Rich Media
The term “rich media” refers to advertising media on the web thacombinesnly combines text and image elements, but can also contain video or audio. The central goals of rich media are, firstly, to achieve increased attention and, secondly, to increase users’ willingness to interact.
This tendency to increase interaction can easily be projected from advertisements to SEO content. Ultimately, web pages that consist not only of text but also include other content types help to increase the user experience enormously.
Reading videos, flash or audio elements is not possible for search engines. If you position such features on your corporate website, for example, it is of central importance to optimally label corresponding data that cannot be crawled by search engines like text, so that they at least get hints about their information content. Concise titles, subtitles, metadata, etc. help here. Google and Co. can thus at least guess the possibly strong additional added value. In any case, however, you register the additional interactions that often accompany such content – and these are then evaluated positively in any case.
A well-coordinated label not only makes it easier for search engines to classify such content but also for users. This makes a positive user experience even more likely.
The perfect content mix binds users and thus customers to a page – it arouses interest and attention and thus increases the chance that users will continue to look around the website, which can again be very effective for SEO. All in all, the dwell time increases – and this is very ranking-relevant.
Again, though, don’t overdo it! Internet presences that are compulsively bursting with different content types can also become confusing and/or overwhelm users. If this is the case, you will certainly not benefit from a good user experience – rather the opposite.
In any case, rich media or a corresponding content mix is beneficial if it contributes to the accessibility of your web presence. Creating a web that is as barrier-free as possible is one of Google’s central concerns. If, for example, you offer a read-aloud option for your blog texts or provide corresponding audio files, you are practically guaranteed ranking advantages.
Content
Although the clear formulation of goals has no direct effect on the ranking of the major search engines, it is nevertheless one of the central premises for successful SEO content. Because without making it concrete what is to be achieved with the content played out or to what extent search engine optimization is to be carried out, you can neither adequately measure successes nor failures and thus never proceed economically in all respects.
It is usually not enough to simply determine that the company’s web presence should be better positioned in general. Rather, for a maximally efficient approach, you need to make sure that all parties are working towards a precise point. This can be, for example, achieving the first position on Google for the most competitive keywords within a certain period. If the important prerequisite of goal setting remains unfulfilled, you not only do not have a status in mind that you would like to achieve with your SEO content or your search engine optimization in general – as a result, there is also a lack of a starting point for corresponding activities.
Thus, different goals require different measures. If you already have well-ranking content and your goal is to reach first place with it, you have to take other steps and enter the optimization in a completely different way than it would be the case with a complete SEO zero start.
It is very important – now also specifically in terms of SEO – to always act in a consistent context. Previously defined goals provide you with the basis for a red thread along which you work in your activities. Of course, about your company’s orientation and the goods or services you provide, it should not be difficult for you to provide content that fits very precisely to your company context and thus to address your target group precisely or to give the search engines a positive impression in this respect.
However, it becomes somewhat more difficult when you expand your SEO content and offer additional, further value-added information to your central company data. This is – as will be described in more detail in the following section – practically unavoidable for successful SEO today. For example, if you run a blog through which you disseminate news, guides, production conditions and other typical information, you should make sure that it is really related to your company context. That means you will never convince your customers as well as search engines if you act too much off your business spectrum. Because with such content you won’t be able to reach your target group precisely enough, which in turn has a negative impact on the user experience.
The latter can now be seen as an all-embracing factor for successful SEO content. If your content only provides your customers with a positive user experience to a limited extent or not at all, they will rarely or not at all make use of it. This, in turn, is registered by the search engines and they issue a correspondingly negative rating. The quality of the user experience depends on almost all the factors listed below.