One of the worst things you can do is take action based on wrong assumptions. There are situations where logic does not apply and basing decisions on logic can have adverse consequences. SEO is the same, and there are assumptions that can get you in trouble. Here are three of them: All organic traffic is the same While it can be true that all organic traffic is the same, most of the time, it is not. Which is why simply doubling your organic traffic will not double your sales. This is why it is important to see what page generates your most valuable traffic and focus on that, rather than all traffic to your website. Outranking the competition A lot of clients always have one specific goal when it comes to SEO: they want to outrank the competition. While it is good to be competitive, it is foolish to divert resources away from the larger plan to increase conversions and growth, to outrank another company for a single keyword phrase. The tools are accurate One of the most damaging myths is that the keyword tools, especially the one provided by Google, are accurate. These are just estimates based on past data and future prediction. Also, the click-through rates, even for position one are as low as 12%, so staking out marketing targets based on these numbers is a bad...
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When a blog is started, often SEO is not of the top priorities. As a result SEO is neglected and then a lot of work has to be done later. This is harder when you have hundreds of older posts. The best way around this is to follow some best practices early on. Here are a three: On page SEO The best way to maintain quality content is to apply SEO to it after it is written. Do keyword research on the topics in your article and then try to apply related search phrases into the article. Use search terms in your headings subheadings and within the body. You can also modify the title to reflect common search terms. This way the link to the article will also contain the keywords, which is one of Google’s ranking signals. Encourage sharing Backlinks are still the most important method of ranking higher in search engines. One of the best ways to get backlinks is to make sure as many people see your articles. Encourage users to share the content with social sharing buttons and incentives. The more people that see and share your content, the more likely someone who has a blog is going to link to it. Incentives could be a free related pdf for those who share on a given social platform. Market the content This is a little more time consuming but has a high effort to reward ratio. Go to competing websites and find where they get links from. Contact those webmasters and ask them to consider linking to your article. This requires that your content is better than the one they are already linking...
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