19. 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
20. Today’s Topics
Why search is so important
Making your site
seo friendly
Understand your data: quick
setup
10 tips for (wine) bloggers
21. “(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/
24. 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.
60. Tell Search Engines about:
• Articles
• Events
• Local Businesses
• Restaurants
• Products
• Software Applications
• Movies
• TV Episodes
61. Tell Search Engines about:
• Articles
• Events
• Local Businesses
• Restaurants
• Products
• Software Applications
• Movies
• TV Episodes
Use these
where possible
62. Step 1: Choose the URL for the content you want to “highlight”
65. 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)
68. 6 steps to Authorship
Step 1: create a Google account/Login
Step 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
69.
70.
71.
72. Today’s Topics
Why search is so important
Making your site seo friendly
Understand your data: quick
setup
Choosing keywords and
creating content
10 tips for (wine) bloggers
That’s Doyle Brunson, no relation, but I lived in Vegas for 5 years working for Card Player magazine.
Literally…I have no wine for you…figuratively…we are going to cover a lot of ground in a little amount of time.QUESTION: How many of you have a lot of SEO experience, some, none? We are going to skim the surface of a lot. The idea is that I hope that everyone in here from those who have done very little SEO to those who have done a lot will get some ideas on what they should pursue further. There is a ton of information, most of the tools that you can use are free…in this presentation, and I hope that your head is spinning, at least with ideas. Don’t worry about not catching it all here, I’ll provide a link at the end where you can download.
First, I’m going to make a case for why you need to focus on SEO, not that you need much convincing I’ll let you know why it, along with social, is the most important mechanism for driving traffic to sites that generate content.
At least twice a year in the search marketing industry we hear that “SEO is dead” for one reason or another. In fact, that was speculated when we made our recent name change…
As search marketers every two years we hear that “SEO is dead” for one reason or another. In fact, that was speculated when we mad our recent name change…
I assure you it is not dead, in fact in the last 6 years it has increased by 600%Each day, Google’s one million servers, located all over the world, process over 3 billion search requests, providing more than 21 billion page views. The searches come from internet users in more than 180, with queries written in almost 150 different languages; 15% of the queries are entirely new
These aren’t just common searches that may be very competitive, such as “wine” (250,000 searches per month)
So why am I telling you this? If you target properly, you can capture your share of 500 million terms that are
Nearly 70% of all searches are only search upon by less than 10 people. Don’t Sweat the BIG STUFF!
Now that I’ve showed you that there is opportunity in search, let’s go to exhibit b: Organic results vs. Paid SearchSearch results pages that have ads, organic still receives over 75% of the clicks
Many of the pages that you are currently ranking on don’t even have ads
Our company mission at Moz is to help shift marketing from interruption to inbound…or, earning audience through informing, engagement and building relationships You all get this. You wouldn’t be here learning about how to optimize your content to gain audience
Static with scale – the money that you spend is going directly to driving traffic at that moment. While earned attention scales over time and deliver exponential returnsTime – quick vs. a lot of effort over a long period of time
Matt Cutts – has been with Google from the beginning of time, and is the head of the Webspam team. His team is responsible for ensuring qualtiy of results, and he has become the defactoliason between search marketers and Google. He is mostly feared and search marketers typically hang to his every word. So in my opinion when he gives advice on technical SEO, we should listen.Wow! Ok, I’m on Wordpress my job is done here…well not necessarily, WP helps with the mechanics (site structure, sitemaps, avoiding duplicate content, etc), your job lies in determining what to write about (making sure there is a market), narrowing your keyword targeting and crafting headlines and titles. In otherwords, there’s still a lot of work to be done.
Plugin allows you to edit several on-page SEO elements – Title, Description, keywords, etc, and will give you some inline recommendations.
But WP community and resources are much greate
Takes more work, not opensource, etc.
SEO food pyramid
The difference between Search and News
Most people get discouraged after a while
Those who stick with it can be rewarded
Those who stick with it can be rewarded
If you have 3 minutes to perform keyword research, you must do thisDeciding what to write about or narrowing in on a topicChoosing one key phrase over another
Deciding what to write about or narrowing in on a topicChoosing one key phrase over another
Deciding what to write about or narrowing in on a topicChoosing one key phrase over another
Deciding what to write about or narrowing in on a topicChoosing one key phrase over another
Deciding what to write about or narrowing in on a topicChoosing one key phrase over another
Deciding what to write about or narrowing in on a topicChoosing one key phrase over another
Deciding what to write about or narrowing in on a topicChoosing one key phrase over another
Amazingly simple and amazingly powerfulHave only a few minutes, just don’t hit enter
Issues:Being outranked by someone who is using your contentDupe content is bad
Issues:Being outranked by someone who is using your contentDupe content is bad
OR Use an online plagiarize checker This will also tell you if you are creating duplicate content (the same content on your own site), another big issue when it comes to SEO
Your followers aren’t online all at once, share more than once and Compare RT, shares, interactions from different times
Your followers aren’t online all at once, share more than once and Compare RT, shares, interactions from different times
If these two boys are your search traffic and google analytics is the trampoline….
Only 90 days of dataCan’t dig deeper on what the clicks did when they got to your siteOnly 15,000 keywordsDoes show trending and average ranking, which is nice and hard to get
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/05/getting-started-with-structured-data.htmlRich snippets – what are they, why are they important, now easy to implement.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/05/getting-started-with-structured-data.htmlRich snippets – what are they, why are they important, now easy to implement.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/05/getting-started-with-structured-data.htmlRich snippets – what are they, why are they important, now easy to implement.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/05/getting-started-with-structured-data.htmlRich snippets – what are they, why are they important, now easy to implement.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/05/getting-started-with-structured-data.htmlRich snippets – what are they, why are they important, now easy to implement.
A key part of Google's quest to reduce the percentage of unseen queries, and provide answers rather than lists of links, is the Knowledge Graph. It's a vast database that understand entities -- such as topics, people, and events -- and the connections among them, somewhat like the human brain. Knowledge Graph has more than 570 million entities and 18 billion facts about connections between them, by Google's count.
OG tags = Freebase = increase your chance of being here.