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Kristen Symonds
February 12, 2015
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SEO for Beginners
SEO principles for beginner website owners and WordPress beginners.
Kristen Symonds
February 12, 2015
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Transcript
SEO for Beginners
SEO = Search Engine Optimisation ≢ Search Ranking Stuff you
can do to make your site as good as possible Where you appear in results: the combined effects of SEO, link signals etc or On-page vs Off-page SEO
Some notes about search EVERYONE gets personalised search results Location
History Social signals Google wants to produce the best & most relevant results, so BE relevant & be user-friendly
What contributes to SEO? Speed HTML Theme Plugins Content Content
Readability Clarity Metadata Titles Descriptions Everything on your site!
Assessing your theme Read the description Look at the demo
Reviews ThemeCheck (plugin or website) w3 validator
ThemeCheck.org Thesis 2.1 0 Genesis 2.1.2 56 Lawyeria Quark 1.3
100 96 Assesses security and code quality
validator.w3.org Thesis 2.1 Genesis 2.1.2 passed Lawyeria Quark 1.3 2
errors passed 4 errors
Content Quality Research Words Engagement Freshness http://searchengineland.com/seotable
Content in WordPress Title Don’t be obtuse Formatting Use it!
Headings & subheadings Lists Blockquotes
Content in WP: images When uploading/ inserting images give them
a decent title Give them a descriptive Alt Text
Content in WP: links Add or Edit links using the
icon in the editor First select link text, then click icon Use relevant keywords Title ≢ link text Easily find URLs on your own site
Metadata Title URL (permalinks) Description Canonical URL Robots Keywords
SEO Plugins WordPress SEO by Yoast All in One SEO
probably several others
WordPress SEO by Yoast FREE: wordpress.org/ plugins/wordpress-seo/ Features: yoast.com/ wordpress/plugins/seo/
SEO Guide: yoast.com/ articles/wordpress-seo/ I ♥ Yoast
Text Speed image be Martin Heigan
What impacts site speed? Hosting Number of files CSS JavaScript
images Code quality Number of plugins Caching
Text Caching FASTER image from http://www.wpbeginner.com/ blueprint/w3-total-cache/
Caching plugins WP Super Cache Quick Cache / Zen Cache
Hyper Cache W3 Total Cache
Minifying Reduces file sizes Reduces number of files Plugins Autoptimize
W3 Total Cache Better WordPress Minify AssetsMinify
CDNs Content Delivery Network Comprehensive services: Cloudflare, MaxCDN Easy image
CDN: Photon in
Text A quick note on mobile friendly google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
Guaranteed front page? All of this doesn’t guarantee you front
page search results ☹ There are still the off-page factors to consider Who links to you What text they use to link with Social shares But it gives you a MUCH better chance SUCCESS NOT GUARANTEED
Anything else I can do? Webmaster Tools Submit a sitemap
Monitor crawling problems
Text Even more info moz.com/learn/seo/on-page-factors
Text SEO Table of Elements searchengineland.com/seotable