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FROM SEO TO SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING
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By Antonie Geerts
(Search Engine Optimization – The A to Z guide to good SEO)
All rights reserved. This book is free to share and will hopefully help
you make the right decisions for your website
ISBN (IT-IS-FREE)
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D EDICATION
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T ABLE OF C ONTENTS
Dedication ..................................................................................................3
Foreword ....................................................................................................6
Preface .......................................................................................................7
Introduction ...............................................................................................8
What is Seditio SEO? (And what not) ........................................... 10
Who should read this book? ......................................................... 12
About the author .......................................................................... 13
Be prepared..............................................................................................14
What is my market? ...................................................................... 15
Becoming an Authority ................................................................. 20
Find your niche ............................................................................. 23
Taking action ............................................................................................27
Collecting & Registering................................................................ 28
Tracking, adjusting and comparing............................................... 42
Google Analytics.......................................................................................42
The Dashboard .............................................................................. 43
Breaking down the numbers ........................................................ 44
Which Traffic sources reaches your site ....................................... 45
Google Webmaster Tools.........................................................................47
Reviewing & Resubmitting .......................................................................50
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Advanced SEO ..........................................................................................52
Social Networking ......................................................................... 54
The Story of Johnny and Jimmy: Johnny’s revenge ...................... 55
Social Media.................................................................................. 59
Social Media Optimization ............................................................ 61
Keyword analytics & trending anticipation..............................................62
Integrating tools .......................................................................................68
SEO for Word Press ....................................................................... 69
Connect to Facebook using Wordbook ........................................ 70
SEO for Twitter.............................................................................. 72
Website optimization tools .......................................................... 73
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F OREWORD
When I first started writing this book I had the intention of selling it
online or getting it published in Ireland. How naïve I was in thinking
that having the right information and the right ideas would turn this
book into a best seller. You need a dedicated editor, funds for the
art work and graphics and of course contacts in the business.
A few years have passed since me writing this book and I found
myself very successful in the Search Engine optimization market and
especially the emergence of the new Social Media websites without
selling a single copy. It that time I also realized that selling a book
for profit about social media and networking isn’t the right thing to
do. Everything I learned or needed to know throughout the years
came from free resources (and the odd torrent site).
Kindest Regards,
Antonie Geerts
Email: info@antoniegeerts.com
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P REFACE
When I started turning my hobby of computing in to my career and
eventually business I did so with certain naivety, as I roamed the
web for solutions to problems I noticed that many solutions were
given that actually did not work even though you would pay hard
cash for them.
SEO optimization is one of those “solutions” that just don’t work in
a “quick fix” kind of way and when I noticed a large amount of my
new clients have taken part of those schemes and there search
rankings plummeted down the drain of the everlasting internet I
found it on myself to write a book that would explain what is really
going on with search ranking and search engine optimization. Giving
away the secrets that actually aren’t secrets at all. Just logic that
would make it possible for everyone and every website to start
ranking high in the search results!
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What is Authority? How to write Niche Content?
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I NTRODUCTION
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W HAT IS S EDITIO SEO? (A ND WHAT NOT )
So, you finally made it on the web! You got your site up and
running; ready to take on the internet market by storm, selling your
brand new products or services to the masses online.
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engine optimization services so you can keep on getting traffic and
with no difficult technical terms or long winding processes.
Seditio SEO provides you steps and checklists that will make search
engine optimization & internet marketing, again, “easy”!
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W HO SHOULD READ THIS BOOK ?
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A BOUT THE AUTHOR
Antonie Geerts has been writing blogs and tutorials since his early
years. He wrote technical columns for various technical websites
and forums under one of his many pseudonyms and even a 400
page novel.
While doing all this writing he was at the same time building his
career and expertise in IT and Internet Marketing starting out as a
System Administrator for a large enterprise in the Netherlands.
Eventually he grew in to internet marketing and social network
marketing business. He has setup SEO branches for various IT
companies and gave many presentations on behalf of internet
companies in both Ireland and The Netherlands.
All the examples in this book are based on his experience and real
life scenarios he had to deal with. Even though the names and
services have changed in these scenarios to protect the clients, the
application and implementations haven’t.
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B E PREPARED
What is my Marketing
Becoming an authority
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W HAT IS MY MARKET ?
