Combining Web Crawler Data with Server Logs to highlight Crawl Budget opportunities. Get Google crawling and indexing more of your pages in Organic Search Results!
5 Instantly Actionable Insights from Google AnalyticsSiteVisibility
Our very own Kelvin Newman's presentation at Internet World 2012 in the email and Analytics Theatre. He talks about five ways you can gain strategic insights from Google.
You’ve probably heard that SEO is dead. Every couple of weeks its claimed to be dying. From giant paid ads on every device, the move to app, machine learning algorithms to stop spam and everything in-between. Can SEO ever truly die?
Google Webmaster Tools: The Search Consolation Prize? #BrightonSEONicole Bullock
Presentation give by Nicole Bullock at BrightonSEO in Brighton, UK on April 22, 2016 at the Brighton Dome. With all of the 3rd party tools available for SEO, Google Webmaster Tools is often overlooked. Take advantage of this powerful resource that Google provides to users for free. In this presentation, the comparison is made that SEO can be like a game show, and Google Search Console can help you prepare for the times when you don't know how to diagnose site errors and performance.
Watch my site migration talk here: https://goo.gl/jP1PIM
BrightonSEO deck September 2016 featuring examples of failed migrations and top tips on how to get a website migration right.
This is my talk from Measurefest (November 2016). Google Analytics is an incredibly powerful tool but it can't do everything. This talk outlines a few areas where I feel GA is not the right solution and recommend alternative tools that can work very well in addition to GA.
Meaningful SEO Reporting Insights Without Google AnalyticsNicole Bullock
Google Analytics is often utilized to provide metrics and insights on website performance to clients. But what happens when you have an enterprise client that limits access to site metrics, yet still requires comprehensive reporting insights? In this presentation, I discuss the best elements of site reporting available in Google Search Console, as well as some ways I have collaborated, tinkered, and combined 3rd-party resources to make a deck to impress clients.
5 Instantly Actionable Insights from Google AnalyticsSiteVisibility
Our very own Kelvin Newman's presentation at Internet World 2012 in the email and Analytics Theatre. He talks about five ways you can gain strategic insights from Google.
You’ve probably heard that SEO is dead. Every couple of weeks its claimed to be dying. From giant paid ads on every device, the move to app, machine learning algorithms to stop spam and everything in-between. Can SEO ever truly die?
Google Webmaster Tools: The Search Consolation Prize? #BrightonSEONicole Bullock
Presentation give by Nicole Bullock at BrightonSEO in Brighton, UK on April 22, 2016 at the Brighton Dome. With all of the 3rd party tools available for SEO, Google Webmaster Tools is often overlooked. Take advantage of this powerful resource that Google provides to users for free. In this presentation, the comparison is made that SEO can be like a game show, and Google Search Console can help you prepare for the times when you don't know how to diagnose site errors and performance.
Watch my site migration talk here: https://goo.gl/jP1PIM
BrightonSEO deck September 2016 featuring examples of failed migrations and top tips on how to get a website migration right.
This is my talk from Measurefest (November 2016). Google Analytics is an incredibly powerful tool but it can't do everything. This talk outlines a few areas where I feel GA is not the right solution and recommend alternative tools that can work very well in addition to GA.
Meaningful SEO Reporting Insights Without Google AnalyticsNicole Bullock
Google Analytics is often utilized to provide metrics and insights on website performance to clients. But what happens when you have an enterprise client that limits access to site metrics, yet still requires comprehensive reporting insights? In this presentation, I discuss the best elements of site reporting available in Google Search Console, as well as some ways I have collaborated, tinkered, and combined 3rd-party resources to make a deck to impress clients.
BrightonSEO Conference: Yext Discussion on Voice Search and SchemaChristian Ward
How to Speak Search Engine.
Ever listen to a child ask questions of Siri? Have you watched them say, “Ok, Google…” and proceed to ask what seems to be an awkward string of words? Believe it or not, children tend to speak “Search Engine” better than we do. Children have defined “structured” language choices with simple terms that haven’t been corrupted by years of nuanced definitions, metaphors, and colloquialisms. These clear, singular definitions are exactly what Google wants from you too, and we’ll talk about how to accomplish that.
Best practice is not enough #brightonSEO @Linkdex #SEOnow stageBranded3
Think back to the last time you applied for a job. It doesn’t matter if you work in-house or agency side – it’s likely that there was a line in your job spec that read “a good understanding of best practice”.
But when you turned up on your first day at work, knowing the best thing to do in every situation that might arise I doubt you were surprised to find out that the best thing to do couldn’t be done.
The website wasn’t built that way.
The client won’t sign that off.
That’ll never get past legal.
So you need to come up with the second best thing to do. That’s not part of best practice. Opinions come to a head and nothing gets done because businesses are mistaken in their opinion that doing nothing is fine if the best thing can’t be done.
