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Search Engine Marketing
Learn HTML
• View Source
• Save Page
• View Page on Hard Drive (through browser)
• Edit Page (Wordpad, view updates locally)
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Learn HTML
• Create Hyperlink: <A HREF=“destination
link”>Anchor Text</A>
• New line <br> and New Paragraph <p>
• Add an image: <img src=“image file/address”>
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Learn HTML: SEO
• Two components of page: Header and Body
• Within Header <head> </head>:
– Title tag <title>the title, with keywords</title>
– Meta description <Meta Name=“description”
content=“This description appears as the
paragraph under the result in Search. Use
keywords, and know the character limit”>
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Learn HTML: SEO
• Two components of page: Header and Body
• Within Body (after </head>) <body> </body>:
– Header tags <H1> to <h6>
– Body copy
– Alt descriptions for images and video
– Internal anchor text links
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History
• Yahoo! (directory)
• WebCrawler
• Lycos
• AltaVista
• Google: PageRank algorithm
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Algorithms
• PageRank (number & quality of inbound links)
• Panda (quality sites)
• Penguin (black hat)
• Hummingbird (natural language: intent)
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4 Key aspects of Search Engine Optimization
• Keywords
• Inbound links
– other sites
– Own social media
• Good design
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4 Key aspects of Search Engine Optimization
• Site reputation
– Wikipedia
• Page reputation
• Rel=“nofollow”
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Keywords
• Word or phrase used by consumers for search
• Understand consumer behavior throughout
purchase funnel
• Importance of search, throughout purchase
funnel
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Keywords
• Keyword density
• Prime keywords “fat head”
• Niche keywords “Long tail”
• Keyword research
• Keywords onsite and anchor text
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Keyword Research
• Google Adwords: Keyword tool
• Search autocomplete
• Google Trends
• Google Analytics
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Keyword Placement
• URL (domain name, subdirectories)
• Title tag (unique on each page)
• Meta tags (unique on each page)
– Google+ ?
• Header tags
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Keyword Placement
• Body copy
– Columbia University … … . We …
• Anchor text (onsite / offsite)
• Alt attribute tags for images / video
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Keyword Placement
• Importance of Content Marketing
– Blog entries with keywords
– Social media, links and keywords
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Keyword Placement: Benchmark
• Do searches on your keywords
– Fat head
– Long tail
• View source of sites that appear at top
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Keyword Placement: Black Hat
• Keyword stuffing
• Spamdexing
• Cloaking
• Penguin Algorithm
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Impact of Mobile Web on SEO
• Voice
• Finger typing (auto complete)
• Different scenarios
• Different requests
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App Store Optimization (ASO)
• 600K apps in each store, Immature
• Title, Description
• Category selection
• Downloads
• Reviews / Ratings
• Facebook Marketing, Mobile apps
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Search Advertising
• Paid versus Organic
• Overture to Google
• Google: Maximize revenue
• 30% of clicks
• Significant portion of Digital Advertising
• Real time, Analytics
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