Optimizing your site around your focus keywords to achieve top-10 (first page) Google results is crucial to achieving long-term traffic growth online – but make no mistake, when it comes to creating and implementing the perfect SEO strategy for your site, there are no shortcuts.

SEO is a grind, period. But it is definitely worth the effort if you want to attract traffic, generate leads and grow your business online. The secret to top SEO performance is to create a sound and solid strategy focusing on your long-term traffic goals.

Sure, it’s more fun to jump into the fray, creating rich web pages filled to the brim with high-quality content. If you have a creative itch you want to scratch, the very thought of SEO can be off-putting. However, consider the following statistics from WebSiteSetup,

That is serious competition for attention on the largest search engines like Google. Despite great design and content quality, tens of thousands of great websites likely will never get the recognition they deserve.

What do these sites lack? A well-designed and implemented SEO strategy that consistently delivers top-ranking search results for highly competitive keywords. Do you need to become an SEO master? No, you have other passions. Make Digital 1 your partner for achieving quality rankings that consistently deliver real, qualified traffic.

Your growth depends upon it.

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Let us help you identify and eliminate technical SEO issues to optimize your website’s performance. We’ll also give you some free tips and tricks while we’re at it. Fill out the form below to get started!

It is estimated that there are 1.7 billion websites on the web. While 97.7% are inactive, about 576,000 new sites come online every day.

No Shortcuts: SEO is a Grind
If it is worth doing, it is worth doing well.”

You likely have heard this in one form or another at some point. It means that there are no shortcuts to doing a task or job well.
SEO is no exception to this rule.

Beware of harmful SEO practices

A few years ago, keyword stuffing was an SEO best practice. Using this technique, content developers picked their target keyword(s) and used them as often as possible. Today, search engines look for keyword stuffing and penalize SEO ranking for such content.

Other harmful practices include:

  • Page spamming — showing a different page to the search engine than to site visitors.
  • Keyword spamming — meaningless content full of target keywords
  • Spam-based link building
  • Poor quality content
  • AI-generated content
  • Plagiarized content
  • Hidden content

These are just a few, but the bottom line is today’s search engines are designed to identify cheaters and reward sites that are optimized and feature amazing content. Remember, your not Google’s customer, the searcher is – and Google’s #1 goal is to produce the best results for the searcher.

The first page rules

If an SEO strategy falls short of your traffic and ranking goals, it isn’t the right strategy for your needs. Digital 1 wants all SEO efforts to contribute to your overall organic traffic. That’s our goal for all our clients.

To do this for your site, we work together to identify the keywords relevant to your needs and set up relevant and achievable targets. Why is this critical to you and your ultimate page 1 ranking?  To ensure you don’t just get “any” traffic, but the “right” traffic from people with a genuine interest in or need for what your site offers.

The Right SEO Strategy

Digital 1 has the technical competence and real-world expertise to create and implement effective on-page strategies. These proven strategies optimize each element of your site for top SEO ranking results and sustained organic traffic.

On-page proficiency

All of Digital 1’s SEO strategies start with a solid on-page strategy. The on-page part of your SEO strategy ensures every page, blog post, article, or other content follows the practices proven to increase rankings. Things like:

  • The proper use of keywords
  • Using headings to maximum advantage (H2, H3, etc.)
  • Integrating links to content in your site and outside
  • Creating effective metadata
  • Properly captioning images and alt text

SEO Minnesota

Minneapolis SEO? Yes, SEO is local too

It is easy to take a purely global view when developing your SEO strategy. And, why not. Anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world can find and visit your site.

However, according to data from Think with Google, 1-in-3 searches from mobile devices are related to the user’s location. Google’s findings further show that 76% of these searchers visit a local business within a day and 28% make a purchase.

Digital 1 SEO strategies include local considerations. For example, a client supplying professional services in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN metro area, will definitely benefit from making location a part of their overall SEO strategy. Restaurants and purveyors of perishable goods like catering and baking businesses also benefit from local SEO.

Work with Digital 1

An SEO strategy that isn’t delivering top ranking for your keywords or driving meaningful traffic to your site can be endlessly frustrating.

You are shortchanging your business if you don’t have a strategy because you do not have the time or skills.

Contact Digital 1 today to discuss your SEO strategy’s needs, goals, and aspirations. Give us a call or fill out the form below to start the conversation. We can start things off with an entanglement-free SEO audit. Free, in other words.

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Work with Digital 1

An SEO strategy that isn’t delivering top ranking for your keywords or driving meaningful traffic to your site can be endlessly frustrating.

You are shortchanging your business if you don’t have a strategy because you do not have the time or skills.

Contact Digital 1 today to discuss your SEO strategy’s needs, goals, and aspirations. Give us a call or fill out the form below to start the conversation. We can start things off with an entanglement-free SEO audit. Free, in other words.

Let's Talk
Accelerate Your Growth