A Guide to How SEO Ranking Works

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A Guide to How SEO Ranking Works

Businesses these days understand how important it is to be visible on the internet, helping them reach a wider global audience. Promoting products and services on the internet is essential in today's digital world. Search engine optimisation (SEO) is about driving traffic to your website without relying on paid advertising. It works to help potential customers find your website naturally, through organic search results. More than half the website traffic every day comes from organic results.

SEO is when you improve your ranking in search engine results pages (SERPs) without paying for adverts. It increases the chances of potential customers finding the products and services you provide. It is a powerful marketing tool that is cost-effective and offers a good return on investment in the long run.

Climbing the ladder to SEO success is still very misunderstood, due to the changing ranking factors. It is important to bear in mind that Google alone, introduces and updates their algorithms up to six hundred times every year.

What is Ranking in SEO?

SEO ranking is the position your website or web page has in SERPs when a user searches for products or services that you provide. The higher your website appears in results, the more likely your potential customers will see you. This boosts your brand awareness, drives quality traffic to your website, and helps to improve your sales.

Ranking is impacted by numerous factors including keyword research, back links, website content, site speed, and more. As a SEO expert, it is important to optimise all these factors to improve the websites ranking, helping to drive organic traffic to the site to achieve online success.

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How Do Search Engines Organise Results?

When we speak about search engines, we tend to focus on Google. Google holds the majority market share for search engines, managing almost nine billion searches daily. Google has crawler bots that finds, crawls, and indexes websites. Once a person searches for products, services, or information, Google pulls the index information to provide a relevant result.

This involves certain keywords and phrases. When you type a question or query into Google, you use keywords and phrases that helps the search engine identify what you are looking for and provide you with the best answers.

Your ranking position is where your website can be found in SERPs. While the rankings are not numbered, we often refer to them in numeric order. The aim is to get to first place on the first page of results. Results are organised based on relevancy. Google will place what they feel is the best results first with the less relevant being lower down the page, or spilling onto the second page.

How Do Search Engines Automatically Generate Results?

There are close to two billion websites active on the internet right now. This is a lot of information. It would be impossible to find what you need without the assistance of a search engine, such as Google. Google's ranking system is designed to sort through the billions of websites and content, identifying the most relevant, and providing it to you on their results pages.

Search algorithms focus on a number of signals and factors including:

In Conclusion

SEO remains an effective marketing tool that works to comply with the ranking factors used by Google, providing users with accurate and relevant results. Focusing on your keyword research, creating high quality content, making your website user friendly, offering expertise in your industry, and your location will provide you with a higher ranking, helping you reach your audience and drive quality traffic to your website.

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