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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
What Is
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
(And Why Should I Care?)
Quality vs. QuantityHow Many Convert?
What Are Your Goals?Who Is Your Audience?What Is Your Unique Advantage (USP)?
Strategic SEO
Selecting Your Keywords
Long-TailOrBestselling Blockbuster?
Time
Most People SearchFor At Least 3 Words
Most SearchesAre Unique
Did You Know
Keyword RankNo. Of Visits1112-657-849-15316-40240-4011
Things To ConsiderBroad Topics vs. Narrow NicheLong-Tail vs. BlockbusterBrand Names & Product Names(Including Competitors)Singular vs. PluralAvg. Monthly Searches
Keyword ToolsGoogle Keyword ToolGoogle Traffic EstimatorGoogle Insights for SearchGoogle TrendsGoogle CorrelateGoogle Global Market FinderGoogle SuggestGoogle Related Searches
Free Keyword Tools - The Ultimate Guide http://www.searchenginejournal.com/free-keyword-research-tools/8153/
BERELEVANT
Off-Site SEO Link Building
Social Relevance
On-Site SEO Relevant Updated Content (Keywords, Updates, Stickiness)
Clean Code
Speed and Usability
Link Building High Authority Sites
Vary Anchor Text
Deep Linking
DirectoriesSharable ContentGoogle Properties
Top 10 On-Site SEO Practices
On-Site SEO is the practice of optimizing content and technology within your own website so that it ranks higher in search engines.
Main Areas of Practice Clean and Functional Code
Optimized Content
Stickiness and Usability
Top 10 On-Site SEO Practices
1) SEF URLs(Search Engine Friendly Uniform Resource Locators)2) 301 Redirects3) Title & Description Tags4) Keyword Spamming5) Sitemaps6) Robots.txt7) H1 H2 tags and proper HTML formatting8) Image use and alt tags9) Text links with attributes10) 404 (Page Not Found) Errors
SEF URLs
(Search Engine Friendly Uniform Resource Locators)
https://checkout.store.com/catalog/index.jsp?cat_id=1013VShttp://wines.com/dry-red-wine/barkan-merlot-2004.php
General Rule: What is Good For People Is Good For Search Engines
SEF URLs
Use keywords in the domain, directory names and filenames
Do not use generic or structural words (catalog, about-us)
Have short content-related URLs
Use lowercase URLS
Do not mix www and non-www in internal links
Google recommends that you punctuate with hyphens (-) instead of underscores (_) in your URLs
SEF URLs
Be Aware of Problematic URLsSearch Results
Calendars
Use cookies instead of session Ids
SEF URLs
Check your site for broken URLs (links).
Test with GOOGLE WEBMASTER TOOLhttps://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Creating a Google-friendly URL structure:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76329
Webmaster Toolswww.google.com/webmasters/tools
SEF URLs & 301 Redirects
Only have one DomainUse no follow links and 301 redirect
Use Apache's htaccess guide http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
Guidelines for
Title & Description Tags
Guidelines for META Tags
PUT YOUR TITLE HERE
Guidelines for
Title & Description Tags
Google uses title and description tagsThey do not say they use the keyword tag.
Use keywords in tags but avoid keyword stuffing
Use "Old Words"http://www.useit.com/alertbox/search-keywords.html
Be Descriptive and Accurate
META TAGSgoogle.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=79812
Guidelines for
Title & Description Tags
Title tag is used by Google for indexing
Title tag is displayed in search results
Each page title should be unique
Site name should be secondary, if at all
TITLE TAGgoogle.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=7092
Guidelines for
Title & Description Tags
Avoid: HomeBetter: Webmaster Central home pageBest:Search engine tips and tools for webmasters | Webmaster Central home pageTo be avoided (may cause your site to be perceived as spam):Webmaster Central seo optimization search engine search engine google web search google search results improve search results seo optimize search searching serps
TITLE TAGgoogle.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=7092
Guidelines for
Title & Description Tags
Description used by Search engines
Should be no more than 150 characters, no less than 70 characters
Different descriptions for each page
Use appropriate format
Top 10 On-Site SEO Practices
1) SEF URLs(Search Engine Friendly Uniform Resource Locators)2) 301 Redirects3) Title & Description Tags4) Keyword Spamming5) Sitemaps6) Robots.txt7) H1 H2 tags and proper HTML formatting8) Image use and alt tags9) Text links with attributes10) 404 (Page Not Found) Errors
Word Spamming, Keyword Stuffing, Keyword Density
Best strategy: Write good relevant content for humansBe aware of single keywords and keyphrases of two or three terms
Keyword Density should not exceed 6%
Online Toolshttp://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/keyword-density.html
http://www.keydensity.com/
http://www.keyworddensity.com/
Word Spamming, Keyword Stuffing, Keyword Density
Best strategy: Write good relevant content for humansBe aware of single keywords and keyphrases of two or three terms
Keyword Density should not exceed 6%
Online Toolshttp://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/keyword-density.html
http://www.keydensity.com/
http://www.keyworddensity.com/
Webmaster Tools: Sitemaps
Text file called sitemap.xml in your root directory
A list of URLs or sitemaps
Specify all URLs using the same syntax
Do not include session IDs in URLs
Do not include URLs of images
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8467
Webmaster Tools: Sitemaps
Definitions for each URL in a SitemapLocation (URL)
Time it was last modified
How often it is updated
Priority
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8467
Webmaster Tools: Sitemaps
http://www.example.com/ 2012-06-01 monthly 0.8
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8467
Webmaster Tools: Sitemaps
Sitemap generators
On-line: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/Software: We use RAGE Sitemap Automator (For Mac)
http://www.ragesw.com/products/googlesitemap.htmlSubmit your sitemap after verifying your site on Google
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/On-line services submit to Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com, MSN (Live.com) and Moreover.com.
http://www.sitemapwriter.com/notify.phpSubmit using your robots.txt file
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
XML Sitemaps
Top 10 On-Site SEO Practices
1) SEF URLs(Search Engine Friendly Uniform Resource Locators)2) 301 Redirects3) Title & Description Tags4) Keyword Spamming5) Sitemaps6) Robots.txt7) H1 H2 tags and proper HTML formating8) Image use and alt tags9) Text links with attributes10) 404 (Page Not Found) Errors
SEF URLs and Robots.txt
Be Aware of Problematic URLsBlock Indexing in your robots.txt
For a site like http://www.wine.com/wine-search-results.jsp?Ne=292&N=461+4294967240+4294967270User-agent: GooglebotDisallow: /wine-search-results.jsp
robots.txt
To exclude all robots from the entire serverUser-agent: *Disallow: /
To allow all robots complete accessUser-agent: *Disallow:
To exclude all robots from part of the serverUser-agent: *Disallow: /cgi-bin/Disallow: /tmp/Disallow: /junk/
To exclude a single robotUser-agent: BadBotDisallow: /
To allow a single robotUser-agent: GoogleDisallow:User-agent: *Disallow: /
To exclude all files except oneUser-agent: *Disallow: /~joe/stuff/
Proper Use of HTML Tags (H1, H2)
Main TitleSubtitleHeading
Proper Use of Images
Never Use An Image Instead of Text
(What Not To Do)http://www2.kenes.com/mascc
Proper Use of Images
Always use Alt Text
Proper Use of Images
Use Text Links and Title Attribute
Error Pages (404s)
Error Pages (404s)
Error Pages (404s)
Error Pages (404s)
Thank You
Charlie Kalech
Director, J-Town Internet Services Ltd.
[email protected]@CharlieKalech
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