Dave SEO can be a confusing and often scary proposition. If you are attending this webinar you've probably been charged with making your website SEO friendly. So maybe you go to the IT guy because you need to update and add new pages You need CMS vendor to allow you access to the sitemap You boss wants to know what's going on, how come we don't rank first for And your competition is breathing down your neck poll - how many of you have to wait for someone else to make content changes on your site
Dave Andy and I hope to show you how to make your website play nice with search engines. and how the right CMS can help. There are many moving key parts to a successful SEO prgrams and your website should not get in the way of you achieving your marketing goals
Andy SEO can be confusing What is SEO as it relates to your website. 1. Making sure technical infrastructure is in place 2. Ability to add and edit content to optimize for targeted keywords
Dave The right CMS can make things easier and make you much happier puppy What is a CMS: software application that provides an interface that Allows non-technical users the abilty to make changes to the website: adding and content form builder version control workflow
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DAVE In addition to editing the content on the site you should be able to edit certain properties that are part of the pages
ANDY poll: how many of you write unique meta description tags for the pages on your site
ANDY - describe what bullets are and the Dave - video
DAVE Examples of content not in nav: landing pages for ppc or marketing campaigns content pages for organic SEO - don't clutter nav but ableto cross link
Andy Bad and good URL
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DAVE Andy internal inking benefits
ANDY what is rss and why important generated automatically for news and events items
DAVE ANDY - comment on GA, PPC etc How many of you use more than one anayltics tool on your website
Getting Your Website to Deliver SEO Satisfaction - Presentation Transcript
Getting Your Website to Deliver SEO Satisfaction
Andy Komack & Komarketing Associates
Andy Komack
President & Founder of KoMarketing Associates, LLC
First SEO project January 2000
Google AdWords Certified Professional
Babson MBA ('98)
KoMarketing Associates
Full Service Agency
SEO, PPC & Social Media Marketing
Focus on B2B Companies
Founded January 2004
Based in Waltham, MA
David Crouch & ten24 Website Solutions
David Crouch
President & Founder of ten24 Website Solutions
Expertise in defining and delivering content managed websites
Delivered over 100 website projects since 2002
20+ years in marketing small - mid size businesses
ten24 Website Solutions
Engineer, Design and Develop web-based solutions
Focus on content managed websites
B2B and nonprofit clients
Located in Worcester, MA
The Boss IT Guy CMS Vendor Competition
You want your website to play nice!
Search Engine Optimization Title Tags H1 URLs RSS XML
Content Management System
How Should Your CMS Deliver SEO Satisfaction?
Easy to Use for Content Creators
Complete Web Page Management
Web Address / URL Generation
Additional SEO Best Practices
Content Creation
Keywords
Keyword research is essential
Every page is an opportunity
Optimize Content
Page titles
Meta description tags
Page headings
Body content
Cross linking
Proactive
Internet marketing requires speed and flexibility
Can't afford to wait for IT or a vendor to make site changes
Content Creation
Content Management System
Should allow non-technical users to easily create new content:
Pages
News items
Events
Images
Documents
Easily edit/modify content on each page
Web Page Management It is critical your CMS does not take page properties that are essential to effective SEO and lock them down!
Web Page Management Browser Title (HTML <TITLE> Tag)
Web Page Management
Meta Information (Description and Keywords)
Page Headings (HTML – H1, H2 and H3 if possible)
Web Page Management
A CMS should have the ability to include / exclude a new page from the main navigational menus.
Web Address and URL Generation
The Web address should appear like a static, directory-style URL.
Web Address and URL Generation
The web address generated by the CMS should not change in direct correlation with webpage changes (such as a modification of an HTML title tag).
The age of a URL is an important factor in search engine rankings.
Are You Still Awake??
Additional SEO Best Practices
Breadcrumb Trail: Breadcrumb trails add to the overall usability of the website.
Additional SEO Best Practices
RSS Generation: Especially press releases and articles.
Additional SEO Best Practices
JavaScript: Able to accept multiple Website analytics JavaScript code.
Additional SEO Best Practices
Ideally a CMS will have a native Blog module that has specific, blog-related technologies, and where the blog is essentially a part of the primary website.
Thank You for Attending David Crouch President [email_address] http://www.ten24web.com Andy Komack President [email_address] http://www.komarketingassociates.com
Search engine optimization should be a critical par more
Search engine optimization should be a critical part of any marketing mix, yet basic technical issues and confusing jargon of SEO stop many sites from being successful. This webinar identifies and demystifies vital technical issues such as – Title Tags, URLs, 301 redirects – that marketing needs to understand in order for SEO programs to be successful. Learn what a good content management system can do to make it simple for you to optimize your website.
* How non-tech users can easily optimize the content they create. * How a good CMS should simplify web page management and technical implementation. * What the basic SEO best practices are and how they should be implemented. less
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