Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the practice of getting traffic to your website through organic search engine results. A website can be optimised to show up in search engines such as Google when a search query is made.
Without performing SEO, it will be extremely difficult for a site to rank in search engines. If your website isn’t ranking on Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. you will struggle to gain any organic traffic.
Thousands of people search for your product or service each day but if your website isn’t optimised they will visit your competitor’s website instead. It’s one thing losing out on traffic but losing out on business to your competitors makes it a whole lot worse!
There are said to be over 200 ranking factors which are analysed when determining what webpages should rank for any given search. The sites which best answer a user’s query are usually the ones you see ranking at the top.
In addition to providing a good answer to a query, the page will be optimised. A well-optimised page will consist of both on and off-page SEO. At a basic level, on-page SEO techniques include optimised content, optimised title tags, a well-written URL, a concise and compelling meta description, optimised headings and inclusion of a keyword on image alt text.
The rankability of a page isn’t only down to on-page optimisation. Off-page ranking signals also impact a webpages’ search engine visibility. The most important off-page SEO factor are links. Links from other websites to your webpage act as a recommendation and the more authoritative those websites are the more powerful the backlink is. Links from high authority websites will greatly boost a webpages position in the SERPs (search engine results page) as it passes link juice from its domain to yours.
To learn more about SEO, check out this Introduction to SEO.
We’ve been doing SEO since 2011. You may think ‘that’s not very long’ – most agencies boast 20+ years of experience. However, the SEO landscape has changed exponentially during those 20 years. Most, if not all, SEO practitioners from yesteryear would have been performing black-hat SEO techniques and, possibly, still practice some methods today… (black-hat SEO is very harmful to your site!)
At Parlez Creative, we haven’t picked up any bad habits from the black-hat days. There is no corner cutting, just good, honest SEO.
For us, SEO isn’t just about getting top rankings, it sure is nice and cool to say, ‘I am number 1 on Google’ and we can do that for you. But, we look at the bigger picture. What’s important for us is to bring the right traffic to your website and make sure those visitors interact with your site and convert. What’s the point of being number 1 on Google if it doesn’t result in any sales, right?
We could go into immense detail and write a 100,000-word document on how we can improve your website but it wouldn’t be fun to read.
These 6 key points embody the most important aspects of crafting a website, a brand, which isn’t only loved by search engines but is loved by the people who land on it.
Not only will we make your website more discoverable online, we will make it more profitable.
We are a young digital agency with strong foundations. Starting out on what will be an enigmatic journey into the realms of the digital creative world.
Parlez Creative was founded with the goal of creating an agency, to not only cater to the needs of companies but individuals too. In improving your online presence, we aim to make your brand better-known.
If you desire a better online presence and wish to reach a wider audience, then look no further. We will work closely with you to understand your needs and, in turn, deliver your wants.
