that your target audience is searching for. This will help you understand how people are searching for what you have to offer.
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Content Strategy & Topic Planning: Develop a content strategy based on your keyword research and target audience needs. Focus on creating informative, valuable, and engaging content that addresses user search queries.
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Content Variety & Freshness: There is more to content than just blogs. Experiment with different content formats like infographics, videos, and case studies to keep your audience engaged and cater to diverse learning styles.
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Content Optimization: While keyword inclusion is important, avoid keyword stuffing. Integrate keywords naturally throughout your content while maintaining a reader-friendly flow.
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Content Promotion: Creating great content is only half the battle. Promote your content on social media, through email marketing, and industry collaborations to reach a wider audience.  This will help generate backlinks and provide more visibility.
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4. Link Building: Building Trust and Credibility

Backlinks, or links from other websites to yours, are still a factor in SEO. However, the focus has shifted from quantity to quality and relevance. Here’s how to build high-quality backlinks:

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Create Link-Worthy Content: People naturally link to valuable and informative content. When high-quality content is created, others will naturally want to share it with their audience. This paints you as an expert in your field.
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Guest Blogging: Contribute guest blog posts to relevant websites in your industry. This allows you to showcase your expertise and earn valuable backlinks.
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Broken Link Building: Identify broken links on websites in your niche and offer your content as a replacement. This is a win-win situation, as you earn a backlink while helping the website owner fix a broken link.
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Industry Outreach: Build relationships with industry influencers and bloggers. Reach out to them and share your content, which they might consider.
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How Can DIT Web Solutions Help? 

DIT Web Solutions is a digital marketing agency with a proven track record of success in Search Engine Optimization. Our team of experts can help you develop a real strategy to achieve your online marketing goals:

  • SEO audits and topical research: We can analyze your website and identify areas for improvement in terms of SEO. We will also conduct in-depth topical research to ensure you’re targeting the right terms.
  • Content creation: Once we have helped you determine what your audience is interested in, we will then create SEO-optimized content that resonates with your audience and is perfect for sharing on social media.
  • Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Tracking: Get the data that matters and really shows what your digital marketing efforts are doing.  Reports come monthly, with analysis from our specialists in each field. 

*Topical refers to relevant and up-to-date content with the current trends, news, and events of a particular industry or field.

DIT Web Solutions is here for you — Call me today!

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Louie Pateropoulos, Partner
louie@ditcanada.com

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