The beauty of the web is you can anticipate change much easier
than on the streets. Think of search engines like digital shopping
malls: if you can get a nice ground floor space near the entry of the
Google Shopping mall, then the visitors of the mall see your shop
first when they come through the door and the chances of them
going inside your shop to do their business is much greater (unlike
the shops on the end of the mall who are rarely visited).
The search engines will create a unique shopping mall every time
you search for something using a keyword. No dedicated “shops”
are put in the mall because it “builds” new ones every time you
search for something on the web.
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An example mall with search results for cola
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In the above illustration I have created the virtual shopping mall
based on a search query, the keyword for the search was “Cola” and
the first 4 hits on page one were as follows:
1#Pepsi Cola
2#Coke Cola
3#Bob’s Cola
4#Coco Cola
Now if you would search for the keyword “colas” the result would
be completely different and the mall would like changed as well.
1#Coca Cola
2#Pepsi Cola
3#Animal zoo
The layout of our virtual mall has been changed completely due to
the addition of a single letter in our keyword. This in term means a
completely new “virtual mall” was created using the new search
phrase (colas versus cola). Now take the above example and apply it
to a small company producing organic cola somewhere in Ireland.
In theory, this company would want to compete with the big
players like Coca Cola and Pepsi when searching for the keyword
“cola”. But in order to do this, it will need to become an authority
on the subject of “cola” itself.
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So if we look at our small organic cola company in Ireland, we can
see that their market keyword is Cola and they are aiming to
compete with the giants Coca Cola and Pepsi. But because those
giants are already an authority on the keyword “Cola” for many
decades with many websites referring and linking to their site and
having long standing brand names, it would be an almost impossible
task for the small Irish firm to compete with them head on.
But wait! How about if I register a 100 cheap websites and all of
them point to my personal website, would I not get 100 inbound
links and thus increasing my Authority? That used to be a great idea
when Google and other search engines didn’t really consider the
content of those 100 websites, but that was in the past. Now these
types of schemes will have a very negative effect on your rankings
because the search engines can determine what actually a real
website is and what just a “portal” site is.
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So how does the likes of Google and Yahoo determine what kind of
website is linking to my personal business website? When I
attended a SEO seminar by Google a couple of Months ago I asked
the same question to Matt Cutts who replied in short that there are
over 200 factors that determine a websites validity and search
ranking. These factors will have to be included in your personal
website but also in the websites that are linking to yours for it to
create a “real” impact. Here is a small list of just a few elements
that are important to both your site and those that are linking to
you.
1. Domain Age (Is the website older than a year and registered for
multiple years?)
2. Server location (Does the company who sells products in Ireland
have a server in Ireland? And are the websites linking to the company site
also in Ireland )
3. Content (How real is the content, does it contain many keywords
in a sentence but they are not really readable sentences)
4. Accessibility ( Does everything have a description and the ability
of more information)
5. Contact ( Can I contact the owner of this website or is he hiding in
the dark)
6. Speed ( Does it take long for me to load pages )
7. Structure (Are the pages making sense for example: our-products-
vacuum-cleaners-and-hovers Vs. index.php?Prod=21?ID=2 )
8. Layout (Can I find what I am looking for under 3 clicks or less
9. History (Have I always played by the SEO rules or did I tried to do
some naughty stuff in the past for example using “Black hat” SEO
techniques.
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B ECOMING AN A UTHORITY
If you look in the dictionary for the word “Authority” you might find
this:
1.
a. The power to enforce laws, exact obedience, command, determine, or judge.
b. One that is invested with this power, especially a government or body of
government officials
2. Power assigned to another
3. A public agency or corporation with administrative powers in a specified field
4.
a. An accepted source of expert information or advice
b. A quotation or citation from such a source
5. Justification; grounds
6. A conclusive statement or decision that may be taken as a guide or precedent.
7. Power to influence or persuade resulting from knowledge or experience
8. Confidence derived from experience or practice
4.
a. An accepted source of expert information or advice
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The Story of Timmy’s balloon Blog
Timmy has a hobby of creating balloon animals for many years now.
He has been making them for parties on kids birthdays until one day
when he decided to go online with his hobby. He created a simple
blog that allowed him to upload his pictures and write instructions
on how to create the basic balloon animals. All the information
about how to create balloon animals and what other fun stuff you
can do with these inflatable creatures was written on his blog.
Now the page has been around for years and grew to become a
great resource for fellow balloon animal creators. The traffic and
visitor numbers where rising steadily when all of a sudden Timmy
noticed a huge increase of visitors in one of his blog posts called the
Giraffe Animal, the comments on the topic were posted and
everyone seemed to love his “art”.
