ON-SITE SEO Web 2.0 Expo NYC 2010  Rhea Drysdale COO, Outspoken Media
GOOGLE WEBMASTER CENTRAL
Submit XML sitemaps Create and test robots.txt Remove URLs Control sitelinks Configure site settings See internal links and count Malware warnings Crawl errors and stats HTML suggestions (titles & descriptions) What can you do with GWC?
URLs
URLs Bad URL: http://www.superneatosite.com/cat34567/?crapCMS!=9999/45/non-sense=45&more_nonense=98/index.html Good URL: http://www.mysite.com/category/sub-category/page/
General Rules to Follow Do: Customize your CMS’s default URL structure Stick to lower case letters Use dashes (-) NOT underscores (_) Use keywords but NOT in every directory Use a trailing slash /
Canonical URLs www.mysite.com mysite.com www2.mysite.com  https://www.mysite.com
Page Rank  and   P L A Y - D O H !
Redirects 301 – permanently moved vs 302 – temporarily moved
 
Myth of the Root Directory /index.html /category.html /subcategory.html /product.html /blog.html /blog-post.html
Content Heirarchy Home Categories Sub Categories Individual Page Corporate Section About Us Press Area Blog
HTML STRUCTURE
Text Viewers HTML structure Crawlable content Crawlable links Content’s position
Text Viewers http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/internet/google/googlebot-spoofer/index.htm
HTML Structure <title></title> Page title (70) <head></head> Meta description (156) Other meta tags <body></body> H tags Content
Content Positioning Load optimized content  ABOVE  boilerplate content and large chunks of code likeon-site search, social buttons, JavaScript and clunky navigational structure.
CONTENT CREATION
Product Info and Data Feed Optimization
Customer Reviews
Country Specific Optimization
CRAWLING
Robots.txt YOU should control what the search engines crawl and index! http://www.robotstxt.org/faq.html
On-Site Search
Corporate Boiler Plate Pages
HTTPS
Tracking Parameters & Session IDs
Duplicate Content Ecommerce – Product filters and faceted navigation WordPress is NOTORIOUS! Categories Tags Author pages Archives
Extraneous file types PDFs XML  Flash iFrames (unless you rely on them to deliver content!)
SITEMAPS
XML Sitemaps Website News Video Get the sitemaps protocol: http://www.sitemaps.org/
Need multiple sites? No sweat!
HTML Sitemaps
DIGITAL ASSETS
Images Do: Optimize file names Create and optimize alt and title text Add captions when applicable Keep it short and descriptive
Videos Do: Optimize video title Optimize ID3 tag Optimize tags/descriptions if on 3 rd  party Create a transcript Upload a captions Syndicate through  http://tubemogul.com/
INTERNAL LINKING
Breadcrumbs Right: Home  > Category Home  >  Category  > Sub-Category Home  >  Category  >  Sub-Cat  > Product Wrong: Sub Category  <  Product Keyword-stuffed sub Category  <  Keyword-stuffed product Usability Tip: Read Don’t Make Me Think
Blog Optimization Categories in title area of post Cross-link keywords in posts, but don’t blog just for the sake of back links! List posts on author pages List posts on category pages Use plugins to improve cross linking…
WordPress Plugins Yet Another Related Posts Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/  WordPress Popular Posts Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/WordPress-popular-posts/
E-Commerce Solutions Related products “Buy This Look” More ______ products (category, color, manufacturer/designer, etc) Best selling products Best reviewed products Discounted products
Category Level Intros
EXTERNAL LINKING
External Linking
Sources
Other External Linking Ideas Press Releases “ As Seen In” Blogroll Author bios Sponsors Academic research Industry news
PAGE LOAD TIMES
 
Google’s  Page Speed Install it:   http://code. google.com/speed/page-speed/download.html
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tips to Speed Up Your Site Reduce HTTP requests Load clunky CSS/JS in external files Suture JavaScript files Combine images Use a content delivery network like Akamai Stylesheets at the top, scripts at the bottom Make sure all links resolve and w/o redirects
Speed Up Your Blog W3 Total Cache http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/  WP Super Cache http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
THANK YOU Contact us: [email_address] Read the blog: http://outspokenmedia.com/blog/ Follow us: @ outspokenmedia

On-Site SEO Web 2.0 Expo 2010