Nten Seo 040710

Optimizing Your Site For Search Engine Performance

And We Ain’t Just Talkin’ Keywords...

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Intros: :05Dottie Hodges, Northridge Interactive

SEO Strategic Components: :15Liz Murphy, RedEngine Digital

SEO Building the Right Architecture :10JoMarie Hoholik, Balance Interactive

Tactical and Technical Components: :25Eric Werner, Northridge Interactive

SEO Caring and Feeding: :20Kira Marchenese, Environmental Defense Fund

Q&A: :15All

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Who Are We?

Who Are You?- Webmasters?- Online Marketing Folks?- NPO Program Staff?- NPO Leadership?- Consultants/Vendors?

Introductions#10ntc.seo

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SEO Strategic Components

Introduction

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After we get done you'll be able to…

If You Don’t Optimize Your Site:

• Your boss will continue to torture you with: “Why don’t I see our site when I type in ‘x’?”

• Your brand and your online growth will stagnate and die

• Qualified visitors will go to another Web site to find info and services

Forrester Marketing Interactive Forecast, 2009-2014

• Increased spend on SEO. Investments in SEO were on the rise before the recession. But now, marketers looking for clicks at a cost much lower than paid search are joining those who return to SEO after mastering paid search programs.

What SEO is:

• Modifying elements of your Web pages for a specific search engine

• A long-term, ongoing process

• Dependent on knowledge of current algorithms and indexing obstacles

What SEO is NOT:

• Paying for listings (that’s PPC)

• A one-time, quick project

• Dependent on “tricks” (invisible type, redirects, doorway pages, etc.)

Search Engine “Friendly” or “Optimized”?

“Friendly”

• No technical issues that prevent or hinder spidering

• Logical link architecture• Unique content and title tags on every page• User-friendly naming conventions

“Optimized”

• Copy & IA driven by well-researched keyword strategy

• Design and architecture decisions based on how to best drive conversions

• Every page optimized for specific keyword phrases

• Strong internal linking beyond navigation elements

• Content updated regularly• Ability to attract links from other sources

3 Must-Haves for SEO Success

• Gotta identify your SEO goals (SEO Strategy)

• Gotta understand how a search engine “thinks”

• Gotta research how your audience searches for your information and services

SEO Strategy & Goals

“I want…”

• Awareness and authority on our contento American Diabetes Association, Children’s

Defense Fund • Grow my email or advocacy list • Increase online registrants• Generate donations, sales, leads

- Unicef, Save the Children, Dell, Zappos

Put Your Marketing Head On

• Current ranked pages• New pages

What Search Engine?

• Google or Bing?

Understand How a Search Engine “Thinks”

Get Inside Your User’s Head• Understand what they will see on a SERP• Accurate, compelling, competitive• Manage what they will see:

Page title

Relevant text pulled from page

or description

meta tag

Understand How Users Are Searching

for Your Info

What Keywords?• Marketing head back on for keyword

research o Conversions, competition

• Wrong keywords = poor quality traffic or little traffic

• Beware too broad keywords

• Type in keywords and see what comes up – does it relate to what you do?

Keywords By Goals• For donors: donation or issue keywords --

“Haiti donations,” “childrens charity”• For activists: issue/news terms – “health

care reform diabetes”, “death penalty”• For buyers/members: product terms –

“kids magazine”

Where to Find Keyword Ideas• Your own existing content, of course!• Your Analytics program

o Are there high-quality terms driving small amounts of traffic despite not being optimized? That’s low-hanging fruit!

• Your competitors’ pageso Analyze their copy and meta tags to figure out

what competitors are actively targeting• Your PPC data

Where to Find Keyword Ideas• Keyword Research Tools:

o Google Keyword Toolo Compete.com Search Analyticso Trelliano SpyFu.como SEM Rush

• Search Engines’ Related Searches Suggestions

Tips• Your brain is the most powerful keyword

research tool … don’t over-rely on softwareo Before you rush to a tool, do a lot of brainstorming the

old-fashioned way• Think like a user. Don’t use jargon.• Choose terms with appropriate levels of

competition for your site• Target clusters of related keyword phrases

o What words can you put before and after your “Head” terms to create new search terms?

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Create Your Architecture with SEO in Mind

• Who are your visitors? o Human o Computers (spiders)

• When you build your sites for humans to find, it also makes it easy for computers to find. o First - set up your site architecture so

that it's organized for humanso Then - label it so that you

incorporate keywords that people use search engines to look for.

Building the Right Architecture#10ntc.seo

Keywords in Your Labels

Labels Matter ... • Use keywords when possible• BUT ... don't make it awkward

Navigation is key • One of first things search engines search • Incorporate keywords at all levels

Keywords in the Navigation

Human versus Computer Factors

• Remember ... Search engines are a means for human visitors to find you

• Most important part of pages for search engines aren't always the same for peopleo Page Title

People don't often noticeVERY important for search engines

o Keywords - What people are looking forUse in navigation, titles, headings will help human visitors scan and find what they are looking for

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On Page Factors Simplified

TitleH1ContentLinksImages

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Off Page Factors Simplified

Authority PageRank LinksTrust

When Good Pages Go Away

If You Were A SpiderWhat Would You Think?

A) Must Be ImportantB) I Wonder If It Moved?C) Disregard

Canonical Pages

Search Engines HATE Duplicate Content

•Preferred Solution: 301 Redirect

•Alternate Solution: Canonical Tag

Preserving Value

•Passes some but not all of link equity

•Preserves some but not all of search engine rankings

SEO & SPEEDMatt Cutts of Google confirmed that they will be looking at load times and taking a site's speed into account with their ranking algorithms

Keep track by using Google Webmaster Tools

SEO & SPEED

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• Who is your team?• What to tell them?• How to measure?

Keep it Going: After the Consultant Leaves

SEO Caring and Feeding#10ntc.seo

Who manages your web content?

Keep It Going - Your Team

Who writes your press releases?

Who blogs?

Keep It Going - But Your Team's Busy!!

Keep It Going - What to Tell Them1. FOCUS on key terms.

Keep It Going - What to Tell Them2. FOCUS on headlines.

Keep It Going - What to Tell Them3. FOCUS on links

Keep It Going - MeasureThink about timing.

photo: flickr user carbon nyc

Keep It Going - MeasureThink big.

photo: nasa.gov

Keep It Going - MeasureThink strategically.

photo: flickr user [martin]

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Dottie HodgesNorthridge Interactivedhodges@northridge.com

Liz Murphy RedEngine Digitalliz@redenginedigital.com

JoMarie HoholikBalance Interacitvejomarie.hoholik@balanceinteractive.com

Eric WernerNorthridge Interactiveewerner@northridge.com

Kira MarcheneseEnvironmental Defense FundKmarchenese@edf.org

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