SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Growing Enrolments Maximizing
your Search Visibility
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
I’m Aleyda Solis
ORAINTI.COM @ALEYDA FB.COM/ALEYDASEOTIPS/
I Do SEO I PublishI Share
BITLY.COM/LIBROSEOALEYDA
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
I Blog I Speak I’m Featured
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
I’m Aleyda Solis
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Organic Search is the main traffic driver
for the online Education industry
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
However not many educational organizations
are also organic search leaders
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
You’re losing the opportunity to connect &
attract your audience through SERPs
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Maximizing your rankings & visibility in a multi-
device, platform & format search world
SNIPPETS
KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
MAPS
MULTIDEVICEAPPS
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Making the most out of search engines
functionalities
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
While aligning your SEO efforts along the ones
you do for other channels
SE
PRODUCT BRANDING
USABILITY
CONTENT
DESIGN
DEVELOPMENT
PPC
SOCIALEMAIL
SEO
AFFILIATES
DISPLAY
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
With the goal of supporting the path towards
conversions across the customer journey
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
And achieve growth
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
like this
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Or this
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Here’s how to make sure your content is ready
to drive these results from SEO
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Understand how your potential
students search in order to
connect with them
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Always start by doing a “keyword research” 

to identify your audience search behavior
USED
TERMS IN THE
INDUSTRY
SUGGESTIONS
COMPETITORS
TERMS
CURRENTLY
RANKED TERMS
FOR CONTENT
YOUR
TERMS, TOPICS
& CONTENT
TARGET
BUSINES
GOALS, VOLUME
& PROFITABILITY
CURRENT
VISIBILITY &
CONTENT
EXISTENCE
SEARCH
VOLUME,
SEASONALITY AND
COMPETITION
RELEVANCE &
INTENT
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Understanding which are your current best
performing site categories, programs, etc.
GOOGLE
ANALYTICS &
SEARCH
CONSOLE
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Your most linked and shared site pages
BUZZSUMO
& COGNITIVE
SEO
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Obtaining the terms that have been used to
search for them
URL PROFILER +
GOOGLE SEARCH
CONSOLE
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Do the same with the ones providing already the
highest share of visibility to your competitors
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Identifying the existing gaps and where they are
outperforming you
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Verifying the visibility & queries specific from
each type of device
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
As well as search functionality & feature 

that is providing additional visibility
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Organize the terms by topics & areas and expand
each one to identify synonyms & related topics
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
… as well as more permutations & granular
phrases & questions around each
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
… as well as more permutations & granular
phrases & questions around each
YEAR:
2017
MODALITY:
ONLINE, ABROAD
CHARACTERISTICS:
CHEAP, CERTIFIED,
SHORT-TERM
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
That will allow you to establish your Website
personas
BACKGROUND
CHARACTERISTICS
ACTIVITIES &
MOTIVATIONS
CONTEXT
SCENARIOS
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
To Establish & Prioritize those topics, areas &
queries that you will target in your SEO process
BEHAVIOR
relevance
volume
competition
seasonality
persona
intent
scenario
BUSINESS
availability
profitability
STATUS
content existence
content format
rankings
traffic
conversions
growth
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Develop a Web structure &
content that fulfills the
identified search need
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Main issue with today’s Websites content is that
they’re not relevant, unique and it’s “too thin”
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Specially if you’re competing with these players:
Online, Free offering & community content.
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
This is why you need to use the established
terms to drive your Web architecture & content
map topics
with web
architecture
identify
content type
& format to
target each
topic
optimize
content (pages,
images, videos) for
targeted
keywords
use
structured
markup to give a
meaning to
your content
verify that
your content is
correctly seen by
search
engines
make sure
your content is
correctly shown
in all devices
facilitate
your content 

share-ability
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Map your different topics & queries with your
already existing or to-be-created Web areas
x
communi
ty
product
category
2
learning
center
events
home
product
1a
product
1b
product
n1
product
n2
category 

a
category 

b
blog
product
category
1
product
category
n
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
As well as content format
x
communi
ty
product
category
2
learning
center
events
home
product
1a
product
1b
product
n1
product
n2
category 

