Posts Tagged ‘Content’

How To Improve Your Visitors’ On-Site Experience

There are numerous ways that you can enhance the on-site experience of your websites visitors. Most of these have already been discussed at length by SEO experts. However, site owners keep forgetting the most crucial aspect of a website, and that is visitor engagement. Engaging your potential customers is imperative to your on-site strategy. Site owners are focusing more on gaining a sale, contact address, a download or just a visit. But site visitors have different expectations when they decide to visit your site. To meet their expectations and improve their overall on-site experience, it is important to consider many factors, including:

Customer-oriented content:

After implementation of Google’s Panda update, many websites have changed or updated their content strategies. But the websites that were already giving priority to their content didn’t have to worry about the implications of the Panda update. These websites clearly have an edge over their competitors as they are not only making their website user friendly but also segmenting the content into different relevant pages. For instance, Dell has segmented their content and products according to prospective customer groups based on their target market.

5 Google Analytics Tips

1) You might be getting less visitors than you think. After 30 minutes, your visit counts as a new one. E.g. You browse on a site, walk away from the PC then come back two hours later.When you click on a new page or reload the current page, your visit counts as a new one.

2) You might be getting more visitors than you think. A proportion of visitors will block third party cookies (this is what GA uses to ‘tag’ you as a unique visitor) or disable Javascript to load on any site. These visitors will not be counted on GA.

When a High Bounce Rate Isn’t Such A Bad Thing

First, we’ll start with the basics. What is bounce rate? Contrary to what many (myself included) believed, it is not only the amount of time someone spends on a website (e.g. you click on a website and immediately click off after 2 seconds) it is also the number of pages you click after the viewing the landing page (e.g. you click to another page after viewing the landing page).

So the two are quite closely related - for example if you spend 3 minutes reading the landing page you just clicked on, then decide to pick up the phone and ring the company, your visit will count as a bounce. But it is not such a bad bounce because you have unwittingly converted a visitor through a well optimised landing page.

The Google and Wikipedia Link

Yesterday, Jimmy Wales tweeted that Google was donating $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. The question that then popped up in everyone’s minds is, Why Google would support Wikipedia when they came out with their own (almost) direct competitor, Knol.

SEO penalties for Duplicate Content

Recently one of our clients came to us for advice on duplicate content. Running a travel company, they wanted to create a separate site for information specifically on one area of travel. This site will contain duplicate content in terms of having the same travel schedules.

This led us to think about the issue of Duplicate Content and whether or not this will affect SEO. The official advice from Google seems quite straightforward - don’t try to deceive search engines.

In terms of copying some of the same content into two different domains, we advised the client to keep each site unique and relevant. Spending that extra bit of time making sure that your site has the best content for their target audience will mean that you won’t even need to worry about penalties for duplicate content.