2. Definition: The process of improving webpages so they rank higher in search engine
for your targeted keywords by using several techniques
Common Characteristics:
• Spider, Indexer, Database, Algorithm
• Find matching documents and display them according to relevance
• Frequent updates to documents searched and ranking algorithm
• Strive to produce "better", more relevant results than competitors
3. Types of SEO
Onpage Optimization: is a process of what can be done on the pages of a websites
in order to make it more search engine friendly to achieve good search engine ranking
for targeted keywords
Offpage Optimization: is the factors and elements that have a substantial effect on
your website as a whole for the organic and natural search engine results. These
factors are off-site in that they are not controlled by you or the coding on your page.
5. Importance of SEO
• 90% online user uses search engine to find products and info
• Your website will constantly feature onpage of the search result for terms that best
describe your business
• Natural search receive 250% more traffic than paid search
• 1st page of SE result get at least 80% clicks
• If you website is not found within top 30 result ( page1, 2 and 3) no one will find
it
6. Benefits of SEO
Get more customers to your Website, Business or any Product
Brand visibility
Site popularity
Quality sales leads
Active buyers
Increase your profile against your competitors
7. What Google See??
URL
Title
Description
Keywords
Size
Text
Meta Tag
Links
8. Google SEO Tools
• Google Adwords: is an advertising service by Google for businesses wanting to
display ads on Google and its advertising network. The AdWords program
enables businesses to set a budget for advertising and only pay when people click
the ads. The ad service is largely focused on keywords.
• Google Webmaster tools: Google Webmaster tool is a no-charge web service by
Google for webmasters. It allows webmaster to check indexing status and
optimize visibility of their websites
• Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytic; it helps businesses analyze
the customer data that is important for targeting website visitors in advertising and
marketing
9. Why is SEO important to Web
Designers?
Because it is important to your clients (quick answer)
According to this research, over 571 websites are created every second. Every
second. With all of those websites, your own website has the high probability of
being lost forever in the abyss known as “Beyond Page 1 of Google”
In today's competitive market, it is very important for companies to have an online
presence. It becomes easier to get traffic to the site if it has an SEO friendly web
design
10. If you are a Web Developer or Web
Designer than you must know about
SEO
11. SEO practices for web designers
Site Structure
Easy Navigation
Meta Tags
Content
Optimized images
Optimized URLs
Absolute URLs
Site Speed
Rich Snippets
12. Site Structure
A great user experience
It provides your site with sitelinks
Better Crawling
Very core of good SEO – Optimizing for the crawlers
13. What makes good website Navigation
• Your Business
• Your Goals
• Your Audience
which is basically how you are going to get people to engage with you.
14. Meta Tags
It gives the search engines more information about web pages
Meta Keywords: A series of keywords you deem relevant to the page in question
Title Tag: This is the text you'll see at the top of your browser. Search engines
view this text as the "title" of your page.
Meta Description Attribute: A brief description of the page.
Meta Robots Attribute: An indication to search engine crawlers (robots or
"bots") as to what they should do with the page.
It can be found in the <head> element of a web page.(By putting meta tags in the
body, some browsers may not recognize them and you are essentially creating invalid
markup)
15. Content Optimization
Search Engines as they consider your websites relevancy and importance
Include keyword in text
Consider 5-20% density of the keywords in text
Mind the formatting to the text
Add regularly relevant content to site
16. Optimized Images
Name your images Descriptively and in Plain English
Optimize your Alt tags intelligently
Strategize your image Dimensions and Product and Angels
Reduce the file sizes of your images
Know which image file type to use for the right situations
Know how to handle your thumbnails
Use Image site maps
Beware of Your Decorative Images
Use caution when using content delivery networks
Test your images
17. Optimized URLs
• Whenever possible, use a single domain and subdomain
• The more readable by human beings, the better
• Describe Your Content
• Keywords in URLs: still a good thing
• Multiple URLs serving the same content ? Use Canonical URLs
• Exclude dynamic parameters when possible
• Keep it short, the easier to use
• Match URLs to titles most of the time
• Including stop words is not necessary
• Remove/control for unwieldy punctuation characters
• Limit redirections hops to two or fewer
• Fewer folders is generally better
• Be wary of case Sensitivity
• Hyphens and underscores are preferred word separators
• Keyword stuffing and repetition are pointless and make your site look spammy
18. Absolute or Relative URLs for
Internal Linking
Absolute URLs:
Are better when handling canonicalization issues
Are safer when talking about site hijacking
Are safer when switching to new CMS
Might be easier for search engines to follow as they resolve all relative URLs
to absolute ones before following them
Relative URLs
Make it easy to move one domain to another one
Make the code shorter which might decreases a page download time
19. Page Speed
Page Speed is a measurement of how fast the content on your page loads
Increase your Page Speed:
Enable compression
Minify CSS, JavaScript and HTML
Reduce redirects
Leverage browser caching
Improve server response time
Use a content distribution network
Optimize images
20. Rich Snippets
It provide a small sample of a site’s content on Search
Engine Result Pages of search engines