FYI, if you can not retain your visitors, you won't get to far with your website. Check out this blog post before commenting.
Quote: For the past couple months, I've been on a mission. I've been placing SEO and the psychosis of rankings on the back burner.
For what in return you ask? To better the user experience.
I had spent years placing all my concern SEO-ing sites to the fullest to maximize traffic potential. At the end of the day I realized that hordes of traffic mean nothing if they don't convert.
During SES Chicago, there was definitely a resounding theme. You have to think more about your visitor than you have in the past. It isn't always about a throng of visitors. As I've worked to create a better and more meaningful user experience for my clients' site visitors, I noticed that time and time again, my clients keep making simple mistakes that... Continued at: http://searchenginewatch.com/article...ng-the-Visitor
Please share your thoughts on this blog post. Keeping your visitors in your website is one of the toughest challenges that you will encounter as you implement SEO. According to google, the average bounce rate of most of the websites falls between 40% to 60%. So over all, if someone's bounce rate if below 40%, he's really doing well and the same is true vice-versa. Re-look your strategy if it's beyond 65%-70%. hi
if one is offering good content and service then its not much difficult to retain visitor to the website. Whilst I agree with everything he's saying (give or take), the thing I find strange is that he considers retaining a visitor to be "beyond SEO", surely this is a core part of any SEO strategy.
What's the point in 1000 daily visitors who leave the site without completing an action? I would always prefer 100 but 10 do buy, or sign up. I would consider SEO to be just how the search engines find you, nothing more (
Quote: For the past couple months, I've been on a mission. I've been placing SEO and the psychosis of rankings on the back burner.
For what in return you ask? To better the user experience.
I had spent years placing all my concern SEO-ing sites to the fullest to maximize traffic potential. At the end of the day I realized that hordes of traffic mean nothing if they don't convert.
During SES Chicago, there was definitely a resounding theme. You have to think more about your visitor than you have in the past. It isn't always about a throng of visitors. As I've worked to create a better and more meaningful user experience for my clients' site visitors, I noticed that time and time again, my clients keep making simple mistakes that... Continued at: http://searchenginewatch.com/article...ng-the-Visitor
Please share your thoughts on this blog post. Keeping your visitors in your website is one of the toughest challenges that you will encounter as you implement SEO. According to google, the average bounce rate of most of the websites falls between 40% to 60%. So over all, if someone's bounce rate if below 40%, he's really doing well and the same is true vice-versa. Re-look your strategy if it's beyond 65%-70%. hi
if one is offering good content and service then its not much difficult to retain visitor to the website. Whilst I agree with everything he's saying (give or take), the thing I find strange is that he considers retaining a visitor to be "beyond SEO", surely this is a core part of any SEO strategy.
What's the point in 1000 daily visitors who leave the site without completing an action? I would always prefer 100 but 10 do buy, or sign up. I would consider SEO to be just how the search engines find you, nothing more (