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THE MASTER PLAN Dominate Local Search.

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THE RIGHT BUSINESS • Building a business of value • Position yourself as the expert • Take the lion's share of business • Charge a premium price

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DOMINATE PAGE #1 • Places • Adwords • Organic

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OUR BUSINESS FLOW • Understanding products / services • Research target market / competition / keywords • Build a website • Install Google Analytics & Webmaster Tools • On page optimisation / conversion / enquiry form • Google Places • Google Adwords • Quick cash: promo / customer reactivation

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OUR BUSINESS FLOW - CONTINUED • Off Page SEO • Video marketing • White paper, build database & auto-responders • Web 2.0: Twitter / Facebook / Foursquare • Press release • Regular blogging: top questions / interview experts / Google alerts • Build info product

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HOW SEARCH ENGINES WORK • Based the way research reports work • Google's goal is to provide the best user experience • Places, Adwords, Organic are different but it's all about the keywords

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UNDERSTANDING KEYWORD TARGETS • Browsing phrase vs buying phrase • Camera vs. Sony Handicam HDR-SR11 • Dentist vs. South Yarra Dentists • Inside the mind of your searcher

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BUILDING YOUR KEYWORDS • How is local business different? traffic + conversions • Identify top services / products • Use Google free keyword tool / Market Samurai • Target best keywords and add area modifiers • e.g. Printing Services Melbourne

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DON’T TELL ME, SHOW ME

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THE PERFECT DOMAIN NAME • Brand domain vs. keyword domain • 2-3 words long • Avoid hyphens • .com.au or maybe .net.au, .org.au • e.g. www.melbourneSEOservices.com

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BUILDING A STRONG STRUCTURE • Home, Services Clients, About, Contact, Blog • Perhaps individual pages for services • No website? Use Wordpress • e.g www.thedentists.com.au

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EASY AS 1,2,3 • 1st Tier Primary money phrase / domain • 2nd Tier - Primary services + modifiers / pages • 3rd Tier - Longer tail + suburbs / blog

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ONPAGE SEO • 1 page... 1-2 keywords • Unique page titles • Meta description (160) & meta keywords • 300 words minimum • Keyword density (x3 per 500 words) • H1 tags, bold, italics, image tags • Keywords in urls (domain.com/keyword.html) • e.g. www.planet13.com.au

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QUESTIONS