But best practice is a misnomer anyway.
When we say best practice what we really mean is standard practice.
If all you ever implement is standard practice that’s all you’ll be. Standard.
If you can’t even reach standard your business deserves to fail.
Where does best practice even come from though? People treat it as if it’s some kind of bible handed down from the gatekeepers – the guys who can shut off your revenue.
Best practice is actually more like Wikipedia than a bible. It’s populated by everyone who works in the industry and most of it is factually incorrect. You should get 0 points for referencing it. The only things in there that actually do come from the channel owners are loaded with bias. Contributions from experts are self-serving and so many pat each other and themselves on the back that received wisdom becomes perceived fact.
But if neither are reliable – and if what everyone is doing is the same thing – isn’t there a chance that doing something, anything different could drive better results than best practice?
I would always overrule an expert if the data says otherwise.
If we know our customers want X and the channel owners want Y, we should spend our time getting X to work with Y and not the other way around.
Staff are fearful that deliberately setting out to do something that isn’t best practice will result in an automatic dismissal. I’m not saying it won’t.
As a result, people will wait months or years for best practice to be implemented because it’s safe. The channel owners told us to do it. The experts concurred. Businesses spend a lot of money and a lot of time being average because nobody gets sacked for being average. After all – it’s in the job description.
What a wonderful day to celebrate the eternal sunshine of the spotless SEO mind! If you weren’t at the conference today or missed something, it’s alright, we’ve got your back - here are the key takeaways from the BrightonSEO September 2017 main stage. Check them out!
You've seen enough talks to know the importance of internal links. But what next? How exactly do you go about improving your internal linking. This presentation looks at the issues, the opportunities and the actionable steps to take.
Super Practical Nuggets from Google's Quality Raters' Guidelines - Brighton S...Marie Haynes
In this talk we'll go over a few interesting things from Google's Quality Raters' Guidelines including:
-Reputation as a ranking factor
-Google LOVES User generated content
-Trust is a massive ranking factor
How awesome is site search today, often it isn't... Frequently it is badly tracked or with just Google analytics "out of the box" so it misses some of the most important performance metrics. What is the life of a query today and some mistakes I have made in the past.
My slides from #MeasureFest 2016
6 steps to earning more leads using Local SEOEagan Heath
People search online every day for local services and products, but unless your link appears in the top spots on the results page, chances are they aren't finding you. Local SEO agency owner Eagan Heath will share the steps his agency Get Found Madison takes to make themselves and their clients appear at the top of Google searches. He'll cover these actions in his "Local SEO checklist," a phrase which often ranks on page 1 nationally itself! Leave with an action plan for getting your small business found.
Google only crawls about half the pages on large enterprise websites, meaning those pages won’t be added to the index.
This also means they can’t rank or generate organic traffic and revenue for the business. That’s the bad news.
SEO for large websites simply cannot start with rankings and keywords or you will miss an enormous opportunity.
Enterprise website owners need to go deeper and focus on the entire search process – starting with its technical foundation and how search engines crawl it, to how its real audience engage with it.
The good news is that enterprises can experience massive wins simply by removing the barriers that currently stand between Google and their website.
In this presentation, you’ll learn:
– Why some of the largest sites on the web struggle to get their key pages crawled.
– How a crawling-to-conversions framework solves this problem.
– Steps you can take to implement this holistic SEO framework.
SearchLove Boston 2018 - Casie Gillette - The Power of Data: 15 Keys to a Suc...Distilled
In a world of content overload, standing out has never been more challenging. Good content means creating the right content, for the right people, and delivering it at the right time. Enter data. In this session, we'll dive into the biggest issues facing content marketers and break down the 15 key data points that can help guide your strategy.
Killing Giants - How to compete with Big Brands in the SERPSRoss Tavendale
In this BrightonSEO talk, Ross divulges how SEO teams at big brands work and how to compete with them on limited time and resource. Hint: Go fast, really fast.
The Future of Visual Search by Gianluca Fiorelli for Brighton SEOGianluca Fiorelli
Visual Search is the ugly duckling of Search Marketing: no one seems to pay too much attention to it … and this is terribly wrong.
In fact, Google, Bing, Pinterest, eBay, Amazon, and more and more brands have started offering Visual Search as an alternative for discovering and buying all kinds of things on the Internet.
In his talk, Gianluca will present the latest advancements in Visual Search: from the increasing monetization of Google Images and, soon, Google Lens to how Voice and Visual Search can become a killer combo for experienced SEOs and how we can use the already numerous visual search APIs to create our branded web applications the opportunities that Visual Search in Augmented Reality can offer to create 10X content.
How to Improve Your Website's Indexation - Sean Butcher Brighton SEO Present...Sean Butcher
This presentation, delivered at Brighton SEO in September 2018, looks at issues with website indexing and how to increase your chances of indexing on Google and other search engines from a volume, speed and content importance perspective through providing clear, consistent and aligned signals.
