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         By AJ Kohn
  Owner, Blind Five Year Old
          @ajkohn

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Search Engine Optimization seeks to
        generate productive organic traffic via
      technically sound and connected sites by
       matching query syntax and intent with
                relevance and value.



http://bit.ly/seodefinition      Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
I drove a ton of
                                      search traffic
                                    and all I got was
                                    this lousy t-shirt




All traffic is not created equal.                        Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
More Does Not Mean Better




Optimize for traffic that moves your business.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Don’t trip yourself up.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
No Code Mooning




Secure your subdomains.           Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Robots.txt




Be very, very careful.                Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Surf Like Googlebot




Use progressive enhancement.       Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
See Like Googlebot




              Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Googlebot is People Too




http://bit.ly/grepseo            Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
How do your users search?   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
‘all weather fluid displacement sculpture’ or ‘outdoor water fountain’

                                               Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google Autocomplete




Reflects real queries.            Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google Related




            Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Navel Gazing


           Google Analytics              Site Search




                                  PPC



Look at your real searches.              Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
User Generated Content


                Reviews




 Comments




                Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Competitors Terms




             Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Why?




       Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Navigational




Trying to get somewhere.              Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Informational




Trying to learn something.              Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Transactional




Trying to do something.               Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Beyond Keywords




              Why are they really searching?




Target the keyword, optimize the intent.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Be Clear




Words matter.              Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Limit Pronouns




Not a license to keyword stuff.         Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Only being relevant could spell trouble.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
http://bit.ly/googlevalue   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Are you satisfying query intent?   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
UX and SEO




User experience matters.            Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Readability




http://bit.ly/seoreadability                 Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Memorable




http://bit.ly/seorecall           Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Beyond Keywords




              Why are they really searching?




Target the keyword, optimize the intent.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Social




Reduce friction and destroy inertia.            Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Portable




http://bit.ly/socialsnippets              Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Engage




http://bit.ly/grandtruefans            Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Links are the result, not the activity.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
AJ Kohn
Owner, Blind Five Year Old
www.blindfiveyearold.com
 aj@blindfiveyearold.com
        @ajkohn

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