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SEO Web Development and You! Topher Kohan – SEO Coordinator CNN January 2011 AiMA

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SEO Web Development and You!Topher Kohan – SEO Coordinator CNNJanuary 2011 AiMA

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All Good SEO is Dependent on 3 Things

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The Search Engines Must be Able to:

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Find

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Crawl

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Understand

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FIND

XML Sitemaps Will Set you Free!

Google Webmaster Sitemap help

http://www.sitemaps.org/

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184

Sitemap.org

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FIND

Google Webmaster Tools Are Your Friendhttps://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

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Crawl

XML Sitemaps and GWMT Again for the Win!

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Crawl

Don’t Make the Spiders Think!

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Crawl

JavaScriptCSS

Get the Code Off the Page!

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Understand

Content With Out Context is Not Content

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Understand

Include the Tags the Search Engines Love

Title Tag

Meta Description

Canonical Tag

H1 tag

Alt Attributes

Anchor Text

Big 3: Other 3:

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Title Tag

<head> <title>Example Title</title></head>

Less than 70 characters

Primary Keyword - Secondary Keyword | Brand Name

The single most important on-page SEO element, after your content

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Meta Description<head> <meta name="description" content="This is an example of a meta description. This will often show up in search results."></head>

Roughly 155 Characters

Meta description tags, not as important to search engines they are extremely important to gain user click-through from search

engine result pages.

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Canonical Tag

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

<head><link rel="canonical" href="http://www.cnn.com" /></head>

Google Canonical tag Announcement

SEOMoz Review

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

Poor Man 301

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The Other 3H1

Alt Attributes

Anchor Text

What is the Most Important Info on the Page

What is that Image About?

What Does that Link Point to?

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Questions?

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19Thanks All

Topher KohanSEO Coordinator:

CNNCNNMoneyCNN

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Email: [email protected]: TopherATLHost: Tech Torture with TopherFavorite Color: BlueFavorite Movie: Star WarsBeer Blogger @ Eatocracy.com