Dan Cohen Seo At Scale from A4UExpo London 2009

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Dan Cohen's SEO at Scale presentation from A4UExpo, London October 13th 2009.

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SEO at MSN

Dan CohenGlobal SEO Engineering Lead

[email protected] | http://dancohen.info/

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SEO at scale

• MSN covers 47 countries, 21 languages, 465Mil Users, Hotmail and Messenger

• Selling SEO: Prioritization, Proof, Progress

• Search marketing mix: PPC vs. SEO?• Automation: crawler + analysis

engine• Engagement and Education• Crawlers are users too

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Relevance User vs. Machine

Subjectively Objectively

Webpage

Reads visual headlines and Scans the Text

Understands images and other media like video and sound

Considers other criteria (e.g. trusting the provider, Information up to date,

knows the author etc.)

Follows a recommendation

Identifies technical headlines and calculates keyword use

Reads descriptions of images, videos and sounds

Calculates other criteria (e.g. trust of domain, Frequency of up dates, general

publicity of the author etc.)

Considers all existing web recommendation (links)

Rating the content of the page

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SEO Workflow

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Internal Link Building

Content Strategy

On-page Editorial

External Link Building

On-page Technical

Crawlability

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Crawlability: Server Optimization

• HTTP Compression– Having a large website and

millions of pages or URLs means a crawler takes a long time to crawl and index your entire site

– XML Sitemaps and proper link strategy aren’t always enough

– HTTP Compression works like a .zip file

– Reduces download time for users and crawlers

• Conditional GET– Do your pages change often? – Why waste time having

crawlers re-spider your site?– Tell browsers and crawlers that

your pages haven’t changed– Improves index coverage

quickly

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IIS 7.0SEO Toolkit

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IIS SEO Toolkit

http://www.iis.net/extensions/SEOToolkit

• Site Analysis • Full and deep SEO analysis• Rich dashboard and Query Builder• Detailed path-mapping analysis• IISBot – a fully-featured crawler engine

• Full politeness features: analysis boundaries, number of URLs, max Kbs per URL

• Support for Sitemaps, Robots.txt and “NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”

• Robots Exclusion• Full graphical user interface, support for filtering, sorting and grouping• Control sitemap locations and “disallow” by path, URL, parameters• “Physical” or “logical” view of your website

• Sitemaps• Full control over sitemaps and sitemap index files• Easy-to-use interface• Tests for broken links

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IIS SEO Toolkit

http://www.iis.net/extensions/SEOToolkit

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Case StudySEO for MSN Video

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Case Study: MSN Videohttp://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-gb

Flash

Flash and AJAX

Video in Flash

AJAX

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Case Study: MSN Videohttp://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-gb

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Case Study: MSN Videohttp://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-gb

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Case Study: MSN Video

• Real URLs – One page per video– http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-gb&vid=b098ff42-994c-4ebd-8741-1c347373

18b7&playlist=search:q:plane:mk:en-gb:sf:ActiveStartDate:vs:1:cs:ENGB_Stupid%20Videos&tab=s1204718424896&from=video_module

– ...becomes http://uk.video.msn.com/videos/woman-in-airport-strop/ • Build links to the Video pages

– Empower users to share via Social Media and blogging with a single click– Achieve scale by using the inline player on MSN content pages– Show related videos

• Make the pages Crawlable– Get rid of the AJAX– Correct down-level experience

• Build topic relevance– Expose user generated content such as ratings, comments, submitted videos– Display relevant content from around the network in an automated fashion

• Full index coverage– Geo-target individual countries’ Video destination site with Webmaster Tools

validation, META tagging and domain– XML Sitemaps and Robots.txt for each market

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Thank you

Dan CohenGlobal SEO Engineering Lead

[email protected] | http://dancohen.info/