SEO - Search Engine Optimization

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Search Engine Optimisation

(SEO)Tõnis Hinnosaar

altex marketing, partner

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SEM is becoming the key element for online user

behaviour

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Why is it difficult?

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› Most users click on organic results› Excellent content is needed› You need to know what people search

for before you offer it to them› You need to speak their language

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How search engines work

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Process1. Search engines visit websites

automatically2. They index documents3. Carry through queries4. Put results in order

RELEVANCYPOPULARITY

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SEO three legsTechnical

LinkingContent

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1. Technical

• Website “kitchen”• CMS• Stability• Server

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2. Content

• Keyword research• Content creation• Not just text

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3. Linking

• Internal – links on my site• Cross – links between our sites• External – links pointing to my site

from outside

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Ranking factors

• There are many• Let’s focus on these that you can

control

Title

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URL

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Update frequency

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Headings (H1 ...)

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Keyword use in body text

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ALT tags

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Optimising images

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Bold, Strong

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Internal linking

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Controlling external links

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Duplicate content

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Sitemaps

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If you want to dig deeper

• Directory structure

• Domain name• Document age• META tags• Validation

• Server uptime• Download time• Robots.txt• Redirections• Use of

JavaScript

Google

http://www.google.com/addurl/http://www.googl.com/webmasters/tools

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Yahoo

• http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/srchsb/ssb.php

• https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/intro/ $299

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Bing

• http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx

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Keyword research:‹ Adwords http://adwords.google.com/select/Login‹ Yahoo PPC

https://login31.marketingsolutions.yahoo.com/‹ Bing/MSN https://adcenter.microsoft.com/

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Site

• http://www.archive.org/• Site:... @ Google• http://www.w3.org/• XML, robots.txt & 404• http://www.submitexpress.com/anal

yzer/• http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-

density-checker.php Innovative Internet MarketingTM

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Links• https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/• http://www.linkdiagnosis.com/• http://www.backlinkwatch.com/index.php• http://www.socialmeter.com• http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html• http://www.touchgraph.com/

TGGoogleBrowser.html

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tonis@altex.eeskype: tonish50www.altex.ee

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Thank you!