93 per cent of all website visits, searches and shopping begin with a search engine.
You may have come across the term onpage SEO service when it comes to digital marketing and wondered what it meant. At first, it may seem like a technical term that doesn’t apply to you and best left for your website developers. Not true! If you have a website, you should be prioritising onsite optimisation and your SEO- always!
57% of B2B marketers stated that SEO generates more leads than any other marketing initiative.
Below, you’ll find what you need to know about my onpage SEO service and how to start applying it to your website today.
What is onsite optimisation?
Onsite optimisation is one of the key factors that make up Search Engine Optimisation (also known as SEO). It is the process of optimising your website by adjusting certain elements to make it search engine friendly.
The following are common steps to take when optimising your website for search engines. Not forgetting all these steps need rigorous SEO keyword research undertaken to make sure you are actually optimising your site for words that people will actually look for.
Optimising your page titles and descriptions (keyword optimisation)
The first thing a search engine analyses when crawling your website is the page title and description. The general rule is, make the title length up to 60 characters and the description below 150 characters.
Ensuring that your website is mobile friendly
Most people who visit your website will do so from a mobile phone. In fact, more than half of the people reading your website are viewing it on their mobile (or tablet). So it is a great idea to make sure your website performs well (and looks good) on mobiles. You can make use of Google’s mobile-friendly test to analyse your website’s mobile friendliness. This onpage SEO tool will grade your website and offer avenues for improvement.
Setting up internal links
Internal links allow users to navigate your website and if they are not well set up, your page visitors may not get to see all the juicy resources and information you have to offer. As well as your services or products that you have that solves the very problem your viewer has come to your website for. It is no longer enough to have links in the main navigation, internal links can also be used to link readers to relevant blog posts and pages on your site.
Optimising your page speed and trust score
A faster website boosts user experience and page speed is a major factor in onsite optimisation. You can make use of Google’s page speed insights to find out how to speed up your web pages. Images need to be the right size and not delay loading time.
Publishing SEO blog posts regularly
Updating your blog regularly encourages people to visit and boosts your index rankings. People won’t come back to your blog/website if there is nothing new for them to see. Your posts should prioritise SEO but also written in a style that your readers enjoy. Some people say you only need to blog four times a year for Google to recognise you post fresh content but I’m a firm believer in posting two to six times per month.
What is offsite optimisation?
Search engine optimisations that can be performed away from your website are known as offsite optimisations (or off page optimisation). This is a blanket term that refers to actions you take to promote your website online asides from advertising.
Offsite optimisation is comprised of three major factors of importance: authority, trustworthiness and relevance. Here is a useful diagram on the sorts of things that Google supposedly bases their ranking algorithm on. This usually involves:
Link building
This is the process of increasing your website’s trust level by having links pointing to your website from other notable websites. You may also see this referred to as backlinking. As a copywriter, I don’t offer this sort of technical or backend SEO so it’s best to work someone who looks after the technical aspects AS WELL AS nailing your onsite optimisation.
Social media marketing
Posting updates on social media and building a following who are then directed to your website.
Which is more important?
Ideally, you’ll need both to rank high in search engines and get on the first page of Google. However, you can start out with onsite optimisation which is considered the foundation before progression offsite. Remembering that 75 per cent don’t scroll past the first pageof search engines when Googling something.
Is a copywriter right for onpage SEO?
Whilst not all copywriters are trained and experienced in SEO, I definitely am!
We’ve covered the importance of publishing SEO blog posts regularly, however, this is easier said than done. Trying to do the whole work yourself can lead to mental fatigue and you may end up publishing posts that turn your readers away. Plus, it’s one thing to write but it’s quite another to apply SEO best practices to your writing without making it sound clunky and keyword stuffed. Professional writers know how to make your content SEO friendly; flow smoothly and still sound fantastic. They also make sure that your content is well researched error free and optimised with the right H1 and H2 (or even H3 and H4) values.
Here is what my onpage SEO service generally includes:
- copyediting and proofreading posts and existing page copy
- updating headings, titles, subtitles, tags
- internal and external hyperlinks
- image optimisation
- appropriate formatting
- applying SEO best practices
- meta data descriptions.