{"id":340,"date":"2020-04-03T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T08:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2021-03-20T08:45:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T05:45:17","slug":"seo-personas-how-to-implement-persona-driven-search-engine-optimization-seo-for-a-website-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/seo-personas-how-to-implement-persona-driven-search-engine-optimization-seo-for-a-website-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO Personas: How to implement persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO) for a website, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is a post from the APG Team&#8217;s summer 2020 intern, Jaad Mohammed.<\/em><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nSEO Personas: How to implement persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO) for a website, Part 2 by Jaad Mohammed. (Read <a href=\"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/seo-personas-persona-driven-search-engine-optimization-seo-part-1\/\">Part 1<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>In this blog post, we discuss persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO) or SEO personas.<\/p>\n<p>For this, we need to first create personas for your website, service, or product. This can be done following the steps mentioned in this article, <a href=\"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/how-to-create-a-persona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to create a persona?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once we have our <a href=\"https:\/\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/what-is-a-persona-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">persona profiles<\/a> that look something like this one from APG, a data-driven persona system, shown in Figure 1.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351\" style=\"width: 803px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-351\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/apg_persona.jpg?resize=803%2C566&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Figure 1: This is one example of a persona profile that one can use for SEO\" width=\"803\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/apg_persona.jpg?w=803&amp;ssl=1 803w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/apg_persona.jpg?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/persona.qcri.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/apg_persona.jpg?resize=768%2C541&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1: This is one example of a persona profile that one can use for SEO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now we can easily study our customers\u2019 behavior and begin the SEO of our website for three main areas of (a) content, (b) navigation, and (c) on-page links.<\/p>\n<h2><b>\u00a0 SEO Content for Personas<\/b><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From your list of personas, you can identify the pages users are most likely to visit by understanding their topic of interest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you have identified the pages that get the most visits, use web analytic tools like Google Search Console, Google Keyword Planner, KeywordTool, etc. to identify the keywords that bring traffic to these pages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now integrate these keywords into the articles without seeming spammy, and also review anchor texts on the site that leads to these pages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember the final objective here is to create a good website for the user, as represented by the SEO personas, not to simply chase keywords, so make decisions accordingly. SEO personas help you keep this goal in mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><b>Off-site Navigation from Persona Perspective<\/b><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re most likely going to have to remap how users get to your site.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By understanding the pages our SEO personas are most likely to visit as discussed above, you can redesign your website in a way that these pages show up first to the users.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember the final objective here is to create a good website for the user, as represented by the SEO personas, not to simply chase traffic, so make decisions accordingly. SEO personas help you keep this goal in mind.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><b>On-page links from Persona&#8217;s Most Frequently Visited Sites<\/b><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The more a page is linked, the more search engines like Google will understand that these are our most valued pages.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also helps target our personas as users can go deeper into our website through these links.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To assure the users click these links, understand their areas of interest by reviewing SEO persona data and link to relevant pages. Link to as many different pages within your website as possible to ensure SEO.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember the final objective here is to create a good website for the user, as represented by the SEO personas, not to simply create a lot of links, so make decisions accordingly. SEO personas help you keep this goal in mind.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Personas can be useful for SEO to understand searchers&#8217; motivations, pain points, and used keywords. This knowledge can also be leveraged for website content design, UI design, and off-page link development activities.<\/p>\n<p>Jansen, B. J<strong>.<\/strong>, Salminen, J., and Jung, S.G. 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