4 Practical Ways You Can Make Your Site an Authority
Improving your site’s authority takes time and dedication – it can’t be achieved overnight. It will take some time to start seeing expected results. Let us briefly discuss some of the ways to take your site to another level.
1. Explore the Force of Social Media to Promote Your Brand
Though Social media does not have a direct impact on the authority of your site, it, however, can be used to attain goals that are related to your authority.
With social media, you can easily build and establish a relationship with other top business leaders in your industry. Such a relationship can later be used to build links that will eventually make a direct impact on your authority.
2. Improve the User-Friendliness of Your Site
Make sure your site runs without a glitch. Your site shouldn’t be difficult to navigate nor should it load slowly. Such a site leaves users with a bad experience, which also, negatively impacts your site’s authority by Google.
One of your website goals is to keep users glued to your page. Most internet users have little patience for a slow-loading page. They would rather close it and click on the next available link.
3. Build Valuable Links to Your Site from Other Authoritative Sites
Another way to improve your site’s authority is to feature your link in an authoritative site. You can achieve this by first establishing a good relationship with a renowned blogger, news editor, or influential people within your industry.
Propose to write an original article for them to be published on their site while referencing your company as the source. This method is a powerful way to increase the authority of your site.
When you write content with good quality, it implies that you have a good grasp of your field. Also, writing unique content, peculiar to your site, provides more insight to your visitors.
You don’t need to have an encyclopedic knowledge to create quality content. Simply focus on your area of expertise and see the magic. Your content will be so deep and accurate which will make your visitors confident about the quality of your information. Such content will remain relevant for many years.
4. Link to Other Well Known and Reliable Sites
It’s a herculean task to extensively explain and cover different topics on your site; it is, therefore, imperative to refer users to other credible sites to get more information.
It is advisable to use fewer links. Also, do not link to external sites when you have an internal page on your website with the same information.
Finally, ensure you link to credible sites; otherwise, it would harm the authority of your site.
Long time no see...lol
I always learn a lot from you. I haven't been in WA for a long time but, now I'm back to learning and building.
I really appreciate that you share your wealth of knowledge. It helps out a TON.
One question...about reputation?
When you say reputation takes a while to develop, how does that work? I guess I'm over thinking...
How do we develop a good reputation? Is it with high quality content? Higher domain authority?
Or is it us waiting on Google to trust our site? And if it's based off the site - when we start a new site, do we have to build reputation once again?
Great training by the way...