7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Rely On Website Rank Anymore
Saffron Edge
Feb 10, 2020
5 min read
The world of digital media has surpassed all the assumptions in terms of audience and size. There are more than 1.5Billion active users on the internet right now. Using this space is mandatory for any business organization. But, as the audience size increases, so do the number of websites. New search algorithms have also replaced the earlier ones, which are now more inclined to provide a better user experience. Improving the standard of content is essential, but relying heavily on it will not work. Search will always act as a supporter, but the audiences are to be brought from different channels as well.
Let's briefly discuss some more reasons why relying on website rank will not help.
Keyword Planners going off-
BERT has taken all the spotlights and has disturbed the Seo ranking gurus. Their years of research and hard work is slowly coming to an end. Natural language is the key to giving you organic traffic these days. With intent-based models coming up, the keywords and string-based planning has gone obsolete, and relying on just the website rankings will no longer help a mass audience anymore.
New trends are in practice, and people are moving from the traditional systems towards the advanced technologies designed to improve customer experience on the search system.
Competition -
There are about 200million active websites on the web right now, each representing some business and with SEO experts sitting around every corner of every city, implementing tactical strategies for optimizing their search score, beating all of them and taking the highest position on the search rank can be a daunting task.
Almost every other search query has more than 5000 results, and a lot of them are optimized according to the search algorithms by the marketers. So, in the world of heavy competition, relying just on website rankings will be a considerable risk. It might give you your desired result, but the probability of that happening diminishes with the new websites going live every day.
Brand Building-
With high competition in the market, it becomes even more critical that companies focus on building their brands. Snippets from a high performing and famous brand will gain an edge over other search results in terms of both credibility and trust. Companies are strategizing to build and grow their brands.
Branding is critical to a company because of the overall impact it makes on the business. Branding has the power to change people's perception of your business and can help you bring in new customers. Branding also helps to add value to your business and creates trust in the marketplace as well.
Optimizing Video Content-
Videos are the most interactive means of indirect communication. Brands use videos to give the audience information about their products and services, a lot of which in a way is not possible when you are structuring and executing your SEO-based content. Videos can help pull-in lots of traffic into websites from different sources.
According to Forbes' research, YouTube is the second-biggest platform where the searches are done, only behind Google. And the audience visiting the brand's page after seeing their YouTube videos are usually the people who are really interested in the service the brand is offering.
Some essentials for making the best video contents are-

- The video should be representing the brand.
- Shoot for both long and short formats, from 6-second videos to documentary films, and all the things in between.
- Videos should be responsive to both mobile and desktop displays.
- Make it shareable across social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.
- Content should be made, keeping your primary target audience in mind.

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