Technical SEO Beyond the Audit - Brighton SEO April 2017 - Philip GamblePhilip Gamble
Technical SEO is more than just an audit. Monitoring of technical performance is critical to catch any emerging issues early on. This session will cover practical examples of how to approach technical monitoring, what to look for and examples of real world implementations which have maintained and improved performance.
Fast and accurate SEO reporting and diagnostics with Google Analytics - Cardi...Branded3
Emma Cardiff SEO Meet talk is a 20 minute introduction to how to ensure what you’re reporting on is accurate, how to do it quickly (so you can spend more time doing SEO and less time reporting) and how to use Google Analytics to help diagnose problems and opportunities for SEO.
SEO & Civil Law: Protecting Yourself from Unfortunate Client Disputes | brigh...Steve Morgan
While the vast majority of my client relationships have been healthy and happy, a dark cloud hung over me for most of 2015 when a client refused to pay me, resulting in us fighting it out in court (thankfully I won and I've since been paid). In this talk I gave advice on what to do to try and avoid disputes from happening in the first place, as well as how best to protect yourself should one happen, covering everything from contracts to courtrooms.
Talk date: Friday 2nd September 2016
BrightonSEO Conference: Yext Discussion on Voice Search and SchemaChristian Ward
How to Speak Search Engine.
Ever listen to a child ask questions of Siri? Have you watched them say, “Ok, Google…” and proceed to ask what seems to be an awkward string of words? Believe it or not, children tend to speak “Search Engine” better than we do. Children have defined “structured” language choices with simple terms that haven’t been corrupted by years of nuanced definitions, metaphors, and colloquialisms. These clear, singular definitions are exactly what Google wants from you too, and we’ll talk about how to accomplish that.
Best practice is not enough #brightonSEO @Linkdex #SEOnow stageBranded3
Think back to the last time you applied for a job. It doesn’t matter if you work in-house or agency side – it’s likely that there was a line in your job spec that read “a good understanding of best practice”.
But when you turned up on your first day at work, knowing the best thing to do in every situation that might arise I doubt you were surprised to find out that the best thing to do couldn’t be done.
The website wasn’t built that way.
The client won’t sign that off.
That’ll never get past legal.
So you need to come up with the second best thing to do. That’s not part of best practice. Opinions come to a head and nothing gets done because businesses are mistaken in their opinion that doing nothing is fine if the best thing can’t be done.
But best practice is a misnomer anyway.
When we say best practice what we really mean is standard practice.
If all you ever implement is standard practice that’s all you’ll be. Standard.
If you can’t even reach standard your business deserves to fail.
Where does best practice even come from though? People treat it as if it’s some kind of bible handed down from the gatekeepers – the guys who can shut off your revenue.
Best practice is actually more like Wikipedia than a bible. It’s populated by everyone who works in the industry and most of it is factually incorrect. You should get 0 points for referencing it. The only things in there that actually do come from the channel owners are loaded with bias. Contributions from experts are self-serving and so many pat each other and themselves on the back that received wisdom becomes perceived fact.
But if neither are reliable – and if what everyone is doing is the same thing – isn’t there a chance that doing something, anything different could drive better results than best practice?
I would always overrule an expert if the data says otherwise.
If we know our customers want X and the channel owners want Y, we should spend our time getting X to work with Y and not the other way around.
Staff are fearful that deliberately setting out to do something that isn’t best practice will result in an automatic dismissal. I’m not saying it won’t.
As a result, people will wait months or years for best practice to be implemented because it’s safe. The channel owners told us to do it. The experts concurred. Businesses spend a lot of money and a lot of time being average because nobody gets sacked for being average. After all – it’s in the job description.
What a wonderful day to celebrate the eternal sunshine of the spotless SEO mind! If you weren’t at the conference today or missed something, it’s alright, we’ve got your back - here are the key takeaways from the BrightonSEO September 2017 main stage. Check them out!
You've seen enough talks to know the importance of internal links. But what next? How exactly do you go about improving your internal linking. This presentation looks at the issues, the opportunities and the actionable steps to take.
Super Practical Nuggets from Google's Quality Raters' Guidelines - Brighton S...Marie Haynes
In this talk we'll go over a few interesting things from Google's Quality Raters' Guidelines including:
-Reputation as a ranking factor
-Google LOVES User generated content
-Trust is a massive ranking factor
How awesome is site search today, often it isn't... Frequently it is badly tracked or with just Google analytics "out of the box" so it misses some of the most important performance metrics. What is the life of a query today and some mistakes I have made in the past.