When opening his analytics & statistics page, he noticed that
instead of being found via the search engines, most of his newly
found visitors came from Referring Web Sites, which had posted
links to his blog about the Giraffe Animal blog he created. This
linking sparked a chain reaction and this resulted in a huge surge of
visitors and traffic for about a month.
The result of this search and the amount of links from referring
websites also resulted in Timmy’s blog getting a lot more search
engine traffic because according to the search engines he became
an “Authority” on balloon animals which other websites would refer
to.
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Now let’s look back at our Irish cola company. They know the
authorities in the field of “cola” are the giants Coca Cola and Pepsi
Cola. So how can they compete with that!? As we’ve seen with
Timmy’s balloon animals, you cannot become an authority
overnight but it takes good content that other websites want to
mention and link to before you are seen as an authority on the
subject.
So what triggered Timmy’s balloon animals to get to this status
without virtually doing anything? This is what he did right without
even knowing it.
He had a blog
He was posting and updating it for a long period of time
He has found a niche topic
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F IND YOUR NICHE
Finding your niche is really what it is all about these days on the
internet. When the web was in its infancy and even some years
after that, it was reasonably simple to get your website high up in
the ranking even though this would be short lived for most
websites. The initial concept for search engines to generate a
ranking was simple: the more relevant keywords on a website
would result in it winning the race to the top ranks of any search
engine.
The problem with this was that you could repeat a keyword for over
a thousand times on a single page. This would make that site
become the number 1 page on Google when searching for the
keyword since the early search engines were only counting the
number of occurrences of the keyword on each page.
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Factor Explanation
Domain Age The amount of time a domain
exists (for example
Symbolics.com) is from 15 Mar
1985. The rule of thumb is: the
older the better
Domain Keyword When selling bikes it would be
more beneficial to have the name
“bike” in your domain for
example bikesforsale.com
Hosting Location Search engines will look at what
the location of your physical
hardware is and adjusts the
rankings accordingly. So if you are
selling your products in Germany,
but your hosting location is in the
US, that would have a negative
impact on your ranking.
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So how can niche content make an impact on your results? The trick
is to become an authority, remember? And it is a lot easier to
become an authority on niche content than becoming one on
popular and well know content. Just take a look at our Irish cola
company and how they could apply niche to their product. They sell
Organic Cola in Ireland; this already gives them the following niche
searches.
Organic Cola
Irish Cola
Organic beverages
Irish beverages
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T AKING ACTION
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C OLLECTING & R EGISTERING
Any good website will have started somewhere in time with an idea
and a vision. The first websites were very limited, not because they
lacked the ideas and vision, but because the technology to produce
that vision was not yet available. They had to do with what was
given and they did try their best even though it might not have
looked as pretty.
Lego.com in 1996
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Nowadays, the internet is growing thousands of new great looking
websites and this growth gives, not only a good idea and inspiration
for your own website, it also allows us to peek into the source code
of most websites to see what is going on and what they are doing
right that works for them.
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When you start your SEO planning you would want to first find out
what works by taking a look at the competition of your “keywords”.
A simple Excel sheet will often do the trick like the example above
As you can tell the Number 1 in the ranking list does not have any
keywords setup and has only the keywords in its page title and part
of it in its domain name so how come it is number 1?
The numbers in the above tables are points given based on the
certain factors that search engines like to see in the websites they
index. This research will also give you an idea of what you need to
implement in to your own website.
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Also the niche factor is great because even though they have a good
domain name and a good number of inbound links the number 4 in
the ranking is already unavailable and will most likely be removed
from the list within a couple of days. Another thing that you notice
is the huge difference between nr #3 and the rest when it comes to
inbound links. Goodfoodireland.ie for example has almost 20 times
as many links as the number #1 so why is it not number 1 or 2 in the
list? Well here comes authority back in the game again. As
discussed in the previous chapter’s authority is something that
search engines find extremely important when it comes to their
ranking system. The more sites that link to your content the better
BUT that will only work if those sites which are linking to your
content are related in one way or another. To emphasize this a bit
better let me give you an example by telling the story of Johnny and
Jimmy.
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The Story of Johnny and Jimmy: The race to the top
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Authority happened.
