Jenn Lopez, director of community at Moz, is one of the world's top experts in using SEO to improve an existing community. In this talk she will highlight specific steps you can take to increase the SEO ranking of your community and get a LOT more traffic.

1. How to Make SEO an
Integral Part of your
Community Strategy
Jennifer Sable Lopez
Director of Community at Moz
@jennita

2. How many times per
day do you search?

3. How many times per
day do you search?
https://history.google.com/history/lookup

4. What do you
search for?

5. What do you
search for?

6. What’s after search?

7. You click the link
Oh! An online
community.

8. And then another…
Looks like I can
search!

9. An internal search?
Looks like I can
search!

10. This is what I want!
Just what I was
hoping for

11. How do you find it
again?
This looks similar,
but not the same.
Actually…
This is better!
*click*

12. 3.5 billion + Google
searches/day

13. 46,042 searches in
just one second

14. People search with
specific intent.

15. Make sure your
community can be
easily found.

16. How can a Community
Manager do that?

17. How can a Community
Manager do that?
We’ll start with
keywords!

18. Knowing the
language your
community uses is a
win-win!

19. You create the right
content.

20. You create the right
content.
They find it.

21. You create the right
content.
They find it.
Everyone wins!

22. Keyword Research
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23. Check on-site searches
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24. Google Suggest
Start
with a
simple
search
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25. Google Suggest
Capture all these
suggested keywords in
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26. Google Suggest
Then click on one to
get more suggestions
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27. Google Suggest
Keep doing this
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28. Google Suggest
Until you’ve got…
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29. Google Suggest
50 or so
keywords you can
dive into
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30. Keywordtool.io
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31. Keywordtool.io
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32. Followerwonk
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33. Now, put those
keywords into action!

34. Create a spreadsheet
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35. Test them on social first
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36. Test them on social first
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37. Focus your blog posts
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38. Synonyms are good
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39. Where matters also
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40. Do this in forums too
Those
keywords in
discussions are
great
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41. They can rank well!
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Yes, that is Moz
ranking higher
than Google. :)

42. Longtail keywords FTW
This
ranks
first
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43. Longtail keywords FTW
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This… does not.
Would *you* ever
search for that?

44. I’m feeling good about
keywords. What’s
next?

45. I’m feeling good about
keywords. What’s
next?
Ahh… links.

46. Links are best when
earned and not built.

47. Links are best when
earned and not built.
So make it super dumb
easy.

48. Make sure the
content is working
well on
its own.
http://moz.com/blog/visual-guide-to-keyword-
targeting-onpage-optimization

49. Let’s look at this post
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50. How it looks in search
Pretty photo!!
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449 calories!!
Enticing
description!

51. And on Facebook
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52. What about Twitter?
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53. Boom. Pinterest.
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54. Overall experience?
That content is
making sharing
so easy! J
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55. How can I do that?
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56. Start with Open
Graph

57. How Open Graph works
On-Page Title + Title Tag!
Title When Shared on FB!
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58. Open Graph code
!
<!-- Open Graph data -->!
<meta property="og:title" content="Title Here" />!
!
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />!
!
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.example.com/" />!
!
<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com/
image.jpg" />!
!
<meta property="og:description" content="Description Here" />!
!
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http://ogp.me

59. Facebook Debugger
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug!
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60. Facebook Debugger
If your page isn’t showing
up properly in FB!
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61. Facebook Debugger
Use the FB Debugger to
re-cache!!
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62. Next up, Twitter Cards

63. Regular Text Tweet
Snooze...
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64. Summary Card (default)
Community
WIN
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65. Summary Card Large Image
Community
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The
winningest!

66. Twitter Card code
!
<!-- Twitter card data -->!
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">!
!
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@twitterhandle">!
!
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@AuthorTwitter”> !
!
<meta name="twitter:title" content=”Title specific to
Twitter – short works great!">!
!
<meta name="twitter:description" content=”Remember this is
being shared on Twitter, make it enticing to the FB user.">!
!
<meta name="twitter:image" content=”image URL for the image
you want to display">!
!
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67. Twitter Card Validator
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator!
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68. Add your site
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69. Twitter Card Analytics
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70. Wait. What does
social sharing have to
do with search?

71. The first few days are
key to gaining
momentum…

72. It usually starts with
social shares.

73. Create a great resource

74. Get lots of social shares
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75. Shared with authority
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76. Of varying degrees
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77. Lots of people see it
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78. Get mentions across web
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79. Earn lots of links
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80. With varying anchor text
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The words used
to link to the
content

81. From high authority sites
Page Authority

82. Rank #1 in Google!
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83. Got it. But what if we
already have a bunch
of links *and* social
shares?

84. Got it. But what if we
already have a bunch
of links?
Ok. Let’s make sure
they’re working!

85. Find & fix broken links
Psst… Picking on a
fellow speaker
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86. Open Site Explorer - Top Pages
These pages return 404
page not found error.
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87. Any low-hanging fruit?
This one has 31 links from
7 different websites
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88. Ok, this one looks easy!
This page, links to
http://www.fitbit.com/%E2%80%8E
instead of http://www.fitbit.com/
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89. Send the author an email
Hi! Would you mind
fixing this link?
Thanks!
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90. Go back and fix the next one!
Another page with several
good backlinks
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91. Then temporary redirects
These pages do a 302
(temporary) redirect. You
want a 301 (permanent)
redirect instead.
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92. Then temporary redirects
Holy shmoly! This page
has 424 links from 134
different sites.
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93. Then temporary redirects
Simply changing this 302
to a 301 will help increase
your authority.
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94. Email your dev right away
Hi! Can you fix this
from 302s to 301? It
will help us show up
in Google better.
Cool. I’ll get that on
my list to change. Will
let you know when it’s
done!
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95. Let’s talk a bit about
evergreen content.

96. Use same URL over & over
We do this
every two
years
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97. Use same URL over & over
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It continues to
earn social
shares

98. Keep earning links!
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Because we
don’t change
the current
URL

99. Keep earning links!
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And we keep
earning links
each year it
gets updated

100. Keep earning links!
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355 links in the
past 60 days…
and it’s 3 years
old!

101. Keep earning links!
All of which helps
give this page
super high page
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authority

102. Which helps you rank better
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Oh, hai!
That’s Moz.

103. Whew. What’s next?

104. Whew. What’s next?
Can Google crawl my
site?

105. Screaming Frog
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

106. Moz Analytics
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107. Checklist
q Integrate keyword research & optimization
q Longtail FTW
q Set up Open Graph + Twitter cards for
easy sharing
q Social assists Search
q Fix links to increase authority
q Remember evergreen content
q Run checks for crawlability
q Make friends with your SEO & dev!

108. Integrate SEO into
your Community
Strategy.

109. Because your
community is
searching for you.
SEO + Community =

110. Jennifer Sable Lopez
Director of Community at Moz
@jennita
!!
Thank You

111. Tools Mentioned
Ø Google History Lookup
Ø Google Suggest
Ø Keywordtool.io
Ø Followerwonk
Ø Open Site Explorer
Ø Open Graph
Ø Facebook Debugger
Ø Twitter Cards
Ø Screaming Frog Spider
Ø Moz Analytics

112. Resources
Ø Beginner’s Guide to SEO
http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
Ø 7 Advanced SEO Concepts
http://moz.com/blog/7-advanced-SEO-concepts
Ø Visual Guide to Keyword Targeting
http://moz.com/blog/visual-guide-to-keyword-targeting-onpage-
optimization