My slides from #MeasureFest 2016
6 steps to earning more leads using Local SEOEagan Heath
People search online every day for local services and products, but unless your link appears in the top spots on the results page, chances are they aren't finding you. Local SEO agency owner Eagan Heath will share the steps his agency Get Found Madison takes to make themselves and their clients appear at the top of Google searches. He'll cover these actions in his "Local SEO checklist," a phrase which often ranks on page 1 nationally itself! Leave with an action plan for getting your small business found.
Google only crawls about half the pages on large enterprise websites, meaning those pages won’t be added to the index.
This also means they can’t rank or generate organic traffic and revenue for the business. That’s the bad news.
SEO for large websites simply cannot start with rankings and keywords or you will miss an enormous opportunity.
Enterprise website owners need to go deeper and focus on the entire search process – starting with its technical foundation and how search engines crawl it, to how its real audience engage with it.
The good news is that enterprises can experience massive wins simply by removing the barriers that currently stand between Google and their website.
In this presentation, you’ll learn:
– Why some of the largest sites on the web struggle to get their key pages crawled.
– How a crawling-to-conversions framework solves this problem.
– Steps you can take to implement this holistic SEO framework.
SearchLove Boston 2018 - Casie Gillette - The Power of Data: 15 Keys to a Suc...Distilled
In a world of content overload, standing out has never been more challenging. Good content means creating the right content, for the right people, and delivering it at the right time. Enter data. In this session, we'll dive into the biggest issues facing content marketers and break down the 15 key data points that can help guide your strategy.
Killing Giants - How to compete with Big Brands in the SERPSRoss Tavendale
In this BrightonSEO talk, Ross divulges how SEO teams at big brands work and how to compete with them on limited time and resource. Hint: Go fast, really fast.
The Future of Visual Search by Gianluca Fiorelli for Brighton SEOGianluca Fiorelli
Visual Search is the ugly duckling of Search Marketing: no one seems to pay too much attention to it … and this is terribly wrong.
In fact, Google, Bing, Pinterest, eBay, Amazon, and more and more brands have started offering Visual Search as an alternative for discovering and buying all kinds of things on the Internet.
In his talk, Gianluca will present the latest advancements in Visual Search: from the increasing monetization of Google Images and, soon, Google Lens to how Voice and Visual Search can become a killer combo for experienced SEOs and how we can use the already numerous visual search APIs to create our branded web applications the opportunities that Visual Search in Augmented Reality can offer to create 10X content.
How to Improve Your Website's Indexation - Sean Butcher Brighton SEO Present...Sean Butcher
This presentation, delivered at Brighton SEO in September 2018, looks at issues with website indexing and how to increase your chances of indexing on Google and other search engines from a volume, speed and content importance perspective through providing clear, consistent and aligned signals.
Technical SEO Beyond the Audit - Brighton SEO April 2017 - Philip GamblePhilip Gamble
Technical SEO is more than just an audit. Monitoring of technical performance is critical to catch any emerging issues early on. This session will cover practical examples of how to approach technical monitoring, what to look for and examples of real world implementations which have maintained and improved performance.
Fast and accurate SEO reporting and diagnostics with Google Analytics - Cardi...Branded3
Emma Cardiff SEO Meet talk is a 20 minute introduction to how to ensure what you’re reporting on is accurate, how to do it quickly (so you can spend more time doing SEO and less time reporting) and how to use Google Analytics to help diagnose problems and opportunities for SEO.
SEO & Civil Law: Protecting Yourself from Unfortunate Client Disputes | brigh...Steve Morgan
While the vast majority of my client relationships have been healthy and happy, a dark cloud hung over me for most of 2015 when a client refused to pay me, resulting in us fighting it out in court (thankfully I won and I've since been paid). In this talk I gave advice on what to do to try and avoid disputes from happening in the first place, as well as how best to protect yourself should one happen, covering everything from contracts to courtrooms.
Talk date: Friday 2nd September 2016
BrightonSeo - 5 Trends shaping the Future of Local Search - Sept 2016Myles Anderson
On 2nd September Myles Anderson, Brightlocal's CEO, presented at Brighton SEO. The topic was the 5 Trends Shaping the Future of Local Search.
Local Search is one of the most dynamic & fast-evolving areas of search marketing. Predicting the future is hard but current trends provide a great pointer for what is likely to come. In this presentation I take a close look at 5 trends that I believe will be dominant in the next 2-3 years and provide clear tips for local businesses & SEOs to capitalise on these trends.
If you're looking for a large site migration to go without a hitch you're going to need a robust and methodical way of working through your redirects - no matter how big the site.
Migrations are the make of break point of any site process because you have, in theory, everything to lose if it is done wrong.
In this presentation Chris will run through the framework with which to approach redirect mapping of a new site process.
Rest of the blog writeup can be found here - https://strategiqmarketing.co.uk/blog/htaccess-hell-brightonseo-2016/
Art, virtual snowballs and the feels - BrightonSEOHannah Smith
We want links and coverage and social shares. So we make stuff. Stuff that’s supposed to get us those things. But it doesn’t always work out, and it can be tough to figure out why.
