Why do you need local SEO services?
Research & Discovery
To deliver the perfect web solution that meets your unique business goals, we need to understand everything about your company and all aims and objectives for your website. At the start of each project we embark on an in depth period of research that provides a detailed audit of your current standing, local competitors and your desired audience base.
Expert Technical SEO
Technical SEO deals with how well search engines can index your website pages and is a key part of our build process. When we create a bespoke site we incorporate search engine optimisation into the fabric of the design and utilise the skills and experience of our expert team to ensure that your site always reflects best practice.
Organic Results & Genuine Customers
Fine tuning your site’s SEO means that you will achieve better rankings, more organic search results and will reach genuine customers looking for your products and services. As a full service digital agency we can help you create a marketing strategy that includes paid search options, but we’ll always perfect your essential organic SEO first.
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What are local SEO services?
Local SEO or local search engine optimisation is the process of making your website and it’s content more visible in search engine result pages (SERPs) within your geographical area.
By optimising each aspect of your website you will secure better rankings, more organic results and increased traffic to your pages. All with the aim of getting above your local competition. Although ‘paid ad’ search options are a regular part of many digital campaigns we first make sure that your site is operating at peak performance on its own.
Making sure that your website has useful, well-produced content on its pages is the key to success. Many search engines, not least Google, are increasing the importance they place on evaluating quality, user-friendly content. This means that everything on your site needs to offer value, be perfectly calibrated for the web and there for a reason.
To secure the most organic traffic your website needs to meet the requirements of the biggest, best and most dynamic search engines out there. It needs to be well designed, bespoke to your needs and built without any user restrictions. Above all it needs to have the values and integrity that Google, Yahoo, and Bing among others want to associate themselves with.
Combine all these vital components together and they create the optimum digital cocktail to increase your rankings on the results pages of any search engine. By working with our team and following our expert guidance you can be assured that your website will work smarter, deliver the right customers and avoid any algorithm penalties that could devalue your site and see it slip down the SERPs.
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A Comprehensive SEO Audit
The first step is always a full SEO audit so that our team can identify any issues that are having a negative impact on your rise to the top of the SERPs.
Digging deep through all of the elements of your current site and its performance, we can see what the search engines see and clearly pinpoint the areas for improvement.
Search engines work by crawling and indexing each and every image and piece of content on every page of your site, they will also look at the relative value of your material to key search terms and check for broken links and outdated assets.
We will compile a detailed report for you that maps out elements that are working well, any problem areas and the changes we’d advise to optimise your online presence. We use Google’s Webmaster Guidelines as the basis for our recommendations and because we are committed to demystifying our industry, we’ll always talk you through what everything means and the impact any changes will have.
Our team has been working within the evolving world of SEO for a long time and this has allowed us to perfect our strategy, adapt quickly to changes in trends and to work with key brands and businesses on large and complex sites. We know the positive results that even small changes can have on a site’s performance. At Priority Pixels we can optimise site structures from the ground up using analytics to deliver increased visibility and traffic.
Our SEO audits are fully comprehensive and look at all the visible, hidden and technical info on your site. When the audit is complete, the report we provide will include all results and the crawl data in an easy to understand format.
Depending on the scope of your project, the SEO support services provided by our team can help your in-house web staff make any essential changes. Or if a rebuild is required, our designers and developers can start to create your new site from scratch straightaway using all the data gathered.
You can find more dedicated information on our in-depth SEO audits here.
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E-A-T and why it's important
One of Google’s most important algorithm updates emphasised Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness (or E-A-T) as 3 of the most important factors for page quality ratings. Below we have broken E-A-T down for you so that you can better understand this approach to analysing the relevance and validity of websites. E-A-T is not relevant for all businesses but understanding it and how it is used to assess sites may help you frame and plan the content on your website.
Expertise
Whatever business you are in, it is important to demonstrate that you know what you are talking about and be visible as an ‘expert in your field’. While expertise may not be vital for all sites, it is crucial for ones like medical, technical, financial, or legal websites. Having expertise means you have the ability to create valuable and insightful Main Content (MC) for your website that is useful and valuable to your end user.
Authoritativeness
When you produce and share the expert content on your site you need to show evidence that you are an authority on your subject or discipline. You can do this by demonstrating your own expertise or the expertise of the creator of the main content or developing your site to be a trusted hub of information. Having the necessary credentials or qualifications will help you, but value added elements like reviews and testimonials from clients or customers will enhance people’s perception of you exponentially.
