With a well-designed cornerstone strategy, the user should be able to click straight from your homepage to your cornerstone articles and sub-cornerstone pages. All of your posts about similar topics should link back to their corresponding cornerstone articles, so its importance is clear from your site structure.
Web Vitals helps make up the page experience ranking factors, including:
• Mobile-friendliness—whether or not your site is optimized for mobile.
• HTTPS—is your site using a secure connection?
• Interstitial use–does your site stay away from nasty pop-ups?
These new user-centered metrics take into account everything a user experiences on a website to try to come up with a more holistic view of your site’s performance.
Keyword research is the process of finding and analyzing search terms for online optimization (SEO). It can identify the popularity of queries and their ranking difficulty—which translates to their cost per click (CPC) and the bids’ affordability for you. It helps identify the keywords for which your audience is searching. Keyword research can be confusing, but it’s the most important part of your online advertising (PPC) campaign. Getting this right is essential.
Google Ranking Factors: Posting daily or at any specific frequency doesn’t help with ranking better in Google search results. But the more pages you have in the Google index, the more your content may show up in search results. The key equalizer is the quality of your content and getting that content indexed.
Off-page SEO is an essential part of a successful SEO strategy—it’s the activity that’s OFF your website’s pages. It’s your total online and offline presence. It’s your social media sites where you’re posting on a consistent basis. It includes podcasts and the reviews you’re getting on your Google Business Profile. If you’re not into endless self-promotion, asking for reviews can be uncomfortable. Get over it. All of us are reading reviews these days before making both big and small decisions.
Google Ranking Factors: Posting daily or at any specific frequency doesn’t help with ranking better in Google search results. But the more pages you have in the Google index, the more your content may show up in search results. The key equalizer is the quality of your content and getting that content indexed.
What is pillar page SEO?
Pillar page SEO means identifying keywords you want to rank for and using these throughout your pillar page strategy. This is what it’s all about. Use those keywords in your headings, subheads and other text. Be sure to assign H1 and H2 tags to these headings. Be consistent—use these words throughout all of your online accounts.
While your persona is fictional, it’s based on your own research into what your existing and/or desired audience looks like.
While the buyer persona details may vary, they all include demographic information and behavior patterns. Personas are a very useful tool that help small business owners identify their customers.
Once your pillar page is in place, it’s time to start developing the topic clusters, or subpages and blogs, that will provide more details about that topic. These are supplemental materials that support your pillar page. A subpage provides the opportunity to expand on what you’ve highlighted on your pillar page. It also needs to be fairly comprehensive—think 2500 words. These subpages take the form of text, infographics, videos, a guidebook or ebook. This is where you get creative and attract your users. They can be fun and entertaining, and tell a story.
A Pillar page is a 3,000-word-plus piece of content that lives as a main navigation page of your website. It covers one overall topic in depth and links to sub-pages of related content.
A pillar content strategy is designed around high-value pillar […]