Monday, September 17, 2012
Real Estate is an industry most people have a relatively good grasp of. Almost everyone will own a home at some point in their life. And even if they don't, they're likely to have researched it seriously. Few purchases in life are as heavily scrutinized as a property.
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 people realize that a home is constructed from the foundation up. If a home's foundation is not sound, the entire house could become unstable. The same is true of your SEO strategy, see: (Austin SEO). A solid foundation is critical to long-term success. And in search engine optimization, keyword analysis and research is foundation of your company's SEO plan. All your Internet marketing efforts should be built upon it. Without an analysis of consumer search patterns and the competitive landscape of your local market, an SEO program will lack targeting needed to make is sustainable over the long term, just like a house with a poor 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. Web site content: The old adage that content is king is as relevant as ever. And with the appropriate foundation work (keyword research), your content can be crafted to deliver maximum SEO impact via body content and other on-page elements (page titles, headings, anchor text etc). For example, if you have a page on your site related to Austin 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.
Want to prove to Google that you live in a good location? Make sure your link building efforts are focused on the acquisition of quality links.
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 people realize that a home is constructed from the foundation up. If a home's foundation is not sound, the entire house could become unstable. The same is true of your SEO strategy, see: (Austin SEO). A solid foundation is critical to long-term success. And in search engine optimization, keyword analysis and research is foundation of your company's SEO plan. All your Internet marketing efforts should be built upon it. Without an analysis of consumer search patterns and the competitive landscape of your local market, an SEO program will lack targeting needed to make is sustainable over the long term, just like a house with a poor 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. Web site content: The old adage that content is king is as relevant as ever. And with the appropriate foundation work (keyword research), your content can be crafted to deliver maximum SEO impact via body content and other on-page elements (page titles, headings, anchor text etc). For example, if you have a page on your site related to Austin 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.
Want to prove to Google that you live in a good location? Make sure your link building efforts are focused on the acquisition of quality links.
About the Author:
Aaron Kaiser is the Business Development Director for Web Design Austin SEO, an www.WebDesignAustinSEO.com firm that provides search engine optimization, web development and design services in the Austin metro area and throughout Texas.