What Building Product Companies Need to Know about SEO
Search Engine Marketing, or SEO, gets a lot of attention these days. We all strive to make our websites as SEO-friendly as possible, to ensure our blog posts are filled with SEO-rich keywords and that we are doing everything we can to increase our organic search traffic through SEO, rather than paid ads.
To help in your quest for better SEO, I wanted to share the 4 Commandments of SEO according to Marketing Profs. While a lot more goes into SEO than these 4 things, they are valid points to consider:
- Thou Shalt Reciprocate Link Love. One way to increase your SEO is to have links pointing back to your site. While your team can do several things to ensure your company has optimal inbounds links (like ensure links are posted on everything that leaves your office, that your blog links to your company site and encourage employees to link back to your site on social media), a big way to boost your SEO is to have other high-quality websites link back to your site. However, be sure you are paying back the favor – if another company features a link to your site, make sure you link back to their site.
- Thou Shalt Not Beg for Links. While you don’t want to be the one asking everyone you know to create a link to your site, it’s OK to provide value to another company and then request a link. Consider having an employee spend time each week commenting on other industry blogs with valuable comments and insight and then requesting a link back to your site. Think of adding links as just another extension of business – its similar to the “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” policy.
- Thou Shalt Find the Best Keywords. This means doing research and paying attention to what your best customers are searching for. This doesn’t mean featuring the keywords that everyone searches for, but rather the ones that will convert searchers into paying customers.
- Thou Shalt Not Write for Search Engines. While it’s tempting to write your homepage specifically so Google will pick it up and give you a good page rank, Google is not your customer. A human being is your customer and they don’t want to be talked to the same way Google does.
SEO can be a powerful tool for your overall lead strategy and can make a big difference in your web and blog traffic. Make sure to abide by these 4 commandments to ensure you are always meeting best practices. For more information on the Commandments of SEO, check out this link.
