Get control of your YMYL website

Let me get to the heart of the matter - and share my experiences.

First of all - you'll never go wrong swearing by Google's Quality Guidelines as if they were your bible. Their Quality Guidelines are all about improving the user experience for their customers, so a thorough understanding of them can always help.

But besides my initial mainstream advice - I have 12 more concrete tips up my sleeve ↓

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You need to show that you have the E, A and T of E-A-T down with a killer om-os page. In short: spray experience and credibility beyond that!

First of all, show who is behind the company.

Talk about your years of experience in your field, link to the awards you have won and the publications or articles you have written about your field.

Show that you are a member of associations, membership organizations and what-have-you that express that you are an integral part of your profession.

Tell us about the praising news articles that have been written about your company.

You'll also learn about the history of the business - and how it started way back in 1975, when Grethe, the great-grandmother, founded the physiotherapy clinic with sweat and tears.

A website should have both primary and supplementary content.
This means that your website should not only have pages about your company's services.

You also need pages that improve the user experience, "just to improve the user experience " - and provide valuable advice "just to provide valuable advice".

If you own a dental clinic, for example, you need information not only on how to book a dental cleaning - but also on what the worried cola drinker can do to prevent yellow teeth.

With trade-relevant publications in reputable journals and other types of online magazines, you can really show that you're an expert in your field.

If you have publications from your university days lying around, you can also use them to shed light on your expertise.

Other options are to hire other industry professionals with a good reputation to co-author an article - or to experiment with guest blogging on other quality sites to spread your and your company's name.

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There are also other ways to tell Google that your dental clinic has expertise, authority and is trustworthy. You can use "structured data" in the form of Schema.org. It may sound a bit long-winded, but it's not.

Schema.org can be seen as a "vocabulary" in code, and is a way to define and present content on your page - to help Google understand what your content actually means.

With structured data, you can tell Google very quickly how long your business has been around, that it's a dental clinic and who owns it.

You can even unravel - that your dental clinic assistant Kaj Andersen, who stands on your "about-us-page", works at your clinic on Strandvej 63, is educated at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Panum and is the same Kaj Andersen, who has a writer profile on tandlægebladet.dk.

How, you ask?

By filling in some pre-defined "markups" with your information and pasting into the code of your website.

You can use Schema in three different "forms": microdata, RDFa or JSON-LD. Google has recommended JSON-LD, and that's why we usually stick to it!

If you have an inner schema geek, read more about it in Alexis Sanders' blog post here or take a look at jsonld.com.

Your audiences will naturally Google different things depending on where they are in the customer journey. It's not the same thing they google when they're just starting to feel their pain point and don't know the solution yet, as when they know what they want to buy, where and why.

Part of your SEO strategy should be to identify which stages of the buying process make sense for you to be visible in.

It's a good idea to be visible and helpful at all stages - from start to finish. But if resources aren't available, prioritise. Read more about how to do a keyword analysis based on the customer journey here.

Boost your company's reputation and create good publicity!
One way to do this is by hitting the press.

But remember! ... There's a difference between paid press coverage and a journalist writing an article because you've actually given him something to write about.

In most cases, Google knows the difference - and does not weigh both equally on the value scale.

Also put effort into getting positive reviews on Google, Facebook and Trustpilot - and writing customer cases on your website.

Good publicity from sources other than the company itself shows signs of authority. If other people trust the company, Google is more likely to trust it too.

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The purpose of the website must be clearly stated. No hidden agendas.

When Google's quality reviewers visit your website, they judge what the purpose of your pages is - whether it's clear - and whether each page is fit for purpose.

If it makes sense for your business, you can help your users with a thorough FAQ. This is particularly the T in E-A-T that you are pulling on here by helping the user to find the answers to their questions.

If you have a webshop, it is essential to be transparent with information about terms of trade, shipping costs, refund policy, delivery information and so on.
When payment cards are involved, transparency and security must be top-notch.

THEREFORE (and for many other reasons) it is also important that your site is SSL certified, of course.

In general, you should constantly ask yourself why people should trust your company when they encounter your website. Are there enough trust marks?

If you find it difficult to judge, you can do a free survey via surveymonkey.com, asking people who have not visited your website before - what their first impressions of the site are.

They, not you, know best.

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If you're looking for an agency that can give you a status on your company's E-A-T - me and my team can give you a few free recommendations.

There are many other ways to improve the credibility of your site - and we're always happy to share our experiences!

Please send us an email at info@webamp.dk and write E-A-T in the subject field or call our main number at +45 70 60 50 28.

You can also read more about how we make SEO right here or get a free SEO report.

Thank you so much for reading!

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