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An SEO Indian summer in Croydon?

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So, the weather in sunny old Croydon has taken a turn and it is not so sunny any more. However, the same cannot be said for the Google outlook. The search engine company has been busy making amendments to its algorithms and this has been playing havoc with sites search engine results.

What is the SEO Forecast?

Using some of our popular insight tools such as Mozcast and algoroo we can see that the search engine giant has been making some significant changes peaking on 21 August with a temperature of over 100°. So, what does this mean to you? Well the higher the temperature, the higher the reported cases of changes to keyword results on excellent many analysed websites. So, some results may go down and some results may go up depending on what these changes are.

Here at Smart Cow Marketing we are noticing a trend over the past three months whereby towards the last third of each month Google has made a significant change to the search engines producing a spike in the results. So, we recommend keeping an eye out using Moscow last towards the end of each month to see if any of your site keywords have been affected.

This obviously makes work harder to keep on top with what impact the changes are and how best to optimise the site for specific keywords. Google will never release the details of the changes to their algorithms whether it be to pander or to Penguin but through feedback to many other online marketeers we can tend to get an idea of what these changes are.

We have certainly noticed some differences with some of the keywords that we have placed specifically to do with businesses based in Croydon and Surrey and seeing how their results have fluctuated. But trying to identify whether this is through on-site changes or more probably offsite links will be quite challenging. The thing that we most fervently adhere to go is to make sure whatever method we use will always be a white hat (ethically correct) technique. We realised that whatever tricks you may try to do to pull the wool over Google’s eyes there will be an update before too long to counter this. So, whatever we do we will always look to make sure that we produce good ethical links and content for all of our clients.

This, it must be said, is also true to many other search engine optimisation businesses and we are particularly impressed with the high ethical attitude shown to many of our competitors, and long may this remain.

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If you’re at all interested in increasing the performance of your business online and are based in London, Croydon, Surrey then we are always more than happy to have a chat about how we can help get the solution that best suit you. You can contact us on 020 3137 1826 or request a Free online business report from Smart Cow.

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Why your website needs a site map

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Smart Cow website tips

Search engine optimisation is a key success factor when you intend to create a successful and great website. It takes every option and feature of your website into consideration. In order to optimise your website perfectly, you need to take care of search engine optimisation for your website from the ground up. There are some other aspects of your website that can be very important for improvement.

One of these aspects is your site map. The site map is not only good for SEO, but it is a very important part of your website for many other reasons. Therefore, you can’t disregard the importance of creating a professional site map for your website especially if you a target a specific locations such as: Purley or Surrey.

Overview of your website

The site map you create for your website offers guests an overview of your website and what it is all about. This is important for ranking your website in the different search engines. How and Why? The answer is very simple. The easier your guests can access the website information, the happier they react with your website frequently. A Search engine optimised site map allows a very quick and easy navigation for your website. Your guests can gather a good idea of your website without checking multiple pages in your website for information.

This sitemap helps in creating a very user friendly website which normally attracts more visitors and traffic than those that are unfriendly. Hence you can optimise your website to reach its optimum potential by allowing people to know everything about your website without checking or reading every word on your website.

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If you need a helping hand with your digital marketing strategy, get in touch with us at Smart Cow Digital Marketing for expert advice on how to conduct an effective digital marketing campaign!

Services we offer include web design and development, SEO, Pay Per Click (PPC), social media management through to CRM and marketing automation.

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Having unique content on your website and what happens if you don’t

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Smart Cow top tips

Unique website content is a key to ranking success. The over-simplification of that statement – despite of the fact behind that statement – is responsible for a big number of wrong complaints, and abuses by some of the search engine optimisers, world’s professional web designers and online marketers.

You are technically saying the same thing but in a different way when you are just paraphrasing someone, so therefore you are not actually being all that original, and chances are that other plagiarists on the Web will wind up saying the exactly same thing as you with very minor differences.

These days, Google is really good at distinguishing between different kinds of content. It’s also getting really good at working out who the original author of any given piece is then Google can easily decide on which site to get the higher rank!

Google is more actively punishing sites that tend to copy site contents from other sites. It is known that the copied usually hurt the site’s performance in search engines for the time being. It is now going to hurt it even more and this is likely a good thing overall for original writers and website owners.

Google rewards

At the end of the day, writing unique website content isn’t about substituting the big words; it is about making your own research and writing an informative, interesting and original piece that gives your guests what they are searching for. This really needs more work than the normal plagiarism, but in return, Google offers rewards for that extra work.

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Talk to us about your content marketing needs and we’ll guide you towards the best combination of channels and tactics to utilise to make you stand out from the crowd. A reliable digital marketing agency in Croydon, Smart Cow will be glad to answer any further questions.

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Bot accessibility & how it affects search engines seeing your website

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Smart business tips

Small programs called spiders, or bots, crawl your site every day and the millions of other sites across the web. The bots, programs created by search engines like Google and Yahoo, analyse your website and send back reports with valuable data. This information is usually stored in the indexes of the search engines which can be used as a counter measure to rank your site based on specific criteria, mostly the keywords.

Making each page of your website easily consumable for search engine bots is a part of the process. Many contractors and builders are familiar with accessibility building codes.

So, an essential part of the Search Engine Optimisation process is about making your website ready as ‘bots accessible’ by placing the required code that allows bots to get full access to your site and all of its contents including its homepage, archives, pages and subpages.  Just as an example, bots can’t see images in the same way that people can see. They can just ‘see’ certain website descriptive codes, so by knowing this fact, you would need to create certain formats for easiest bots accessibility.

Although this may sound very easy like many people are saying, “Well, this is a very easy task, let us make my site easy for the bots to crawl for indexing and then be done with it!” Really, it is not that simple process while we have made the site ‘searchable’ for bots, we would still have to tell them about what they are looking at through codes and carefully selected keywords.

Smart Cow Marketing is a sales and marketing company based in South London.

We hope that this article is of use, feel free to forward it to whoever may find it useful.

Digital marketing agency Surrey

If you need a helping hand with your digital marketing strategy, get in touch with us at Smart Cow Digital Marketing for expert advice on how to conduct an effective digital marketing campaign!

Services we offer include web design and development, SEO, Pay Per Click (PPC), social media management through to CRM and marketing automation.

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