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Gone are the days when just any website will do for the online business to get success. With people having access to faster internet services and high speed machines and gadgets, it has equally become important for the organizations to come up with a website that opens pretty fast! This particular aspect is considered by the leading SEO experts to be very much crucial, something that cannot be neglected or avoided.

Why website speeding is necessary?

Using the latest advanced technological gadgets and devices, it is quite natural for the users to expect immediate results. They are no longer interested to wait for a long time, for the website page to open up. In case, the pages take too much time to respond, then the user is likely to get impatient and move elsewhere. This something that no entrepreneur would like to happen as the potential visitor will become dissatisfied and move onto the competitor site and never come back or recommend the site to anyone else. This will be definitely sure loss for any business and hence, great care has to be taken to ensure website speed.

It was something that was ignored previously by the search engine ranking, as the sites became slow when crawler moved on them for indexing purpose. But now great importance is given to site speed, especially with Google recognizing speed as the key aspect for measuring and analysing site ranking. Users will now be assisted by Google by including page speed to determine the page results. It effectively means, besides affecting extra signal ‘page speed’, it also affects users’ ability to locate the site on Google.

Some important aspects to know about Google

More than 200 signals are taken into consideration by Google while determining search rankings. It is for this reason; SEO work is regarded to be quite complicated. Google has also launched new signal partner, ‘Site Speed’, which is basically stated to be site loading time. Probably, 90% of the page could be fast. However, one item on the page might take longer time than expected, which is sure to hurt the overall search results.

Some tools to use for checking on this signal

The talented seo services in Nottingham are sure to make use of some crucial tools to check site speed and to ensure the site opens up fast as desired to live up to the visitor’s expectations.

• WebPagetest: It displays load performance as well as optimization checklist.
• YSlow: It is a free tool offered by Yahoo! for determining site speed.
• Page Speed: Firebug/Firefox add-on to help evaluate webpage performance and to provide further suggestions for improvement.
• Google Webmaster Tools; Labs>Site Performance: There is present inbuilt website speed checker in Google webmasters tool.

Having faster loading sites is sure to improve overall site ranking and user experience. This also helps to reduce operational costs. Presently, the signal is stated to affect just about 1% of all search queries. But in the near future, it is likely impact significantly while ranking sites.

http://www.thegoogleblog.com/business/technology/website-speed-required-analyse-speed/

What’s more, we are additionally giving some counsel on how these mix-ups can be defeated with the goal that you can deliver a quality web architecture.

Outlining a site can without a doubt be taken as a fun challenge. At first, customers imagine that having the correct area name and suitable substance is sufficient to have a viable site. In any case, what is typically neglected is the way a web design composition’s influences the outcome. Website architecture is as vital as the substance.

Effective sites are the ones joining extraordinary outline, suitable usefulness, proficient substance and a pertinent area name.

On a worldwide scale, numerous sites are adjusting to new outline patterns, which are flourishing in the World Wide Web. Appropriately adjusting to the patterns would furnish any business with a quality custom website composition, and thus increment in movement and deals.

In any case, architects still have a tendency to confer similar errors while web outlining. A typical hypothesis in the matter of why website specialists submit these slip-ups is on the grounds that more often than not they study their own plan as opposed to getting an outside supposition from an industry master or another website specialist.

5 Common Web Design Mistakes while web outlining:

1. Proper use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)

Known to be an instrument to give consistency over all pages and help website specialists take control over their site’s appearance when utilized the correct way, CSS can be viable and give an expert result to the site look and feel.

Page slacking has dependably made cerebral pains perusers; even site proprietors themselves despise moderate sites. A page can run easily and can be faster to stick with CSS.

Likewise, CSS permits website specialists to take full control over the presence of their site and fix issues like text dimensions, hyperlinks, content and picture arrangements and catchphrase accentuation. It is critical that website specialists figure out how to compose and record their code legitimately so encourage CSS changes and enhancements.

2. Poor Design

There is various fundamental plan botches done while web outlining. Around tend to neglect poor outline focuses, for example, fundamental format association, imbalanced screens, and concentrate on the wrong substance, content design and general plan highlights.

A few creators offer much an excessive number of superfluous highlights and rather do not have the required data and invitation to take action to serve the perusers’ needs.

