Thursday, May 26, 2016

SEO Audit Of LOT Polish Airlines and Qatar Airways



LOT Polish Airlines versus Qatar Airways

Writter: Aleksander Stempowski


SEO is an important consideration for marketers because people does not spend a lot of time on research, most people just look at first page in Google browser, so it is important to make our best to locate our page on top of the website. In the flights industry, LOT Polish Airlines and Qatar Airways. Using keyword sentences throughout their sites like “flights to Qatar/Poland” In the quest of the Best Airlines we see that it is hard to compare companies which have different target market, and objectives. The objective is to determine which of the two sites when compared has a stronger SEO.

SEO Considerations

SEO Considerations
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1. URL:
2. Page Title
LOT Polish Airlines Canada | Book on the official website | lot.com
 Qatar Airways | Book Flights from Canada
3. Meta Description
Finding convenient international flights and cheap flights to Poland has never been that easy. Book your tickets now, check-in online and enjoy your travel with LOT Polish Airlines!
Travel from Canada to more than 150 destinations worldwide with Qatar Airways, a world-class airline - Book your flight online for exclusive fares.
4. Meta Keywords and   Monthly search volume:
flights to Poland, international flights, cheap flights to Poland, polish airlines
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5. Structural elements: H1, H2, H3
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Spring deals • Experience our brand new A350 • Subscribe to Qatar Airways' newsletter • Book • Offers • Where we fly • Booking information • Corporate solutions • Baggage • Qatar Airways experience • Airports • Travel information • Special services • MEMBER BENEFITS • EARN QMILES & QPOINTS • REDEEM QMILES & QCREDITS • OFFERS & NEWS • OUR PARTNERS • Contact us • Baggage assistance • Privilege Club • Travel alerts • Holidays • Great value fares • Quick Links • News • Our destinations • Visa and passport requirements • Newsletter
6. Strong tags
 Spring deals • Experience our brand new A350
7. Alt Text

 cookies • Payment methods • Facebook • Pinterest • YouTube • lot a star alliance member
Select Language • del • bkk • del • bkk • A touch screen with options
8. Page Load Time
8.19 sec
4.34 sec
9. Observations Regarding Page layout:
Search box is in the middle of website;
By being on main page I can immediately start booking a flight;
Search box is in the top right corner;

By being on main page I can immediately start booking a flight;
10.  Observations Regarding Visual Content:
There are pictures of monuments / cities which you can visit by using their service;

Small icons of social media accounts are at the bottom of the website;
There are pictures of monuments / cities which you can visit by using their service;
Small icons of social media accounts are at the bottom of the website;
11. Call-to-action
XXXI World Youth Day
Fly to Cracow or Warsaw 
Spring Deals Book now & save
12. Anchored Text:
lot
lot polish airlines
lot logo blue
qatar airways
click here
www.qatarairways.com
13. Moz Established Links:  # to Root Domain
5
9
14. Moz Established Links:  #Total Links
2336
70
15. Top 3 inbound links.
16. Mobile Friendly: Yes/No
Yes
Yes
17. Content is “shareable” (Like, Tweet, Pin, Blog, etc.)
Yes
No
18. Social Media: (List all SM icons on the home page
Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr
Google +, LinkedIn, Flickr, Instagram
19. SERP ranking results when using keywords from this table: (placing or page number)
2nd page 3rd position
1st page 3rd position


Google Trends

Google Trends Insights:
This graph shows us that Qatar Airways is a company with better offers for people living in Canada. It also confirms that there are more immigrants from Arabian region in Canada rather than from Central Europe. When people are trying to find flights, they are usually typing names of airlines rather than country of destination.  

 LSI Keywords 

LOT Polish Airlines:
 
  • See my reservation
  • Ticket LOT
  • Polish Airlines LOT 

American Airline:

  • Manage booking
  • Book a flight
  • Online check in

Most of the keywords from generator are on the website but just a couple of them are entirely equal.


 Summary & Conclusion

Both companies offer flights many flights to many different places. LOTs’ strengths are cheap prices and high comfort quality. When QAs’ offers to his customer safety trips and also high comfort quality.  The keywords   sentences “Safety, price, comfort” are found on the homepage where both companies describe their service.

By living in Canada we have limited options, because cities like Toronto are just one of many which are offered, so to go to other cities just using these airlines, you will have to transfer flight. In overall LOT website is working slower, but it has much more established links. I am of the view that LOT has better SEO, because planes are still the most safety type of transport between places, there is a fact that you have more chance to die during the way on airport in car, rather than flying on plane.

Bibliography

Google. (May 2016). Google trends. [LOT Polish Airlines, Qatar Airways, Flights to Poland, Flights to Qatar]. Retrieved from https://www.google.ca/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0lxfc%2C%20%2Fm%2F029tr_%2C%20flights%20to%20Qatar%2C%20flights%20to%20Poland&geo=CA&date=today%2012-m&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B4
LSIGraph. (May 2016). LSIGraph keyword generator [Long Lash Mascara]. Retrieved from http://lsigraph.com/
SEOmoz Inc. (May 2016). MozBar. Retrieved from https://moz.com/tools/seo-toolbar
LOT Polish Airlines (1997). LOT Polish Airlines Canada. Retrieved from http://www.lot.com/ca/en/
Qatar Airways (1997) Qatar Airways Retrieved from http://www.qatarairways.com/ca/en/homepage.page

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

SEO Audit Of Emirates and American Airline

Emirates Airline vs American Airline

Writer: Asim Mustafa



SEO is an important consideration for marketers because in the airline industry, there are many competitors, for example, Emirates and American Airline are one of them. Using keyword sentences throughout their sites like “Book Flights,International Flights, and Low Cost Airlines". The objective is to determine which of the two sites when compared has a stronger SEO. 


