why google hates your website - slides 11/13/13
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November 13th, 2013
Mike TurnerDirector of Business Development
Why Google Hates Your Website
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Build a Solid SEO Foundation
How Can I Tell if Google Likes Me?
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Build a Solid SEO Foundation
How Can I Tell if Google Likes Me?
On-Page Optimization
Link Building Strategy
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How’s your SEO foundation holding up?
Let’s find out…
Hopefully, better than this.
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Be honest! Ask yourself:
How’s your SEO foundation holding up?
If you said “No” to any of these questions…
Your SEO could use a little help!
Are my keywords mapped?
Do I have a link building strategy?
Does my content align with mapped keywords?
Can I track keywords to revenue?
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Here’s how to get started:
Build a solid SEO foundation.
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Research new keyword opportunities.
Identify “low hanging fruit.”
Set monthly link-building goals.
Evaluate keywords based on revenue.
Create content for top-performing keyword themes.
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Build a Solid SEO Foundation
How Can I Tell if Google Likes Me?
On-Page Optimization
Link Building Strategy
Live Site Analyses
Agenda: How to Win Google’s Heart
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How can I tell if Google likes me?
Dear Google,
Do you like me?
Please check one.
YES NO Start with the basics.
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How can I tell if Google likes me?
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Install Google Analytics.
Install Webmaster Tools.
Link the two together.
First, get the basics right.
SEO 101
Example.
Say you rank on page 3 of Google for “super awesome keyword” but no one clicked on you – Now you can tell.
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WHO WHY Ranking Keywords
Amazon.com Keyword rich content Hand tools
Wikipedia.com Lots of indexed pages Anything
Gotomeeting.com Team who knows how to court Google.
Online meetings
Salesforce.com Lost of Inbound Links CRM
Who does Google love?
Don’t be jealous…
Get in the game!
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KeywordsSite
ContentMeta
ContentURL’s
Content Siloing
Inbound Links
Successful SEO Campaign
How to make Google notice you:
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Get your keywords right.
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Optimize your keywords:
Go for both generic & “long tail” keywords.
Remember, it’s not all about search volume.
Research what pages currently rank for your proposed keywords.
Reevaluate your content needs.
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Get your keywords right.
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Get your keywords right.
Help Google help you.
Use the Google provided keyword tool.
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A solid foundation needs a blueprint.
Get your keywords right.
Use a keyword mapping document.
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Measure true progress.
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Use a scorecard to:
Establish standard KPIs.
Buy senior-level support.
Enforce accountability.
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Build a Solid SEO Foundation
How Can I Tell if Google Likes Me?
On-Page Optimization
Link Building Strategy
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Tackle on-page optimization.
3 Key elements of meta content:
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URL
Page-title
Description
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Tackle on-page optimization.
Keywords in the First or Second Position of the Page Title have the greatest impact!
Include descriptive keywords in page titles.
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Consider site thematic structure.
Thematically group pages around keywords.
Create quality content within each section that relate to larger keyword themes.
Link pages within the same groups to further strengthen theme of website.
Mobile
Enterprise
SMB
Other Relevant Internal Pages
MobileSMB Enterprise
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Build a Solid SEO Foundation
How Can I Tell if Google Likes Me?
On-Page Optimization
Link Building Strategy
Live Site Analyses
Agenda: How to Win Google’s Heart
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Press Releases &Media Coverage
Relevant Industry Directories
Online Forums(Quora, etc.)
Blogger Outreach
Content Syndication
Video
Social Media
Think of links like votes.
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Low hanging fruit.
Three month game plan.
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Source: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/reed-exhibitions-deploys-salesforce-chatter-company-wide-to-accelerate-enterprise-collaboration-105335188.html
Three month game plan.
Low hanging fruit.
Press releases.
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Alt-text: “online presentation software”
Three month game plan.
Low hanging fruit.
Press releases.
Images & alt-text.
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Three month game plan.
Low hanging fruit.
Press releases.
Images & alt-text.
Guest blogging.
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Track those new links.
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Can you attribute SEO to revenue?
Businesses typically implement 2 types of tracking:
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Tracking form fill outs
stopping there.
Tying source and keyword
theme data to CRM.
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Can you attribute SEO to revenue?
Tie landing page conversions to revenue in CRM & attribute to mapped keywords.
You MUST map
keywords!
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Build a Solid SEO Foundation
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On-Page Optimization
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Live Site Analyses:
Does Google Your Website?
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Keywords Monthly Search Volume
Resource management 673,000
Portfolio management 207,000
Project management software 59,200
It governance 27,600
Software project management 15,700
Project management tools 14,800
It project management 12,100
Project management office 8,700
Project portfolio management 6,600
Total Monthly Searches 1,024,700
Monthly Cost of Not Ranking on these Keywords
Click Through Rate
(7%, page 1 average)71,729 new website visitors
Visitor to Lead Rate
(1-3%, B2B average)1,793 new leads
Raw Lead to Qualified Rate
(15%)269 new qualified leads
Lead to Sale Rate
(10%)27 new deals
Average sale price $100,000
$2,700,000 monthly revenue
Annual Cost of Not Ranking $32,400,000 annual revenue
A simple calculation can inform you how much revenue you are missing by not ranking on search engines for top keyword themes:
Cost of Not Ranking Formula
Ultimately, your business is losing money by NOT ranking.
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Win Google’s heart with
3 Key Actions:
Build a keyword blueprint.
Develop on-page optimization.
Execute a link building strategy.
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Mike TurnerDirector of Business Development
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