hands-on seo
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Hands-On SEO offers tips and advice for helping you improve your website’s visibility in the search engines. It also provides do's and don'ts to help convert more website visitors into leads, while avoiding the common mistakes that cost PPC advertisers money. While targeted mainly at a B2B audience, this presentation is helpful to companies and organizations that deal directly with end users as well.TRANSCRIPT
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Hands-On SEO
Hans RiemerMarket Vantage LLC
IAMCP New JerseyNovember 14, 2012
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� Search Engines vs Directories
� Organic and Paid Search
� Other sources of Traffic
First, just a few BASICS
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Search Engines and Directories
� Directories – Human-Edited
– Yahoo Directory, Google Directory / ODP (DMOZ)
� Search Engines – Crawler-Based / Algorithmic
– Google, Bing, Ask, etc.
� Recent History
– Google started making money in 2001
– Remember AltaVista? Infoseek? HotBot?
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Organic vs Paid Search (2009)
Paid AdsOrganic Results
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Organic vs Paid Search (2012)
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Website Traffic
On-Line AdvertisingReferrals Brand Awareness(Bookmark or Direct)
Pay-PerClick
Banners& Text Ads
Sponsor-ships
ContextualAds On-Line Pubs
OrganicSearch
ReferringLinks
PR(Online / Offline)
Ads (Radio/TV/Print)
Related Sites E-NewslettersPortals
ViralMarketing
Sources of Website Traffic
PaidSearch
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Search Engine’s Mission & Purpose
� Satisfy two stakeholders:� Search users
– Provide the most “relevant” results
� Investors
– Generate revenue from ads (tied to traffic from Search)
� Not: “Push lots of traffic to your site so can make lots of money”
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What Search Engines Do
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Who makes their job harder?
� People who try to get their pages to rank higher than they would otherwise
� Why? Because if they succeed, searchers may not get the best results!
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So search engines keep tweaking0
Panda
Penguin
Venice
Caffeine
Vince
Dewey
Buffy
Big Daddy
Jagger
Gilligan
Bourbon . . .
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1st Generation Search Engine Signals– Keywords and Content
� The site with the most keywords – WINS!
Keyword
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1st Generation Search Engine Signals– Keywords and Content
The Result?
� Keyword-stuffed content
� Lots of spammy, junky content
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2nd Generation Search Engine Signals– Inbound Links
Google arrives on the scene
� Develops an algorithmic approach
� Granted a US Patent for PageRank
� Other search engines follow suit
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2nd Generation Search Engine Signals– Inbound Links
The Result?
� People create lots of junky content that links back to their site
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3rd Generation – User Experience
� Data from Google’s “free” tools– Google Search
– Google Analytics
– Google Toolbar
– Chrome or IE browser (with toolbar)
� Data from Social signals– Google+1
– Etc.
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3rd Generation – User Experience
The Result?
� Lots of pain and rank volatility
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How do search engines determine Rank?
� Site crawls / content authority
� Inbound links & anchor text
� Traffic to your site
� Search results clicks
� Stickiness – time on site
� Domain age & hosting longevity
� Social “buzz”
� Hand about 200 other factors17
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How to Show Up at the Top
� Own a famous brand
� Get tons of visitors to your site
� Keep them there
� Become a thought-leader in your industry and write a ground-breaking blog post every week or two
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Three Things Every Website Must Have to Generate Leads:
� Relevant traffic
� A clear value proposition
� A compelling call-to-action
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#1 Mistake We See:
� Investing money and time on driving traffic to a poor quality website
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#2 Mistake We See:
� Unclear, non-unique value proposition
– “At Acme Corporation, our mission is to provide our customers and stakeholders with unparalleled quality, matchless service and unrivaled value.”
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#3 Mistake We See:
� Wasting money on the wrong traffic
– Poor keyword selection
– PPC “gotchas”� Incorrect targeting
� Geography
� Demographics / contextual
� Dayparting
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Do
� Start with a great website– Clear, crisp value proposition
– Straightforward navigation
– Strong calls-to-action
– Visually appealing
– Engaging – use multimedia
– Search engine friendly
– Careful keyword selection and well-optimized pages
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Do
� Keyword research is important– Google Adwords keyword tool
� https://adwords.google.com/o/keywordtool
� Or search: google keyword tool
� Use: “Exact Match” and take with grain of salt
� Understand: limitations
– Search Engine Suggest Feature� Start typing and what do you see?
