The big Google updates of recent times have led to a rethink by many SEOs: It's no no longer just about individual and clearly identifiable factors. Increasingly its the user behaviour in response to the user experience that determines the success of Google. What it is, whether it's a ranking factor and, importantly, what Google says, is covered in this blog post.
https://www.sistrix.com/blog/is-user-experience-a-ranking-factor/
'There is a whole field of UX optimization that requires its own level of expertise. The typical SEO professional doesn’t have to be a full-fledged UX expert. However, they should have an understanding of many of the basic website UX principles. UX optimization is nothing more than focusing on the visitor.
Everything we do in the sphere of web marketing has to have the visitor in mind. Yes, we do certain things for search engines, but search engines (almost always) require those things because they have learned it’s what their users (searchers) want.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-guide/where-seo-and-user-experience-ux-collide/
When Google launched the “Pixel” phones in October 2016, it marked a change of direction in its own narrative in a business it has been struggling to identify itself – smartphones. Despite being the company which owns the source code of the most widely used mobile operating system (Android) in the world, Alphabet’s share of the margin is incomparable to iOS for Apple. A major service provider whose revenues are driven by advertising, Alphabet’s venture into the product space has seen many misses than hits! In the last decade, Alphabet has systematically attempted to put its foot in the smartphone ecosystem, albeit with a lot of struggle.
https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate/search-engine-to-consumer-electronics-what-next-for-alphabet/62280132/
For more than a decade I’ve optimized organic search performance for big and small companies. They often come to my team with greatly diminished search performance stemming from decisions based solely on user experience and design. The decisions resulted in changes to internal linking structures and reduced textual content, which affected the authority and relevance signals that search engines rely on to rank pages.
https://www.practicalecommerce.com/seo-8-ways-ux-design-reduce-traffic/
Any online marketing activity you invest in has to ultimately contribute towards improving conversion. While a robust, carefully executed SEO strategy is essential for moving the needle in the right direction, search compliance and accessibility to your optimised content is only one part of the puzzle.
All too often brands and businesses only focus on SEO and are often left surprised when their newly acquired stack of anonymous web traffic doesn’t deliver the conversion uplift they were hoping for.
This is why to really supercharge your Digital Strategy you’re going to need to combine the Holy Trinity of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), User Experience (UX) and Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) to really rack-up the results.
http://www.fourthsource.com/search-marketing/seo/the-holy-trinity-of-digital-success-seo-ux-and-cro-23416/
SEO is a dynamic, ever-changing field. As search algorithms evolve and the way we use technology in our day-to-day lives changes, the best SEO strategy will always be a moving target. That’s why it’s so important—and sometimes, a little exhausting—to pay attention to shifting SEO trends. What’s hype and what’s real? Here are a few SEO trends for 2018 that we don’t see going away anytime soon:
https://www.influencive.com/seo-trends-pay-attention/
Of the 7.5 billion people in existence, nearly 51% have access to the internet. That amounts to around 4 billion people who – as a whole – conduct a whopping average of 1.2 trillion searches per year. In other words, competition for online traffic is FIERCE. Businesses are up against a huge pool of competitors and are therefore obliged to find innovative ways of winning over the attention of their target audience. One of the most popular ways of achieving this traffic is through the application of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) tools.
https://mopinion.com/top-29-search-engine-optimisation-seo-tools/
Oh, how things change!
There was a time when you just had to optimize your website’s pages for a group of different keywords and then when someone typed those words into a search engine, you’d show up! Not anymore.
Today, the search engines are way more advanced with their algorithms and their focus on trying to make sure that the user experience is the best it can be. Especially with Google.
https://www.business2community.com/seo/user-intent-seo-success-online-01997451/
Imagine you’re at an industry conference. It’s happy hour, so you grab a drink and turn to the attendee next to you. What do you do next? You don’t just throw a business card at them and walk away. If you do, you’re a lousy networker.
If you're a good networker, you start a conversation.
If you're a great networker, you take that conversation to the next level by adjusting the conversation based on their body language. If they lean in when you talk about search engine optimization but check their watch when you talk about paid search, well ... then you talk more about SEO.
So the question is this: why aren’t more companies doing this with their website visitors?
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/using-behavioral-intelligence-to-improve-your-sites-user-experience/
The web is now the “modern shopping experience”, but it may also be the only way people can find your business. By not making it accessible, not only are you ignoring £249 billion worth of potential business, but you’re also essentially hanging a sign up to anyone with disabilities saying “you can’t come in”.
https://www.coastdigital.co.uk/2018/08/02/web-accessibility-seo-breaking-down-the-barriers/