3.No mobile responsiveness design

The most recent test for website specialists is making the sites as intelligent and alluring for all screen sizes and cell phones.

This mix-up is a standout amongst the most critical on the rundown in light of the developing pattern of cell phones utilization to explore the web.

These days sites ought to be portable responsive, consequently re-changing the web architecture to fit diverse screen sizes and gadgets, for example, cell phones and tablets. Versatile responsive sites additionally rank better on Google web crawler.

4. Lack of alignment

A noteworthy segment in web outlining, the arrangement is considered as an underlying plan component and an absolute necessity to give a quality website architecture to customers. Ensure that all components of the site are likewise adjusted on portable and tablet screens.
Absence of arrangement illustration

The most imperative objective for a site page is for it to be unmistakably meaningful. Setting up your site pages to a uniform arrangement that makes it simpler for perusers to peruse the writings is very perfect. Being mindful of the arrangement is dependably something to be thankful for, particularly when you have perusers who see the scarcest pixel points of interest. The Terrible arrangement makes your site looks amateurish.

5. Too much color

Shading breathes life into website architecture components. Excessively numerous hues pressed into one space then again can have a negative effect. Including such an excessive number of hues on a single page isn’t the best way to pull in perusers. In all likelihood, this will head out potential perusers since everything turns outwardly messed upward and hard to communicate with.
A lot of shading sites

Shading is a standout amongst the most vital factors during the time spent web outlining. It will require investment and experimentations in picking the shading plan, so don’t be hesitant to test those warm and icy tones. Ensure that before you set up the last shading plans, it isn’t too noisy that it outwardly could frighten individuals off from your page, nor excessively dull for your perusers consideration.

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Once upon a time (2006), Jason Calacanis, entrepreneur and founder of the “human-powered” Mahalo search engine, famously declared SEO “dead.” Back then, social media networking was just starting to take off as a widespread mainstream and corporate marketing phenomenon. Of course, everybody at the conference where Calacanis uttered those immortal words was immediately outraged and even debated this argument with their colleagues around the water cooler after returning back to work.

Today, we’ve become accustomed to hearing numerous people utter some variation of these words (including Fathom’s Brad Miller) and seen SEO go through enough transformation and reputation swings from black magic ranking secret sauce to “It’s all about the content” that we’d no longer be shocked by the bold Calacanis proclamation of 8 years ago.

The lesson? He seemed to notice early that there was more to marketing than gaming Google, that social sharing was going to play an increasingly large role in the popularity of a website or a given piece of content. Along the same lines, I think his criticism of SEO was as much a critique of the way it was commonly practiced back then: Tricking Google for short-term gain.

As everyone knows, Google got smarter. Tricking it, though while still possible, takes much more effort and bares much more risk should you get caught. And not only can penalties shutter the gold mine that is organic traffic, but they can also threaten future indexing/ranking by putting the burden on the offender to actively remove “bad” links or otherwise undo damage that may have spread well beyond the actual website of the business in question. In other words, messing with Google often results in big messes.

Once upon a time (2006), Jason Calacanis, entrepreneur and founder of the “human-powered” Mahalo search engine, famously declared SEO “dead.” Back then, social media networking was just starting to take off as a widespread mainstream and corporate marketing phenomenon. Of course, everybody at the conference where Calacanis uttered those immortal words was immediately outraged and even debated this argument with their colleagues around the water cooler after returning back to work.

Today, we’ve become accustomed to hearing numerous people utter some variation of these words (including Fathom’s Brad Miller) and seen SEO go through enough transformation and reputation swings from black magic ranking secret sauce to “It’s all about the content” that we’d no longer be shocked by the bold Calacanis proclamation of 8 years ago.

The lesson? He seemed to notice early that there was more to marketing than gaming Google, that social sharing was going to play an increasingly large role in the popularity of a website or a given piece of content. Along the same lines, I think his criticism of SEO was as much a critique of the way it was commonly practiced back then: Tricking Google for short-term gain.

As everyone knows, Google got smarter. Tricking it, though while still possible, takes much more effort and bares much more risk should you get caught. And not only can penalties shutter the gold mine that is organic traffic, but they can also threaten future indexing/ranking by putting the burden on the offender to actively remove “bad” links or otherwise undo damage that may have spread well beyond the actual website of the business in question. In other words, messing with Google often results in big messes.

