Think there's no connection between your mobile app and search engine optimization? Think again, because Google is changing that! Now is the time to take mobile app SEO seriously, and ensure that your apps and content rank as highly on search engines as they can.
Google has announced that next year they will once again increase their emphasis on a mobile-first algorithm. With the majority of web traffic now coming from mobile devices, Google will direct searches to mobile-friendly sites first, and importantly, offer suggestions matching mobile apps with related search terms.
Our lives are mobile and to get a good search engine results page (SERP) ranking, it pays to be mobile-friendly. As we all carry out more and more work using our smartphones, enterprise apps are going to become the norm for businesses with staff on-the-go.
So how can app publishers make sure their apps rank highly on Google and increase your brand's search engine ranking? Here are four key ways to improve your mobile app SEO through organic search:
1. Make sure your in-app content is optimized for search enginesIt's important to place an emphasis first and foremost on the quality of your in-app content. Google launched app indexing in 2013 and it essentially allows mobile apps to appear in Google searches, taking users directly to the app in their respective app stores.
This means that the content within your apps has to be optimized and of high-quality to ensure that your mobile apps rank highly on search engines.
Google can search deep within your mobile apps to find, and take the user to, specific pieces of content. What's more, the importance of app indexing has only increased, with more users than ever using search to find new mobile apps.
Creating your app is not the final step by any means. To ensure that you drive as much traffic to your app you should create a landing page which links users to the app store where they can download it. Optimising the landing page for your mobile app is crucial to ensuring that it ranks highly on search engines.
You can use traditional SEO techniques to ensure you optimize the landing page appropriately e.g. keywords in the title, in headings and throughout the page. write an optimized meta description for the page, include images with alt tags containing the keyword, and more.
Whilst it is important to have traditional keywords on your landing page and in your mobile app, Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) keywords add value by helping search engines identify exactly what your page is all about.
According to Brian Dean of 'Backlinko' there are three ways you can identify LSI keywords for your mobile apps:
Boost your mobile app ranking and stand out from the pack by optimising your app title and description. This ensures that you can get key information into your app title and description, which is often the only thing users will read before decided whether to download an app or not.
This is a chance for your app to take a position previously given to a website.
"In some cases," Emily Grossman and Cindy Krum say, "being an indexed app may be the only way to rank at the top in mobile Google search. Keywords like 'games' and 'editor' are a common trigger for app packs and app carousels, but Google is also prominently surfacing apps for queries that seem to be associated with utilities or verbs."
4. BONUS: Don't forget about app store optimization (ASO)Justin Briggs tells us mobile app store search rankings are based on a combination of App Store Optimization (ASO) and traditional SEO. Titles, descriptions, and device and platform keywords all count. Additionally, dynamic success metrics impact the ranking of your mobile app. The best way to judge your success is to track multiple metrics, including:
"For iOS, the primary public metrics are ratings and reviews," Briggs says.
"However, app performance can be inferred using the app store's ranking charts and search results, which can be leveraged as proxies of these performance metrics"
Increasing your app's average rating number, increasing your volume of ratings, and increasing downloads of your app will have the greatest influence on your mobile app search ranking.
As a marketer, thinking about mobile-first when you approach your content can be different to what you may have been used to. That said, optimising mobile apps for SEO is in many ways similar to optimising any other piece of content.
Here are a few things to keep in mind before your begin the optimization process of your mobile apps:
To recap, it's important to consider the impact that changes in Google's algorithms can have on your content and mobile apps. Change can mean that you have an opportunity to optimize your current in-app content and you can do that by:
Each of these will ensure that your mobile apps rank as highly on Google as possible, exposing a wider audience to your brand and apps.
What other strategies do you use to optimize your mobile apps for search engines? Comment below and let us know what we've missed!
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Source: How to Optimise Your Mobile Apps for Higher Search Engine Rankings
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