SEO Considerations


SEO Considerations



1. URL:
2. Page Title
Emirates Canada | Book Flights, Hotels and Car Rental
American Airlines - Airline tickets and cheap flights at AA.com
3. Meta Description
Fly to over 140 destinations, enjoy award-winning inflight entertainment and free Wi-Fi. Book seats and check in online.
American Airlines has airline tickets, cheap flights, vacation packages and American Airlines AAdvantage bonus mile offers at AA.com
4. Meta Keywords and   Monthly search volume:
1. International flights
2. Book flights
3. Flights
4. Flights to airlines
5. Emirates
1. Airline tickets
2. Book flights online
3. Airfares
4. Deal
5. Travel
6. Fares
7. Cheap


5. Structural elements: H1, H2, H3
You've arrived the moment you board

6. Strong tags
1. Economy
2. Lowest possible Miles cost
3. Most flexible options
4. Hotels
1. Taking a trip?
2. Taking a vacation?
3. Traveling the world?
7. Alt Text

1. Hello Tomorrow℠

2. Travel from your city to               

3. Book a flight to Dubai or find out more about the city we call home 
4. Best Price 

1. United States

2. American Airlines
3. Earn 30,000 bonus miles
8. Page Load Time
10.238 sec
5.706 sec
9. Observations Regarding Page layout:
Layout of the home page is very simple and easy to understand and use. 
Layout of the home page is appealing and straight forward 
10.  Observations Regarding Visual Content:
Visual content is very appealing and provides enough information for the consumer.
Visual content is well organized, looks neat and attractive 
11. Call-to-action
Getting audience to sign up for rewards by using the membership cards. 
Giving audience “Today’s special” allowing them to participate for prizes 
12. Anchored Text:
Emirates
Online Check in
American airlines
American
13. Moz Established Links:  # to Root Domain
2
10,276
14. Moz Established Links:  #Total Links
293
195,000
15. Top 3 inbound links.
www.google.com/crisisresponse/
japanquake2011.html
www.hrc.org
16. Mobile Friendly: Yes/No
Emirates is Mobile Friendly (Emirates App) 
Yes
17. Content is “shareable” (Like, Tweet, Pin, Blog, etc.)
The content is shareable on multiple social media websites such as, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus
The content is shareable on social media
18. Social Media: (List all SM icons on the home page
Facebook
Twitter
Google Plus
LinkedIn
YouTube
Mail
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Instagram
19. SERP ranking results when using keywords from this table: (placing or page number)
Top 5
Top 5


Google Trends


Comparison of Airline industry with Emirates and American Airline

Google Trends Insights

As we see in the graph above, I have compared the Airline industry with two different airline companies (Emirates and American Airlines). It seems that Airline industry have its up and downs but overall it has grown in the past 12 months. Emirates Airlines has been growing slowing but it was dropping in the overall interest in past 12 months and now it has started to recover slowly. On the other hand, American Airlines interest over time is more than the Airlines industry itself and its rising up slowly. 

Latent Semantic Indexing Keywords

Emirates Airline: 

  • International flights
  • Book flights
  • Flights   
  • Flights to airlines 
  • Emirates



American Airline:

  • Airline tickets
  • Book flights online
  • Airfares
  • Deal
  • Travel


Summary

Emirates strength is that it is based in the Middle East and therefore, is the main airlines for major airport hubs in the Eastern hemisphere. On the other hand, American Airlines strength is that it is based in America and is a popular airline in North America. Emirates is usually chosen because of their international flights and American Airlines has a demand for the discounted airfares. When searching for content using the keywords: Flights to UAE, Cheap flights from/to UAE. Emirates ranked number one but when searching for cheap flights Emirates are ranked top 5.  When searching for content using the keywords:  Cheap flights, North American Airlines. American Airlines are ranked top 5.  Emirates and American Airlines have some things in common such as, they both operate internationally but they are different in many ways such as, they both are based in two different countries, Continents served, Overweight bag fee etc.



Conclusion

In the airline industry, Emirates and American Airlines offer different kinds of travel to different kinds of people. Emirates is based internationally, whereas American Airlines is primarily used in North America. Both provide affordable travel and are easily accessible through social media. In my opinion the overall winner of this SEO Search analysis is American Airlines as they hold a bigger chunk of the market then Emirates. American Airline also has a faster load time of pages, more links, more domain roots, according to Moz. 






Bibliography


Airlines, A. (2016, 05 23). Find Flights. Retrieved from American Airlines: https://www.aa.com/reservation/roundTripSearchAccess.do

American Airlines. (2016, May 23). Book a flight. Retrieved from American Airlines: https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=american%20airlines

Emirates Airlines. (2016, May 23). Check in online. Retrieved from Emirates : http://www.emirates.com/ca/english/

Moz. (2016, 05 23). Open Site Explorer. Retrieved from Moz.com: https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emirates.com%2Fca%2Fenglish%2F&filter=&source=external&target=page&group=0&page=1&sort=page_authority&anchor_id=&anchor_type=&anchor_text=&from_site=


The Research Team!




Nayha Hamid

Nayha is a 3rd Year Marketing student at Sheridan College. Has past experience in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Indesign. 

Aleksander Stempowski

Aleks is a 2nd year student at Sheridan College. He is 21 years old and originally from Poland. He has a love of marketing and his dream is to to work as a marketer for a tourism company from his home country.

Asim Mustafa

Asim is a 2nd year marketing student at Sheridan College. He is experienced in Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Dreamweaver CC, and Adobe INDesign CC.


This Blog is designed to examine the digital presence of 8 airline brands. We will be examining and comparing several airlines brands and their digital presence.

They are:

Emerates Airline

American Airlines