SEO for the long haul
How do you practice SEO in such an environment? By keeping the customer in mind.

Sure, SEO still requires attention to matters like load time, meta data, XML sitemaps, robots.txt files, URL redirects, schema markup and analytics code. After the tech-savvy stuff, you want to follow a few rules pulled from the ‘SEO as content marketing’ camp:

    Create invaluable content
    Make that content easy to discover, use and share
    Build the authority and authenticity of your brand

That’s it. If we take Google at its word (a struggle for some skeptics), content and brand authority are where it’s at. Long-term, that’s where smart marketers’ focus should be. Rand Fishkin of Moz may have put it best when he said recently at SMX West:

    The ‘find and abuse exploits’ era of SEO is ending. The only logical strategy today is to be so good that Google looks bad taking you out.

Here, here, Rand! Serve the customers, make your website (and overall Web presence) the attractive face of your business, and you should end up on the right side of the law … er, I mean, Google. Imagine Google penalizing a website due to some random or heavy-handed interpretation of its SEO policies … a common enough occurrence. Which business stands a better chance of quickly overcoming the hit, the one that was 99% in the clear and may have accidentally done one thing to run afoul of the ever-changing rules of the Web spam police, or the one that has an entire back catalog of calculated search-engine shenanigans documented on its site and around the Web?

Knowing when it’s wrong
If your goal with SEO is to serve users and build your business by doing great work and letting your customers know about it, then you’re fine. If your goal is to manipulate bots and algorithms, especially for short-term gain, then you’re ultimately harming your business more than helping it. Not sure of the difference? If you have to ask if Google wouldn’t approve, then you’re probably doing something wrong. Don’t do that. Be real, do proper SEO, and watch your business prosper.

http://www.fathomdelivers.com/blog/seo/real-seo-or-how-you-know-when-its-wrong/

Speaking of power, the recent creation of Google’s new parent company Alphabet indirectly underscores the ever-present potential search engines offer marketers. It’s not news, of course, that search advertising is madly profitable for Google, which makes the broader Alphabet possible by funding every offshoot from life extension research and Wi-Fi balloons to self-driving cars. What marketers sometimes fail to appreciate is why search is so profitable. At the risk of sounding overly simplistic, search is profitable because people search all the time, for everything. Furthermore, this reality does not appear to be changing anytime soon.

Think about it: Everybody searches. Grasping this simple fact should inspire you, as a marketer, to make your website and content the center of amazing experiences to visitors. The profitability of your best content, when packaged and positioned properly, is also directly enhanced by its visibility in search results. Plus, the act of searching is such an enduring force in people’s lives—personal, social, business—and the fact that so much of the world is googling for everything helps your content “get legs,” as they say in the business.

Also inspiring is when search visitors to your site are motivated visitors (i.e., predisposed to be interested in you or your offerings). Growing and catering to your ideal audience tends to grow your business’s bottom line over time. And traffic that flows from frequently searched top organic rankings is not necessarily limited to the short-term; some of Fathom’s most popular blog posts, for example, still get significant monthly traffic years after initial publication.

So, while the source of Google’s advertising riches allows marketers to pay for instant, ephemeral results, never forget the long-term value of SEO. Anybody skeptical about the merits of SEO today should look no further than the fact that Google recently advertised for a big-time internal SEO hire. If you consider all that goes into ranking factors, it should come as no great surprise why Google itself wants to be as strategic as possible with its own content. (For those who want to dig deeper into SEO strategy, Moz’s just-published “Search Engine Ranking Factors 2015” is a great place to start … as is my colleague Ryan Whiteside’s sharp take on the subject.)

As Google turns its eye to the long haul across its own organization with Alphabet, take a cue and strive to make your own content great to all those Google searchers looking for what you have.

http://www.fathomdelivers.com/blog/seo/hidden-seo-inspiration-alphabet-google/

I have been learning so much about SEO and how to maximize traffic on my blog so today I invited my blogging friend, Nathan–who also happens to be a professional at this sort of thing–to give us some simple tips for how to SEO a blog post. These tips are easier than you might think and you’ll notice a difference in your traffic right away!