Hannah shares what she’s learned about creative content and provides tips and insights on how to improve your own creative processes.
BrightonSEO - How to create an international blog to boost your SEOMarcin Chirowski
Practical & insight view into what it takes to build an international blog to boost SEO. Step by step approach, combined with the practical case study. How I've built from scratch a blog platform in 12 languages that is now generating over 1,000,000 Unique Visitors per month of pure SEO traffic.
Presented on September 2, 2016 at Brighton SEO (in the UK). Taking a bit of a break from my typical Local SEO talks, this presentation shares info and tips on Facebook ads (or adverts, as they call them in the UK). Learn about the different ad types, how to build ads, how to create Custom Audiences, and how to use demographic targeting. The presentation ends with some tips on Local Awareness ads, the best way to run local ads to gain more awareness in your immediate area.
SEO split tests you should run - Will CritchlowWill Critchlow
My BrightonSEO deck September 2016. Why and how to run SEO split tests, and some lessons we have learned from running our own tests via our DistilledODN platform.
Getting your audience to create your content for you Sophie J Turton
83% of consumers say they are happy to recommend a product or service to a friend, but only 29% do. It’s up to us to inspire them to actually do it. So how do we get our audiences creating?
Augmented Reality and the Future of Local SearchLinkdex
What does the popularity of gamified AR like PokemonGO mean for the future of local search and the maps channel? Luke Regan of DAC Group looks at the short and long term opportunities as well as the strategic implications of this trend.
How Do You Put a Price on Digital Content?Simon Bennison
How much would you pay for a shot at greatness?
What can a great campaign achieve for your business?
Why settle for good enough when you could build something remarkable?
Why local search should be part of your e-commerce strategyMiShop.local Ltd
David Whatley of MiShop.local outlines:
- Why local search is the bridge between the high-street and your website.
- How brands can leverage their off-line presence to drive e-commerce traffic
- Why local search traffic is different
- What makes a good local store landing page
SEO 101 - Google Search Console Explained Steve Weber
In our third SEO 101 lesson, we discussed how we can use Google Search Console to earn more organic traffic. During this webinar we gave a high level overview of each section. We went into more depth during the Search Analytics section.
LEARN HOW TO MAKE A BETTER WEBSITE WITH GOOGLE & SEOElsa Langer
I love creating websites with the Wix Platform. It is so easy to use and lately I just can't get enough sleep because all I want to do is create, create and create!
The purpose of this SlideShare is to offer you some information and articles that I have collected on how to make better websites using Google and SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
I hope that you find this to be very helpful with your websites because the importance of creating them is to share your skills and knowledge. In order to do that, you need to get the word out that you have created it. So I hope that the information in this presentation will help you with SEO and Google Analytics so that your website could rank higher on Google.
How to perform a technical SEO audit and ramp up your content strategy in 10 ...Waqar Ahmad
How to perform a technical SEO audit and
ramp up your content strategy in 10 steps
[with audit presentation template]:
We often assume that search engines are far more precise and knowledgeable than they are in reality. As a result, we often unwittingly develop poor practices that prevent our sites from reaching our search goals. Catching and correcting SEO mistakes like these are what audits are for.
In our time as growth-minded technical SEO consultants, we’ve run audits on a wide range of client sites in a diverse array of industries. We’ll walk you through the process in the following ten steps, elaborate on our checklist, and provide a presentation template. The tools you’ll need to run a technical SEO audit
Let’s help you get ready for the work by sharpening your tools first. Technical SEO audits don’t require a prohibitively large and bleeding-edge tech stack. They require a few simple tools, some of which you likely already have (while the others aren’t likely to break the bank).
Crawling
For web crawling, we’re big fans of Screaming Frog. It’s ideal for raw data analysis. Other workable alternatives like DeepCrawl and the brand-new Sitebulb, offer superior visualization tools. All-purpose You’ll need a more general-purpose SEO platform as well. Semrush and Ahrefs are solid, and offer a range of automated audits and other functions to cut down on the workload.
Content optimization
Optionally, for a better process in page-level optimization, we’ve used and enjoyed MarketMuse, Clearscope, or Surfer.
Analysis and testing You’ll also need platforms for evaluating content performance. Google Analytics in combination with
Google Search Console will suffice as we focus on analytics for SEO purposes.
SEOTesting.com will be your favorite for systematic testing of the growth you achieve by implementing the improvements recommended by the audit.
The 10 steps of our tech SEO audit process
We recommend using the steps below as your checklist. Sometimes you’ll find that a website has more issues in one area than another, and you’ll need to add steps there. But by following the below, you’ll always make sure that you cover all the important aspects of how well search engines can understand your website’s content thanks to clean structure, ease of crawling, thorough optimization, and speed.
