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SEO with WordPressPresented by Gary Magnone | March 24, 2012

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First Off, Who Am I?

Name: Gary MagnoneTitle: Senior SEO

StrategistCompany: Thunder SEO

Twitter: @garyjmagLinkedIn:

linkd.in/gmagnoneRead My Posts: Blog

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The Inbound Ecosystem

Source: http://mz.cm/GHR1Lf

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Why SEO?

Over 1 Billion Searches Per Day

7.2 Billion Daily Page Views

87.8 Billion Searches Per Month

66.4% Search Engine Market Share

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What Does That Look Like?

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OK, So How Does SEO Work?

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Getting Set Up

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Install Analytics & Webmaster Tools

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Allow Search Engines Access

Do This!

Not This

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Permalinks

Avoid the default settinghttp://www.domain.com/p=123

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Display Partial Post Excerpts

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On-Site Optimization

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Page-Level Optimization

Source: http://bit.ly/GM58My

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Keyword-Rich

URLs

Short

Descriptive Use Dashes

URL: http://www.yourringshop.com/engagement-rings

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Page Titles

Horribl

e!

BEST

Not Good Better

There’s a plugin

for that!

http://bit.ly/GHduWW

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Meta Description

Don’t Do This!

Do This!

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Meta Keywords

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Heading Tags

<h1>Use to Describe the Content Below</h1>

<h2>Help Guide Users Through The Page</h2>

<h3>They Have Minimal Ranking Impact</h3>

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On-Page Body Content

Create Valuable, Useful Content That DESERVES to Rank

Include Keywords

Naturally & Use

Synonyms

Do Not Over-

Optimize or Keyword

Stuff

Internally Link to

Relevant Pages on Your Site

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Optimize Your Images

1.Use Keyword-Rich Filenames

2. Include Descriptive Alt Text

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Internal Linking

There’s a plugin

for that!

http://bit.ly/GT2oNKhttp://bit.ly/GHduWW

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Robots.txt

Disallow areas of your site that you don’t want Google to crawl

Careful not to disallow the wrong pages

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301 Redirects

Source: http://selnd.com/GPryOh

There’s a plugin

for that!

http://bit.ly/GOY3hM

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Canonicalization

There’s a plugin

for that!

http://bit.ly/GPWiRQ

• www.yourringshop.com• yourringshop.com• www.yourringshop.com/index.php• yourringshop.com/index.html• www.yourringshop.com/

default.htm• yourringshop.com/

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XML Sitemap

There’s a plugin

for that!

http://bit.ly/GJkorF

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Site Speed

There’s a plugin

for that!

http://bit.ly/GP64ochttp://bit.ly/GRIrpl

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Spam & Security

There’s a plugin

for that!

http://akismet.com

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Schema.org Microdata

There’s a plugin

for that!

http://bit.ly/GHA7ev

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Audience Analysis&

Keyword Research

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Social Listening & Demographic Data

http://bit.ly/GIQllB

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Survey Your Customers

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SEO Explorer

Anne is a 26 year old female with a marketing communications degree from UC Davis who started at Flash Fitness as an intern. Her major responsibilities include: maintaining the company’s website, social

networks, and newsletter, managing local mail campaigns, radio, tv, and off-site promotions,

coordinating marketing initiatives with sales staff

Anne Phillips, Marketing Manager, Flash Fitness

Enters the conversation during research/learning phase and looks for beginner content or asks questions

Example keyphrases: learn seo, beginner seo, how to do keyword research, how to choose a seo company

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What keywords are they using?

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Map the keywords to your content

http://bit.ly/GI3I5k

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Page-Level Optimization

Source: http://bit.ly/GM58My

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Content StrategyContent Strategy

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Set Goals for Your Content

Increased pageviews & time on site

Increased likes, tweets & social shares

Increased referrals to product pages

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What topics are trending?

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Of course there’s a tool…

http://bit.ly/GPNDJO

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Vary Your Content Types

http://bit.ly/GQrNLC

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Create a Plan

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Facilitate Sharing

There’s a plugin

for that!

http://bit.ly/GQ1RP3

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Building Links

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In-Content, Navigation, Footer, Ad SpaceWhere Link Appears

The Anatomy of a Link

Text or Image

Editorial/Reference, Reciprocal, Paid

Old or New

Link Format

Hyperlinked Keywords

Authority of Linking Domain

Type of Link

Age of Link

Anchor Text

Where Link Comes From

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This is NOT Link Building

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So What Is Link Building?

Your Website

Content-based

strategies

Link Attraction Providing

Help

Social Strategies

Giving away tools &

resourcesSponsorships

Community Interaction

Offline Relationships

http://bit.ly/GJN8W9

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It’s About Connecting With People

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Find Your Link Prospects

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Use Social Media

http://bit.ly/GJ0Eac

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Prioritizing Outreach

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Establish a Contact ProcessFollow Blog Comment ReTweet @ Mention Email

Roberto Raymon ✔ ✔ ✔David Zinyama ✔ ✔

Jon Pianki ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔Kevin Garcia ✔

Christella Morris ✔ ✔Shaun Hensher ✔ ✔

Cathy Dew ✔

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Scaling Email Outreach

http://toutapp.com

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Thank You!

Questions?

@[email protected]/blog

http://slidesha.re/GVuRER