2. SEO is the process by which a website
increases its visibility on a search engine
and also ranking higher on a search
engine’s unpaid results.
This is also known as organic results.
3. SEO is extremely important.
Without SEO your brand wouldn’t get the
attention on the web it deserves, and
you wouldn’t be getting your brand
product/service out there meaning no
rise in revenue.
4. Organic: The first non paid results on a
page, they won’t have a yellow ad box
to their right. They are there because
they are relevant to your search and
hold relevant content.
Paid: Pay Per Click or Pay Per Impression
- Companies pay to have their ad’s first
on the search engine.
6. PPC is when the advertisers pay a fee
very time their ad is clicked on.
PPI or CPI is when the advertisers pay a
fee every time their ad appears on your
search results, this can be per every
thousandth appearance etc.
Much click
Many moneys
So impressions
Very SEO
7. What do people search for?
What are popular keyword phrases?
8.
9. Which search engines are preferred by
selected audiences?
13. What is link building?
Are page rankings still relevant?
Audience segmentation
Demographics?
Tags
14. Keyword: A word of high importance or
significance on a website which is
relevant to a webpage's content and
will also relate to keyword phrases used
in the search engine.
21. Seasonal keywords that may up your
ranking:
- Christmas deals
- Summer sale
- Half price
Other keywords can include,
“compare,” which may be risky so only
do this if you are confident that you
have better prices.
22.
23. Link building can be good and bad.
Spinning is bad!
Good linking:
- Cross-linking
- External linking
- Achor text
24. Relevant keyword phrases
Unused but relevant keywords
Think about seasons or recent news and
include if it is relevant
Link to credible sources, like BBC not Wiki
Make links crawlable by using
recognisable keyword phrases
25. Good:
- Capitalisation
- h1/2/3
- Readable Text style
- Clear alt text/caption text
- Anchor texts for links
- Repetitive words and phrases
- Keywords used more than 10% but no
more than 20%
26. - Over use of exclamation marks
- Hidden white text on a white
background
- Over use of capitals
- Repetitive words and phrases
27. SMO is the presence of your brand,
product or service on many social media
channels in order to increase publicity
and brand recognition.
28. SMO is important to a business because
it increases audience awareness of your
product or service.
This will increase the company’s revenue
if the business penetrates social media
users enough.
32. The best tool to use to see what is
trending on Twitter for example is
Follower Wonk.
Use keyword and keyword phrases to
understand what is being talked about
most for that particular day or week.
Of course always as yourself if it is
relevant before you engage…
33. SEO is about holding relevant
information on a webpage like keywords
and anchor text.
whereas SMO is more about interaction
with people rather than a search engine
where keywords are more like trending
news or gossip stories.
34. Adjusting a website to work better on
mobile devices by doing things such as:
Prioritising content (mobile users are impulse buyers)
Screen size adjustment
Connection speeds (bounce rates will increase if site doesn’t
load quick enough)
Optimising mobile site to SEO (so someone searching for a
website doesn’t get given the mobile site on a laptop)
Phone options, like optimising the site to use phone settings
like location tracker click to call etc.
35. Meta data is typically shorter on mobile
than that on SERP’s
Sitemaps for responsive sites don’t need to be
made a second for mobile devices however for
mobile specific sites a secondary site map should
be made to the desktop domain as there may be
more important pages that you would want bots to
crawl and rank in mobile specific SERP’s
36. Links from mobile specific directories:
Different keyword/keyword phrases:
Simplifying mobile websites
Different file formats:
37. Trying to have clear and readable
content....
41. Key word phrases for mobiles will be
different because mobile browsers use
their search engines for quick searches
and tend to be more impulse buyers.
42. Reduce amount of content per page
Clear call to action buttons
Concise text
Mobile XML sitemap
Geo-location tags
No flash plugin required
M. domain
Editor's Notes
1. To find out what people search for and what is most popularly searched for on Google, use google Trends. As my example I am going to use the word, “games.” As you can see Free games are the most popularly searched thing related to the word games. To continue with this example, the keyword phrase, “free games” is the most popular and when conducting an SEO plan try to keep consistent with your Meta data as these are what determines what comes up as most popular search and most popular keyword phrases.
2. The search engine that is most popular in U.S countries is Bing however in the European side of things Google is most popular!
3. Search engines use keywords to optimise which result gets to you first, and the first result you get should always be the one most related to your keyword phrase.
To find out what people search for and what is most popularly searched for on Google, use google Trends. As my example I am going to use the word, “games.” As you can see Free games are the most popularly searched thing related to the word games. To continue with this example, the keyword phrase, “free games” is the most popular and when conducting an SEO plan try to keep consistent with your Meta data as these are what determines what comes up as most popular search and most popular keyword phrases.
