SEO Quick Tips from your editor

SEO is a constantly changing and growing area, a website's SEO is never done. The main reasons are because of others entering the online space and Google updating their search algorithm. Other reasons include technology changes and social media platforms adding content to the searchable internet.

A prime example is our focus on technology improvements and refining your website.

As part of your hosting, there is a lot we do to keep your SEO working. Here is a brief summary of some of the items we do to support your SEO.

• Update and manage the Google Search Console for your site

• Maintain and submit your Sitemap so Google know pages to index

• Keep your page load speeds fast

• Check for broken links and fix if needed

• Update your site to the latest accessibility standards

• Check your image sizes are optimised and descriptions are included.

Google also considers your contribution to the online community to support your rankings. Google also focuses on presenting sites that are accessible, used and updated.

Here are some key ways you can use your editor to keep your SEO at its best.

• Keeping load speeds fast and page sizes down by using tinypng.com to shrink images. You can find a support article here.

• Add descriptive text (Alt Text) to any images on your site. Instruction Here.

• Keeping page and post titles shorter than 60 characters

• Checking any links to external sites still work

• Post blogs regularly

Here is our latest blog post where we dive deeper into SEO.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call us (1300 20 40 13) or email us (info@redpandadesigns.com.au) and we'd be happy to have a one on one SEO session at no cost.