Yes, B2B companies can benefit from SEO!
It’s a fact, there are more people (and noise) than ever on the internet, and that includes business people. When it comes time for a company to look for a new vendor, agency, or even new software, it turns out that employees and business owners alike search for new options in the same way they might search for a new pizza shop – they turn to Google.
That means SEO is more important than ever – especially at the top of the funnel. There’s simply no denying that Google is the gatekeeper of your website content. And yet, we find that SEO in the B2B, fintech and tech startup world is often overlooked and undervalued.
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What page of Google search is your company ranking?
B2B SEO services involve a combination of technical fixes and copywriting so that Google ranks your site high when people search for the products/services that you offer. Amid the fallout from COVID-19, the priority placed on SEO is growing rapidly.
As face-to-face events, sales meetings, and product demonstrations have come to a screeching halt, online searchers have skyrocketed, and people no longer respond well to ad listings, B2B marketers have realised the difference SEO copywriting can make.
The challenge, however, is that there are over 200 factors that impact how Google’s algorithms decide where your web pages are ranked.
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SEO – The Etymon way
SEO is not only about improving positions on Google Ranking high on Google search is simply the first step. Once you’re there, you still need to capture trust and instil credibility so you can convert the extra traffic you are getting to leads. This requires effective storytelling on your landing pages, and that storytelling requires strategic and creative writing skill. To find out more about our website copywriting services, click here.
Beyond the standard technical fixes, competitor SEO intelligence, and research of high volume search phrases (keywords), our SEO experts work hand-in-hand with our B2B-focussed copywriters to:
1. Find creative ways to utilise SEO keywords on your web pages without resorting to keyword stuffing and buzzwords
2. Recommend ways to enhance your off-site content strategy and blog topic calendar to get better SEO results
3. Create eye-catching meta descriptions and page titles that standout and encourage people to click-through.
4. Write headers and CTA’s for your site that increase the time people spend on it, thereby sending positive signals to Google
What do our SEO services entail?
Frequently asked questions about our SEO services
The honest answer is we don’t know. Most SEO experts will tell you it takes a minimum of 6 months to see results, and in some highly competitive industries, we have had the same experience. But we’ve also been able to generate results within a couple of months for other industries.
SEO services are a matter of trial and error and what works for one company, and one industry might not work for another. However, as SEO copywriting is a new service offered by Etymon, you can be assured we are committed to getting you results as fast as possible – we need results as much as you do so we can show others what we can do.
SEO results also depend on the severity of your audit findings and the number of technical fixes that need to be done. Keep in mind that Google bots need time to index, and reindex your site, and this happens on a recurring basis, the timing of which is beyond any SEO specialists control.
There are over 200 SEO factors Google takes into account when ranking a website, and this algorithm changes frequently. The recent update in August 2013 was Hummingbird which focused on semantic search, and earlier updates were called Panda, Penguin, and Pigeon. Algorithm factors include:
- Page-level factors including placement of the keyword (title, meta descriptions, h1, h2, etc.), and the keyword density (how often the keyword comes up on the page)
- Domain factors including domain age, registration length, history and associations
- Site-specific factors including contact us page, and website architecture/site map
- Backlink factors including quality and quantity of backlinks as well as Domain Authority
- User interaction factors including site speed, bounce rate, and time spent on site
- Content factors including the frequency, quantity and quality of content uploaded
Sort of. Algorithms will be able to determine what has caused a spike in your website traffic and will determine if this is a signal that your site has something users are finding valuable. It could be that an authoritative site shared a piece of content that you created in which case Google would favour this. However, if your site experienced a load of bots or spammers that have been paid to visit your site over and over again, then Google will know it is artificially inflated traffic, and this will not help your search rankings.
As a result of the ever-increasing amount of B2B content online, search engine algorithms have become more and more advanced in order to deliver users the most relevant, and highest quality results based on their search query. Once upon a time, SEO only required stuffing a webpage with your chosen keyword and pointing as many links as possible to it to see fast results, but things have changed drastically. Such tactics in 2020 will cause more harm than good.
When it comes to B2B content marketing, it’s well accepted that people have short attention spans, so it goes without saying that we need to give them the information they’re looking for quickly. Search engines also try to do this. They want to deliver high-quality search results fast. In Google’s eyes, there’s no point ranking a site highly if users have to wait a long time for the page to load. Worse still, Google bots might not even crawl and index your site if the page speed is really slow. Google says – “Google will reduce the amount of crawlers it sends to your site if your server is slower than two seconds.”
Similarly, if a user spends a low amount of time on-site and your site experiences high bounce rates (when a user visits a site and leaves without visiting any other pages) it sends a signal to Google that your site’s user experience is poor. That’s why our content writing services aim to keep your reader’s interest in your content for as long as possible.
Link building is the process of actively seeking opportunities where a third-party site can publish your content and give you a link back to your website. This could be:
- A directory website
- A directory website
- Review and comparison sites
- Wikipedia link building
- Video platforms
- Social media platforms
- Beta lists and startup submissions (Betalist, ProductHunt, or Erlibird.)
- A blog post or guest article on a site in your niche
- Specialized discussion forums and Q&A sites (Quora, Reddit, StackExchange)
- Local business directories (if you have a physical location)
- Press coverage
- Blog comments
Link building used to be about quantity over quality – now the opposite is true. Link building takes a lot of time and planning to be done properly, especially as Google has placed more emphasis on the quality of the content online.