2016 standard Ranking Optimization for bloggers

Welcome to this beautiful year 2016, this year will be a year of success for marketers. A new year comes with a new change and each change focuses on a bright future, and the increment of revenues.
The year 2016 brings many chances of getting a good rank for your site on google through SEO. The SEO has gained more important because it's what you need for your ranking on the search engine.

SEO is also what you need to drive traffic to your site and make more sales, online business is all about SEO, no SEO no traffic.
Earlier in 2012 e-commerce pioneers thought that e-commerce sites have nothing to do with SEO, but they later realized lately in 2014/2015 that SEO has many functions.
They realized that it makes them visible on the search engine, boost there brand and credit their business for a successful sale.

According to Searchengineland.com, who said that "SEO is the process of driving traffic from the ‘organic’, and ‘paid’ sources to win the rat race of ranking on search engine result pages (SERPs)".
Ranking on the search engine is a very big competition, an internet business person must be updated on the SEO which updates constantly, to retain or elevate it's position on the search engine.
Search engine ranking has much to do with your content, backlinks, internal links and unique picture/videos.
But I know that this 2016 SEO will make a great hit, for users. We will disclose the best the best SEO hits, for this year, put more concentration in this article.


#1 1. Winning the mobile search
The mobile phone is owned by everyone and more used in browsing the internet, mobile phone are more friendly than computers, not everyone has computers, not everyone knows how to browse with a computer, not everyone like browsing with a computer.

Mobile phone is gradually taking charge of the search engine, above is rate at which mobile is beating PC on the search engine. SEO 2016 bring to you a new idea of directing traffic from both PC and mobile phone which is on it way to change the phase of the search engine. Before we think of this you have to first make your site mobile friendly, this can be done by the help of Google AMP.

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) has many good effects to do on your site such as making it mobile friendly, making it fit the screen of the phone. Google’s algorithm update this year ensured that mobile-friendly websites get a search ranking boost on mobile searches. As stated by cio.com, however, AMP is also relevant for other types of businesses, such as e-commerce organizations, for which the AMP results carousel and other components are well-suited. AMP is also a great startegy to win the market. Because people find it more convinient to buying things with their mobile phones even why at work. AMP will also make your page load fast and well on mobile devices, techcrunch.com said AMP is an open framework for creating articles that load more quickly, particularly on mobile.


#2 2. Video SEO

Video is known as a visual form displayed on a platform, which paints the word entertainment green. From my research, I came to understand that people prefer watching videos than reading novels. like a question asked by theguardian.com, If it were five years in the future, would you be reading this article or would you be watching it? below is a screenshot from thinkwithgoogle.com

 The video record is a great strategy to win the competition on the search engine. A report by Marketing Land states that videos make up of 62% of all Google search universally, by seonick.net. Videos get more rank and valued the more by search engines, it shows the prove that you know what you are doing.

You can as well draw more traffic from You Tube, by uploading your videos to You Tube, with links to your site on it.

#3 3. Voice search Optimation

Voice search was initial release May 20, 2002 on google. Voice search has taken 30% of the search engine, this is because people at the go have limited time to type if the which to make a search while driving, cooking, watching TV, taking their bath etc. Many apps have been produced by Microsoft, Google, and Apple launching their own versions of advanced voice-responsive assistants – Cortana, Google Now and Siri, all have speech recognition installed in them. below is the statistics of  Google voice search from 2008-2016.

It's recommended for you to add voice recognition to your website, to enable it be found on voice search. 

#4 4.  Unique Contents Creation

 This is valued the most by the search engine, quality and unique contents will make your website unique on the search engine.  "Longer articles are getting more traffic, and they’re ranking higher in SEO, especially for competitive terms". said by ama.org. long article are more matured to read than shorts one. Keep a particular format in all your content, so that your articles will be uniform.

The picture just like videos also provides a prove and gives deep understanding to the reader.  “A picture is worth a thousand words” by yoast.com. Add caption to all your images.

Unique videos is a very good factor in search engine ranking as stated earlier.

#5.5 Locational SEO

This has to do with your location, your address and who you are. Creating pages like About Us and  Contact Us with your location and address on it, make the search engine know that you are legit. With those pages, you will win the trust of the search engine not to be fraud to people. Attaching a map of your location is also a very good one, like the one below.

 Open a facebook page, Twitter account, LinkedIn and other social media to popularize your business.