Are you showing up in the top two or three results when people search for windows and doors or window coverings? If not, you’re losing out on potential revenue, and poor on-page optimization might be the problem. 

On-page SEO refers to any tactic you use on your site to encourage Google to list you first in search results.  

Google (and its users) want to see pages that provide useful content. You should publish content that’s relevant, helpful and of good quality, but great content alone won’t always get the job done. Here are a few other on-page SEO tips: 

1. Ensure that bots can crawl your pages 

As much as Google might seem like magic, it’s not. The search engine relies on advanced technology and artificial intelligence, not miracles, to populate results within microseconds of any query. Bots comprise one of those technologies. 

The bots are bits of artificial intelligence that evaluate the content and structure of pages to make determinations about how and where those pages should appear in search results. 

To appear in search engine results, your home improvement website must be crawled by bots. This is the way it’s been done for years. You just need to make it easy for the bots (also known as “spiders”) to do their work.  

Ensure your pages are crawl-friendly bots by turning off any antibot coding in your site’s robot.txt file. Also, be sure your meta robots tag is set to allow crawling and that your URL is included in your sitemap. 

We know this might sound like a foreign language to home improvement professionals who aren’t also web developers, so working with a professional digital marketing company to optimize your site is a good idea. 

2. Aim to be user-friendly and responsive 

Remember that more people access the internet on mobile devices than on desktop computers today, and Google knows this. Mobile-optimized sites are responsive sites.  

Your pages must perform equally well on any device and be optimized for mobile. They should also load quickly and cleanly; otherwise, most people will leave your site too soon. That inflates your bounce rate and potentially lowers your position in search engine results.  

3. Link internally (and appropriately)

Enhance user experience on your site by ensuring easy navigation. That includes simple, easy-to-access menus and internal linking structures that move users through the site in a logical way.  

That’s why you should include appropriate internal links within your website copy. For example, include a link to your window covering product page from your installation service page, and use relevant anchor links such as “window blinds” or “window covering options.” Internally linked pages let Google know you think something is important. 

A single SEO tactic rarely puts you at the top of the SERPs on its own. But when you combine on-page SEO best practices with other home improvement marketing tactics, you increase your site’s visibility on search engines and drive more organic traffic to your page. 

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