What To Do When Your Webpage Doesn’t Rank

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Today, I will talk about what should we do if our webpage does not rank. As a marketer, we should know the importance of SEO for marketing. Most of the website traffic is from searching. And SEO can help the website build trust and credibility. So the rank of our webpage is really important for our business. I will list 4 tips to increase the webpage rank below.

#1. Understand the Ranking Algorithm

Before we try to increase our webpage rank, the first thing is that we should know the ranking algorithm, and then we can target the algorithm to make changes. The most famous ranking algorithm is the Google algorithm, I would not go into the details of the algorithm here, it cannot be explained clearly in few sentences, we can find it from websites easily. Here is a link that may help you. https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/algorithms/

However, we should pay attention to the changing of the Google algorithm, it often changes.

#2. Optimize for Your Keyword

We need to set up keywords for our website to help people can find our webpage. We need a core keyword and a set of keywords that are related to searcher’s goals. When we got the keywords for our website, if our webpage ranking always low, we need to use some websites to help us to optimize our keywords. Here is a link that can help us explore keywords: https://moz.com/explorer

#3. Creating High-quality Webpages

1. short load times

Searchers do not have patience, if your website loading time is too long, they will switch to competitors’ websites. If our webpage does not rank we can find whether our loading time is too long, and here is a tool to test the loading speed of the website.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

2. content

I’d like to mention three points about content – fresh content, quantity content, and quality content.

Fresh content means we should put the newest on our website and update the webpage regularly. In this way, the search engines can recognize we are an active and reputable company.

Quantity content -the number of pages and words also important for our webpage. We should know that it is better to include at least 100 words of content on our webpage.

Quality content -We should know that search engines cannot measure quality directly. So there are no clear requirements for a high-quality webpage. However, if we find our webpages do not rank, we should realize that we have to increase the quality of content.

#4. Have the most Authoritative Person to Create Content

http://www.e-prophetic.com/articles/authority/

In this section, I would say we should invite famous or credible people to create content to meet searchers’ demands.

Whether it is searchers, visitors or Google, they all will think our webpage is credible because of our content from a famous and authoritative person. So if our ranking always bad, we can try to find an authoritative person to create content for our webpage.

References：

  1. Gabbert, E. (2019). How to Rank for a Keyword in 10 Steps. [online] Wordstream.com. Available at: https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2012/11/14/how-to-rank-for-a-keyword [Accessed 26 Oct. 2019].
  2. Michigan Technological University. (2019). Five Ways to Improve your Site’s Ranking (SEO). [online] Available at: https://www.mtu.edu/umc/services/digital/seo/ [Accessed 26 Oct. 2019].
  3. Coyle, J. (2019). Why Your Website Doesn’t Rank Well. [online] Marketingaiinstitute.com. Available at: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/blog/why-your-website-doesnt-rank-well [Accessed 26 Oct. 2019].
  4. BuildFire. (2019). 15 Reasons Google Doesn’t Rank Your Site (And How To Fix It). [online] Available at: https://buildfire.com/reasons-google-doesnt-rank-site-and-fix-it/ [Accessed 26 Oct. 2019].
  5. BuildFire. (2019). 15 Reasons Google Doesn’t Rank Your Site (And How To Fix It). [online] Available at: https://buildfire.com/reasons-google-doesnt-rank-site-and-fix-it/ [Accessed 26 Oct. 2019].

5 Ways to Increase Landing Page Conversions

We face countless landing pages in daily life, some pages make us feel attractive and comfortable but others make us want to turn off as soon as possible, why? 

I did not think the reason deeply but now I understand the factor that good landing pages need to have from marketing management class. In this blog, I will introduce the 5 ways to increase landing page conversions. I hope it can help you to create an excellent landing page. 

1. Attention-driven design

-Visual hierarchy 

Visual hierarchy means using a way to show the important content or element intentionally. I want to mention two principles in this section-size and contrast. If we want customers to notice the information or content that we want to show, we should make it bigger and colorful on our landing page, so it can attract customers. For example, as the below showing:

https://visme.co/blog/visual-hierarchy/

-Be a Minimalist

When we design a landing page, we should keep an idea that less is more. Because more content means more distraction for customers. For example, sometimes we just need to show a button for people to let them click without any thinking and choosing. 

2. Content match

The content displayed in the ad link should be obvious on the landing page. In addition to product content matching, you should show the pre-click promise, such as the discount rate, the free delivery or special events. If you show totally different content on your landing page, people will doubt they click false one. Also, people click the ad link because they see something they are interested in, if they do not see related information or that product after clicking the link, they will feel disappointed and uncomfortable.

3. Clarity 

We should present everything clearly. When we build a landing page, first we have to assume that people do not know anything about us, and then we should think about what we want to offer, why customers want to pick us and what do we want people to do next. We should provide our information definite and explicit. Even if only a few people think our landing page does not clearly, we should think about rebuilding the page. 

4. Testing

How can we know is our landing page clear?  We should test it. 
First, we need to identify important elements to test and find proper testing tools. Next, according to the testing content, we should choose A/B or multivariate testing. Finally, after the testing, we should follow-up on the results and update the landing page. Here is an example of what content we need to test.

5. Credibility

“Silence is better than bullshit” 

https://www.stukent.com/expert-sessions/the-7-principles-of-conversion-centered-design/

If we have evidence to show our credibility, like customers’ positive reviews or our award, we can list it. If we do not have, please do not lie. We can be sincere and keep real when we promote our products. Customers can accept “novices” but can’t tolerate lies. 

And then there are two things that will “kill” our credibility. Wrong words and grammar, and unrealistic headlines. We must avoid these mistakes. It is fatal to a landing page. 

Generally speaking, a lot of principles that can help us to make an excellent landing page, in this blog, I just mentioned 5 ways to increase landing page conversions, attention-driven design, content match, clarity, testing, and credibility. 

References:

Patel, N. (2019). 4 Landing Page Credibility Killers You Should Eliminate Right Now. [online] Neil Patel. Available at: https://neilpatel.com/blog/4-landing-page-credibility-killers-you-should-eliminate-right-now/.

Saleh, K. (2019). How To Test Your Landing Pages [Infographic]. [online] The Invesp Blog: Conversion Rate Optimization Blog. Available at: https://www.invespcro.com/blog/test-landing-pages/ [Accessed 11 Oct. 2019].

Lile, S. (2019). 12 Visual Hierarchy Principles Every Non-Designer Needs to Know. [online] Visual Learning Center by Visme. Available at: https://visme.co/blog/visual-hierarchy/ [Accessed 11 Oct. 2019].

Gardner, O. (2019). The 7 Principles of Conversion Centered Design – Stukent. [online] Stukent. Available at: https://www.stukent.com/expert-sessions/the-7-principles-of-conversion-centered-design/ [Accessed 11 Oct. 2019].