SEO for Beginning Bloggers and Affiliate Marketers

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This session will focus on SEO through unique content and sound on page site structure, keyword targeting, social media strategies, WordPress tools, and overall best practices. Experience level: Beginner Target audience: Affiliate/Publisher Niche/vertical: Blogging John Carcutt, Director of SEO and Social Media, Advance Digital Inc. (Twitter @johncarcutt) (Moderator) Stephanie Lichtenstein, President, Micro Media Marketing (Twitter @MicroSteph) Rob Merlino, Blogger/Affiliate Marketer, SEBlogger LLC (Twitter @hotdogman1964)

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SEO For Beginning Bloggers and Affiliates

Rob Merlino 

 

@Hotdogman1964Publisher, Entrepreneur, Author, Raconteur,

Hotdogman & Shark Tank Fan

 

 

John Carcutt 

 

@johncarcuttDirector of SEO and Social Media

Advance Digital

Importance of good CONTENT for SEO

•Where we were when I got started•Evolution of Content for SEO•Where We are Now•What you can do to use content to improve SEO

 2007

  

If it's FREE, it's for ME!

Some Good Advice I Heeded

"Write good quality content and the SEO will take care of itself."

 

 

2007 TRAFFIC

Need LINKS for SEO

2007  

 

Content is necessary 

 2011 

 

Panda and Penguin

 

 USING A QUALITY CONTENT STRATEGY FOR SEO

•USE WORDPRESS•HAVE A BLOG - for business or as a business

 

 

NOWSame story, Just MORE SO!

 

 •WRITING TIPS

•Write WHAT you know about

•If you don't know about it, hire someone who does

•If you don't have time, hire someone who does

 

 

 

  SEO WRITING TIPS

• USE Google Keyword Tool to identify keywords

• Have PAGES for SPECIFIC keywords

• Have POSTS for GENERAL keywords

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peer Recommendations 

 

  Social is Affecting Results  

 

   

Social Results  

 

Social Results  

 

Social Results  

 

Social Searches  

 

Shop through Social 

 

Shop through Social  

 

Use Consistent Names

 

       Call to Action & Trackable Link

 

Use Shareable Buttons

 

       Use Hashtags & Descriptions

 

  Social Media is a Tool  

Use it!

  SEO for WordPress  

WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo

  WordPress SEO  

Finding and Installing the Plugin

  WordPress SEO  

Dashboard Settings

  WordPress SEO  

Configure Titles and Meta Tags

  WordPress SEO  

Configure Titles and Meta Tags

  WordPress SEO  

Configure Titles and Meta Tags

  WordPress SEO  

Configure Titles and Meta Tags

  WordPress SEO  

Configure Titles and Meta Tags

  WordPress SEO  

Configure XML Site Map

  WordPress SEO  

Advanced Permalink Settings

  WordPress SEO  

One Time Settings vs. Every Post

Set It &Forget It !

RecurringTasks

  WordPress SEO  

Keyword Suggest and Focus

  WordPress SEO  

Keyword Suggest and Focus

  WordPress SEO  

Keyword Suggest and Focus

  WordPress SEO  

Keyword Suggest and Focus

  WordPress SEO  

Keyword Suggest and Focus

  WordPress SEO  

Keyword Suggest and Focus

Thank You!

  WordPress SEO  

Keyword Suggest and Focus

 Contact Us

Stephanie Lichtenstein@MicroSteph MicroMediaMarketing.com Steph@micromediamarketing.com  

John Carcutt@JohnCarcuttAdvance.netJcarcutt@advance.net 

Rob Merlino@HotDogMan1964RobMerlino.comRob@RobMerlino.com 

 

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