Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Importance of SEO in digital marketing | Types | Simple explanation


                                      SEO (Search Engine Optimization):-

Search engine optimization (SEO) in digital marketing is the used of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to the  website through organic search engine results. SEO is all about optimizing the content and the visibility of the site at the top of the SERP results. SEO helps in ranking the organic results.



 Types of Search Engine Optimization (SEO):-

   1.White Hat SEO- White hat SEO in digital marketing use techniques and methods to improve the search engine rankings of content (organic results) or ranking of a website by following all the guideline and rules of search(mainly of google)

    2.Grey Hat SEO- Grey hat SEO in digital marketing use the techniques and methods to improve the search engine ranking of the website by following the rules and guidelines and sometimes do not use the rule set of search engine just to be ranked number one. So it can be said that it is balance between risk and reward.

    3.Black Hat SEO- Black hat Search Engine Optimization in digital marketing use the techniques and methods to improve the search engine ranking of the website and do not follow the rules and guidelines of the search engine mainly of (google) and it is implemented for the short time and easily captured by the search engine that it is false trick is being used. Its main aim is to be at the top for the short time.

Working of a search engine:-

The process of a search engine is divided into three steps:-
    1.       Crawling
    2.       Indexing
    3.       Retrieval

Crawling-  

Search engine have the bots and spider to perform crawling. Crawler visit a web page, read it and follow the links present on the web page to check their relevancy and add the URL of the web page to the index of search engine. After adding the URL to the index of the search engine, crawler regularly visits the sites for the updates or changes.

Indexing

Crawler crawls the web page and indexes it on the search engine. Index is like a book of web pages which contains the search related pages. If a web page is not on the index of a search engine then it will not be available on the search result of it.

Retrieval

This is the final step of search engine where relevant information is selected and gathered at the result page with particular order. Search engine use a particular algorithm (example Page rank)to find the genuine results.

 Techmiques of SEO:-

   ·   On-Page SEO
   ·   Off-Page SEO

On-Page SEO- Optimization or editing that can be done on website to get higer rank. Optimization include page title, meta description, internal linking etc. On page SEO is best when black hat technique is avoided. If done so then website can be identified as spam and can be penalized.


On-Page SEO mainly consists of following main elements:-

    1.       Title- The tile of the post or an article that will come on the organic results should be relevant to the top result that will help in ranking of the site. The length of the title should be of 60-70 letters including space.

     2.       Domain (URL):- The domain should be very short.

     3.       Meta Description:- Meta description is the complete details of the topic or article which consists of 160-170 words. The description must contain the words used in title and the words mostly used in the relevant searches.

   4.       Meta keyword:- Meta keywords are the words that are mainly used in the overall article, the words whose density and frequency is high are called keywords. The density of these keywords should not be more than 2% of the article length. These keywords can be of two types :-

(1)   Short tail keywords- Keywords having length less than or equal to 3 words are called short tail keyword.

(2)  Long tail keywords- Keywords having length of more than 3 words are called long tail keywords.

   5. Bounce rate:- It is mainly the time spent by an individual or user on the website or webpage. Early the user leave the site more the bounce rate. So the bounce rate should be less to be ranked high. Less bounce rate simply means higher traffic on the stie and search engine consider it as authentic and genuine site. The loading time of a site should be less than 8 seconds. It will reduce the bounce rate of the site.

To have low bounce rate one should have :-

(1)    Compressed images
(2)    Less java
(3)    Optimized page
(4)    Responsive site
(5)    Internal links
(6)    External links

    ·         Internal links/Inbound links:-
Internal links are also called inbound links. A website or webpage must contain internal links i.e links that are related to the topic or relevant to the topic being explained. For example if the article is about life insurance then internal links may be of term plan and traditional life insurance plan. The links should be relevant to the topic and should be within the site and no other website which is completely different from the topic being searched.

   ·         External links/Outbound links:-

External links are also called outbound links. These links takes a user to different website which may or may not be related to the searched topic.
Types of outbound links:-
(1)    Nofollow link
(2)    Dofollow link

Ø  Nofollow link:-

It does not have any relevancy in ranking of website instead it blocks the google PageRank flow.
A nofollow link has a rel=”nofollow” tag inside the code. It tells the spider no to follow the link.
For example:-
<a href=http://www.google.com/ rel=”nofollow”>google</a>

Ø  Dofollow link:-
It is the default link. There is nothing to add to the code it is by default as mentioned earlier.
When a link is made it is a dofollow link by default. It is searched by crawler and passes on the google PageRank from the website to the targeted webpage.
Example:-
<a href=http://www.google.com/>google</a>





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