Tuesday, October 4, 2016

The Most Reliable Car- an SEO Audit of two Brands

Title: The Most reliable Cars- an SEO Audit of two Brands.

Written by:  Yiran Zhao.

Subtitle:  “Mercedes-Benz and Tesla, Which one is The Most Reliable Cars?”

 

Introduction

SEO is an important consideration for marketers because users are trust search engines and having a presence in the top positions for the keywords the user is searching could increase the website’s trust, and SEO can also put you ahead of the competition. Mercedes-Benz and Tesla are two brands in the car industry, we can using keyword like “practical and energy saving” to determine which brand is more suitable for the ordinary customers. The objective is to determine which of the two sites when compared has a stronger SEO.

Screen Captures of both home pages:

SEO Considerations

Mercedes-Benz


Tesla


 




1.    URL:

2.    Page Title

Sedans, Coupes, Convertibles, SUVs and Wagons
Tesla | Premium Electric Sedans and SUVs
3.    Meta Description

Explore the official Mercedes-Benz Canada website for information on our range of vehicles, booking a test drive, building a custom model & special offers.
Tesla designs and manufactures the Model S electric sedan and the Model X electric SUV, and is taking reservations for Model 3, a premium EV starting at $35,000. Tesla also produces a line of commercial and residential battery products.
4.    Meta Keywords and Monthly search volume:
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5.    Structural elements: 
H1, H2, H3

H2: The all-new 2017 E-Class Sedan. • The 2017 SLC. • The 2017 SL. • B-Class • C-Class • CLA • CLS • E-Class • G-Class • GLA • GLC • GLE • GLS • S-Class • SL • SLC • Mercedes-AMG GT • AMG • Mercedes-Maybach S-Class
H1: Premium Electric Vehicles • Model S • Model X
    H2: Home • Electric Sedan • Electric SUV • User login
6.    Strong tags

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7.    Alt Text
Vans • smart • vans_smart
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8.    Page Load Time

0.633 sec
0.366 sec
9.    Observations Regarding Visual Content: Engaging?
Lots/Some/Few
Lots
Lots
10. Call-to-action:
(List 2)


11. Anchored Text: (List 3)



12. Moz Established Links:  # to Root Domain

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13. Moz Established Links:  # Total Links

6,485
1,259
14. Top 3 inbound links.

1.     AMG driving academy
2.     Twelve perfect gifts for the car lover on your list
3.     Global Automakers of Canada
1.     Tesla divorces mobileeye, or Vice Versa
2.     Tesla wants to build public transport and solar roofs
3.     Fortune Live - Fortune
15. Mobile Friendly:
Yes/No

Yes
Yes
16. Content is “shareable”
(Like, Tweet, Pin, Blog, etc.)
Yes
Yes
17. Social Media: (List all SM icons on the home page.
Facebook, Google +
Facebook, Google +
18. SERP ranking results when using keywords from this table: (placing or page number)



 




 

Google Trends:

Include your topic, and your two brands.  Include the search terms with your screen capture.

Google Trends Insights:

From the Google Trends, we can see people are always interesting in research cars. For those two brands, Tesla are getting more attentions than Mercedes-Benz.

Latent Semantic Indexing Keywords:

Mercedes-Ben:
1.     Reliable car transportation
2.     Reliable cars
3.     Car carriers transport

Tesla:
1.     Reliable cars
2.     Car transport
3.     Reliable car carriers

Summary:

When searching for content using the keywords:  Reliable cars, Mercedes-Benz got 28 results and Tesla only got a few of them.

Conclusion:

In my opinion, through using the keyword “Reliable” research for Mercedes-Benz and Tesla, the overall winner of this SEO Search analysis is Mercedes-Benz.

APA Citations:

Google. (September 2016). Google trends. [Cars, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla]. Retrieved from https://www.google.ca/trends/explore?q=reliable,Mercedes-Benz,Tesla 
LSIGraph. (September 2016). LSIGraph keyword generator [Reliable Cars]. Retrieved from http://lsigraph.com/
SEOmoz Inc. (September 2016). MozBar. Retrieved from https://moz.com/tools/seo-toolbar

 

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