Understanding What SEO is and How it Works

What is SEO?

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Is the process or set of techniques whose objective is to optimize the visibility of a website in search engines and optimizing not only the web pages but their content to be easily discoverable by users when searching for terms relevant to your website.

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The main purpose of SEO is to make your site rank as high as possible in search engines like Google, Bing, etc. That means, the higher your site ranks, the more visible your website is and the more traffic and sales your business is likely to generate.

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These actions can be carried out within the website itself by optimizing internal code or content (SEO On-Page), or outside the website by building inbound links and social signals (SEO Off-Page).  

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What do On-Page SEO and Off-Page SEO mean?

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On-page SEO refers to changes you make on your website that impact SEO. For example, adding an XML sitemap or putting targeted keywords on the title tag of your page. You not only need to have relevant and high-quality content; you also need to have optimized headlines and HTML tags on images. Here is where remains the importance of analyzing your website constantly.

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Off-page SEO refers to strategies that happen off your website that still have an impact on the overall site performance, such as building links, but there are a lot more ways of doing off-page SEO. It covers any tactic that you use that doesn't involve making changes to your website or publishing content on your site.

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The website analysis is crucial for fast performance, conversion, lead generation, and driving traffic to your website. For instance, the HTML code cannot have errors, keywords need to be used properly, the layout has to be structured, the site has to be easy to navigate, images has to be optimized, and it must have alt tags, meta tags, and descriptions, check there are no broken links and the speed and performance need to be fast.

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Analytic Tools

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These tools are important to determine if your website needs an update or to understand the preferences of your users. For example, if most of your visitors are using tablets or mobiles, you need to have a responsive website for a better user experience. Here you can find three tools that will help you analyze your website and determine which are the best strategies based on data.

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• ‍Google Analytics is used for analyzing website traffic, users, bounce rates, goal conversions, and real-time visitor count.‍
• Mixpanel: is used for tracking customer behavior and KPIs across websites and mobile apps.‍
• Hubspot: is used for measuring the traffic, managing leads, email automation, and conversion rate optimization (CRO).

Final Thoughts

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With this information, you can plan some strategies to grow your business faster and get better at your SEO. Try to apply all of these based on your main goals and use the website data to check if your effort is working or if you still must do some changes. If it is working, it should be translated into a better user experience.

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