Trustworthiness
Everything about your website should help your visitors to trust you, your business and your products or services. As before this can be made evident from customer reviews or testimonials, but it should also shine through in the content you use to populate your site. Trust is even more important if you have an e-commerce site and you rely on online payments. An SSL certificate, assuring customers that payments are secure, is one of Google’s top ranking factors so adding one should be your first priority.
FAQs
What are local SEO services?
Local SEO helps to promote your business to customers that are local to where you are based. If you offer a service that is based in a specific geographical area, you need to optimise your business for local searches. In order to appear in local search results, search engines gather information about your business from various locations. Any local content you have created, your social profiles, and citations can all help improve your local SEO.
The easiest way to improve your local SEO is by creating and optimising your Google My Business account. A Google My Business account lets you set your location and, if optimised properly, will help to increase your visibility and engagement levels. By creating a Google My Business account, you can encourage your customers to leave reviews. This helps Google see that you are a legitimate business.
Another way of improving your local SEO is by creating a location page or section on your website. This should include your address, and a google map pinning your location embedded into it. Local SEO also involves making sure that your name, address and phone number is somewhere in the HTML text of your website. This means that when your website is crawled, the Google bots can collect this information for search results. However, you need to make sure that your contact information is the same and consistent across all your platforms.
Are landing pages good for SEO?
Landing pages are used to target specific keywords or phrases. Creating landing pages that contain content rich with a keyword relating to your business will help to increase your search engine results page ranking. They are designed to take people who click on them directly to a page with the information they are searching for. If your landing pages are fully optimised, and your keywords are mentioned enough, then they are a good way of getting web pages to organically rank higher.
The more landing pages you have that are fully optimised with relevant keywords, the more organic traffic will be driven to your site from search engine results pages. Each landing page should have a different keyword/phrase. This opens your website to more avenues and search terms.
One ranking factor for websites is the number of positive engagements and visitors. If your website starts to get more people visiting because you have created more landing pages, search engines will see your site as containing relevant and knowledgeable information and will rank your website higher.
What does SEO stand for?
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. SEO is an online marketing strategy that aims to improve the visibility of your website in search engine results pages, (SERPs). The higher you can get your website to rank, the more organic traffic will be driven to your website. The more traffic on your site results in more sales and leads for your business.
What is technical SEO?
Technical SEO is an important part of your overall SEO process. It involves making sure that your website is fully optimised to allow search engine bots to crawl your website. If your website is not crawled and scanned, then it will not be indexed properly. The name ‘Technical SEO’ refers to the technical parts of your website, such as the code that makes up your website. The main objective of technical SEO is to optimise these building blocks in order to increase the usability and responsiveness of your website.
Technical SEO focuses on making sure that your website is mobile friendly and responsive across a range of different devices. Google has announced its plans to make all indexing of websites mobile-first from September 2020. Making sure that your website responds and displays in the best format on desktop, tablet and on mobile devices is improving your technical SEO.
Other aspects of technical SEO include improving site speed. Creating a secure website for your customers by installing an SSL. Creating an XML sitemap to help search engines understand your website when it’s being crawled. Adding structured data mark-up code to help search engines understand the context behind the content on your webpages. Making sure that your website is registered with Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to allow you to manually submit your webpages for indexing.
An SEO agency will be able to help you make sure your website is technically strong.
What is on page SEO?
On page SEO is also known as on-site SEO. It refers to the process of optimising the content that is on your web pages. By making sure that the content on your website is fully optimised for not only your customers but also search engines will help to increase your ranking in search results pages and drive more organic traffic to your website. On page SEO helps search engines to understand the context behind your content and how relevant it is to search queries.
On page SEO involves looking at aspects of your website such as the number of times your keywords are mentioned on each page, and whether your content is broken up with headings. The ease at which your content can be read can impact your on-page SEO score. Breaking up long pieces of text with sub-headings makes it easier for customers to absorb the information they are reading. Having your keyword or phrase scattered throughout the text, it confirms to search engines what the web page is about.
Other factors to look at when improving your on page SEO is the use of external links. Linking to other pages on the same topic is another way of letting search engines know what your pages are about. It also helps to show that the information on your website is reputable and of good quality. Meta titles and descriptions are shown in SERPs and are what searchers see first. Including your keywords in both your meta title and description can help to increase your click-through rate.
