Understanding Off Page SEO

Off Page SEO

The next type of SEO that you should concern yourself with is off-page search engine optimization. This is everything you do off your website to bring people to your website. That is also SEO. Let’s look at the four types of off page SEO

Trust

There is almost nothing more important to your success than trust. If you lose the trust of your audience, you lose sales and any authority standing. But, if you do what you say you will do and don’t disappear for long periods, you can build trust.

• Are Shares/links showing authority? – When you share anything, ensure that it comes from a reliable source if it’s not from you. If it’s from you, double-check your data to be sure that you are correct.

• Are you engaging with audience? – When you post anything anywhere, do you answer questions, share other things from your audience, and get involved? Don’t forget that engagement helps build trust.

• Site Age — One thing that search engines like Google use to rank a website is the age of the domain. They assume if it’s around for a long time it must be something important, real, trustworthy, and relevant. You can buy older domains but check them out. You wouldn’t want to accidentally buy an old domain that disappointed someone or broken the law.

• Reconsider Advertisements – Depending on the type of site you have, pay attention to how your audience views ads. Many people won’t revisit sites that have lots of ads because they tend to make computers crash. What does your audience want?

You can build trust by sharing authoritative and accurate content that you have created and that others have created. Just ensure that you double check any facts, are ready to answer questions, and you can back up what you say before you do it.

Links

One way to build up traffic to your website is through link building. That means that there are links going into your website from another website. For example, your LinkedIn.com profile has a link to your website. There are some important factors to consider before getting started with link building.

• Who is linking to you? – First, look at who is linking to you. You want to ensure that every one that is linking to you is a legitimate site, with legitimate reasons for existing.

• Are they high quality? – If the links are high quality, that’s great. The best links come from truly legitimate websites especially educational or news related sites. But, websites that have been around a long time and have a big audience work too.

• Are links and anchor text thoughtful keywords? – Ensure that when someone is linking to you, such as via a guest post, or via other means, that it’s a good keyword to ensure that you get more clicks.

• How many people are linking to your site? – Another factor about linking is that the more links you get the better. However, they still need to be high quality and built in a natural way. That’s why article-marketing sites don’t exist anymore.

• How to get more – To get more links, find authoritative websites or blogs to guest post on. Send a letter to them with a post idea that you can write. Let them know when you’ll send it from the time they agree and then stick to that.

It’s very important that you never pay for a link. Avoid link farms and spam. Getting links back to your website should be a natural result of the work you do on social media, guest posting, conducting webinars, interviews and more.

Geography

Another factor that is important when it comes to SEO is geography. In some cases, you won’t want the search engine to index you geographically. This could keep some of your audience from ever finding you. But, don’t overlook the importance of geography.

You can use both your country and your individual locality by using those terms within your website. Put your address at the bottom of every page, mention things about your area within your blog posts, and make it a priority to mention your local area or your country if you want to be indexed accordingly.

Social

This is by far one of the most important off page SEO tactics. Using social media effectively can do wonders for your website traffic. But, you have to come up with a good plan of action and see it through rather than just getting on social media and posting willy-nilly.

Look at your social shares and find out who is sharing your content. You want to ensure that they’re reputable and if they are, you can surely get more people to share it. But the biggest key to getting others to share is to ask them.

• Grow Your Followers – Run a contest, a give a way, or other event to build your followers on the social media platform you’re trying to promote and build.

• Ask People to Share – When you share anything on social media, ensure that no matter how far it’s shared that it will lead back to you and ask people to share. If you don’t ask, they won’t do it.

• Keep Your Content Optimized – People will click on your content, often by chance. Make sure you’ve optimized it as much as you can. Check page titles, meta descriptions, alt tags, and so forth. Make it the best you can.

• Follow Influencers – You may need to follow influencers before they’ll follow you. Mention their name in posts, and call them out so that they notice you. Don’t be a pest, but identify the influencers you most want to mention you and find a way to stand out.

• Keep Your Brand Solid – Try not to go off brand and lose your voice on social media. It’s easy to get mixed up with your personal accounts and your business accounts, but don’t cross them. Instead, practice your brand voice, and keep true to your brand.

Social media is an amazing opportunity for big and small business. There are people who have become millionaires by using Instagram creatively and strategically. Use social media to push people toward your website and you can’t go wrong.

Search engine optimization can mean the difference between success and failure. If you really want to get a lot of targeted traffic to your website then take a look at your on and off page search engine optimization. It’s not hard, just go through the list, improve one thing at a time and soon you’ll see a huge difference in your traffic.