How Usability Experience and Content Affect Search Engine Rankings



The search engines are constantly striving to improve their performance by providing some of the best possible results. While best is known to be subjective the search engines have very good idea of different kinds of pages and websites that can easily satisfy their searchers. Generally these websites have few traits in common like

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  • Easy to use understand and navigate
  • Provide  some direct and actionable information relevant to your query
  • Professionally designed and  is accessible to some modern browsers
  • Delivers high quality,credible and legitimate
Despite some amazing technological advances still search engines cannot yet understand some text, some view images and watch some video the same way some human can. Thus, in order to fully understand content they usually rely on some Meta information not necessarily some Meta tags about websites and pages to rank the content. Web pages do not exist in some vacuum but real human beings interact with them. Search engines use some data to observe how people engage with these web pages and this gives them some incredible insight as to quality of these pages themselves.

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There are some limited number of variables that search engines can take in account directly including keywords, some links and some site structures. However through linking patterns, the user engagement metrics and the machine learning these search engines make some considerable number of intuitions about the given website. Usability and the user experience are second order influences on the search engine’s ranking and success. They provide some indirect but also measurable benefit to a website's external popularity which the search engines can then interpret as some signal of high quality. This is called no one likes to link to a crummy site phenomenon.

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Crafting some thoughtful and empathetic user experience can also ensure that your website is perceived positively by those people who visit, encouraging some sharing, return visits ,bookmarking and links always signal that they trickle down to these search engines and contribute achieve somewhat high rankings.

Signals of some Quality Content

1. Engagement Metrics

When some search engine delivers a page containing some results to you then they can measure their success by observing how you can engage with those results. If you hit first link then immediately hit back button to try second link this also indicates that you were not satisfied with first results. Since the beginning, search engines have sought long click where users click some result without immediately returning to search page in order to try again. Taken in aggregate over millions of queries in one day the search engines build up good pool of data in order to judge quality of their results.

2. Machine Learning

In the year 2011 Google introduced Panda Update to its ranking algorithm thus significantly changing way it judged the websites for their quality. Google started by using some human elevators in order to manually rate 1000s of different sites and searching for some low quality content. Google then incorporated some machine learning in order to mimic human elevators. Once its computers were able to accurately predict what humans would judge low quality website the algorithm was introduced in millions of websites spanning the whole Internet. The end result was seismic shift which rearranged around 20% of all Google's search results. For more on Panda updates some good resources can also be found here and there.

3. Linking Patterns

The engines discovered some early on that the link structure which the web could serve as proxy for popularity and votes.Higherquality websites and information earned them more links than the less useful and low quality peers. Today the link analysis algorithms have advanced somewhat considerably but these principles also hold true.

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All of the positive attention and excitement around content offered by some new site translates into some machine parse-able and algorithmically valuable collection of the links. The timing,anchor text, source and number of links to new website are all factored into potential performance i.e. ranking for some relevant queries at the search engines.Now imagine that the website was not so great let us say it is just an ordinary website without anything impressive or unique.

For Search Engine Success

Developing some great content may be most repeated suggestion in SEO world. Yet despite the cliched status some appealing and useful content is critical to different search engines optimization. Every search performed at search engines comes with some intent to learn find, fix, solve, buy, understand or treat. Search engine places web pages in their result in order to satisfy the intent in the best possible way and thus crafting most fulfilling, thorough content that addresses some searcher's needs and requirements and thus provides an excellent chance for earning top rankings.

Identifying local business, making a purchase online and then completing a task

Transnational searches do not necessarily involve some credit card or wire transfer. Signing up for free trial account at the Cook's Illustrated, creating  your Gmail account, or finding best local Mexican cuisine are  known as transnational queries.

Navigational Searches

Navigational searches include visiting some a pre-determined destination and sourcing correct website URL.Navigational searches are also performed with the intent of surfing directly to some specific website. In some cases the users may not know exact URL and search engine serves as White Pages passing along hopefully correct location.

Researching non-transnational information, getting some quick answers and ego-searching

Informational searches involve huge range of queries like finding out local weather, getting map and directions, to finding name of Tony Starks' military buddy from Iron Man movie or just checking on how long that trip to Mars takes. The common thread here is the searches are primarily some whatnot-transaction-oriented and non-commercial in nature. The information itself is goal and no interaction beyond clicking and then reading's required.Fulfilling some of these intents is up to you. Creativity, use of examples, high quality writing, multimedia and images all help in crafting some content that perfectly fits searcher's goals. Your reward will be some satisfied searchers who somewhat demonstrate positive experience through some engaged activity on your website or the links to it.

 
Noman Ramzan

Noman Ramzan is a Security Researcher, SEO Expert, Penetration tester, Blogger, Google AdSense publisher and Social media marketing and well functional Web Developer.

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