Online Book Discoverability Webinar by Deltina Hay about optimizing content for search, conversion, and sharing for the MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association. Topics include optimizing web page content, Google Rich Snippets, Google Authorship, structured data, microdata, metadata, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, and Pinterest Rich Pins
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Online Book Discoverability by DeltinaU
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Developer, small business owner, publisher, author, and professor
Author of three books on social media, the mobile web, and search
optimization
Her first book, going into its third edition, is used as a textbook by
colleges and universities, worldwide
Developed Drury University's social media certificate program
Teaches online courses to thousands of existing students
Board Chair of the Independent Book Publishers Association:
http://ibpa-online.org
About Deltina Hay & DeltinaU.com
Online Book Discoverability
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Research relevant keywords
Optimize content for traditional search engines
Optimize for universal search databases
Optimizing for Search
Online Book Discoverability
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Make your content look good in search listings
Include review and product information
Make your content shine on social media platforms
Optimizing for Sharing & Conversion
Online Book Discoverability
7. Why Keywords Still Matter
Keywords help us focus content in a way that is conducive to
search, and gives us a consistent online presence
We do not gather keywords so we can stuff them into our content
Rather, we use them as a guide when creating web content
In online descriptions and social media pages
And as tags and categories in the social web
Optimizing for Search
8. Finding Your Best Keywords
Using the media kit material for an upcoming book:
Press release with book description
Author bio
Quotes from reviewers
Create a temporary HTML page or press release from the content
Make it at least 350 words, preferably 700 to 1,000
An online press release works for this process, too
Plug the page into Google Adword's keyword planning tool
Optimizing for Search
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16. Where to Use Keywords
As the focus of static web pages
As blog post topics
As topics for guest posts and articles
As search terms for finding guest posting opportunities
Within social media profiles, descriptions, and “about” areas
As social media tags and categories where applicable
Within product, service, or company descriptions you post online
Optimizing for Search
17. Optimizing Web Page/Blog Post Content
Optimize for keywords
Optimize images and other embedded media
Optimize outgoing links
Optimizing for Search
18. Optimizing for Keywords
We focus on only one keyword phrase on any given web
page or blog post
We only “intentionally” place the phrase in the title of the
page or post, and again in the first paragraph
The rest of the page or post should flow naturally
Optimizing for Search
19. Keyword Placement
Target keyword phrase:
wife has cancer
The keyword phrase is in
the title
And in the first paragraph
The body text is written
naturally from the book's
press release
Optimizing for Search
20. Optimizing Images
There are three elements you want to optimize when embedding
images into a web page or a blog post:
The name of the image
The title of the image
The alt text of the image
Use your focus keyword phrase within these elements
Optimizing for Search
21. Optimizing Images
Here we see the title text
of an embedded image
In the tool tip when we
roll over it...
Optimizing for Search
22. Image HTML
Here is the actual
HTML code of the
embedded image
Note that the name of
the file, the title text,
and the alt text all
have the keyword
phrase
Optimizing for Search
23. WordPress Version
Here is how the process
will look when embedding
an image in a CMS like
WordPress
The title and alt text will
always be available to
optimize
Optimizing for Search
24. Optimizing Outgoing Links
Outgoing links on a web page or blog post should be relevant to the
content on the page!
You can get what is called “negative SEO” for stuffing links into
your content
You also want to limit outgoing links to no more than one every one
hundred words – max
Optimizing for Search
25. Optimizing Outgoing Links
When embedding links in a web page or blog post, use
keywords in:
The anchor text of the link
The link title
“Anchor text” is the text that is clickable in an outgoing link
Optimizing for Search
26. Link Optimization
Here are some links
on our optimized page
The tool tip shows the
keywords in the link
title as we roll over it
And the “anchor text”
uses the keyword
phrase as well
Optimizing for Search
27. The HTML
Here is the associated
HTML for one of the
links
The title and anchor
text contain the focus
keywords
Optimizing for Search
28. WordPress Version
Here is how you would
optimize a link in
WordPress
By adding a title with
keywords and making
sure the anchor text is
optimized
Optimizing for Search
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31. Optimizing for Universal Search Databases
Universal search areas are independent from the regular
“web” search we typically do on Google
Popular areas are “image search” “video search” and “news
search”
Optimizing for these search areas can be tackled one
database at a time...
