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Make Sure Your Non-Profit’s SEO Strategy Keeps Pace with the Web

When did you last Google your non-profit’s name or check to see if your website is among the top search results for relevant terms? Many organizations optimize their sites for search engines when they first launch and then never revisit their search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. Unfortunately, this is a recipe for online obscurity.

Important trends

Search engines regularly change their search result metrics, and your non-profit needs to keep up with such trends. Pay particular attention to the following issues:

Keywords. Search engines rank web pages, not entire websites, so you need to distribute relevant keywords throughout your headlines, content, titles and heading tags, and meta descriptions. You can check the popularity of certain keywords using Google Trends.

Mobile considerations. To get the most mileage with search engines, your website content must be mobile-friendly. In the past few years, Google has expanded its use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking factor and offers a Mobile-Friendly Test Tool that can show how search engine analyzes your pages.

Social media promotion. Whether you primarily use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or other platforms, social media is instrumental in boosting the visibility of your non-profit’s website and, indirectly, your SEO. Include links to your site in social media posts so the links are shared when readers repost your content. The number of links to a website is an important ranking factor, but links from other sources are rated more highly than links from your own postings.

Links. Quality matters when it comes to incoming links to your website. A few links from sources with strong reputations in the relevant areas will be ranked higher than dozens from less credible sources.

Content. Substantive material, preferably not available elsewhere, draws high-value incoming links.

Beyond Google

Remember that Google is not the only search engine out there and that different engines, such as Bing and Yahoo, use different ranking algorithms. Also, other countries may favor home-grown search engines. So, if you are trying to reach an international audience, consider your targets’ preferences and tailor your site accordingly.

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