Most people have a really good grasp of the fundamentals of the Real Estate industry. Many Americans will own a house at some time in their lives. Even if one never owns a home, they are likely to have considered buying a real estate at one time or another. There are very few milestone purchases like home buying and real estate is often the most scrutinized.
As such, most people are aware of the key variables that determine value in the Real Estate market: 1. Foundation 2. Structure 3. LOCATION
Foundation: Most folks understand that a house is built from the foundation up. If the foundation isn't solid, everything else can be compromised. The same is true of your SEO initiative, see: Austin SEO. A solid foundation is crucial to long-term success. And in SEO, keyword research is your foundation. Everything you do must be built upon it. Without an analysis of customer search behavior and the competitive landscape of the industry, an SEO program will lack the insight needed to get off the ground. Just like a house with a weak foundation.
Structure: While the foundation lays the building blocks of a solid property, it achieves little on its own. How many people do you know that live on a concrete slab? The value of the foundation is that it provides the base upon which a quality structure can be built. And the quality of the structure is ultimately just as important as the foundation in determining property value. As the three little pigs found out, a house made of straw holds no real value.
As we continue our analogy of SEO and real estate, your company website is the online version of a house, and Google is the both the appraiser and city code inspector. As such, Google and the other major search engines, will assess a wide range of checks on your website to determine its value, quality and relevance. Similar to the real estate market, layout and architecture are important components in the calculation of property value. The same is true for level of materials used in construction. From an SEO perspective, material components include things like:
1. Website coding: Best practices coding and structure is essential to enable Google to properly index every line of code on your online property.
2. Digital Content: The golden rule for the Internet, that content is king, is more important than ever. With keyword research and strategy analogous to a home's concrete foundation work, your content should be created in a way that delivers maximum SEO results via body content and other coding elements such as your page and meta titles, text headings, anchor text, etc. For example, if you have a page on your site related to web design, the content and wording on the page should be related to this phrase.
Location, Location, Location: The final piece of the property value equation is the location on which it has been built. External factors will always influence the value of a property. Even the most lavish property will fail to realize its true value if it is located in the slums. External elements such as crime rate and wealth of surrounding suburbs contribute significantly to property valuation.
Links of association also play a critical role in the search engine's ranking for a web asset. For a search engine optimization specialist, inbound links from high quality web sites will improve your company's value in the ranking calculation. Every day, almost in real-time, the major search engines gather and assess the links to each website. This is the primary way search engine's like Google will determine relevance of an Internet user's search phrase to the content on your website. If your site is associated with the Internet's version of bad neighborhoods like link farms, you can't expect search engines to give you anything more that a temporarily higher ranking.
Top Google rankings do not happen by accident. If you want to prove to the search engines that your company should show up at the top of search results, make sure your website, its content and your link building efforts are focused quality over quantity.
As such, most people are aware of the key variables that determine value in the Real Estate market: 1. Foundation 2. Structure 3. LOCATION
Foundation: Most folks understand that a house is built from the foundation up. If the foundation isn't solid, everything else can be compromised. The same is true of your SEO initiative, see: Austin SEO. A solid foundation is crucial to long-term success. And in SEO, keyword research is your foundation. Everything you do must be built upon it. Without an analysis of customer search behavior and the competitive landscape of the industry, an SEO program will lack the insight needed to get off the ground. Just like a house with a weak foundation.
Structure: While the foundation lays the building blocks of a solid property, it achieves little on its own. How many people do you know that live on a concrete slab? The value of the foundation is that it provides the base upon which a quality structure can be built. And the quality of the structure is ultimately just as important as the foundation in determining property value. As the three little pigs found out, a house made of straw holds no real value.
As we continue our analogy of SEO and real estate, your company website is the online version of a house, and Google is the both the appraiser and city code inspector. As such, Google and the other major search engines, will assess a wide range of checks on your website to determine its value, quality and relevance. Similar to the real estate market, layout and architecture are important components in the calculation of property value. The same is true for level of materials used in construction. From an SEO perspective, material components include things like:
1. Website coding: Best practices coding and structure is essential to enable Google to properly index every line of code on your online property.
2. Digital Content: The golden rule for the Internet, that content is king, is more important than ever. With keyword research and strategy analogous to a home's concrete foundation work, your content should be created in a way that delivers maximum SEO results via body content and other coding elements such as your page and meta titles, text headings, anchor text, etc. For example, if you have a page on your site related to web design, the content and wording on the page should be related to this phrase.
Location, Location, Location: The final piece of the property value equation is the location on which it has been built. External factors will always influence the value of a property. Even the most lavish property will fail to realize its true value if it is located in the slums. External elements such as crime rate and wealth of surrounding suburbs contribute significantly to property valuation.
Links of association also play a critical role in the search engine's ranking for a web asset. For a search engine optimization specialist, inbound links from high quality web sites will improve your company's value in the ranking calculation. Every day, almost in real-time, the major search engines gather and assess the links to each website. This is the primary way search engine's like Google will determine relevance of an Internet user's search phrase to the content on your website. If your site is associated with the Internet's version of bad neighborhoods like link farms, you can't expect search engines to give you anything more that a temporarily higher ranking.
Top Google rankings do not happen by accident. If you want to prove to the search engines that your company should show up at the top of search results, make sure your website, its content and your link building efforts are focused quality over quantity.
About the Author:
Aaron Kaiser is the Business Development Director for Web Design Austin SEO, www.WebDesignAustinSEO.com, a firm that provides search engine optimization, web development and design services in the Austin metro area and throughout Texas.
