SEO for the Holidays: SEO you can do for the year ahead

So you used up all your vacation time early. All your projects are finished and you’ve got a little quiet time while your workmates are away on some beach drinking cocktails?

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Get more traffic to your website for christmas!

Do you business a favor and go over this holiday checklist, to ensure a well Search Engine Optimised website for the year ahead:

Google Maps: Is your business on Google maps? If not, head over the to Google business Center and submit your details so you wil be found on the newish Google feature which is now prominent most Google Results

Google Webmaster Tools: Ensure your site is active on Google Webmaster tools. Login here and check your sitemap is indexed and your site is free of error

Google Analytics: Do you monitor your statistics? Do you even have them installed? If you don’t install the Google Analytics code on your site, so for the year ahead, you can monitor your traffic and learn from your customers habits (Good and Bad)

Link Building: Go to Google.com, and do a link search ‘link:http://www.yourdomain.com’ in the Google search box, and see how many links Google recognises are pointing to the site. Regardless of the result, you can always do with more, so start hunting for directories and other sites which are relevent to your website, and get your links on there!

Twitter: First step is to setup a twitter account and start using it to engage with customers and like minded individuals. Second step is to setup monitoring to in the year ahead, you always know what going on. Use one of these services and direct to a group email address.

Sure, there are heaps of things you could do. These are just some that I think are very important, and not really that hard to do (You don’t want to be working too hard do you?)

  • http://www.sportspiel.com.au Anthony

    I have a meta description that won’t load in Google, what would you recommend to fix that?

    • http://www.optimising.com.au James

      Time.

      If your description is there, the url is in your sitemap, you just have to wait for a reindex.

      Should not take too long

      James
      Optimising.com.au

  • Carry Klemm

    Hello, I found your blog in a new directory of blogs. I don’t know how your blog came up, must have been a type, Your blog looks good. Have a nice day.