Lately,some believe that SEO is becoming harder and harder to do successfully. Here at- we kind of agree. Soâ ¦ should you even do SEO now in 2019? The answer is of course you should. Why? Well,it’s still a fact that the majority of the searchers click on organic listings as opposed to paid listings. Therefore,if you want to reach the majority of the people,it’s time to get your SEO in order.
What I’m going to share with you today is what works and what doesn’t work this year in 2019 when it comes to SEO or search engine optimization. Before that though,think to yourself,do you consider yourself to be an SEO expert or an SEO beginner? I’m just wondering where you might be on the knowledge spectrum. Hopefully,no matter where you are; expert or beginner,you can glean some new knowledge from these tips.
Tip #1: Blogging drives a s***TON of traffic. Sadly I have to throw in a cliché here.. Content is King. So,do some blogging,that is,good blogging. Go deep with your topics and provide some value. Sadly though,there are a billion blogs out there right now. If you go just willy nilly writing a bunch of blog posts trying to rank certain keywords,it probably won’t work. Basically,regurgitating the same information over and over again in 2019 won’t produce any decent results. In your blogs,you need to create a new unique spin on topics. You need to write about things people haven’t necessarily seen. The key here is to focus on quality and not quantity. Instead of writing the same stuff every day,try writing unique stuff once a week or even once a month. If it’s something good,it will generate a ton of backlinks,social shares,comments,engagement and ultimatelyâ ¦. Traffic.
Tip #2 is to build a brand. Currently,there are a lot of sites out there creating fake news and Google doesn’t like that a whole lot. Instead,Google wants to see brand signals. They would rather rank brands for content because that builds trust. That means,you’ll need to be doing some brand marketing off line too so that people are searching for your brand as well as the content you are producing. Check out my brand -.
Tip #3: Link building is harder than ever. All the good guys are getting hit up a lot for links so naturally,they aren’t too keen on giving out yet another link to little ol’ you. Try using link intercept from ahrefs. If you find someone linking to several of your competitors,it’s time to try to get them to link to you as well.
Tip #4: Make sure your website is speedy and loads up quickly. Google has a mobile only search engine as well as one for laptop and desktop devices. If your site takes forever to load,the searcher is going to abort their mission. Try using Google Page Speed to diagnose your website’s loading time. It’s a free tool that will show you what you need to fix to load the site faster in the future.
Tips #5: Prepare for voice search. Voice search is becoming more and more popular. 2 out of every 5 adults are now using voice search to get the information they need from the Internet. The prediction is that by 2020,over 50% of the searchers will be using voice search. How do you optimize for voice search? Take the questions that you think people are asking and answer the questions in short sentences. The shorter you are with answers to their questions,the more likely you are going to rank for a voice search query. Another thing that helps with voice search is to have your site on https rather than http plus make sure it loads fast.
Tip #6: Update your content. Google is tired of ranking old outdated content. Update your content at least once a year because people are going to copy you so you want to stay unique,fresh and new.
So,that’s it. That is how you can get more search traffic in 2019.