Aleyda Solis presents at the #SEOZONE2014 conference on maximizing content for SEO success. She discusses the importance of creating content that is keyword relevant, bot-friendly, and optimized for search engine features and devices. She provides tips on conducting keyword and audience research, creating personas, optimizing content through titles, descriptions and structured data, and ensuring content is shareable across social networks and devices. The goal is to connect with the search audience and fulfill their needs through high-quality, optimized content.
12. Help you sell your products or services
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13. Provide a great experience
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14. Which will get your audience endorsement.
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15. In a continous & scalable process
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16. Raise your hand if you follow all this!
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17. We have a challenge
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18. But we can improve to achieve these goals
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19. Start by asking the following questions
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20. Who are & How my audience search?
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21. Go beyond “keyword relevance & search volume”
CONTENT
FORMAT
SCENARIOS PERSONAS
USED
DEVICES
INTENT
TOPICS
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22. Identify terms, phrases, modifiers, variants
http://keywordtool.io/
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23. Expand your ideas thanks to your competitors
http://semrush.com/
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24. See which vertical & format provides more traffic
http://similarweb.com
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25. Identify your Web most linked content & topics
http://www.google.com/analytics/
http://opensiteexplorer.org
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26. Check your most shared topics, formats & platforms
http://www.google.com/analytics/
http://socialcrawlytics.com
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27. Search the most shared content in social networks
http://www.google.com/analytics/
http://buzzsumo.com
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28. Verify the devices used for the relevant queries
http://www.google.com/analytics/
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29. Map this with your customer journey
http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/tools/customer-journey-to-online-purchase.html
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30. Answer when do they search what and how
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INFORMATIONAL
review
tips
guide
news
OR
TRANSACTIONAL
buy
reserve
purchase
register
OR
OR
PRODUCTS
BRANDS
TOPICS
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31. Profile your Audience & Identify your Personas
BACKGROUND
CHARACTERISTICS
ACTIVITIES &
MOTIVATIONS
CONTEXT
SCENARIOS
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32. Check-out these Personas guides
http://www.creativity101.com/creating-a-persona-why-and-how/
http://moz.com/blog/personas-understanding-the-person-behind-the-visit
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33. Prioritize topics & keywords based on your findings
BEHAVIOR
relevance
volume
competition
seasonality
persona
intent
scenario
BUSINESS
availability
profitability
STATUS
content existence
content format
rankings
traffic
conversions
growth
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34. How to connect with my search audience and
fulfill their needs while giving the best experience?
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35. By giving your content the best visibility…
http://moz.com/blog/google-organic-click-through-rates-in-2014
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http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
36. Which is not just about rankings anymore
local carrousel
business reviews
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maps
37. But also about optimizing for search features
answer box
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news
images
knowledge graph
38. Our optimization efforts should evolve as Google
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39. Optimize the experience of your content
map topics
with web
architecture
identify
optimize
content (pages,
images, videos) for
content type &
format to target
each topic
targeted
keywords
use
structured
markup to give a
meaning to your
content
verify that your
content is
correctly seen by
search engines
facilitate your
content
share-ability
make sure
your content is
correctly shown
in all devices
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40. Map the prioritized topics with your web areas
x
product
category n
product community
category 2
learning
center
events
home
product
1a
product
1b
product
n1
product
n2
category
a
category
b
product blog
category 1
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41. As well as the content type & format
www.distilled.net/blog/the-content-matrix/
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42. Avoid internal content duplication issues
www.siteliner.com/
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43. and the lack of targeted relevance
NO YES
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44. Check out these resources to solve it
http://moz.com/blog/parallax-scrolling-websites-and-seo-
a-collection-of-solutions-and-examples
http://builtvisible.com/on-infinite-scroll-pushstate/
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45. Make sure each page has an attractive content offer
http://youtu.be/8DNzUWgHtKc
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46. Optimize your content towards their targeted terms
keywords or topics in
title
url
meta description
headings
body text
images
videos
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47. Each page should be considered a landing page
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48. Attractive, with purpose, built to connect & convince
https://blog.kissmetrics.com/landing-page-design-
infographic/
http://www.slideshare.net/ScottValentine1/how-to-
optimize-landing-pages-for-conversions
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49. When optimizing, think on your personas
title
good poor
begin with targeted term
~ 55 characters for desktop &
~ 60 for mobile
meta description
descriptive and attractive
expanding title, inviting users to click
~150 characters for desktop &
~115 characters for mobile
url
fair
short & descriptive
targeted terms in url
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50. Don’t forget to optimize your images
optimize with the targeted
terms
alt description
file name
surrounding text
structured markup
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51. And your videos too!
optimize with the targeted
terms
title
file name
caption or surrounding
text
structured markup
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52. Test how your content is delivered for all devices
https://developers.google.com/speed/
pagespeed/insights/
https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/
device-mode
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53. Making sure each target their users characteristics
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54. Give your content a meaning with structured data
support.google.com/webmasters/answer/99170?hl=en
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55. Which in some cases will give extra-visibility too
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56. Use generators & testers for the implementation
tools.seochat.com/category/schema-generators www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
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57. Facilitate your content shareability with buttons
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58. And mark your content for social sharing
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59. Maximize your visibility in social networks with them
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60. You can verify them with their own validators
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
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61. Always enable ways to distribute your content
www.siegemedia.com/embed-code-generator philnottingham.com/tools/video-embed-link-generator/
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62. Ugh! But this is so much work
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63. But now you’ll have an optimized page!
moz.com/blog/visual-guide-to-keyword-targeting-onpage-optimization
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64. It’s about being consistent & multidisciplinary
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65. And what happens when
I run out of content ideas?
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66. It’s about being (again) consistent & creative
target
trends, news &
updates your
research
reformat &
repurpose
successful
content
curate
existing content
for hot topics
have an
editorial
calendar &
schedule
make use of
user generated
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content
67. Keep updated with Content & Keywords Alerts
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buzzsumo.com
68. Like they have done!
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69. Like they have done!
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70. Like they have done!
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71. Your content deserves visibility! Let’s give it that.
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72. Thanks Seozone! Do you have questions?
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73. Images under Creative Commons
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