Is SEO Dead? SEO Basics

Generating traffic organically and getting a lead are different things, but these are not free. You actually have to do some things that cost time, and time is money. Generating leads means investing your time in building your website.

SEO is not dead, but a lot of people have given up. They don’t build out their websites and instead resort to buying these leads — not that anything is wrong with that. Fewer people are taking the time to build their website, and that’s now how you position yourself to rank.

How Google Ranks Websites

Logically, Google would rank a website if they think that it is worthy of being seen by their audiences.

If consumer experience will more likely be excellent on your website, then they would want as many people to see it.

Why? The better the consumer experience on your website, the better the consumer experience will be for Google users.

SEO and Customer Experience

If you’re a consumer, and you’re landing on your website, what kind of experience will you be having? For instance, if you have a certain market or community in mind, you will need to have a landing page made specifically for that community.

Pretend you’re a visitor looking for homes on your website. If you can’t find a particular landing page for a community, you’ll instantly opt out of the website. Sifting through the properties and looking for a specific price range will make consumers impatient.

This is why sidebars exist on a website, where you can list all those communities.

SEO and Its Challenges

The biggest challenge with SEO is that people don’t see its value. They don’t see it as an investment or that they’re going to gain rewards from it in one go.

If more people can see how many leads they can get from it, many people will actually value SEO more. If they can see its value from start to finish, then everybody would be investing in SEO.

SEO is an investment of time where you can expect a rate of return in the long run. Going back to user experience, what if a user clicks on a community page on your website, then they see a video where they can see the amenities and other benefits of living in the community? The experience will be great, so the user will most likely click on the other pages and bookmark your website.

Organic Leads Are Not Free

You Have to Build Out Your Website

Bad Buyer Experience vs Good

Main Takeaways

Google tracks every website activity you have, so they know when your prospective customers are pleased with your website. In a nutshell, these are the SEO basics that may help with your website:

• Make sure that you’re thinking about the user upon building the website.
• Build more pages.
• Long-tailed terms are key. You don’t have to take classes for this. You just have to use infrequently searched terms for less competition and higher potential to rank.
• Use the sidebars to link to internal pages on your websites.
• Use external sites to get more traffic.
• Blog on other sites, and backlink it to your website. Make sure the content is evergreen.
• Post your websites and blogs on social media.
  

Learn More About SEO, Area Pages, and How to Maximize Your IDX Website

For a deeper dive on how to leverage your IDX website and build out landing pages that convert, watch our Keeping It Real Episode: The Power of SEO and Area Pages w/ Bob McCranie