2. The search engine that is most popular in U.S countries is Bing however in the European side of things Google is most popular!
Search engines use keywords to optimise which result gets to you first, and the first result you get should always be the one most related to your keyword phrase.
To find out what people search for and what is most popularly searched for on Google, use google Trends. As my example I am going to use the word, “games.” As you can see Free games are the most popularly searched thing related to the word games. To continue with this example, the keyword phrase, “free games” is the most popular and when conducting an SEO plan try to keep consistent with your Meta data as these are what determines what comes up as most popular search and most popular keyword phrases.
The search engine that is most popular in U.S countries is Bing however in the European side of things Google is most popular!
3. Search engines use keywords to optimise which result gets to you first, and the first result you get should always be the one most related to your keyword phrase.
Link building is important to an SEO plan because it takes over from page ranking, this is because things in the industry moving on and Google introduced a new algorithm which is their way of determining where websites are ranked, this factor is by quality of links balanced with quantity.
Audience segmentation is important cause it makes it easier to determine which keyword phrases etc are going to be most popular in each demographic in each season and so on and so forth so always segment your audience in your SEO plan so that you can optimise your website to be popular during different popular keyword uses.
Tags are things like meta data and meta description. The optimal meta description is 156 characters because any longer than that and you can see what a website is like just from looking at the search engine results so always optimize your tags in your SEO plan.
Audience: Who is your audience? What kind of keywords will they be using, for example, if you are a gamer you may be using keyworks like Gaming, gamers, Pewdiepie, Xbox one etc. So be sure that if you are a gaming industry that you have these keywords on your webpage.
Jargon: If you include too much jargon you won’t be welcoming to new customers who don’t understand what you are talking about whilst you also want to entice the veterans to look at what you are offering so always offer a jargon buster or keep keywords broad and simple on the main page. The deeper they got into your website, they more they’ll learn and you can you jargon however you please, for instance someone who is new to blogging may not know what H1/2/3 are, or understand what anchor text so make sure you take them on a learning journey from your main page to a CTA they will understand.
Long Tail- As shown by the graph long tails are keyword phrases that are less common, for example people who will literally type questions you would ask a human into Google would be niche because the question is so specific the likely hood is that no-one has asked it before therefore make sure that you use keyword and phrases on your website that are so broad that they are commonly searched and are in the hits red section of the graph.
Competitive: I assumed this meant your competition? If I am correct then this means that if you have competitors you are using similar keywords and keyword phrases, well to differ yourselves you will need to stand out. Keywords like sale etc may help you do this, because people are attracted to deals. Also use your competitors, if there is a key phrase they are not using, get in there, add it to your website get higher rankings on search engines because when that keyword is searched you will be number one in organic search unless your competitor has got a paid add.
Monthly search volumes: For statistics like this I would advise using Google Adwords to see what keywords and keyword phrases are trending in this particular week or month etc. Use these popular keywords on your website only if they are relevant because recent Google updates will rank you down if content isn’t relevant or crawlable.
Misspellings: Make sure that you account for people who are in a rush and may mistype or users who are hard of spelling, make sure that any word related to your content is correctable by google. And similarly synonyms, need to be accounted for are words like hot, heated, toasty for example, because if you are Bagelman for example and you want people to come and eat your toasted bagels using alternative words for toasted elsewhere on your website may be useful so that you are still getting traffic for maybe even the same stuffed bagel but using different word.
Most obvious competition for these key words is either Nintendo or Xbox.
Because it is neither summer or Christmas yet the list seemed pretty useless for Play station, but nearer to the time I am confident that this method would work, however when I did conduct the Google trends listing it proved really useful for retailers even though it’s not Christmas yet.
You are moving people to other pages on your websites this could increase conversion rates and revenue within your online business. Good. Cross-linking is when you connect a user to another page by a series of transverse links.
Hyperlinks, that point to other domains other than the domain that the link exists on. Good. By external linking you are giving note to popular websites that you are the reason they are gaining traffic, if done properly and linked to the website from a good article about them they may link to you gaining you more traffic.
Anchor text is like a title, a clickable piece text of a hyperlink which redirects you to the place where they talk about the information in the achor. Good. Because achor text is easily crawlable like metadata, meaning it is quick for a search engine to identify whether your content is relevant to a keyword phrase searched.
Other things include a level of friendliness and approachability if you can directly solve or help issue on social media.
Social media can be used as a place to externally link to your company’s main website.
1. The most interesting example I can think of is that in Australia the most common first or second search result is a tweet on the searched subject however that is less common here in the UK. A company may be more popular on social networking than as a ranked website perhaps because customer service issues are fixed quicker by that company if asked directly on social media rather than waiting in a call queue, which is why search engines have to include these channels in their results.
