{"id":31,"date":"2026-06-08T18:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/?p=31"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:38:24","slug":"why-is-seo-important-to-your-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/why-is-seo-important-to-your-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is SEO Important To Your Site?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think back to the days before the internet, when everyone looked for business listings in the Yellow Pages or a similar hard copy directory. Now, imagine you&#8217;re trying to find a plumber. You go to the &#8220;P&#8221; page, flick through, and only see three plumbers listed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;d be a massive advantage for the three plumbers, wouldn&#8217;t it? To effectively be all that potential customers see. Well, that&#8217;s the power of <a href=\"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/hello-world\/\" title=\"\">SEO<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When someone uses a search engine, they type in a set of words to bring up results that are relevant to them. Once the applicable websites appear on the results page, they are rated for &#8216;relevancy&#8217;. Any website which has correctly used search engine optimisation will be judged by <a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\" title=\"\">Google<\/a> to be &#8216;relevant&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/templune-seo-1910427_640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/templune-seo-1910427_640.png 640w, https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/templune-seo-1910427_640-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if you have correctly used SEO, your website will appear somewhere near the top of the search engine results page &#8211; hopefully in the top three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is that so important? Well, studies have shown that the vast majority of those using search engines only click on websites listed in the top three results of any search engine results page. This is where it compares to being only one of three businesses listed in an old-style paper directory like the Yellow Pages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Master SEO, and your website will appear high in search results, in the slots (one to three) that users click. That naturally leads to more people visiting your website, and that in turn means more business, more customers, and ultimately more money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SEO in 2025: How I&amp;apos;d Learn it if I Were Starting Over\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_s2h7X-c2jE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your site top of the rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[12,11,6],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-tech","tag-free-seo","tag-google","tag-seo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mg9.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}