Meet Googlebot, the Personae that Determines Your SEO Success by Jeremy Bencken
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“We create personas, orexample users, as tools to representthe needs, desires, skills andenvironment of one or more classes ofreal users.”
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For my purposes, Googlebotincludes the crawler ANDeverything else Google doesto understand and rank a site.
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Clicks by Organic Rank Position
Data from http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/08/09/aol-data-reveals-how-top-10-position-affects-ctr/
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Googlebot’s Goals
• Finding billions of web pages FAST• Understanding what each page is really about• Assessing the quality of a page• Assessing the importance of a page by its links• Relating searcher intent (keywords) to pages– Give searches a positive experience by returning
the most relevant, authoritative, useful content
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What Googlebot Likes
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QUALITY TEXT** Quality != Useful
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CLEAR & FOCUSED
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CRAWLABLE
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CANONICAL
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FAST
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WELL-LINKED
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BIG SITEMAP, NO CATTLE
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DEAD ENDS
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INFINITE LOOPS
http://www.googlestore.com/googlesearch.aspx?category=Kids&color=White
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CLOAKING, HIDDEN TEXT,HIDDEN LINKS
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PAID LINKS
http://www.zappos.com/dkny
http://www.sunglasses-shop.co.uk/ray-ban-sunglasses.asp
http://www.zappos.com/designer
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How Googlebot Gives Feedback
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Google Webmaster Tools
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Google Search Engine Optimization Guide
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http://websimple.com/blog/googlebot-persona.html
1. This deck.2. Googlebot Persona (pdf, 3 pages)3. Link to Google Webmaster Guide4. Link to Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (pdf, 32 pages)
Online Resources
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Jeremy BenckenFounder, Websimplehttp://www.websimple.com/[email protected]@bencken