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� Lateral search using software tools
� Evaluate each term across three axes
� Group by theme
� For SEO: Assign to pages
� For PPC: Assign to ads
Search Frequency
Competition
Relevance
Keyword Research
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Do
� Search engines understand synonyms– No need to “stuff” keywords
– So, write web copy for humans
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Do
� On-Site SEO Basics– Unique HTML title for each optimized page
– Unique description tag for each optimized page
– Keywords in Headline
– HTML or XML sitemap and footer links
– Post to your blog to offer fresh content
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Do
� Natural link development– Vary anchor text – don’t over-optimize for one
keyword
– Diversify links� Article placements
� Business partners
� Press releases
� Review sites
� Industry directories
� Conferences
� Social signals (bookmarks, Pinterest, Google+, etc.)
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Don’t
� Keyword “stuffing”
� On-site SEO “tricks”
� Unnatural links– Link schemes
– Automated links
– Too many links from one site
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Do
� Surprise! SEO = Marketing– Crisp messaging + thoughtful word choices
– Visitor engagement
– Useful, informative content
– Compelling offers
– Impeccable customer service
– Follow-up and nurturing
– PR outreach
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Bottom Line
� Your website should represent you well– Often the first impression of your prospect
– Hire a pro
� Timely follow-up is critical, especially for web leads– Use a marketing automation system like
Leadformix
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How to tell if your site got nuked
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How to tell if your site got nuked
� Traffic
� This: instead of This:
� site:www.yoursite.com comes up empty
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What to do if your site got nuked
� Run, don’t walk, to
– Install Google Webmaster Tools
� Find out what needs to be fixed and fix it!
� File a reconsideration request
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And now a few words about
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� Pay-Per-Click
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Yearly Revenue
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Licensing & Other Network Google.com
$ in millions
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PPC Truths
� If your site isn’t converting, the solution is not to spend more money
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PPC Truths
� You’re playing against “the House” and your fellow advertisers
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PPC Truths
� It’s a live auction
– Pay attention
– Don’t “set it and forget it”
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PPC Truths
� Target carefully
– Keyword selections
– Display Network sites
� Sloppy = Expensive
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PPC Tip
� Use AdWords Preview tool to check ads
– Impressions are costly
– Allows geographic testing
– adwords.google.com/d/AdPreview/
– Or search: adwords preview tool
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PPC Tip
� Who is seeing your ads?
– Search: check typed “search terms”
– Display: check Automatic Placements
� NEVER mix Search and Contextual advertising in the same Campaign
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“Typed” vs. “Matched” Keyword
� Keyword matching options– Broad Match
– Phrase Match (“ “)
– Exact Match ([ ])
� Typed keyword is what they typed
� Matched keyword is what you bid on using matching options
� Important to track BOTH in web analytics and CRM
� Use “Negative Match” to filter Broad and Phrase matched misfits
– Modified Broad Match (+)
– Negative Match (-)
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PPC Gotchas
� Parked Domains
� MFA’s
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MFA (Made-For-AdSense) Example
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SEO & PPC Tools
� Majestic SEO (paid)
– Backlink analysis
– Competitor analysis
– Identify link opportunities
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SEO & PPC Tools
� Spyfu (free and paid)
– Competitor keywords� Organic and paid
– Competitor ad copy variations
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SEO & PPC Tools
� Google Keyword Tool (free)
– Keyword research / suggestions
– Search frequency
� Google Trends (free)
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SEO & PPC Tools
� Wordtracker (paid)
– Keyword research / suggestions
– Link-building
� SEOmoz (subscription)
– Site evaluation
– Rank tracking over time
– DIY advice
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Questions?
Hans Riemer
Market Vantage LLC
978-482-0130
Blog / Tips / Newsletter at
www.market-vantage.com
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