{"id":2624,"date":"2012-04-09T21:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2012-09-23T01:17:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T23:17:34","slug":"smart-seo-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/en\/search-engine-optimization\/smart-seo-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Smarter, Not Harder SEO Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to <strong>develop a cost-effective SEO Process with a high return on investment<\/strong> is fundamental to set goals that target the site&#8217;s business needs and take into consideration the market and site behavior, characteristics, restrictions, available resources and time, otherwise is easy to end-up with unrealistic goals that will lead to a non-effective SEO process.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2727\" title=\"SMARTER SEO goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/smarter-seo-goals.jpg\" alt=\"SMARTER SEO goals\" width=\"499\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/smarter-seo-goals.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/smarter-seo-goals-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A solution to this problem is to use the SMART -or its extended version, the <strong><a title=\"SMART Goals\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SMART_criteria\" target=\"_blank\">SMARTER<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(acronym for <strong>Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-based, Ethical, Recorded<\/strong>)- guidelines that <strong>will help us not only to set goals but to identify and manage the best strategies<\/strong> to achieve them:<\/p>\n<h2>Specific<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2713\" title=\"Specific SEO goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/specific-seo-goals.jpg\" alt=\"Specific SEO goals\" width=\"259\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The easiest way to <strong>set specific and clear goals<\/strong>\u00a0is to start listing them according to the answers you get by asking the five &#8220;W questions&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Is a conversion for your site? -its business goals-<\/li>\n<li>Do you want to achieve with the SEO process in order to help your site to accomplish its objectives?<\/li>\n<li>Is the SEO situation of the site? Present rankings and optimization?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Is your target market and how does it behave?<\/li>\n<li>Is the decision maker?<\/li>\n<li>Are the stakeholders?<\/li>\n<li>Will be involved and you can count to support you in the SEO Process -developers, writers, link builders, community managers, etc.-?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Will be the SEO process activities implemented: In-house, an external agency or freelancers?<\/li>\n<li>Does your business have online presence besides the site -social networks, communities, affiliates, etc.-?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Which<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Are the site technical, content or promotion constraints and requirements?<\/li>\n<li>Are the most important products or services for your business? (most popular, highest profit margin, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you want to start a SEO process? -identify expectations in order to manage them-.<\/li>\n<li>Is your site designed, organized and optimized as it is at the moment? -understand the reasons of the site status-<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you have the answers to these questions you can <strong>do a prioritized list of the site requirements, restrictions and an overview of its online business<\/strong>, resources and organization.<\/p>\n<p>With this information you can <strong>do an audit to verify the answers and develop the first draft of the SEO goals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Measurable<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2715\" title=\"Measurable SEO Goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/measurable-seo-goals.jpg\" alt=\"Measurable SEO Goals\" width=\"259\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You need to <strong>make sure that you will be able to measure<\/strong> the success (or failure) of your SEO efforts and have a system to track each step of the process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How will you measure the achievement of each of the SEO process goals? \u00a0How often and for how long?<\/li>\n<li>Which activities and presence you will need to track? -behavior of site in search engines, users in the site, etc.-<\/li>\n<li>What will be the key performance indicators? -incoming links,\u00a0rankings,\u00a0non-branded organic visits,\u00a0conversions, etc.-<\/li>\n<li>What tools are you going to use to track the progress towards the goals achievement? -Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, SEscout, Open Site Explorer, etc.-<\/li>\n<li>How can you organize and automate data gathering and reporting? -This can represent a huge difference if it&#8217;s a big process or you are managing many SEO processes at the same time-.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Review the first draft of SEO goals and answer these questions for each one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you will\u00a0<strong>have access to the data<\/strong>\u00a0and that you can gather all the necessary information from the start of the process.\u00a0If you see this is not the case then you will need to rethink that goal and how to approach that need in a way that is measurable.