Technical SEO: How to Perform an SEO Audit (Step by Step Guide)Ryan Stewart
This document is an in depth guide on how to perform a search engine optimization audit. Contents include:
1. Site Profile – Page 4
2. Crawlability – Page 6
3. HTML Status Codes – Page 8
4. Indexability – Page 9
5. On Page Content - Page 11
6. Security Audit – Page 16
7. Off Page Audit – Page 17
8. Mobile Audit – Page 22
9. Competitive Analysis – Page 25
10. Glossary of Tools – Page 26
This is the same SEO audit and checklist we have used for almost 5 years. It outlasts any Google algorithm update because it checks the factors that Google really looks for.
Please feel free to download and use for your own audits.
Website Audit [On Page and Off Page] by Carl Benedic PantaleonJacque Doring
Carl presentation during the "Learn SEO from the Pro Training" organized by Cebu Digital Link and Cebu Wordpress Meetup which was hosted at The Company Cebu.
In the world of Internet Marketing, the old adage, “If you build it, they will come” is not true, even though it would be a lot easier on all of us if it was! Traffic generation is the lifeblood of any Internet business, and this eBook will cover some basic low-cost methods to help get you started. The tactics are not intended to provide a complete list of step-by-step directions, but as a guideline to help you develop the strategies that will work best for you in your business. Much has already been written on this subject. To provide detailed instructions on each of these tactics in a single book would be nearly impossible, and require a great deal of time – so we’re going to cut to the chase so you can start generating the traffic you need to dominate your niche. Are you ready to take charge and build explosive traffic to your website? Let’s get started! If you want your content to be easily found in the search engines, you
need to build it first and foremost to provide value to the readers, but you
also want to make it easy for the search engine bots to crawl and index.
SEO is a complex subject, so we won’t be going into a great deal of depth
here, but you’ll have enough to get started.
[Part 1] understand google search console outrankcoOutrankco Pte Ltd
Outrankco Pte Ltd
LINK@AMK, 3 Ang Mo Kio Street 62, #02-02, Singapore 569139
https://outrankco.sg/
https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17158903996097548981
Meet up Milano 14 _ Axpo Italia_ Migration from Mule3 (On-prem) to.pdfFlorence Consulting
Quattordicesimo Meetup di Milano, tenutosi a Milano il 23 Maggio 2024 dalle ore 17:00 alle ore 18:30 in presenza e da remoto.
Abbiamo parlato di come Axpo Italia S.p.A. ha ridotto il technical debt migrando le proprie APIs da Mule 3.9 a Mule 4.4 passando anche da on-premises a CloudHub 1.0.
Italy Agriculture Equipment Market Outlook to 2027harveenkaur52
Agriculture and Animal Care
Ken Research has an expertise in Agriculture and Animal Care sector and offer vast collection of information related to all major aspects such as Agriculture equipment, Crop Protection, Seed, Agriculture Chemical, Fertilizers, Protected Cultivators, Palm Oil, Hybrid Seed, Animal Feed additives and many more.
Our continuous study and findings in agriculture sector provide better insights to companies dealing with related product and services, government and agriculture associations, researchers and students to well understand the present and expected scenario.
Our Animal care category provides solutions on Animal Healthcare and related products and services, including, animal feed additives, vaccination
Bridging the Digital Gap Brad Spiegel Macon, GA Initiative.pptxBrad Spiegel Macon GA
Brad Spiegel Macon GA’s journey exemplifies the profound impact that one individual can have on their community. Through his unwavering dedication to digital inclusion, he’s not only bridging the gap in Macon but also setting an example for others to follow.
APNIC Foundation, presented by Ellisha Heppner at the PNG DNS Forum 2024APNIC
Ellisha Heppner, Grant Management Lead, presented an update on APNIC Foundation to the PNG DNS Forum held from 6 to 10 May, 2024 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
2.Cellular Networks_The final stage of connectivity is achieved by segmenting...JeyaPerumal1
A cellular network, frequently referred to as a mobile network, is a type of communication system that enables wireless communication between mobile devices. The final stage of connectivity is achieved by segmenting the comprehensive service area into several compact zones, each called a cell.
Understanding User Behavior with Google Analytics.pdfSEO Article Boost
Unlocking the full potential of Google Analytics is crucial for understanding and optimizing your website’s performance. This guide dives deep into the essential aspects of Google Analytics, from analyzing traffic sources to understanding user demographics and tracking user engagement.
Traffic Sources Analysis:
Discover where your website traffic originates. By examining the Acquisition section, you can identify whether visitors come from organic search, paid campaigns, direct visits, social media, or referral links. This knowledge helps in refining marketing strategies and optimizing resource allocation.
