3 Things You Can Do Today to Improve Your Site's SEO and online visibility. General internet marketing educational presentation prepared by Denver Boulder SEO company Affinity Track.
6. #2 – Add ‘Author Rich Snippets’
to Your Website
7. Adding “Author Rich Snippets”
2-Step Method
1. Get A Google+ account for the author
• List the website
2. Add a hyperlink from the website page you want authorship credit
for.
9. Add Markup Code (basically a link)
To the Web Page You Want Authorship For
10. Get Markup Code
1. Go to your Google+ personal profile page and copy the URL.
11. Get Markup Code (continued)
https://plus.google.com/116025451085552202420/posts
1. Remove “/posts”
2. Replace with “?rel=author” to produce
https://plus.google.com/116025451085552202420?rel=author
3. Add the markup code to your webpage
13. #3 – Write Something.
Put It Online.
1. You can be tops in your field but if you don’t communicate that in
writing and put it online a search engine won’t know it.
• Your website (e.g., landing page)
• Blog
• Social media site (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn)
• Third party website as “Guest Author”
14. What Do You Write About?
1. Tips and best practices in your field
2. How-tos
3. Personal experiences, success stories
4. The biggest challenges for your clients/customers
5. Do an interview
6. Client profiles
7. Review something
8. Talk about mistakes
9. Make predictions
10. Sponsor a contest or award
11. Ask a question (e.g., what do you think about XYZ?)
12. Comment on an industry article or current topic
15. Review
3 Things You Can Do Today
to Improve Your Online Visibility
1. Create a Google+ page for your business
2. Add “author rich snippets” to your website to
display your picture in search engine results
3. Write something and publish it online.
16. 3 Things You Can Do Today
to Improve Your
Online Visibility
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Ron McCoy, Director
Editor's Notes
3 reasonsIt’s Google … they will continue to add incentiveThe page itself will be indexedGoogle Plus Page and Google Plus Local page will one day be merged.
1. Do a search on Google+ to find the main page.2. You will need a Google login to get started.
To create a Google+ page for your business you’ll need to first create a personal Google+ pageLook for the ‘Pages’ icon along the left navigation. Follow the prompts to complete the information for your business.