<\/p>\n<h2>Attainable<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2719\" title=\"Attainable SEO Goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/attainable-seo-goals.jpg\" alt=\"Attainable SEO Goals\" width=\"259\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that you have a complete overview with <strong>a list of the desired goals that are measurable<\/strong> and a list of the<strong> site requirements, restrictions, present status\u00a0and\u00a0resources<\/strong> you can verify how reasonable are these goals according to the site characteristics and their importance towards the site business. With this information identify\u00a0<strong>which are the feasible SEO strategies to implement to achieve these goals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, you will be able to\u00a0<strong>prioritize them for the present SEO Process<\/strong>\u00a0-or even leave them for the following ones if they are too ambitious and not realistic to achieve at the moment-.<\/p>\n<h2>Relevant<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2723\" title=\"Relevant SEO goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/relevant-seo-goals1.jpg\" alt=\"Relevant SEO goals\" width=\"259\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a list of specific, measurable and attainable goals is important to <strong>verify their relevancy to the site business <\/strong>and the type of conversions you&#8217;re looking to achieve with each one of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asses the importance of each of the specified goals towards the site benefits<\/strong>, make sure that the expected benefits are reasonably higher than the related costs of implementing the strategies to achieve them -for a high ROI- and prioritize (or leave for following SEO Processes) again your SEO goals according to this.<\/p>\n<h2>Time-Based<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Time-Based SEO Goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/time-based-seo-goals.jpg\" alt=\"Time-Based SEO Goals\" width=\"259\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>When do you plan to achieve each of your goals<\/strong>? Take into consideration the required time to implement the strategies and related activities. Are these times under the expected timeframe?<\/p>\n<p>How long it will take to start getting results for each stage of the SEO Process? Take into account the business\u00a0seasonality and <strong>develop a schedule that you can use to follow-up the SEO activities implementation and goals achievement<\/strong> through their key performance indicators.<\/p>\n<h2>Ethical<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2742\" title=\"Ethical SEO Goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ethical-seo-goals.jpg\" alt=\"Ethical SEO Goals\" width=\"259\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Verify that the goals you look to achieve and the strategies you have planned to implement <strong>follow the <a title=\"Google Webmaster Guidelines\" href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=35769\" target=\"_blank\">search engines guidelines<\/a><\/strong> and your own business -and the client&#8217;s business- <strong>ethical principles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that it&#8217;s not only important to achieve a result that will benefit you from a business perspective but that you can also <a title=\"Ethics of SEO\" href=\"http:\/\/yoast.com\/ethics-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>be proud of what you do<\/strong>.<\/a> Additionally, if you rely your strategy on taking\u00a0advantage of some <a title=\"Search Engine vulnerabilities\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/blog\/unnatural-link-warnings-blog-networks-advice\" target=\"_blank\">search engines vulnerabilities<\/a> you will end up losing what you have achieved\u00a0<a title=\"Google Panda\" href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-panda-update-112805\" target=\"_blank\">sooner than later<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Recorded<span style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2743\" title=\"Recorded SEO Goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/recorded-seo-goals.jpg\" alt=\"Recorded SEO Goals\" width=\"259\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To effectively measure the success is fundamental to\u00a0<strong>document your goals, the related strategies and planned activities<\/strong>, along with the site characteristics, requirements and initial status.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also important that you don&#8217;t only track but also <strong>keep a record of the activities you implement during the SEO process and verify that these follow the schedule<\/strong> you have set for them.<\/p>\n<h2>Start setting your SMARTER Goals Now<\/h2>\n<p>Although you\u00a0may have already begun your SEO process it&#8217;s never late to focus it with with smarter -not harder- goals that will help you to achieve the results you really need.<\/p>\n<p>You can also take a look at this larger\u00a0<a title=\"SEO Process Strategy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aleydasolis.com\/en\/search-engine-optimization\/seo-process-strategy\/\">list of questions you can ask to identify the best SEO strategy<\/a>\u00a0and the different types of\u00a0<a title=\"type of SEO goals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/blog\/the-6-goals-of-seo-choosing-the-right-ones-for-your-business\" target=\"_blank\">SEO goals<\/a>\u00a0you can have depending on the results you are looking to achieve.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Images taken from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smallbox\/\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smallbox\/<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Achieve a cost-effective SEO Process with a high return on investment by setting <strong>SMART goals<\/strong> to your Search Engine Optimization process. 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