Proceed with this as you did with improving organic page share. Create a list of your best keywords, search for each one, and write down which SERP elements appear above the organic listings on each search. If your website appears in any of these special SERP sections, be sure to note its position.
Once finished, review your list and determine which improvements would be most beneficial for your business. Could you rank higher within a certain SERP element? Or are there certain keywords where you simply need more page share? Your answers to these questions will help you further prioritize your SEO strategy.
3. Promote Positive Customer Reviews
Customer reviews (especially good ones) play a big role in SEO. For starters, Google displays locator maps above organic search results with business listings and their ratings — these ratings are aggregated from several reputable sources. Then, in the organic results, directory websites such as Yelp and Angie’s List often have high-ranking placements. These directory sites can be gold mines for organic traffic to your website.
How can you capitalize on this? First, make sure you’ve created a free Google My Business page. Next, make profiles for your business on Yelp and other popular review sites.
The most important step is encouraging your customers to write positive reviews of your business. There are several ways to do this, such as by talking directly with customers or by including links to your business review page in follow-up emails after purchases. You can also include buttons to Yelp, Google My Business and other directories on your website.
4. Think Local
Localization is one of the hottest trends in SEO. Thanks to the convenience of smartphones, many people nowadays search for goods and services in their immediate areas. This means your website content shouldn’t just include the city where you’re located. Rather, your website should reflect your district, neighborhood or any community where you have branch stores or offices.
How does this relate to page share?
Consider this. Let’s say you own a paint store in the Hollywood District of Portland, OR. Unless that’s clear on your website, then your best SEO efforts might be wasted on anyone searching for paint shops in the Hollywood District — no locator maps, organic listings or anything.
Does your business have several branch locations? If so, try searching for related goods and services for those specific communities or districts. This will help you see whether your local SEO strategy needs work.
5. Look Over the Fence
If you’ve followed the previous four steps, then you should know which competitors are beating out your organic page share. Why not take some pages directly from their playbooks?
Search Google for your best keywords and click on highly placed links for your top competitors. Mine their content, page layout and website structure for ways to improve your own site. Is their content more focused or angled differently? Are they using different header tags? Are their meta tags in the organic results more compelling? Do their webpages have more multi-media elements? Are the competing websites bigger or more logically organized?
Sometimes, checking out the competition is the best way to find your own shortcomings.
Conclusion
Improving your rankings on Google’s SERPs is important, but so is improving your page share. And page share is only increasing in importance as Google siphons more real estate from organic search results.
These hacks can get you started toward improving your page share.
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Encouraging customer for reviews is a great idea to improve organic ranking and also helps to engage local customers. Thanks for sharing such great information.