User Demographics Insights:
Gain a comprehensive view of your audience by exploring demographic data in the Audience section. Understand age, gender, and interests to tailor your marketing strategies effectively. Leverage this information to create personalized content and improve user engagement and conversion rates.
Tracking User Engagement:
Learn how to measure user interaction with your site through key metrics like bounce rate, average session duration, and pages per session. Enhance user experience by analyzing engagement metrics and implementing strategies to keep visitors engaged.
Conversion Rate Optimization:
Understand the importance of conversion rates and how to track them using Google Analytics. Set up Goals, analyze conversion funnels, segment your audience, and employ A/B testing to optimize your website for higher conversions. Utilize ecommerce tracking and multi-channel funnels for a detailed view of your sales performance and marketing channel contributions.
Custom Reports and Dashboards:
Create custom reports and dashboards to visualize and interpret data relevant to your business goals. Use advanced filters, segments, and visualization options to gain deeper insights. Incorporate custom dimensions and metrics for tailored data analysis. Integrate external data sources to enrich your analytics and make well-informed decisions.
This guide is designed to help you harness the power of Google Analytics for making data-driven decisions that enhance website performance and achieve your digital marketing objectives. Whether you are looking to improve SEO, refine your social media strategy, or boost conversion rates, understanding and utilizing Google Analytics is essential for your success.
3. Here’s the problem…
> Google doesn’t crawl every page of your website
>> If a page isn’t crawled it won’t be indexed
>>> If a page isn’t indexed, it won’t make you money
5. Identify Desired
Outcomes and
Objectives
Information
Gathering
Action Planning
Implementation
and Review
New Initiative Planning Process
Dawn Anderson’s slide-deck “BRINGING IN THE
FAMILY DURING CRAWLING” is an insightful guide to
help you identify crawl budget opportunities. Dawn
also suggests powerful actions you should explore.
7. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Client
Server
HTTP Request
GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.exampleshop.com
User-Agent: Mozilla 5.0
HTTP Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 08:06:45 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)
Last-Modified: Wed, 04 Feb 2016 23:11:55 GMT
Etag: “3f84f-1b9-3elcd16b”
Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 458
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Fig 1: HTTP Client/Server Communication
This is a standard HTTP/1.1 exchange between Client (e.g. Browser or Googlebot) & your Server.
8. Server Log Files
Server
188.65.114.122 - -
[19/Jul/2016:08:07:05 -0400]
"GET
/women/shoes/ converse14579/ HTTP/1.1"
200 "-"
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1;
+http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
charset=UTF-8
Server IP
Timestamp (date & time)
Method (GET / POST)
Request URI
HTTP status code
User-agent
Fig 2: Example Server Output
WHO’S REQUESTING? | WHEN?
| HOW?
WHAT FILE?
SERVER RESPONSE Server Logs are the SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH
when it comes to seeing how search engines, such as Googlebot, assess your
website.
Your webserver keeps a file of every hit the server receives during the exchange on the previous slide. Your very own data treasure
chest.
9. “[Cleanup your architecture because] we get lost crawling unnecessary URLs and we might not be able to crawl and index your
new and updated content as quickly as we would otherwise… There are a number of crawlers you can use to crawl your website
on your own, to run across your website.” Google Webmaster Central office hours hangout, 16 Oct 2015
@JohnMu
Crawl your website
with a
THIRD-PARTY
CRAWLER
@JohnMu
Conduct
LOG FILE
ANALYSIS
10. How does Log Files Analysis differ to Web
Crawl Analysis?
11. Home
Category
Subcategory
Detail
Web Crawl
Systematically fetch, retrieve, and validate the HTML on every page of your website to simulate
Googlebot’s/Bingbot’s analysis of your pages
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Let’s consider how the information is collected…
This is great for optimising
your HTML code and helps
you try and produce a best in
class website.
12. But that’s not how search engines operate and crawling alone lacks the evidence to
back up your strategy.
For example, Googlebot might enter through a popular category and crawl the same
pages time after time. Search Console won’t tell you this and neither does simulating a
crawl from your homepage.
So, you need to crawl your architecture and compare the data to Google’s activity (via
your log files) to gain an insight into how you’ll get more of your money making pages
crawled and indexed.
13. What barriers do people face when trying to study this vital information?
• Access to Server Logs
• File Sizes
• Misplacing trust in Search Console
• Time required to process the data
But I don’t think you should be deterred and here’s why…
14. Accessing your logs is simpler than you think.
Your organisation is probably already using them.
Common Log Analysis use cases for eCommerce organisations include:
>> Application Management
>> Access Management
>> Network Forensics
>> Compliance
Popular products used by Applications and Security teams at major Enterprise
companies include: LogRhythm, Loggly, and Splunk.
15. Splunk (a log file storage and processing company): Market Cap $8.6bn, 11,000 Customers
17. It’s true that the volume of data involved can make working
with the files prohibitive.
