Best SEO Techniques in 2021

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Best SEO Techniques in 2021 SEO is constantly evolving and what worked last year, won't necessarily work this year. There are several essential techniques you should be focusing on in 2021, ensuring your SEO campaign is a long term success. Remember search engine optimization is not an overnight success story, it takes time, dedication and patience to get it working. Once you climb the ladder in SERP's (Search Engine Results Pages), you can hold onto the position, as long as you keep updated with the latest techniques being used. The first SEO technique you should be focusing on this year is voice search. More people are using mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to access the internet. Voice search will impact search queries this year with more than fifty five per cent of households expected to use their smart speaker by next year. Voice search requires different long-tailed keywords with persona-based content. Websites should have FAQ sections and an improved user experience. Google rewards websites that have a responsive design, high-quality optimized images and long-tailed keywords. The loading time of the site and your servers response time also plays a role in how you climb the ladder to SEO success. The next important tip is to focus on mobile. Mobile optimization has become essential to climb to the top of SERP's, with Google rewarding sites that have embraced mobile technology. It is expected that seventy-three percent of users will access the internet using a mobile device in the next four years. Since the introduction of “Mobilegeddon” by Google a few years ago, companies are seeing their website rankings improve by catering to those searching using a small touchscreen. Remember that this year you need to focus on the EAT principle from Google. This is focused on the quality of content and how it ranks in search engines. EAT stands for expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness. This is used to identify if the page has high-quality content. Algorithms are used to ensure that users receive the best results. Google's Panda algorithms ensure that websites with high-quality content are ranked and those with low quality or duplicate content are eliminated from the index, which means you will not see traffic arriving on the site. Featured snippets are increasing in popularity this year. Google chooses the best answer from a site and displays it as a featured snippet. Ninety-nine percent of web pages that show in the featured snipped section already rank on the first page of SERP's. To appear on the first page and in featured snippets in 2021, you will want


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