2. When an email newsletter is sent to customers it is often because they are loyal customers or have signed up to get vouchers etc. A search engine includes these because SEO is about giving a person the most relevant search result to what they searched for, so whereas someone might have searched homeware and got M&S, someone who searched homeware and has signed up to a John Lewis newsletter may have that as their first result.
3. Websites are important to include because they are the ones that get ranked by a search engine at the end of the process, especially if a website links to their own social media channel and it is relevant. However search engines will only include this as a part of their results if it has the right keywords, and these keywords will determine its relevance to the searched keyword phrase. Thus social media will only be ranked above a website if it uses more relevant keywords then the official .com/.co.uk website itself.
1 & 2. With mobile websites now being properly optimised to become responsive rather than having to build a completely different platform for mobile devices it is always important to understand that search engines will rank not only relevant content but the most up to date, and with responsive being new your website will be ranked higher so make sure your social media links are in obvious places or your mobile optimised site.
3. Blogs are more formal that social media but less formal then the company’s page which is all about business and selling. Including blogs as a part of the results broadens a searchers horizon for the answers they were searching for.
4. Videos and images are included because they are the most exciting and engaging part of social media and often the thing that gets the most views or conversion rates to the main company website.
5. Podcasts are like news without the picture, they often make the user feel engaged with the discussion or topic of the podcast which is why it is important to include relevant keywords in the title of the podcast because if people don't have to keep searching for the answer but just sit an listen they will.
6. Forums are a great way for people to debate and discuss, highly active forums will rank high in search engines because they are often more up to date then most social media channels as news becomes old very fast in social media…
1. Bookmarking a page is like flagging a page, telling them that you are likely to return because you offer them good and trustworthy information or good quality products and services. Search engines include these in their results when regarding social media because you can bookmark a company’s Facebook page or LinkedIn page etc. 2. Wikis like the Fresh Egg wiki is a great place filled with learning opportunities and information that you may not get the chance to learn (because you are in a different sector) search engines like this type of wiki cause it is relevant, whereas sites such as Wikipedia is a site where anyone can edit things making it hard to crawl and anyone can edit it, it may mean information is incorrect or irrelevant. Therefore on social media it is best to steer clear of references sources that aren’t trustworthy because it may lower the value of your content and lower your rank in organic search.3. Online vouchers is a great way to get more customers coming to your website, keywords like vouchers, deals BOGOF explode on social media because people love to spend less money! SO when relevant i.e. summer sale, and if profit isn’t tight include these keywords so that search engines can pick up on them and always promote the deal on social media because search engines will find your content, realise that they are consistent in writing, and rank your website higher in organic search.4. Like mentioned in social networking, location specific content is key. As in Aus some of the top searches are twitter posts rather then relevant websites. Always think about your audience in a location and the type of income they have, the common lifestyle in that area etc.= and apply this to your social media channel and website and the SE will rank you higher in the results because all content is relevant and connected in someway.
Follower wonk is a great tool for listening to what is hot on the trend as it allows you to see trending hashtags and popular twitter @’ed accounts which act the same as keywords and keyword phrases when addressing Twitter users, obviously act accordingly to what is trending however only do so if it is relevant to your company and what you sell etc.
XML stands for: Exsensible Mark-up Language
Not always a case of creating a diff site map for m. domains
Can just put below:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/page-1/</loc>
<xhtml:link rel="alternate"
media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)"
href="http://m.example.com/page-1" />
</url>
</urlset>
1. This is more like a link building technique, as much as desktop sites will try to get as may links to directories as possible to do with their niche. A mobile directory is the same but just has mobile sites in them or responsive sites.
2. Key word phrases for mobiles will be different because mobile browsers use their search engines for quick searches and tend to be more impulse buyers.
Responsive sites don’t need to be simplified however m.domains will because they will have too much content on their desktop site to fit on a screen no bigger than the size of a hand which will increase that sites bounce rate. So simplifying sites content will make is mobile optimized
4. JPEGS will need to be smaller PFD’s will need to be downloadable form mobile sites Videos will have to be playable with the latest mobile flash player or samsung vidoes etc.
on a mobile device if it taken from desktop domains will be hard. Mobile users use their phones for searches because the want quick results and if they can’t read content they will leave your page and a businesses bounce rate will rise and the company will be missing out on a whole audience of potential customers.
When you go responsive you don’t have to fork out more money to make a completely different subdomain for mobile. A responsive site just resizes itself for the size of the viewing screen and with that also adjusts how much content is on the screen instead on squishing it all onto one page. Also you only have to create one XML sitemap!