When you have a business, your website is one of the most important tools that you have. It is through this that you will showcase your services and offerings, bring in new business and also keep your current clients up to date with what you are doing. It is important with your website, however, that you keep it updated regularly and ensure that it has strong SEO. After all, if the SEO of your site isn’t good, then you could have the best-looking site and the most amazing business model in the world, but nobody will ever see it. If you find the concept of SEO overwhelming, it doesn’t need to be and there are quite a few simple tips that you can do to help improve it. Here we have put together some top SEO tips to help improve the visibility of your website.
Reduce the sizes of your images
If you have large images these can slow your site down significantly and Google or other search engines can penalize you for this. It is important to make sure that your images are less than 500kb where possible (or smaller if you can). Also, ensure that you fill in all of the relevant metadata for the images so search engines can read what they are.
Increase the number of sites linking to you
Backlinks are super important for increasing the SEO of your website. One top way that you can get these is to work with others and have them link back to you. You could work with influencers through websites such as unrulyagency.com who can create high quality content for you on their websites. Another way is to write about other companies such as in blog posts and ask them to link back to these for you.
Have a blog that you update regularly
A blog is a great way to get the SEO improved on your website. By having a blog it shows search engines that you are relevant and that you regularly update information. It also shows that you are a good source of information and a trusted source that people can rely on. Try to make your blog a mix of long and short posts and ensure that you fill in the relevant data for these such as your alt tags, your metadata, and your keywords.
Check your site speed
If your site is slow then this can be penalized by google. Try to avoid this by speeding it up as much as you can. You can do this by reducing the number of images on your site and making them as small as possible. You can also reduce plugins in the backend and also the number of elements on each page.
These are a few simple ways that you can improve the SEO of your website. By introducing these today you will soon notice that it makes a big difference to the way that your site runs and how it shows up in search engines. What are some top tips you use to improve your SEO? Let us know in the comments below!
Tara Pittman
August 16, 2021These are tips that I need to try. I can always use help on my seo.
Ladena
August 16, 2021Such great tips. I need to make sure my site speed is up to par. I feel like I should be getting way more traffic.
Vanessa
August 16, 2021Images that are too big really make your site lag, and nobody is going to stick around on a slow site. Backlinks are also a huge ranking factor that not many people seem to know about. Great tips!
Elise Ho
August 16, 2021Whenever I have a few spare moments I go through old posts to improve SEO and readability. I want green lights on it all 🙂
Milton Coyne
August 16, 202112 years ago, i started blogging without any knowledge about SEO. Eventually, i realized hoe important it is to make your site more visible and also to increase your readership. I do agree with all the tips provided here. The image size though is a first for me and i think i have to consider this. Currently, all my images are hosted using 3rd party image host and i don’t upload them directly to myb site.. I don’t know if it makes a difference
Thank you so much for sharing
linda
August 16, 2021Thanks for sharing some good tips about blogs.Very informative article for bloggers.
Rose Ann Sales
August 17, 2021Great tips. I’ll make sure Ito follow all these, thanks for sharing!
Kuntala
August 17, 2021I will need to update my old blogs more. And resize my images too. SOunds kinda daunting to me but it is important for SEO
Dustin
August 17, 2021Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Angela! SEO can dramatically increase the traffic and engagement of your website.
Ephraim Jerry
August 17, 2021Great blog
Like visiting regularly
Ivan M. Jose
August 17, 2021Wonderful tips. These are all actionable items that bloggers can easily do while they optimize their website.
Nyxie
August 17, 2021Great advice. I’m going to go through and check all my images now and organise them. As well as that, I’ve been removing disused images and adding alt text as well.
Snita
August 17, 2021Such great tips! I need to remember to regularly check my site speed!
Thanks for sharing!
Ronnie
August 17, 2021These are great tips! We will be looking at integrating your advice on our blog asap.
Fransic verso
August 17, 2021I agree with you, updating the blog regularly is good for people to find more useful information and for google to trust your blog.
Anosa Malanga
August 17, 2021Will definitely try to check out my website. Thank you for the reminder and hey, I so love your home office setup!
Ntensibe Edgar
August 18, 2021The speed of my site tends to worry me lots these days. That’s coupled with the fact that my site has crashed more times this year than it has before, in the past 4 years! A lot to work on….thanks Angela!
emman damian
August 18, 2021I agree with all points. You really have to update and post from time to time. You can also share it in social media to add mileage.