For example, if a site receives 50,000 visitors a day browsing
an average of 5 pages per session, that’s 250,000 log entries
per day for the HTML
7.5M entries per month
Now add 10 assets requested from the server for each page:
75,000,000 lines in your Log Files per month
18. SEOs regularly monitor and trend site architecture data (HTTP codes,
etc.) in third-party apps
but it’s not possible to scrutinise Search Console’s crawling and
indexing charts, but you really should.
19. So, how is engineering helping us overcome these barriers and
expand our knowledge?
>>> Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
>>> Storing and trending Log Data thanks to cloud services
>>> Processing Automation (saving TIME)
>>> Diffing Log Data with Simulated Crawl
Data for greater insights
20. Let’s move onto the questions I think you
should be looking to answer.
21. What are the typical questions SEOs
try and answer with Log Analysis?
• Where do I have accessibility errors?
• Which pages are being spidered most frequently?
• Is spammer activity proving detrimental to performance?
• Which pages haven’t been crawled by search engines?
And these are all very valid and helpful but I suggest looking at the next list too…
22. # 5 Critical Questions / KPIs Score
1 What is my ‘Crawl Ratio’?
2 What percentage of my compliant pages (2xx & unique) will Google crawl each month?
3 How deep will Google crawl into my site architecture?
4 What does Google consider to be my Top, Middle and Long Tail pages?
5 What is my ‘Crawl Window’ score?
HOW MANY MORE PAGES NOW HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO MAKE US MONEY?
(THANKS TO MY EFFORTS OVER THE PAST 30 DAYS?)
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23. Crawl Definition Score
Crawl Rate requests per second Googlebot makes to your site when it is crawling it
Crawl Budget the maximum number of pages that Google crawls on a website
Crawl Frequency
program determining which sites to crawl, how often, and how many pages
to fetch from each site
Crawl Rank
the frequency a page is crawled compared with the ranking position of that
page
Crawl Space the totality of possible URLs for a website
Crawl Ratio the percentage of my website structure Google is crawling every 30 days
Crawl Window
the percentage of the compliant (unique & 200) pages on my website Google
usually crawls in a 14 day period
I’ve mentioned a few terms you might not be familiar with so here’s a list of old friends with a couple of new additions.
25. Crawl Ratio: the percentage of my website structure
Google is crawling every 30 days
Total Pages in the website structure crawled by Google in 30
days
Total Pages in the website structure
x100
26. Organic Growth Opportunities
Lifestyle
Publisher
Business Equipment Retail Real Estate
Classified
The Venn diagram clearly illustrates the mis-match between the URLs you hope Google is looking at with the
accurate picture from your server logs.
27. Critical Question 2
What percentage of my compliant pages (200
& unique) will Google crawl each month?
28. % of key pages crawled
Total Compliant Pages Crawled By Google in 30 days
Total Compliant Pages in the website structure
x100
%
Potential
30. Critical Question 3 – how deep will Google
crawl into my website architecture?
31. What depths will Google plunge?
Lifestyle
Publisher
Business Equipment Retail Real Estate
Classified
This chart indicates the correlation between the depth of your content and Google’s crawling activity
32. Lifestyle
Publisher
Business Equipment Retail Real Estate
Classified
This chart indicates Google's crawl rate (URL crawled or not by any bot)
by Internal Pagerank
How can I more effectively use Pagerank to increase
visibility?
33. Critical Question 4 – what does Google
consider to be my Top, Middle and Long Tail
pages?
34. This graph details visits frequency from Google search result pages for
all URLs analysed by the crawler: how often URLs get organic visits
from Google
Lifestyle
Publisher
Business Equipment Retail Real Estate
Classified
35. Then compare Organic Traffic with a measure of how often URLs are crawled by any Google bot.
Increase your Middle Tail
Lifestyle
Publisher
Business Equipment Retail Real Estate
Classified
37. Crawl Window: the percentage of my compliant URLs
Google usually crawls in a 14 day period*
When a change appears on the website, either voluntary or involuntary, understanding your Crawl Window value will help you know precisely
how long it will take to identify a positive/negative impact.
*This is a simplified calculation of Botify’s Crawl Window metric.
Real Estate
Classified
25.5%
Business Equipment Retail
80.8%
Lifestyle
Publisher
66.3%
38. # 5 Critical Questions / KPIs Score
1 What is my ‘Crawl Ratio’?
2 What percentage of my compliant pages (2xx & unique) will Google crawl each month?
3 How deep will Google crawl into my site architecture?
4 What does Google consider to be my Top, Middle and Long Tail pages?
5 What is my ‘Crawl Window’ score?
HOW MANY MORE PAGES NOW HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO MAKE US MONEY?
(THANKS TO MY EFFORTS OVER THE PAST 30 DAYS?)
INDE
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