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Optimizing your website for SEO is critical in todays search engine world. If you need help optimizing your website, making an SEO friendly website then you need to check out this presentation. On-Page SEO slide deck from Ty Kilgore's presentation at Belle of the blogs – How digital marketing can jump-start your blog on October 10, 2013

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October 10th, 20132

On-Page SEO

Belle of the Blogs “How SEO can jump start

your blog” Fluid Blogger Series

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Two  Elements  

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On Page SEO Off-Page SEO

On-­‐Page  SEO  is  about  making  the  page  as  relevant  as  possible  for  a  given  search  query  as  possible.

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What is On-Page SEO?

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Everything has a purpose

DomainURLs Posts NamesTitlesDescriptionsImages Alt AttributesFile NamesContent

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Domain  Name  &  URLs

Domains  and  URLs  make  a  difference

Choose  your  URL  wisely.  h;p://www.shoes.com/nike-­‐running-­‐shoes-­‐for-­‐men/

Instead  of  h;p://www.shoes.com/products/879861/id=5674-­‐7yhe9j/  

URL  structure  is  important  for  the  search  engines  to  understand  what  your  site  and  domain  is  about.  

Include  keywords  in  your  domain  and  URL  whenever  possible.  

Research  what  keywords  to  include  in  Google  Keyword  Planner

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Post  Names  Long  Tail  Searches  -­‐  Hummingbird  Update  -­‐  Focus  on  

creaVng  content  that  provides  real  value  to  users.Don’t  Hit  Enter  -­‐  example  nike  running  shoes  -­‐  before  the  

keyword  type  in  5  W’s  and  How

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Titles  Title  tags  are  part  of  the  meta  tags  that  appear  in  your  

HTML.Help  set  you  apart  from  others  listed  in  the  SERPSShould  be  maximum  of  65-­‐70  characters  long,  including  

spacesMake  sure  the  most  important  keyword  are  first  in  your  VtleSeparate  the  keywords  in  the  Vtle  tagKeep  your  important  phrases  shorts  and  simple.  NO!  and,  

but,  if,  then  type  of  wordsEach  page  is  different  and  each  page  needs  a  unique  Vtle  tagExample  Vtle  tag  Keyword  1  |  Keyword  2  |  Keyword  3  |  

Company  Name

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DescripVons  Meta  descripVons  aren’t  used  in  the  search  engines  ranking  

algorithms  Need  to  be  wri;en  to  incite  users  to  click  and  should  be  

wri;en  like  an  ad

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Images  File  names  ma;er  -­‐  nikefreemenrunningshoe.jpg  instead  

of  image1234.jpg  -­‐  your  file  name  becomes  your  URL  

Size  of  image  ma;ers  because  of  load  Vme  -­‐  upload  smallest  file  size-­‐  Picnik and Image Optimizer DO NOT let your brower resize a larger image to look smaller

Alt  A;ributes  -­‐  include  keyword  when  possible

Content  surrounding  the  image  -­‐  search  engines  use  this  informaVon  to  help  them  determine  what  an  image  is  about

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ContentSearch  engines  are  focusing  on  creaVng  the  best  possible  user  

experience  as  possibleCreaVng  original,  quality,  content  creaVon  will  be  key  in  

ranking  in  the  futureCreaVng  relevant  and  fresh  informaVon  with  the  SEO  in  mind  

will  help  you  in  the  future

Image Source http://synergizeonline.net/bookmark-awards/content-king-bookmarks-awards-2013/

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Review - YOU CAN DO IT!

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On-Page• Do Keyword Research

• Write posts that people are looking for

• Every page make sure the meta data is optimized

• Uploading Images?Make sure they have the keyword file name, alt tag, and the file size isn’t huge

• Create and submit XML sitemaps

• Create content regularly

• http://www.getfluid.com/learn-seo/

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