! There are 5 secret slides in this presentation. ! In the right top corner there will be a Letter. ! The letters are scrambled and together form a name. ! Raise your hand first and guess the name correctly when I ask for it and win!
What is your business, do you have a niche? ! What are the topics that relate to that niche? ! What questions do my customers ask before they buy this product/service?
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On-Page Optimization ! Make your website with user interaction in mind ! If a user is not happy navigating your website and they drop out too quickly Google knows this! ! Clean Code = Wordpress!
URL – Short as possible and readable ! http://www.mysitedomain.com/pageid=21131312132/ category=id?2343929230 ! http://www.mysitedomain.com/stuff/wesell ! Title – Less than 70 Characters – Unique! ! Meta-Description – Less than 160 Characters – Unique! ! Meta-Keywords – 3-5 Key terms, less than 90 characters
– Most Important Keyword ! H2 – Should be used in moderation ! H3 – Should be used after H2s ! H4 – Should be used after H3s ! H5 – Should be used after H4s ! H6 – Should be used after H5s ! H7 – Doesn’t Exists ! H8 – Really Doesn’t Exists
! Yes, You have to be compliant. ! This means, make sure your website has the following: ! Robots.txt ! XML-Sitemap ! Lang attribute tag ! Doctype ! Google Analytics ! Blog Feed ! Favicon ! Encoding
Yoast? ! Yoast is a person, to be exact Joost de Valk ! Yoast for Wordpress is a plugin developed by Joost ! It makes on-page optimization easier for Wordpress
for you ! Allows you to no-index certain pages ! Means search engines wont index them ! Creates Default Meta-Titles, Meta-Descriptions, Meta-Keywords based on content type.
– Dooo Eeeet! ! Default Settings – if you mess up, start over ! Tracking – Allows you to make Yoast Better ! Security – Prevents authors/guest bloggers from impacting SEO. ! Webmaster tools verification.
Settings and Defaults ! Title Rewrite – If theme prevents the Yoast Title that you designate to show, use this. ! Meta-Keywords Tag – Yes, Use it! ! Home Tab – Author Tagging, Very Important!
website to your facebook and twitter profiles. ! Search Engines are integrating more and more into search and Google is already tweaking their algorithm to look at Google+ pages.
Yoast Sitemap functionality ! Ping Yahoo and Ping Ask ! Let’s Yahoo and Ping that you have new content out, already done for Google and Bing ! Exclude posts type or taxonomies (Tags & Categories)
URL structure is displayed ! Remove “/category/” ! Force Trailing “/” to the end of the URL ! Redirect attachment URLs to Parent URL, so no one is looking at a file without being on the website – very useful ! Remove ?replytocom variables – for large sites with a lot of comments, helps the engines crawl more efficiently
HTML before each post on the RSS feeds. ! Anybody that is syndicating your content will then also publish it with your link back to the original source ! Doing two things, Creating Backlinks and telling the search engines the original source
Description of Page ! Google+ Description of Page ! If someone shares your content what description will they see? Tailor it to each social network for higher conversion.