Setting Realistic SEO Expectations
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Those who’ve been in the SEO business for a number of years know how much more competitive it is these days compared to a few years ago. The number of web pages indexed by search engines has doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in past years. On top of that, a good portion of website owners and webmasters know just enough SEO to be dangerous. In the golden age of Search engine optimization (SEO), the vast majority of websites hadn’t given a thought to the search engines, and when they did, it was only to place some keywords in their Meta tags. (Which, incidentally, didn’t help then either?) Those were the days when anyone who knew even the slightest bit about SEO could easily rank highly in all the major search engines, with very little effort. Even competitive areas were doable with just a little more work than their non-competitive counterparts.
The Competition Is Fierce
These days, it’s almost the exact opposite. Even keyword phrases that nobody’s searching for can sometimes be hard to obtain high rankings with unless you really and truly know what you’re doing. And even then, those rankings may be here one day and gone the next. The problem is puffed up for new businesses and new websites. If your website isn’t at least a few years old, your SEO efforts will be less likely to provide the results you want. This is one reason why your website optimization should always be seen as a long-term proposition.
It’s About Targeted Traffic, Not Rankings
As we move forward in this industry, webmasters, site owners, and SEOs need to move their focus from asking how they can get this keyword to this position in this engine to how they can get more targeted traffic and convert it into customers. Unfortunately, a large portion of those looking into SEO services are still seeing the small picture. For instance, on the contact form on our High Rankings site, I ask people to tell me a little bit about their “business goals.” A good number who fill it out want something like “top-5 rankings in Google and Yahoo for this keyword.” Huh? That’s not a business goal! A business goal is more like “Bring more people to my website who are searching online for the types of products we sell”
Even the best SEOs are not magicians. They can’t simply place a site at the top of the engines when there are hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of others that offer basically the same thing, and provide basically the same information. If they could, you’d see a whole lot more millionaire SEOs.
Does this mean that SEO is dead?
Absolutely not! But SEO that focuses on rankings for the most highly sought-after keywords in any given space is most surely dying. This doesn’t mean that you have to reconcile for keywords that receive few searches. It just means that you have to broaden your horizons and see the big picture.
Content for Content’s Sake
Most people don’t write their best content when trying to optimize AND create content at the same time. Once you have written something of genuine value that stands on its own merit, you can go back over the article as a second step and apply some
mild optimization. This is much easier than trying to optimize while creating your content at the same time.
There are EXCELLENT reasons to write higher quality content that will read well to your visitors. Best advice is to create content that is useful, reads well and that serves some legitimate purpose. Don’t stuff keywords in comment tags. Use comment tags in the manner in which the tag was designed to be used — to place comments about
the page itself. Don’t put keywords in comment tags at all.
Who is your “target audience”? When you write your Web site content, who are you focusing it on?
Have the search engines ever purchased anything from you? Forget the search engines! Focus on your customers! When you write content, write valuable content focused on your customers.
Don’t ever create a page just for the search engines.
The search engines are not (and probably won’t ever be) your customers. Keep your true customers in mind, and give THEM true value throughout your site and in your content.
Determine Your True Goals
So please…if your pet phrase isn’t ranking highly enough, don’t call me and don’t email me. In fact, don’t call or email *any* SEO company. Instead of calling, you need to reassess your goals. No SEO company in the world will be able to help you unless you are ready to forget about what you think you want, and learn more about what you really need. Read that last sentence again until you really understand it. Forget about what you think you want, and learn more about what you really need.
Beware of SEO Companies Who Will Tell You What You Want to Hear
And remember, there are plenty of SEO companies that will say they can do whatever you want them to do. You want to be #1 for “spring”? Sure, no problem. They will happily take your money, do some work, and promptly get no results. Don’t blame them though – they were just telling you what you wanted to hear.
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