a
category 

b
blog
product
category
1
product
category
n
www.distilled.net/blog/the-content-matrix/
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Allowing you to develop highly targeted content
that will fulfill your search audience needs
Informational
queries
Transactional
queries
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
If you’re targeting multilingual & country markets
select one of these options based on pros & cons
FOR COUNTRY TARGETING
ccTLDs
Sub-directories
Sub-domains
Sub-directories
Sub-domains
FOR LANGUAGE TARGETING
www.yourbrand.es
www.yourbrand.es/categoria-a/
www.yourbrand.com/es-es/
www.yourbrand.com/es-es/categoria-a/
es-es.yourbrand.com/
es-es.yourbrand.com/categoria-a/
www.yourbrand.com/es/
www.yourbrand.com/es/categoria-a/
es.yourbrand.com/
es.yourbrand.com/categoria-a/
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
FOR COUNTRY TARGETING
ccTLDs
Sub-directories
Sub-domains
Sub-directories
Sub-domains
FOR LANGUAGE TARGETING
Ideal alternative to geolocate if competition
is not too high
More technical resources
More efforts to grow popularity
Less technical resources
Less efforts to grow popularity
More chances to get all versions penalized
if something goes bad
More efforts to geolocate
Require more technical resources
Require more efforts to grow popularity
Better than sub-directories to organize
larger & more complex sites
More efforts to geolocate
Less technical resources
Less efforts to grow popularity
Deeper url structure
More chances to get all versions penalized if one of
the versions has issues
More technical resources
More efforts to grow popularity
Shorter URL structure which can be better for
larger sites
If you’re targeting multilingual & country markets
select one of these options based on pros & cons
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Each page should be optimized with unique,
relevant, useful content
Meta description
Headings
Title
Body text
Images
URL
Terms or topics in
Videos
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
Making the most out of each page element to
maximize its relevante, like titles & metas
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
title
meta description
url
Begin with targeted term
~ 55 characters for desktop & 

~ 60 for mobile
descriptive and attractive 

expanding title, inviting users to click
~150 characters for desktop & 

~115 characters for mobile
short & descriptive
targeted terms in url
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
Add your USP in them in order to attract
attention from user and increase CTR
title
meta description
url
Begin with targeted term
~ 55 characters for desktop & 

~ 60 for mobile
descriptive and attractive 

expanding title, inviting users to click
~150 characters for desktop & 

~115 characters for mobile
short & descriptive
targeted terms in url
http://www.siegemedia.com/seo/title-tags
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
Optimize your Images
surrounding text
alt description
file name
optimize w/ the targeted terms
structured markup
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
and Videos too
caption or description
title
file name
optimize w/ the targeted terms
structured markup
Not conversion but awareness and
informational oriented? Publish it in Youtube
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
Use structured markup to give meaning to your
content & increase your SERP visibility
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
From breadcrumbs to reviews and business
information
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
Too technically complex? Use GTM to do it
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
http://www.simoahava.com/analytics/enrich-serp-results-using-gtm/
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
This content should be now also mobile first
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
Making sure it follows search accessibility and
usability best practices
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
This is a whole specific topic! 

Check out this preso I did about it
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
http://www.slideshare.net/aleydasolis/mobile-visibility-to-the-max-2016-edition-bigdigitaladl
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
-All this is so much effort just for content already

-Follow this flowchart to make it profitable
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
And remember balance your optimization efforts
based on your context to focus on growth
Your Site
Technical Configuration
CRAWLABILITY & INDEXABILITY
Content
RELEVANCE
Links
POPULARITY
Your
Competition
Current
Organic Search
Performance
Audience Search
Behavior &
Industry Potential
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
Check out this preso I did to drive your SEO efforts
Your Site
Technical Configuration
CRAWLABILITY & INDEXABILITY
Content
RELEVANCE
Links
POPULARITY
Your
Competition
Current
Organic Search
Performance
Audience Search
Behavior &
Industry Potential
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
http://bit.ly/auditgrowth
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
Remember it’s all about this ;)
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
SEO FOR
EDUCATIONAL SITES
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
Must follow Steps, Criteria &
Tools to Grow Enrollments
Thank you!
#educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti

