Adding New Sections To Help Drive Those Million Pageviews

Widening Our Remit and The Decision About New Sections

After the physical redesign, we needed to think about the new sections we would add to Hearing Aid Know. Thes would be a major part of our SEO strategy and play a huge role in providing the information that prospective consumers crave. So it was important that we got it right, we did, but we missed out on so much. That though is what learning is all about. Let me explain, first of all, what sections we added and the hierarchy structure we would use. Then I will talk about the evolution of that as we realised we had missed much.

The Sections That Matter

So initially we identified the sections that were important and the hierarchy that would be used, they were:

• Hearing Aids, a definitive cornerstone page for the major hearing aid brands which would support or be the cornerstone for every other hearing aid related page on the site
• Hearing Healthcare, which would be used to explain different facets of hearing healthcare and support Independent providers
• Hearing Loss, which would be used to define the different elements of hearing loss and be used as a catch-all for hearing loss information
• Find Providers, which would be used to give access to Independent Providers we worked with and would support the hearing centre and ear wax removal profiles

We identified these sections and the different pages we would add to them as central to our strategy. While these are the overall sections, in each section is a huge amount different pages, however, and this is core, they are all within the category described and they are all used to support the cornerstone page and each other, let's talk about how. For this article, I will concentrate on the hearing aids section, because there is much to tell. Each article after this will be dedicated to individual sections, what we did, why we did it and why you should do it too. 

The Hearing Aids Section

The hearing aids section is absolutely crucial to our strategy, hearing aid content is probably the most important and well-read content we have onsite. We always knew it would be and that is why we have always designed and built a hearing aid page for any site we have built for others. It has served us exceptionally well

The Structure

The structure or hierarchy is simple, a definitive page for the best hearing aid brands worldwide, this was our cornerstone page for hearing aid manufacturers. This page would lead to individual pages for each hearing aid brand, like this in-depth page about Phonak hearing aids.  Each of these pages would then offer links to content about individual hearing aid platforms and technology levels. For instance, this page about the Widex Unique 440 platform.

As part of the hearing aids section, we also built cornerstone pages for

• hearing aid technology
• hearing aid types
• Rechargeable hearing aids
• Bluetooth hearing aids
• Buying hearing aids
• Aftercare you should expect
• Hearing aid prices
• Clean and care of hearing aids

Each of these pages is long form and in-depth, covering many things within each concept. When we first started the process we didn't actually include the idea for the Bluetooth page or the invisible hearing aids page. We actually realised the need for them later.

Making it Work

All of this content would help, but it would not work unless it was internally linked in order that it supported each other and passed internal authority. Each page does not exist in isolation, each page is internally linked to other pages using both buttons and anchor text hyperlinks. 

The use of this strategy allows Google to understand how pages are linked together and what the context of each page and link is. For instance, if we look at a recent article pertaining to the introduction of Unitron's new Moxi All. In that article, I have taken the time to link back to the rechargeable hearing aids page, the made for iPhone hearing aids page and the hearing aid brand page for Unitron. 

At the end of the article, I have also added an anchor text hyperlink to support a cornerstone article on the latest hearing aids in 2018. This is a lot of internal linking and some SEO guys warn about too many internal links. We have experimented with this constantly and we have found that once the links are within context and are designed to improve the user experience by offering more relevant information, there seems to be no problem. 

Lesson For Today

First of all, every step we have taken has led to success, we rank globally for general searches when it comes to hearing aids. The way we achieved this was through the content strategy and structural strategy we applied. Here are the most important things you can learn from our experience:

• Structure a definitive section for hearing aids
• A hearing aid brand page is important and will serve as a top line page
• Individual brand pages are important and can flow from the hearing aid brand page
• Individual platform pages are a nice thing to have and can flow from the individual brand pages
• You need a definitive hearing aid types page
• You need a definitive hearing aid technology page
• You need a definitive rechargeable hearing aids page which will be supported by blog posts
• You need a definitive invisible hearing aid page that will be supported by blog posts
• you need a definitive Bluetooth hearing aid page that will be supported by blog posts
• You need to ensure that all pages are used to interlink and support each other with anchor text hyperlinks and/or read more buttons

Listen, I know that this is a bit of work, but it is worth every bit of it. The work we put in transformed our site and led directly to the magic million page views. Think about what doing that work for your site would do for business in localised search. Think about what appearing in localised search for every hearing aid search term would do for your authority and your business levels.

In the next article, I will outline the hearing care section and how we began to use it to support Independent Providers to get enquiries. 

• You can read step one here
• You can read about step two here