SEO is a very tricky thing for bloggers.  Most of us started blogging because we wanted to share something.  Maybe it was a cool DIY project, a deal we found at the store, or possibly a recipe we found absolutely delicious.  But SEO was not something that we cared about.  We cared about writing compelling stories and sharing… That’s it.  Along the way, we realized that treating our blogs more like businesses and creating an audience (and a little bit of income) was important.  Then we heard about SEO and how using it correctly would help our blogs get more traffic from Google.  Well, that’s my story.  I have two blogs with a combined traffic of around 200,000 unique visitors.  Many of those visits come from Google and other search engines.  Over the years, I found it incredibly important to learn all I can about SEO and what I needed to be doing to make it easier to get more traffic from Google.  Now, after being a full time blogger for years, an AWESOME advertising agency in Louisville, Kentucky recruited me to do SEO for our clients!  I’m in a very unique position, being a blogger that cares deeply about my content and a professional agency SEO that works daily on large digital campaigns.

This post is going to touch upon four basic things you need to be doing every single time you post a blog post!  Before we get started I’m going to insist that you install or have your designer/tech install WordPress SEO by Yoast.  This plugin is an absolute MUST.  It will change the way you post on your blog and will really help your blog posts rank better. 

Step 1:
Select a Keyword for Your Post.  I cannot stress this enough, it’s critical.  Keyword selection is one of the most important things a blogger can do.  If you want to know the secret, here it is.  Once you’ve written a post, ask yourself this question: ‘What would I type into Google and expect to find this post?’  The goal of any keyword is to be as specific as possible.  It really shouldn’t be called a keyword, but a key-phrase because it’s rarely ONE word.  For example, I just made a yummy cauliflower pizza crust.  Now what should my keyword be?  Should it be cauliflower?  Should it be pizza crust?  Should it be pizza crust recipe?  If you typed those things into Google would you realistically expect to find my very specific recipe about cauliflower pizza crust?  Probably not.  For this post my keyword is not just cauliflower pizza crust, no, because that’s not what I’d type into Google either.  I’d type in cauliflower pizza crust recipe.  That exact phrase is what I would type into Google, and therefore, that is my keyword.

Step 2:
Select a title.  I ragged (very politely and with permission LOL) on a blogger a while back for posting an amazing post about cloth diapering, but then not mentioning the word diaper in her title.  I wrote a detailed blog post all about titles on my Ad Agency’s website.  (I often write about blogger SEO there, check it out!).  The basics of a GOOD SEO blog title are this:
    •    No cute titles….ever.  Be specific.
    •    Try, if possible, to use your Keyword as your title.  That is the best and most ideal scenario.
    •    Use power words.  Every niche is specific; in recipes the word ‘easy’ is huge!  Find your power words and use them in your titles.
Going back to my cauliflower pizza crust post, the title is identical to my keyword phrase.  Simple. 


Step 3:
Use keywords in your images.  Images present you with an amazing opportunity to signal to Google what your post is all about.  In WordPress, make sure to optimize your images.  I always make sure my keyword is in my ALT description.  This is not only important for SEO but also for Pinterest.  Make sure that whatever keyword you select is in EVERY ALT tag in the post.  Also another little trick, change your image file name to your keyword phrase!  Always use dashes (and not underscores) when doing this and you have another additional opportunity to get some great SEO juice!

Step 4:
Care about your meta description.  Meta descriptions are so very important to SEO. They are the text that describes the post to Google.  NO ONE sees them on your blog, they only appear on Facebook (if you show a preview), and on Google, and other search engines.  This is very important to understand because your metas need to be compelling advertisements for your post.  You want people to click into your post that have no idea who you are.  Write something interesting.  For example, a bad meta description for my post cauliflower post above would be something like. 
“Check out this cauliflower pizza crust recipes, it’s yummy.”

This meta captures so many good keywords and makes you WANT to check this recipe out.  (It is awesome btw, LOL).  Metas should take a little while to write, so put effort and thought into them.  In the meta above, I included many different keywords, paleo diet, cauliflower pizza crust recipe, healthy pizza crust.  All are possible search terms people might use. 

Nowadays it’s hard to make sense of precisely which apparatuses to utilize and which to disregard. Dread not, we’ve delineated 5 extraordinary SEO and SEM devices you shouldn’t live without in your everyday advertising endeavors.
Website optimization SpyGlass

Website optimization SpyGlass is an incredible instrument that makes backlink inquire about simply by looking at backlinks, and checking and investigating them. Keeping in mind the end goal to think about the nature of your backlinks, SpyGlass gives you a chance to look at changed sites while breaking down which the third party referencing designs are helping (or impeding) your rankings.