There are some factors of on page SEO that overlap with technical SEO. Making sure your images are sized properly, you can keep them high quality whilst increasing the loading speed of your web pages.
How much do SEO services cost?
There is no definitive answer to this question. Costs for SEO work vary depending on what SEO work your website needs. Not every website needs the same SEO work, so the price strictly depends on how well optimised your website is currently. A brand-new website will most likely need more SEO work than an older one. Each SEO agency will quote a different price. Whilst some SEO agencies offer set SEO packages with fixed monthly costs, this does not work for everyone. You may not need all the services that you will be paying for. We recommend undertaking an SEO audit of your website before having any SEO work carried out. Not only will this allow you to see all the SEO work that needs undertaking, but it will also allow you to set a budget and define a monthly cost.
Does duplicate content affect SEO?
Duplicate content is exactly what it sounds like. It is two or more pieces of content that are either completely identical or very similar. Think of it as plagiarising someone else’s work. Whilst having similar content to other websites in the same industry is unavoidable, you need to make it unique to your business.
There are two types of duplicate content. Internal duplicate content refers to when one domain name has the same content across different internal URLs. External duplicate content is when the search engines find the exact same content on different domains.
Whilst Google has stated that there is no SEO penalty for duplicate content, it does confuse search engines. When confronted with identical content on different domains, search engines are forced to choose which version should rank higher. So even if you are the original creator of the content and you have fully optimised it, you may not rank above the duplicate content. Search engines rarely show the multiple versions of the same content in search results, so if you have duplicate content on your website, or your content has been duplicated elsewhere, it will impact your visibility and your engagement rates.
An SEO agency will be able to find any duplicate content on your site and suggest ways of re-creating it so that it no longer counts as duplicate.
How long for SEO to take effect?
Getting your website to rank at the top of page 1 on Google does not happen overnight. There are many variables that go into effective SEO work. Some are on-going and long-term, such as creating relevant content. Others, whilst they can be completed relatively quickly such as re-sizing images to increase page speed, can still take a while until you see the effects. The short answer to this question is “it depends.” Each website is unique, so the SEO work they all need is unique. It can also depend on how much of a budget you have to complete the SEO work.
Some SEO ranking factors cannot be physically changed, such as domain age and domain authority. Search engines tend to favour websites that have existed for longer than newer websites. This is because they are considered to be more reputable and provide reliable information to search queries.
For brand new websites, it could take up to six months for your website to start ranking and increasing engagements. But that only happens with on-going SEO work from a dedicated SEO agency. You cannot fully optimise your website all in one go and then expect it to rank in a short space of time. Getting your website to rank highly, can take months, even years.
What is keyword research?
Keywords are words or phrases that, when typed into a search engine, you want your website to be shown as a result for. Keyword research simply means finding out what keywords you are already being found for, and any high traffic terms related to your business.
Undertaking keyword research allows you to see exactly what your target audience is searching for, how many times words and phrases related to your business are searched for and what information those searchers are looking for. This is possibly one of the best things you can to do help your SEO. It allows you to see how your target audience behaves online and how popular phrases related to your business are.
There are different tools that you can use to help find out which keywords are relevant to your business. Whilst you may have a few keywords already in mind, you can find others that are related to those phrases. These keywords will then form the basis of the content that is being put onto your website. Whether its service or product pages or using them to create blog content. Using your keyword research to create content will help to improve your SEO score and increase your impressions and engagements.
An SEO agency will be able to find the search terms you are most commonly found for and suggest other phrases to create content around.
What to expect from an SEO marketing agency?
Working with an SEO Marketing Agency, you will have access to a team of people, each with different skill sets, that will help to fully optimise your website. SEO encompasses different aspects of digital marketing. You may need a copywriter to help improve the content on your site. A web developer will be able to ensure the structure of your website is strong and seamless.
Some key things that you should expect from a legitimate SEO Marketing Agency is a full SEO audit of your current website. This will help your chosen SEO agency to better understand how well your website is already optimised and highlight different areas that can be improved upon.
An SEO agency should undertake thorough research into not just your site, but your competitors as well. By undertaking competitor analysis, an SEO agency will be able to devise a strong strategy that will help you start to rank higher than your competitors.
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