Optimizing for Search
32. One Boxes
But “universal” results
aren't always contained in
the search databases
They also show up in
regular search results
As what are called “one
boxes”
Optimizing for Search
33. Image Search
Mobile web book
example...
Using one of our target
keyword phrases
We dominate the first page
in Google Image search
Because we optimize every
image we put online...
Optimizing for Search
34. Video Search
Landing at number one in
video search is a good
thing
And is accomplished by
making certain we use our
best keywords in every
video we post online
Especially on YouTube
Optimizing for Search
35. Book Search
Some of the more
specialized databases
require a bit more work
In order to get into the
“books” database
Your book needs to be
available in Google Play
Optimizing for Search
36. Shopping Search
And to place in the
shopping database
Your products need to be
in Google Merchant
Or be for sale by an outlet
within Google Merchant
Optimizing for Search
39. Google Authorship
Google Authorship is a way
for you to claim the online
content you “author”
This applies to your own
blog posts...
Optimizing for Conversion
40. Google Authorship
As well as to any guest
posts or articles you author
online
But...you need to use a
special link that refers to
your Google Plus profile
And a corresponding link to
the source...
Optimizing for Conversion
41. Google Authorship
Google walks you through
this process...
Showing you the proper
reference to use
And where to go in your
profile to add the reciprocal
link
Optimizing for Conversion
46. Rich Snippets
Google Authorship is only one example of what Google calls “Rich
Snippets”
A Rich Snippet is a few extra lines of information Google will
include in your search listings if you add “structured data” to your
web pages
Optimizing for Conversion
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50. Structured Data and Schema.org
Structured data is a term used to describe website content that is
“marked up” with metadata (like microdata) that includes references
to established “vocabularies”
A vocabulary is a set of mark-up protocols or rules used to help
search engines make sense of the content on your website (think
BISAC)
The most popular of these vocabularies is “Schema.org” – this
vocabulary was developed by Google, Yahoo, and other top search
engines
Optimizing for Conversion
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57. Rich Snippet Example
Which of these listings
looks the most
appealing
Which do you think
would get the most
click throughs?
Optimizing for Conversion
63. Open Graph: Just more metadata
Metadata can help your content look better when shared on social
media sites
In other words, how our content displays on social media platforms
when it is shared by others
Or, how “social-media friendly” it is
Let's take a look...
Optimizing for Sharing
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67. Open Graph
Open Graph is a
protocol originally used
by Facebook
That allows us to add
special metadata to
our website content
Making it more “social-
media friendly”
Optimizing for Sharing
71. Before Open Graph
Let's return to our
previous example
Here is how the page
displays in Facebook
when I share the URL
Before adding Open
Graph metadata
Optimizing for Sharing
72. Before Open Graph
And here is how it is
displayed using
HootSuite to share it
Directly from the site...
Optimizing for Sharing
73. Adding OG Metadata
Here are the tags that
are added to the page
So it can display the
way we want...
Optimizing for Sharing
74. After Open Graph
Here is how it displays
when shared in
Facebook
With the OG meta tags
in place
Now, we control the
title, description, and
first image...
Optimizing for Sharing
75. After Open Graph
And, here is how it
looks
When shared with
HootSuite...
Optimizing for Sharing
76. WordPress Blogs and Sites
Most blogging platforms like WordPress.com, automatically add the
title, description, and featured image of a blog post to Open Graph
metadata
And self-hosted WordPress sites have many plugins to help you
add Open Graph metadata to all the content on your site
Optimizing for Sharing
94. Optimization example recap:
Researched keywords based on real content
Chose one keyword phrase to optimize for
Used the phrase in the title and first paragraph
Included keyword phrase in embedded images
Used keyword phrase in anchor text of outgoing links
Applied rich snippets and open graph metadata
On first page in after a couple weeks...
Conclusion
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