Search engine optimization spyglass outline dashboard

Summary dashboard makes it simple for you to send out information in any report arrange and tweak them any way you wish.

The Task Scheduler is another to a great degree helpful component of SEO SpyGlass, enabling you to computerize commonplace SEO undertakings and free up your opportunity for more critical undertakings. Most of the legwork essentially originates from setup. Subsequently, assignments are kept running on a period plan that you manage.

On the off chance that more than 500,000 individuals are using SEO SpyGlass, there’s unquestionably a reason.

Available as a major aspect of SEO Powersuite.
Shouting Frog SEO Spider

Shouting Frog is an apparatus we utilize as often as possible here at TM, particularly when leading SEO reviews for our customers. It expertly creeps sites, bringing URLS and different on location components, for example,

    Page Titles
    Meta Descriptions
    Meta Keywords
    H1s, H2s, and so forth
    Pictures

Through Screaming Frog you can discover broken connections, missing page titles and meta depictions, make XML Sitemaps, find copy site substance, and audit robots.txt, canonicals and rel=”next” and rel=”prev”.

Their broad User Guide additionally lets you know all that you have to know by including How To Guides, general data, setup alternatives, and also clarifies every tab that is created with each creep.

On the off chance that you require a hands-on once-over of how to utilize Screaming Frog or somewhat more enable making sense of every one of those tabs, to get in touch with us!
Spyfu

One of my undisputed top choice SEM apparatuses, the Spyfu name is consistent with its assertion. By entering your rival’s site into their basic pursuit bar, Spyfu creates an inside and out cover things like:

    Paid Search (AdWords)
    Inbound Clicks from Google – Organic versus Paid
    Natural Search
    Top Organic Competitors
    Top Paid Competitors
    Contender Shared Keywords
    AdWords History
    Natural Ranking History
    Inbound Links (Backlinks)
    Top Keywords and
    Top AdWords Buy Recommendations

The above rundown just blueprints some of Spyfu’s abilities. The reports are super inside and out, simple to peruse, and honestly way more broad than anything you’ll have the capacity to do yourself.

We cherish espresso here at TM, so obviously we looked into Starbucks!

Inside a single tick of a catch a plenty of data is accessible and readily available; all data that’ll enable you to enhance your next AdWords battle and substance system as well.

Google Keyword Planner

The Keyword Planner still is, and dependable has been, extraordinary compared to other instruments to use to get the most out of your SEM battles. With the Keyword Planner you can without much of a stretch:

Find new catchphrases and lead watchword look into

Via seeking words and expressions identified with your administrations and items, the Keyword Planner serves up just the most pertinent catchphrases. At that point, it’s dependent on you to pick the ones that are best for your business. You can pick these unquestionably by considering each offer gauge the Keyword Planner appears, perceive how frequently every watchword is sought, and their volume after some time.
Make an offer your watchword design

When you have an arrangement that suits your business needs, it’s anything but difficult to impart it to different advertisers in your specialty, or with the administration. After the arrangement is made, you’ll simply ahead and begin making advertisement gatherings and select offer sums!

We’ve expounded on it before in our post How to Do Basic Keyword Research for SEO and AdWords. To take in more about it, or in the event that you aren’t exactly prepared to hop heedlessly into Google Keyword Planner and need a couple of more catchphrase explore tips to begin with, head on finished to our blog.

SEMrush

SEMrush has manufactured a mind-boggling device with a lot of free data, despite the fact that it’s free for a restricted measure of questions before they provoke you to join.

    When you do, you’ll access:
    Area Analytics
    Watchword Analytics
    Tasks
    Hole Analytics
    Web optimization Content Templates
    Lead Generation Tools

Switch between desktop or portable perspectives to perceive how your site is performing in every region. The explanations (much like Google Analytics comments) at the base of the diagram are interactive, so you can better comprehend why there might have been a spike or plunge in natural movement through a specific day and age.

Head on finished to the SEMrush site to peruse their device, input a couple of questions of your own, and check whether it’s a decent match for your business!

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