Search Marketing Theatre; Tips & Techniques: Optimize the Indexing of your Website in Google and Other Search Engines
1. Tips & Techniques: Optimize the
Indexing of your Website in Google
and Other Search Engines
Mike Rogers - Optimize Search
Marketing
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3. Optimise the Indexing of
Your Website in the
Search Engines
Mike Rogers
Managing Director
Optimize Search Marketing
mike.rogers@optimize.co.uk
www.optimize.co.uk
4. What You Will Learn Today
• How to get the basic tags are defined correctly
– Ensure you get the basics for titles and description meta tags defined correctly
• How to use Webmaster Tools to identify problems
– See where your title and description meta tags are non-existent, too long, too
short or duplicated
• SML Sitemap
– Configure your Sitemap effectively to aim towards 100% indexation
• Schema.org
– Employ standard schemas where appropriate to help the search engines help
you
• Additional tags
– Understand the power of the “rel=canonical” and “author” tags to highlight to
search engines where duplicate content might exist
6. Title Tag Recommendations
• The most important of the on-page keyword
elements
• Should preferably employ the primary target
keyword term/phrase as the first word(s)
• Do not feel the need to place your brand in
the title tags
• Restrict length of title tags to 65-70 characters
• Be consistent
8. Description Tag
Recommendations
• Good usage can boost click-through rate
• Be factual
• Include relevant keywords
• Keep it to around 160 characters (including
spaces)
• Do NOT employ descriptions across the board
10. General Tagging
• Other tags that need to be used appropriately
include:
– Primary header (<h1>)
– Secondary headings (<h2>, <h3> etc...)
– Images (‘alt’ tags)
– Bold text
– Bullet point lists
14. XML Sitemap
• Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to
inform search engines about pages on their
sites so that search engines can more
intelligently crawl the site.
• A Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a
site along with additional metadata about
each URL
• Sitemap use has wide adoption, including
support from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!.
19. Schema.org
• A schema is a collection of html tags that can
be used to markup pages in ways that are
recognised by search engines.
• On-page markup enables search engines to
understand the information on web pages and
provide richer search results
• Google, Bing and Yahoo! rely on this markup
to improve the display of search results.
24. rel=“canonical”
• A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with
highly similar content.
• Add a rel="canonical" link to the <head> section of the non-
canonical version of each HTML page. For example, on a page:
http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&sort=pr
Add in the <head> tag:
<link rel="canonical"
href="http://www.example.com/product.php?
item=swedish-fish"/>
27. Author Tag on Google
• First, you'll need a Google Profile
• Add a good, recognisable headshot as your
profile photo
• Then, verify authorship of your content by
associating it with your profile
• Google doesn't guarantee to show author
information in Google Web Search or Google
News results.
28. Author Tag on Google
• Add your name (required) and email address
(recommended) on each page containing your
content
• Add your email address to your Google profile
• Link your content to your Google Profile
– Add the personal badge to your site
– Create a manual link to your Google Profile from
your webpage. Your link must contain the ?
rel=author parameter.
29. Thank You!
Mike Rogers
Managing Director
Optimize Search Marketing
mike.rogers@optimize.co.uk
www.optimize.co.uk
30. Special TFM&A offer
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