+91 80170 49042 [email protected]

What Will You Choose: SEO or Usability?

by | Updated on: Nov 3, 2019 | SEO | 0 comments

Learn why 1L learners preferred Seven Boats Academy

SEO vs UsabilityThis is the debate that has crossed the mind of every online marketer. What should they go for to make their website popular: sacrifice usability at the altar of SEO or vice versa? Before coming to a conclusion, it at all, let us look at both sides of the same coin from an internet marketer’s point of view. Suppose you have a website. You want people to visit this website. In order to make that possible, you need to look at an SEO plan for your website. With great effort, you build up the SEO machinery that works for you.

After fighting a grim battle with the keywords and the search engines, your website is ranking well, probably on the very first page of search results on all your primary keywords! You have attained SEO nirvana, so to speak! The results are there to see: a steady stream of online traffic flowing in every day, hundreds (even thousands) of unique visitors every month. However, when you look at the conversion ratio, you find it to be abysmally low. You dig for reasons and find that users are not enjoying their experience of being in your website. The bounce rate is so high because they have not bothered to click anywhere. In fact, they stayed on your website for some seconds!

Why is your well-laid plan falling apart? It is because your website’s usability is low. Online visitors hate to stay on at a website that is cluttered, full of broken links and confused navigations. It could also be that users are repelled by that Flash intro you have which you think is a delight but your users think it is a bandwidth consumer! It’s time, then, to introspect and fix these usability hurdles. In other words, SEO will not get you dividends if you neglect usability. Similarly, the inverse is true as well. You have an excellent site and your content has the perfect keyword density, but unless you have a proper SEO plan to bring in users, your website will wither away. SEO and usability are not choices for an internet marketer: both are a necessity.

Author:- Debajyoti Banerjee is the Founder, Director & CEO of Seven Boats - A leading digital marketing agency & digital marketing training institute in India since 2011. He is a TEDx Speaker, Google & LinkedIn Certified Digital Marketer & Trainer, Brand Strategist, Consultant & Entrepreneur. B. Tech in computer engineering & post graduate diploma in Marketing, Debajyoti has 18+ years of domain experience and successful track records in digital marketing services & digital marketing training with 500+ clients & 100K+ students in 165+ countries. He has been invited & felicitated by 25+ Top B Schools & universities including London Business School, AICTE ATAL FDP, UGC-HRDC, IIM Shillong, IIM ROHTAK, IIT KGP, IIT Guwahati, Calcutta University, Ranchi University, St. Xavier’s, Brainware, Techno India, JIS Group, Jaypee Group, Shikshayatan Foundation, IIEST Shibpur, Bhavan’s, ICFAI Business School, GITAM Deemed University, Swami Vivekananda Group of Institutions & many more. He has been awarded with more than 20 national awards and he has received notable media coverage. Learn more

 

0 Comments

Submit a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

learn digital marketing - Seven Boats
Get a call back
Download Brochure
WhatsApp Chat

Alert: Scammers are impersonating & pretending to be Seven Boats Info-System Private Limited. Be Aware. Learn How to Protect Yourself.

Read more →