Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the method to structure websites and create online contents to reach the first page of a search engine (like Google and Bing) increasing the volume and quality of visitors to a website.
Being on the first page of Google means that every day you attract different and relevant traffic to your business. But SEO does not just mean being on the first page of the search results and increasing organic traffic to your website. If done right, you can increase brand awareness as much as the conversion rate of your website and then increase the number of leads.
An effective SEO strategy not only helps your site rank well in search results but also improves the visibility of your online business. That’s why SEO is so relevant to your overall marketing strategy.
The crawlers report information relevant to Google to create an index (a list of relevant results). So Google score its search results based on relevance and authority of the websites that have crawled and use this index to provide the best answers for customer questions.
This is the process that gives you the most relevant results related to your query on Google (and Google is the premium search engine, because it gives you the best sourced answers to your online questions).
There are many factors that influence page selection in the Google algorithm, and most of them are secrets. Google uses over 220 signals (Ranking Factors) in the calculation of search results.
GOOGLE USES AN ALGORITHM BASED ON HYPERLINKS (CALLED PAGERANK) TO CALCULATE THE POPULARITY AND AUTHORITY OF A PAGE, AND WHILE GOOGLE IS MUCH MORE SOPHISTICATED TODAY, THIS IS STILL A KEY SIGNAL TO RANK ON TOP OF THE SEARCH RESULTS.
That’s why an important part of SEO is gaining links from other websites, an activity that focuses on improving the number and quality of “inbound links” to a website, from other websites. Ex. A live music website link to a music website that help live music venues to find local bands
If you’d like to discuss how SEO can help you, please contact one of our SEO consultants for a chat.