SEO for Education Organizations #EMCDigital

  • 1.
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  • 2.
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  • 3.
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  • 4.
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  • 5.
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  • 7.
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  • 8.
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  • 12.
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  • 13.
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  • 14.
    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Here’s how to make sure your content is ready to drive these results from SEO
  • 15.
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  • 16.
    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Always start by doing a “keyword research” 
 to identify your audience search behavior USED TERMS IN THE INDUSTRY SUGGESTIONS COMPETITORS TERMS CURRENTLY RANKED TERMS FOR CONTENT YOUR TERMS, TOPICS & CONTENT TARGET BUSINES GOALS, VOLUME & PROFITABILITY CURRENT VISIBILITY & CONTENT EXISTENCE SEARCH VOLUME, SEASONALITY AND COMPETITION RELEVANCE & INTENT
  • 17.
    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Understanding which are your current best performing site categories, programs, etc. GOOGLE ANALYTICS & SEARCH CONSOLE
  • 18.
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  • 19.
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  • 20.
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  • 21.
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  • 22.
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  • 23.
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 that is providing additional visibility
  • 24.
    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Organize the terms by topics & areas and expand each one to identify synonyms & related topics
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti … as well as more permutations & granular phrases & questions around each
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti … as well as more permutations & granular phrases & questions around each YEAR: 2017 MODALITY: ONLINE, ABROAD CHARACTERISTICS: CHEAP, CERTIFIED, SHORT-TERM
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti That will allow you to establish your Website personas BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS ACTIVITIES & MOTIVATIONS CONTEXT SCENARIOS
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti To Establish & Prioritize those topics, areas & queries that you will target in your SEO process BEHAVIOR relevance volume competition seasonality persona intent scenario BUSINESS availability profitability STATUS content existence content format rankings traffic conversions growth
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Develop a Web structure & content that fulfills the identified search need
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Main issue with today’s Websites content is that they’re not relevant, unique and it’s “too thin”
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Specially if you’re competing with these players: Online, Free offering & community content.
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti This is why you need to use the established terms to drive your Web architecture & content map topics with web architecture identify content type & format to target each topic optimize content (pages, images, videos) for targeted keywords use structured markup to give a meaning to your content verify that your content is correctly seen by search engines make sure your content is correctly shown in all devices facilitate your content 
 share-ability
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Map your different topics & queries with your already existing or to-be-created Web areas x communi ty product category 2 learning center events home product 1a product 1b product n1 product n2 category 
 a category 
 b blog product category 1 product category n
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti As well as content format x communi ty product category 2 learning center events home product 1a product 1b product n1 product n2 category 
 a category 
 b blog product category 1 product category n www.distilled.net/blog/the-content-matrix/
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Allowing you to develop highly targeted content that will fulfill your search audience needs Informational queries Transactional queries
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti If you’re targeting multilingual & country markets select one of these options based on pros & cons FOR COUNTRY TARGETING ccTLDs Sub-directories Sub-domains Sub-directories Sub-domains FOR LANGUAGE TARGETING www.yourbrand.es www.yourbrand.es/categoria-a/ www.yourbrand.com/es-es/ www.yourbrand.com/es-es/categoria-a/ es-es.yourbrand.com/ es-es.yourbrand.com/categoria-a/ www.yourbrand.com/es/ www.yourbrand.com/es/categoria-a/ es.yourbrand.com/ es.yourbrand.com/categoria-a/
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti FOR COUNTRY TARGETING ccTLDs Sub-directories Sub-domains Sub-directories Sub-domains FOR LANGUAGE TARGETING Ideal alternative to geolocate if competition is not too high More technical resources More efforts to grow popularity Less technical resources Less efforts to grow popularity More chances to get all versions penalized if something goes bad More efforts to geolocate Require more technical resources Require more efforts to grow popularity Better than sub-directories to organize larger & more complex sites More efforts to geolocate Less technical resources Less efforts to grow popularity Deeper url structure More chances to get all versions penalized if one of the versions has issues More technical resources More efforts to grow popularity Shorter URL structure which can be better for larger sites If you’re targeting multilingual & country markets select one of these options based on pros & cons
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Each page should be optimized with unique, relevant, useful content Meta description Headings Title Body text Images URL Terms or topics in Videos
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments Making the most out of each page element to maximize its relevante, like titles & metas #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti title meta description url Begin with targeted term ~ 55 characters for desktop & 
 ~ 60 for mobile descriptive and attractive 
 expanding title, inviting users to click ~150 characters for desktop & 
 ~115 characters for mobile short & descriptive targeted terms in url
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments Add your USP in them in order to attract attention from user and increase CTR title meta description url Begin with targeted term ~ 55 characters for desktop & 
 ~ 60 for mobile descriptive and attractive 
 expanding title, inviting users to click ~150 characters for desktop & 
 ~115 characters for mobile short & descriptive targeted terms in url http://www.siegemedia.com/seo/title-tags #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments Optimize your Images surrounding text alt description file name optimize w/ the targeted terms structured markup #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
  • 42.
    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments and Videos too caption or description title file name optimize w/ the targeted terms structured markup Not conversion but awareness and informational oriented? Publish it in Youtube #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments Use structured markup to give meaning to your content & increase your SERP visibility #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments From breadcrumbs to reviews and business information https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments Too technically complex? Use GTM to do it #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti http://www.simoahava.com/analytics/enrich-serp-results-using-gtm/
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments This content should be now also mobile first #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments Making sure it follows search accessibility and usability best practices #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments This is a whole specific topic! 
 Check out this preso I did about it #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti http://www.slideshare.net/aleydasolis/mobile-visibility-to-the-max-2016-edition-bigdigitaladl
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments -All this is so much effort just for content already
 -Follow this flowchart to make it profitable #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments And remember balance your optimization efforts based on your context to focus on growth Your Site Technical Configuration CRAWLABILITY & INDEXABILITY Content RELEVANCE Links POPULARITY Your Competition Current Organic Search Performance Audience Search Behavior & Industry Potential #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments Check out this preso I did to drive your SEO efforts Your Site Technical Configuration CRAWLABILITY & INDEXABILITY Content RELEVANCE Links POPULARITY Your Competition Current Organic Search Performance Audience Search Behavior & Industry Potential #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti http://bit.ly/auditgrowth
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments Remember it’s all about this ;) #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti
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    SEO FOR EDUCATIONAL SITES #educationseoat #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti Must follow Steps, Criteria & Tools to Grow Enrollments Thank you! #educationseo at #EMCdigital by @aleyda from @orainti