SEO services have become the hot topic with many digital marketing companies around the World, but who should you trust in the Wellington SEO market? Unfortunately many local digital marketing agencies and website design companies rely on external SEO analysts and link generating organisations based outside of NZ. This comes with a lot of risk for your business, of which most business owners will be completely unaware of until something goes wrong.
Search engine optimisation (or SEO), is the process of search terms and keywords that your potential clients look for with the goal to improve how high your website places in search results. Although the main focus in New Zealand is Google, effective SEO will improve your website rankings across the entire range of search engines that people use including Bing and some of the smaller directories.
In order to improve the ranking of your website there are 4 essential areas to work on:
On Page SEO work will focus on identifying what keywords people search for relating to your product or service.
These are often the factors that a website developer (not designer) would look at. Because many web designers lack developer knowledge, there are often a number of improvements in this section. Technical elements will often look at any issues a ‘bot’ might uncover when trying to navigate the website which may raise concern with the search engine when considering if it should send human searchers here, or if there are issues that would impact on their ability to look at information on the site.
One of the most important things to understand is that search engines are, by design, built to deliver the most relevant content to the person searching based on their search query.