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As the technology market continues to expand, the biggest challenge SaaS companies face is generating enough leads. Paid advertising may seem like a great idea initially but the costs rise as more and more competitors enter the marketplace, and you’ll notice your growth stall once you stop investing in it.
SEO marketing, on the other hand, has proven to be the most scalable approach to increasing traffic to SaaS websites. With a strong strategy and the right content, you’ll ensure an exponential increase in web traffic and lead conversion. You’ll get to specifically target your customers and increase traffic in a sustainable, scalable, and successful way.
But what is the best way SaaS companies can optimise SEO to help them meet their goals?
Use your content to the best of your ability
Focus on the technical optimisation of your site
Promote the page via a well crafted rich snippet
Have a quality linking structure on your website
Content is Key
SaaS SEO is, essentially, an excellent content marketing game.
Early on, many companies rose through the ranks by aggressive content optimisation like keyword stuffing, page duplication, and other tactics, however, these no longer work. Customers can differentiate between good and bad content with a quick skim. Google has also improved its algorithms, it can tell what content will be valuable to a respective audience and what won’t.
Your content needs to be well-produced, relevant, and legitimate. Know who your audience is, what they want, and what they can gain from your content.
As mentioned, today’s SaaS market is saturated, and just producing great content is not enough. No matter how great it is, if no one is going to see it, it’s useless. Optimise your content using keywords, but remember your content is targeted at humans, not machines. Don’t focus solely on pleasing the algorithms, it still needs to be ‘people-friendly’, of value, and relevant.
It’s quality over quantity when it comes to keywords but there are some things you should aim for.
Only use keywords that are relevant to both your SaaS company and your audience.
Pick keywords that have a high search volume, but not too high or your site may never be found amongst the multitude of sites containing the same keywords.
Use a ‘topic clusters’ approach. By creating a more in-depth ‘pillar’ page, targeting the main keywords, you can then create shorter pieces covering related keywords. This approach can help you build authority and credibility on a topic, a strategy favoured by Google.
Focus on Technical Optimisation
Technical optimisation is essential because it means your site can be indexed by search engines. It also helps to improve the user interface on all devices, meaning your website will run faster and keep the attention of your audience for longer. Some easy ways you can focus on the technical optimisation of your website are:
Decrease site load time.
Users are more likely to abandon your site if it doesn’t load in under 2 seconds on a desktop or under 3 seconds on mobile. That’s not a lot of time. Google also takes loading speed into its ranking consideration.
Your site loading speed can be decreased in several different ways. Compressing images and optimising image files, as well as removing unused scripts & files can help drastically reduce your website’s load time. Also utilising CDN’s and browser caching can help.
Eliminate broken links and 404s
When your site has 404 errors, it’s generally because you are linking to a web page that doesn’t exist anymore. Broken pages can negatively affect your search ranking so if this happens, you need to set up a 301 redirect, linking users to a new page.
To check if your site has any broken pages you can use Google Search Console or Google Chrome extension LinkMiner.
Remove any duplicate content
Two or more pages with identical, or nearly identical content will confuse Google with which page it should rank first. As a result, your search ranking will lower and affect the traffic being generated to your site. The obvious solution to this is to make sure that each page is unique. If there is a deliberate reason why two pages are identical, use a canonical link to make sure Google knows which page to rank first.
Make Rich Snippets Work for You
A rich snippet refers to the structured data markup you can add to your site to make it and it’s content more visible to search engines. To the non-technically minded, it shows as the text below the link when you Google something.
What exactly do rich snippets do?
They allow search engines to provide more relevant and specific results to searchers.
They let the searchers see relevant information easily.
They reduce bounce rates and increase click-throughs.
Relatively new, studies show that nearly 12% of all search results now feature rich snippets. Sounds good, but how do I create a rich snippet? Like most marketing elements, there are tools out there that can make your life easier. For example, just searching ‘rich snippets’ on WordPress will return multiple plugins that you can install to guide you through the process.
Create a Quality Linking Structure
There are three main components to building your site’s linking structure.
Internal links: links within your domain, from one page to another, will make it easier for Google to index your site.
External links: links from your site to a different site will help Google decide your authority on a certain topic, and will help with overall indexing.
Backlinks: links to your site from another are extremely helpful in determining how relevant your content is, and are one of the most important ranking features.
For all links remember to pay attention to quality rather than quantity - as mentioned above, content really is key, and trying to cram in links for the sake of it won’t be well received.
By improving your content quality and implementing these 4 SEO tricks, you’re well on your way to organically and successfully growing your SaaS company.
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