Is Your Website SEO Any Good?
Website SEO seems so mysterious and “out there”, but it can also be a really simple and basic concept to understand. This article is going to talk about the very basic basics of SEO and how to be successful with it as a website owner or blogger.
First, pick 3 main topics that you want your website to be known for, or that you think describe the overall reasons your website exists. For example, for this website, my 3 topics are:
- Christian Encouragement for Women in Business
- Faith-Based Business Coaching for Women
- Business advice for Christian Women Entrepreneurs
Next, I want you to make a list of all the pages on your website, maybe on a spreadsheet. In the first column, put your webpages urls or titles, in the next 3 columns, put each of your topics. Then go through each individual webpage and count how many times you mentioned the topic phrase or a closely related phrase. If you want, you can hold the command key and click the F key on your keyboard and it will automatically do a search for whatever word(s) you are looking for, it will also count them for you.
After you have gone through each page and counted how many times you have mentioned your main topics, you can brainstorm some new ways to add your topics to each page. Like for example, you could:
- Put them in a slogan in the footer (which would show up on each page),
- Add them as dropdown topics in your navigation.
- Take each topic and dedicate an entire webpage to each one.
Go crazy (hahaha), and have fun with it. Doing this simple exercise will get you started and headed in the right direction. It will also open your eyes to how much (or little) you have been paying attention to your main topics. The point of SEO is to get your valuable, creative, wonderful content found by the people who are looking for it, so you can serve the people you are trying to help the most.
