Weird title to this post :D, I recently launched the landing page for my startup minchat.io which is a UI SDK that lets you create in-app chat functionality in your app or website within minutes saving you months of development time. I intend for my primary marketing channel to be well-optimized SEO to get as much organic search traffic for it as possible. The product is not yet ready for launch but while it is still under development I would like to improve the SEO of the landing page as much as possible. what advice and suggestions would you give me to greatly improve the site's SEO?
Check @xavier last post :-)
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/get-quick-wins-with-seo-6671f3c7aa
great tips
Thanks for the mention Franck
very underrated but important thing I have noticed is the loading speed of the website pages and NO BROKEN LINKS. Obviously this is in exception of the backlinking and all the other known factors.
I have spent the last 3 hours improving my page speed and I can now safely say I have the fastest page speed amongst my closest competitors getstream,pubnub and sendbird both on mobile and desktop.
that's great! how did you end up doing that?
so firstly converted all images from png to webp, webp has smaller file size than png so that loads the webpage faster... then analyzed third-party packages and got rid of the ones slowing down the page load time, mine was hotjar that was slowing it down, got rid of it, will figure out a way to only load hotjar when a user is logged in that way the landing page is not affected by hotjar. Then also implemented lazy loading where only what's displayed on the screen is loaded and not every page, as well as got rid of a few unused javascript packages that were getting loaded on the landing page.
There's nothing much you can do about on-page SEO for your landing page. I see you covered all the basics, like alt tags, one h1, meta, etc...
But one thing you're missing is a better <title>. Add a short description.
Do you mean a short description in the title or in a description tag?
A short description in the title, that's the usual practice.
For example: MinChat - Chat SDK with prebuilt UI
The vast majority of items that fall under "Technical SEO" are going to have no impact.
And that's the case for the vast majority of SaaS businesses.
If you're not running a complex setup (multiple languages, thousands of pages) you need to be focused on content and digital PR.
What do I mean by that?
If you run a tool like SEMRush, Ahrefs or another flavor - it'll output a bunch of recommendations for you.
That's fine, and a lot of those fall within "SEO best practice" let's say - but just by changing those you're not going to suddenly see a (or any) organic traffic boost, let alone growth in demos or trial signups.
What you need are two things:
Developing content for your target audience to start building brand awareness at the top of the funnel.
Building your link profile, in order to gradually be able to rank for those said queries, and later, more difficult queries as you work your way down the funnel.
Anything related to technical SEO is out the window without building great content and links.
On top of that, you can work your way into building great landing page copy that actually is focused around the desired outcome, and problem your prospects have.
That's how you can start to leverage the traffic you're getting now, across multiple SEO or other marketing channels.
I have found that the best place to find the most up-to-date and accurate SEO information is from the search engine companies themselves (how surprising!). For example, to rank high on Google read their SEO starter guide (https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide) which goes through the dos and don'ts of SEO.
TLDR;
Read Google's SEO starter guide
I'm still working on improving my current SaaS ranking (https://cysuite.io) but I have had massive success in the past ranking first on Google SERP for competitive keywords based on the simple tips above.
I will not give you any “advice”, but rather point you to how others founders have nailed it,
(https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/12-minute-saas-podcast/id1621014530?i=1000571448221)
https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/12-minute-saas-podcast/id1621014530?i=1000570697527
Comparison pages. Compare you vs others and others vs others.
Use case pages. In-app chat for video games. In-app chat for NFT collections. Whatever you do well call that out.
Some of the best SEO techniques include optimizing website content, building backlinks, and using social media. These strategies can assist with further creating a site’s positioning in the SERPs, which can prompt more traffic.
may I ask you how you did the chat mockup? I currently need something pretty similar for my landing page :)
It is part of the sdk I am building, I built the SDK to the point where it’s good enough for a live demo and then launched the landing page with it
Apart from creating indexable, great content find a tool for SEO monitoring & analysis so that you can better keep track of how your page is developing (e.g. onpage SEO getting worse, # of backlinks increasing, etc.).
do you have any suggestions for the best cost effective tool to use?
Sadly not.
I am using Ahrefs myself and it is awesome but also very expensive. It only makes sense because I use it for multiple projects.
Maybe the IH community has a better idea?
You could try lowfruits and/or katlinks!
They're both made by indiehackers
You need to write content, blog posts, and feature pages.
Do a search analysis, and find search phrases in your industry where the competition is low. The search volume doesn't matter much initially, but the higher, the better.
I would strongly recommend you follow Income School on YouTube. They do a phenomenal job of explaining SEO to everyone. 🙌
While you probably aren't going to get your landing page to rank for high-traffic keywords, without question it is worth working on for your branded keywords. If someone hears about your company through word of mouth (which happens all the time), you better pop up when they search for your name.
That being said, I just did a search for Minchat. It automatically searched for "minichat" and brought up another company. Also, Minchat seems to be part of the name of a book written in Hebrew in the 1800s.
It might be worth looking into changing the name or at least really going after those keywords. Increasing page/domain authority through quality backlinks is probably your best early-stage goal.
did a mozbar analysis and the minichat domain has a domain Authority of 16, I bet I can overtake that in a few months with targeted SEO efforts don't you think? 🤔
I have just finished my dev company https://criov.com/index.html and you are right SEO is frustrating
Everyone in the SEO space will try to sell you something - I think the best way is to focus on making great content and spend even more time promoting it to your audience/target audience. The rest will come automagically!
Hi
Hope you are doing well,
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Feedback on your value prop.
'UI SDK that lets you create in-app chat functionality in your app or website within minutes' sounds weird?
'In-app chat, with SDK' might be an easier way to say that?
Never heard of a UI SDK. But apps with APIs are common.
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