SEO Strategy Development

Ready to market your business across search engines but aren’t sure where to start? We will help you develop a custom SEO strategy using the following process:

    • Analyze your audience
    • Assess opportunity and gap
    • Conduct SEO audit
    • Assess competitor landscape
    • Develop website architecture and wireframe
    • Develop content strategy
    • Create content marketing strategy
    • Establish goals in your analytics system

Website Migration

Planning to migrate your website to a new domain? Website migration has the potential to drop your hard earned traffic to zero if done incorrectly. Ariad Partners has years of experience in website migration, and help our clients plan and execute website migration while retaining the traffic and search equity. We create a snapshot of your live website and make sure that the content is not deleted when the new website is in development environment. Any platform changes such as .net to PHP are taken in to consideration as these lead to URL changes. Below is our website migration process:

    • Crawl your live website and create a snapshot
    • Analyze inbound links
    • Analyze internal linking
    • Create a plan for 301 redirect
    • Conduct SEO audit of live site
    • Analyze high traffic landing pages
    • Preserve on-page optimization
    • Create Google Webmaster Account
    • Evaluate the SEO impact of new CMS

SEO Audit of Website Code and Content

Every website uses different technologies such as PHP, Java, .net, etc. These technologies have their own issues that might prevent your website from being discovered and indexed by search engines. Some of the technical problems of a website include:

    • Bad URLs
    • Duplicate URLs leading to duplicate content
    • Parameter in URLs leading to duplicate content
    • Trailing and non-trailing slashes in URLs
    • No use of 301 redirects
    • Excessive number of broken URLs
    • Pages with thin content
    • Slow page load speed
    • Chain of 301 redirects
    • Incorrect XML sitemap configuration
    • Non discoverable content due to blocking java scripts
    • No use of rich snippets across image and video files
    • Website architecture issues

Content issues include

    • Duplicate title, description, and heading
    • Incorrect content targeting
    • No use of Call to Action across the website
    • User generated content
    • Content copied on other websites

Here’s an example: one of the websites that we were working with had thousands of video pages indexed on Google. These pages only had embedded videos and no content on them. This is treated as thin content by Google, but the client was unaware about the problem these individual video pages created. Fixing the videos, content, and other technical issues helped the client improve rankings and traffic to their website.

We assess and provide recommendations in your SEO audit for elements like: website architecture, semantic tags (title tags, meta description, headings), indexing and crawling issues, media optimization (images and videos), page load speed, URL formatting, geo-targeting, visitor engagement, conversion gaps, UGC implications and more.

Google Penalty Audit

Have you been penalized by Google for spam links or impacted by recent Panda updates? Did your traffic slide down? We can isolate the problems that resulted in the traffic drop and make improvements to your website so you get back in Google’s good graces. Below is our Google penalty audit process:

      • Analyze traffic before making fixes
      • Conduct SEO Audit of website code and content
      • Audit Google webmaster tools
      • Isolate and fix internal linking issues
      • Analyze external links
      • Review anchor texts
      • Check for thin content and duplicate content
      • Remove unwanted links through outreach
      • Disavow bulk spam links
      • Send reconsideration requests to Google

Competitor Analysis

You might have done good deal of work on page optimization but maybe you are still beaten by the competition in search results. A competitor analysis uncovers who your direct and indirect competitors are, which keywords they’re ranking for, and they achieved those rankings. Below is our competitor analysis process:

      • Create a list of direct and indirect competitors in search engines
      • Analyze their website architecture and popular content
      • Analyze keywords targeted by the competitors
      • Analyze the link footprint of your competitors
      • Analyze the paid campaigns
      • Evaluate competitors social media presence

We create custom recommendations based on this analysis to improve traffic and rank of your website.

Website Restructure

Restructuring a website needs to done with precaution, or it can result in a huge traffic drop. Your website visitors bookmark a lot of URLs, and external websites link to many content pages on your website. A site restructure can lead to broken pages on the website as the content is moved from old URLs to new. You want your visitors and search engines to reach the right pages after the restructure process. We help our clients restructure their new website with a minimal drop in traffic and link equity. Below is our process for website restructure:

    • Analyze traffic before the site restructure
    • Conduct SEO audit of website code and content
    • Crawl the website to create a snapshot
    • Fix the existing broken pages
    • Map old URLs to new ones
    • Add 301 redirects
    • Optimize all content
    • Update the XML sitemap once the website is live
    • Test the live site for URL mapping
    • Monitor the website for organic traffic and fix any issues

Content Strategy

Google aims to provide the best content so that searchers can find what they’re looking for. You need to provide the best content for your target audience. Providing in-depth and relevant content to your target audience will help you to attract them, engage them on your website, and convert them into leads or customers. Below is our content strategy process:

      • Analyze your target audience
      • Assess the total online opportunity across each segment
      • Analyze your competitors’ content

Based on this analysis, we recommend a content strategy that encompasses:

      • Modifications to website architecture to improve targeting
      • New website features
      • On-site content topics
      • Off-site content topics
      • Outreach campaigns

Content Writing

You already have figured out the topics for which you need content but don’t have the time to do it yourself. We are here to help you. Content writers at Ariad Partners create well-researched content pieces to hook your target audience. Our content writers use a process to write content for targeted topics. Below is our process for content writing:

      • Study your target audience
      • Interview the domain expert about the topic
      • Conduct secondary research (source website is cited in the final content for attribution)
      • Use conversational style of writing
      • Structure your content for engaging readers
      • Send you the initial draft
      • Review changes are incorporated and final document is released

Link Building Strategy

You want to market your content to earn new audience links but you’re not sure how to do it. Ariad Partners will research unique strategies for your industry that will help you acquire new website visitors and links from relevant websites. Below is our process:

      • Analyze competitors to find niche resources
      • Create a list of business partners, associates, and service providers to get links
      • Create a list of industry organizations
      • List websites that mention you but do not link to you
      • Find relevant legitimate directories
      • Develop strategies for reaching out to journalists
      • Make a list of resource websites for your outreach campaign
      • Create tactics to find industry leaders who can be interviewed
      • Find competitors broken links for your outreach campaigns
      • Create strategy to build links through internship posting and charitable organizations
      • Create topics based on proven existing content shared by your target audience
      • Create a list of websites for guest post opportunities
      • Develop ideas for a contest in your niche

Implementing Changes on your Website

With SEO consulting services, if you need help with the execution of your SEO plan, we have all the resources to help you succeed. We help our clients with website design and development, SEO, content creation, and outreach campaigns.