WHAT IS SEO
And why is it important?
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ABOUT AMIR HAGHBIN
• Founder of multi-award winning FinTech start-up,
CurrenSeek
• Co-founder of a boutique media buying agency,
Wepool Sdn Bhd
• Trainer of Certified Digital Marketing Specialist
Course, iTrain (M) Sdn Bhd
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WHAT IS SEO?
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the process of
optimising your webpages to be discovered through
search engine organic search results.
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WHY GOOGLE?
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WHY GOOGLE?
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WHY IS SEO
IMPORTANT?
• Traffic from your SEO’s activities is FREE
• Traffic from SEO is CONSISTENT
• Traffic from SEO reaches GOOGLE’S AUDIENCE
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THE IMPACT OF COVID19
ON MARKETING REPORT
BY CONDUCTOR
• 63% of the respondents
believe SEO will their primary
focus during economic
downturn!
• 66% of respondents report
that SEO was a top performing
channel last year.
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LIBRARY ANALOGY
According to Backlinko
0.78% of Google searchers click on
results from the 2nd page.
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“The best place to hide a dead body is
page two of google search results.”
Unknown
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HOW DOES GOOGLE WORK?
Crawling
Crawlers (AKA Spiders)
Seed Page
Indexing
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HOW DOES
GOOGLE
RANK PAGES?
• Make it easy for the spiders to understand
what your web page is about
• Show to Google and other search engines
that your web page is worthy of ranking
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STORYTIME
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KEYWORD RESEARCH
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• Finding relevant keywords yours prospects
are searching on Google and how these
search queries fit into your business.
• The easiest way to start finding the
relevant keywords is to put yourself in the
shoes of a potential customer!
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ON-PAGE SEO
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KEYWORD STUFFING
We are a food delivery service based in Kuala Lumpur
that deliver foods to those who are searching for food
delivery services to get quality food delivered to them
when they are hungry for food. As a trusted food delivery
service, we are nicer that other food delivery services.
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TITLE TAG AND META DESCRIPTION
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CONTENT
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URL
STRUCTURE
www.domin.com/cake-delivery-kl
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OFF-PAGE
SEO
• Refers to link building and link building is the
process of getting other websites to link to
your web pages.
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“Listen! These people are really good at their
stuff and I trust them enough that I would love
to send my visitors to their website.”
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Image via neilpatel.com
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NOT ALL
LINKS ARE
EQUAL
• Links from social media networks
• Links from online forums
• Links from comment sections
• Links from local or niche directories
• Links from editorial pieces
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OUTREACH • Connecting to people in your niche and ask
them to link to your website.
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“Yo! I need a backlink…Hook it up!”
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THREE
ELEMENTS OF
SUCCESSFUL
OUTREACH
CAMPAIGN
• Reach out to people who are actually
interested in what you do!
• Have a good reason to contact them in the
first place
• Offer them something that benefits them
in exchange
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“65% of marketers agree that link building
is the most difficult SEO tactic to do.”
According to SEOTribunal
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OFFER GUEST POSTS
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Best safety practices for delivery and takeout in
the COVID-19 age
A topic idea for a blog post
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IMPACTFUL
BLOGGING
• Provide practical content that will help solve
your prospective customers problems
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Companies who engage in blogging receive 97%
more backlinks to their site!
According to HubSpot
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• Lists! Readers enjoy lists:
• 10 ingredients you should always have in your kitchen
• Our 5 most popular menu items in summer
• The top 5 food trends to watch in 2020
• 20 essential restaurant kitchen equipment list
• “How-to’s” are very popular on blogs.
• How to cook meat like a pro
• How to hold a chef's knife the right way
BLOG TOPIC IDEAS
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HOW TO
COME UP
WITH
TOPICS?
• Can I embed my product or service into
these posts naturally?
• Would someone searching for this topic be
interested in purchasing my products or
services?
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TECHNICAL SEO
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PAGE SPEED
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Bounce is when someone leaves your website
without visiting or interaction with another page
What does bounce mean?
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MOBILE FRIENDLINESS
When a website appears correctly, no matter
what device your visitors are on and no
matter what browser they are using!
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MOBILE-FIRST INDEXING
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Google predominantly uses the mobile version of
the content for indexing and ranking.
According to Google
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SEO VS. SEM
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SEO VS.
PPC VS.
SEM
• SEO is the practice of optimising web pages
to be discovered through a search engine’s
organic results.
• PPC (Pay Per Click) is an online advertising
model which businesses pay each time a
user clicks on one of their online ads from
popular platforms like search engines.
• SEM (Search Engine Marketing) is a broad
term that encompasses SEO and PPC.
• When should you use SEO or PPC?
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RUN PPC ADS FOR KEYWORDS THAT ARE
TOO COMPETITIVE
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PPC Search Ads
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USE SEO FOR INFORMATIONAL KEYWORDS
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