Search Engine Optimisation is an important tool in the online marketing tool kit for any business. Understanding how Google works and how to create, publish and structure your content and presence online can make the difference between a successful business and one that fails.
This Presentation aims to share some simple SEO tips that we have learnt at Threesides marketing that we use with our clients on a weekly basis. The presentation was originally made to 23 business owners as part of the ACT Digital Enterprise Training Workshop Series in canberra at the Canberra Business Council. It was presented by Todd Wright.
What's the most important less from this presentation - It's that "good SEO is actually the outcome of a series of marketing activities that are designed to find and keep customers online".
Set your objectives, resource your activities and start today.
Enjoy - Todd.
2. About this presentation
This presentation was originally presented as a
face to face 2hour training workshop as part of the
ACT Digital Enterprise Training workshop series.
The session was presented by
Todd Wright from
Threesides marketing in Canberra.
4. Your Name, your
business and
when was the last
time you used a
search engine
(Hours ago, Days,
Weeks?)
5. Overview
1. What is SEO
2. Why it matters to business
3. How search engines work
4. How to optimise your site and content
5. Measure and evaluate
6. Things to avoid
7. Useful tools to help you DIY
8. Keep learning about SEO
8. SEO = Search Engine Optimisation
(or) Search engine opinion.
There is no ‘one right answer’ to search – just a
collection of tested, qualified and some times
completely wrong opinions. Listen, learn and test
these ideas for yourself.
17. Types of Searchers
1. Transactional Searches
Identifying a local business, making a purchase online and
completing a task.
1. Navigational Searches
Visiting a pre-determined destination and sourcing the
“correct” website URL.
1. Informational Searches
Researching non-transactional information, getting quick
answers and ego-searching.
19. What is an Awesome site for search?
1.Easy to use, navigate, and
understand
2.Provide direct, actionable
information relevant to the search
query
3.Professionally designed and
accessible to modern browsers
4.Deliver high quality, legitimate,
credible content
20.
21.
22. 1. Fresh, Keyword optimised content
a) Find your keywords
b) Research competition
c) Interrogate your analytics
d) Use tools to discover new ones
e) Use them in your content, titles, tags
f) Acknowledge the long tail
26. 2. Page Setup
a) HTML Head Tags – meta tags
b) URL – Length, keywords, hypens
c) Body Tags - Keyword Repetitions, proximity
d) Alt Tags – image descriptions, Filenames
29. 3. Links + Quality backlinks
a) Internal Links - Click-Depth
b) Outbound links
c) Inbound links with high Page Rank value
30. For search engines that crawl the web, links are
the streets between pages. Using sophisticated
link analysis, the engines can discover how
pages are related to each other and in what
ways.
- www.seomoz.org
32. Make some link Love (LINK IDEAS)
1. Get your customers to link to you.
2. Build a company blog. Make it a valuable,
informative and entertaining resource.
3. Create content that inspires viral sharing
and natural linking
4. Be newsworthy.
5. Find directories or listings of relevant
resources.
www.seomoz.org
33. 4. Site Structure
a) Indexable / searchable content
b) Menu structure
c) Page Structure
d) Site map = xml site map
e) Robots.txt
f) Content management system
34. 5. Off Page
a) Directory listings
b) Forums (with rel=dofollow)
c) Social media
d) Media articles
36. • Direct Navigation: Typed in traffic, bookmarks,
email links without tracking codes, etc.
• Referral Traffic: From links across the web or in
trackable email, promotion & branding campaign
links
• Search Traffic: Queries that sent traffic from
any major or minor web search engine
• Track your Rankings
38. Things to avoid
1. “Overdoing” SEO
2. Keyword stuffing
3. Trying to cheat the engines
4. Offshore ‘cheap’ SEO services
5. Set and forget
6. Too much research and not enough
action
45. SEO recap – TO DO LIST
1. Set your objectives
2. Review your site
3. Update site technical bits
4. Improve on page content
5. Create off site value + links
6. Measure and Evaluate
7. Keep going