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Health and Fitness Blogs and SEO

Tim Resnik, Product Strategy Principal, Moz @tresnik

A Little About Me

A Little About Me

A Little About Me

A Little About Me

A Little About Me

A Little About Me

It’s a SPRINT not a Marathon

Today’s Topics Inbound vs.

Interruption Why search is so

important Making your site seo

friendly Understand your data:

quick setup 10 tips for (FIT) bloggers

Inbound Marketing Interruption Marketing

Relevant

Search is responsible for 90% of the clicks on the web

Un-useful, irrelevant

Average click-through rate for a banner ad is .016%

Inspiring

What’s the click-through rate here?

Waste of time

Costs are static with scale

Earned

Generates momentum, long lasting

Who cares?

12,000 press release per month on PR Newswire

Paid, but relevant

Not so much

The intersection of paid + inbound

Sweet irony

Is it contextual, or just more noise? You see 5,000 ads per day

Just plain lies!

Paid Attention Earned Attention

Cost Static with scale Upfront costs, scales with proper optimization

Time Instant results (sprint) Delayed results (marathon)

Sustainability Effective only while campaign is active

Long-term continuous results

Today’s Topics Inbound vs. Interruption Why search is

so important Making your site seo

friendly Understand your data:

quick setup 10 tips for (FIT) bloggers

The Growth of Search

Number of Searches/Day on Google

A lot of a little is OK

A lot of a little is OK

A lot of a little is OK

SEO vs. Paid Search Ads Paid Search = 25% of clicks

Organic Search = 75% of clicks

SEO vs. Paid Search Ads

More than 50% of search result pages have no paid ads at all

Today’s Topics Inbound vs. Interruption Why search is so

important Making your

site seo friendly Understand your data:

quick setup 10 tips for (FIT) bloggers

Elements of an SEO Plan

Content Technology

Relationships

SEO Plan

SEO Plan

Elements of an SEO Plan

Content Technology

Relationships

90% of your SEO effort should be on content and relationships

Using Wordpress? Almost there!

“(Wordpress) is a fantastic piece of software, it makes your site easily

crawlable by search engines, solves some 80-90% of mechanics of

SEO and is the first big step anyone can take towards creating a

popular online business.”Via: http://www.howtomakemyblog.com/seo/googles-matt-cutts-wordpress-the-best-blogging-platform-for-seo/

Read this!

http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/ - I also recommend the Yoast plugin “Wordpress SEO”

Also SEO-Friendly Platforms

http://drupal.org/, http://joomla.com and http://www.squarespace.com are all good choices if Wordpress isn’t a match.

Not so SEO-Friendly

I wouldn’t recommend these platforms as a first choice for SEO-friendly blogging, though some (like TypePad and Expression Engine) can be customized with enough elbow grease.

On-page Ranking Factors

Title

Headline

URL

Links and Captions

META Description

Body Content

The two major SEO focal points: Title, Description, Headline

HTML Title and META Description are Important

Today’s Topics Inbound vs. Interruption Why search is so

important Making your site seo

friendly Understand your

data: quick setup 10 tips for (FIT) bloggers

Know Thyself

Step 1: Google Webmaster Tools

http://google.com/webmasters - can help you diagnose and repair issues w/ your site

Step 2: Setup Feedburner

http://feedburner.com – create RSS feeds and track your subscribers and clicks

Step 3: Google Analytics

http://google.com/analytics - track how visitors get to you and what they do on your site

Step 4: Bit.ly to Track Sharing

http://bit.ly – great for determining which shares your fans/followers really enjoy

Optional: Moz

http://moz.com – great for bigger sites and more experienced SEOs

Today’s Topics Inbound vs. Interruption Why search is so

important Making your site seo

friendly Understand your data:

quick setup 10 tips for (FIT)

bloggers

Tip # 1: Stick with it

Where Geraldine Started Her

Blog

Tip # 1: Stick with it

Where people usually give up.

Tip # 1: Stick with it

2.5 years in, she’s reaching 1000s of daily

visits

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy …

Tip #2: DON’T HIT ENTER* Rule

* Credit Wil Reynolds (@wilreynolds) with the catchy phrase

Tip #2: DON’T HIT ENTER* Rule

Resist! Don’t do it!

Tip #2: DON’T HIT ENTER* Rule

Tip #2: DON’T HIT ENTER* Rule

Lead with a space

Tip #2: DON’T HIT ENTER* Rule

WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHY, WHEN and HOW

Tip #2: DON’T HIT ENTER* Rule

WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHY, WHEN and HOW

Tip #2: DON’T HIT ENTER* Rule

All-in-one auto-suggest tool: www.soovle.com

Tip #3: Don’t Get Ripped

Tip #3: Don’t Get Ripped

Tip #3: Don’t Get Ripped

Tip #4: Find Twitter Influencers

Tip #5: Time it right

Tip #5: Time it right

Breather…

Tip #6: Conquer (not provided)

Tip #6: Conquer (not provided)

Tip #6: Conquer (not provided)

Search Referral Traffic to SEOmoz

Tip #6: Conquer (not provided)

Search Referral Traffic to SEOmoz

Tip #6: Conquer (not provided)

…and the news gets worse:

Search Referral Traffic to SEOmoz

Tip #6: Conquer (not provided)

Tip #7: Highlighter and Schema

Rich Snippets now easier to implement

Tip #7: Highlighter and Schema

Tell Search Engines about:• Articles• Events• Local Businesses• Restaurants• Products• Software Applications• Movies• TV Episodes

Tip #7: Highlighter and Schema

Tell Search Engines about:• Articles• Events• Local Businesses• Restaurants• Products• Software Applications• Movies• TV Episodes

Use these where possible

Tip #7: Highlighter and SchemaStep 1: Choose the URL for the content you want “highlight”

Tip #7: Highlighter and SchemaStep 2: Highlight all relevant areas

Google is the largest search engine in the work, who is the second?

1.

2.

3.

100B per month

2B per day

14B per month

600,000 Years

600,000 Years!Amount of video served each month by YouTube

Tip #8: Youtube

This dude knows his YouTube stuff, follow him: @philnottingham

Tip # 9: Get in Google News

Step #1: Make sure you meet the Google News quality and tech guidelines

Step #2: Submit your site to Google News

Step #3: Create a Google News Sitemap (there are Wordpress plugins to help you)

Tip # 9: Get in Google News

Tip # 10: It’s more than ranking

Tip # 10: It’s more than ranking

Which one would you click?

Increases CTR by 30%

Increases visibility

Links to her G+ Profile

Links to her author results on Google

Tip # 10: It’s more than ranking

6 steps to Authorship

Step 1: create a Google account/LoginStep 2: Navigate to Google+Step 3: In your profile Click “About”Step 4: Add your blog URL to “Contributor to” under the “Links” Step 5: In each article add the following link:

<a href="[profile_url]?rel=author">Google</a>

It should look something like: <a href="https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202? rel=author">Google</a>

Step 6: Verify with Google’s structured data testing tool

Tip # 10: It’s more than ranking

Tip # 10: It’s more than ranking

Tip # 10: It’s more than ranking

Today’s Topics Inbound vs. Interruption Why search is so

important Making your site seo

friendly Understand your data:

quick setup Choosing keywords and

creating content 10 tips for (FIT) bloggers

Upwards!

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