KIA&B 2015 Volume 20, Issue 5 | Page 6

| TECHNOLOGY & YOUR AGENCY | Help Google love your website by steve anderson oogle has the largest share of online search. Making sure Google likes your agency website will help your site show up in online searches. How Google decides what sites to display has evolved over the years. It will only show sites that have relevant and useful information for users. G So to become Google’s favorite you need to follow certain steps: high authority links Your website’s “authority” or “Page Rank” is one factor that will help your site show up in a search result. The more that other websites with high authority link to your site, the higher Google ranks your site. In other words, more weight is given to links from an authority site of high expertise than sites having a low expertise. Google will even impose a penalty for distributing bad links if low-quality links are in your content. If you are establishing a high-quality connection throughout your content, that makes Google identify you as a high-quality site. The best way to get high-quality links is to create high-quality content that others want to link. appropriate content keywords Content Keywords are still important but don’t carry the same weight as in the past. However, it continues to be 4 important for you to make sure the keywords (or search terms people use to find your information) are appropriately used in your articles and other content. Your keywords help Google better understand the information on your page so they can list your page in a search result. good heading and description tags Another way Google evaluates the information on your webpage is with the help of metadata (information contained in the actual code that makes up a web page). This information helps Google lead traffic to your page rather than falling back on related keywords. In this way, Goo