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5 Essential Website Optimisation Strategies

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Unlock the power of your website with these valuable website optimisation strategies

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, optimising your website is not just a good practice; it’s a necessity. Here are five crucial strategies to ensure your website not only attracts but retains visitors whilst enhancing its overall performance.

1. Performance Optimisation

Slow-loading websites risk losing visitors, making performance optimisation paramount. Here’s how we ensure your site runs at its best:

Advanced Infrastructure: Our hosting partner has 35 data centres across the globe and offers some of the fastest infrastructure on the market.

CDN Implementation: Leveraging a Content Delivery Network improves content delivery speed based on user location.

Effective Caching: Storing frequently accessed data reduces load times, enhancing user experience.

Image Optimisation: Compressing and optimising images, coupled with lazy loading, accelerates page loading.

Code Efficiency: Minimising CSS, JavaScript, and HTML reduces code bloat for a smoother user experience.

Testing for Performance: Rigorous testing, including tools like Page Speed Insights and Google Lighthouse, ensures compliance with Google’s Core Web Vitals.

2. Security Optimisation

A secure website is non-negotiable for building user trust. Our enterprise-level security features include:

SSL Certificate: Standard SSL practice for data protection and regulatory compliance.

Firewall Protection: Detecting and blocking DDoS attacks and other malicious events.

Dedicated Malware Team: Offering a comprehensive malware removal service.

Custom Admin Login URL: Creating a unique admin login URL enhances security.

Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): Ensuring an extra layer of authentication for website admins.

Regular Site Backups: Automatic daily backups with a 30-day retention period.

Uptime Checks: Continuous site monitoring with a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

3. User Experience (UX)

A positive user experience is essential for retaining visitors.

Key considerations include:

Target Audience Analysis: Ensuring the website is useful, valuable, and credible for the target audience.

Responsive Design: Guaranteeing seamless performance across various devices, from mobile to desktop.

Usability & Accessibility: Ensuring the website is intuitive for users with varying technical expertise and accessible to those with disabilities.

Consistency: Maintaining consistent navigation and design elements across all pages.

Information Architecture: Organising content logically for easy user navigation.

Clarity & Scannable Content: Clearly signposting user journeys and providing scannable content for quick consumption.

4. Content Strategy

Regularly creating and optimising content is crucial for audience engagement.

Our content strategy involves:

Audience-Centric Content: Producing relevant and valuable content tailored to the target audience.

Brand Consistency: Ensuring consistent messaging, values, and tone of voice.

Content Calendar: Planning an annual content calendar that combines evergreen and seasonal/campaign-led content.

Keyword Research: Conducting keyword research and competitor analysis for effective SEO.

Core & Spin-Off Content: Creating core content and supporting it with in-depth spin-off pages.

Clear CTAs: Including clear calls-to-action on every page.

Promotion: Linking content across email and social media marketing and encouraging easy content sharing.

5. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Improving organic search performance involves a holistic approach.

Key SEO strategies include:

Overall Optimisation Impact: Ensuring that performance, UX, security, and content collectively contribute to search engine rankings.

XML Sitemap: Creating and promoting an XML sitemap to search engines using Google Search Console.

Header Tags & Meta Information: Implementing header tags and optimising meta titles, descriptions, and alt text for SEO.

Schema.org Markup: Using tools like Yoast SEO to implement Schema.org markup for better search engine understanding.

SEO-Friendly URLs: Crafting URLs that reflect content and include keywords for user and search engine comprehension.

Internal Linking: Facilitating user discovery of more content through strategic internal linking.

Quality Backlinks: Building high-quality backlinks from sites with a reasonable domain authority.

By implementing these optimisation strategies, we ensure your website not only meets but exceeds user expectations, creating a powerful online presence.

Akiko is here to help you navigate the digital landscape. If you have any questions or need help getting started we’re on hand. Contact us.

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