Because Jimmy was getting inbound links from websites that are
related to his product the value of or authority was great than that
of Johnny who was getting inbound links for thousands of holding
pages and a lot of other none related websites. Some of inbound
links websites were even blacklisted by certain search engines. Not
only did this investment of “getting” inbound link not work it even
backfired giving Johnny’s website a negative ranking due to
relations with blacklisted websites.
Now if we want to apply the optimal strategy for the new Irish
Organic bread company we could use the following strategy.
Website Title
Having the right word in the right place is another 1000 points per
keyword. So let’s make our title like this: Organic Bread in Ireland –
You can find only the best here
We will finish the initial SEO of the page by adding relevant meta
keywords and descriptions to the website. I have chosen the words:
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Organic bread, organic, organic Ireland, bread, organic foods,
healthy food, organic food Ireland
So now we have our domain name and we have the optimal Title,
keyword and description for our website. Now the only thing left is
good content and of course building authority with inbound links
and finally submitting our website to the various search engines and
directories.
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Many people have a tendency to write but find that after a
paragraph or two the writing just stops. They are able to construct
what they feel is all the useful information in just a couple of
sentences and don’t know what to add more to the information. For
books this concept would not really work because most great
novels would be a few pages long and book sales would plummet
due to the lack of depth in the stories. Websites however can
contain just that. Small paragraphs of useful information about a
product and a service, it is often rare that you see websites full of
stories with a lot of detail in the single page. This type of detail
often comes in the form of multiple pages and links on which the
user has the click first before the detail is displayed. Detail on
demand so to speak.
Now when you start creating your website and filling it up with
content you want to make sure that this content is related with the
domain, keyword and title information you put up as the base of
your website. This is because search engines will not just look at
these 3 main items but it will also process all other texts on the
website. So we need to make sure the content contains a set of
rules to highlight the importance of the text within the website.
Header tags for example which html code is used like this
<h1> Text </h1> will display a text bolder and bigger than the rest
of the page
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So when the search engines find a <h1> or <h2> they will know that
the text contained within the header tag is an important piece of
information. Thus it is important that you would use the previously
specified keywords in a header as well.
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<img src="organic-bread.gif" ALT="Organic Bread"><br>
As you can see when hovering over the image the “explanation” of
the image appears and search engines pick this information up. Not
only will it get you scoring higher it will also allow your images to be
found on image searches.
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Now we have done our header text and alternative image text but
we have not really discussed the “real” content which contains the
rest of the information we want to disclose to our website visitors.
There are various options you can go for but the more tags you
push around your text to more difficult it becomes to make a good
looking website.
Organic agriculture is a carefully designed system of food
production which operates internationally to written
standards. It aims to grow the best food possible by
understanding and working with natural processes. Good
health – of the soil, plants, animals and people – is the
objective.
A balance there for is the best way. The next example text is done in
two ways, one is over optimized and one is under optimized.
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As you can see from the two paragraphs there is a difference in text
and also the over optimized text contains a lot of quotes and bold
text. However as of now this strategy does work better than the not
optimized text it will also look a bit silly when reading it. Find a
balance would be the better solution like the below example.
To balance between the two texts has been found in the above
example. Even though it still contains the keywords in bold and with
quotes it looks a lot less crowded. It is always advisable to use the
keywords in the text as well even though it’s described in your page
and header also.
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Now we have our optimized page ready but most likely you will not
sell just a single product or have a single website. The average
website will contain a few other pages that can be in relation to the
buying of the product or service, location and contact information
and maybe a further product description. Those pages too will need
to be optimized using the above recommendations. It is also very
important to make the page names as descriptive as possible. So
that every link that is created will already tell you about the content
of the page.
http://www.organicbread.ie/about-organic-bread.html
http://www.organicbread.ie/about-organic-soup.html
http://www.organicbread.ie/about-organic-cake.html
http://www.organicbread.ie/buy-organic-bread.html
http://www.organicbread.ie/buy-organic-soup.html
http://www.organicbread.ie/buy-organic-cake.html
http://www.organicbread.ie/contact-organic-bread.ie.html
http://www.organicbread.ie/where-to-find-us.html
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After you are fully satisfied with the design it is recommend to
“grade” it using various tools like: www.websitegrader.com
This web site will scan through your pages and gives information on
what things you mind have missed when creating your site. This
could be duplicate title tags or missing descriptions but it will also
provide you an indication of your Google ranking and how many
inbound links you might have received.
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T RACKING , ADJUSTING AND COMPARING
When doing any project offline or online you want to be able to see
the results of the project when it is ongoing. You will be sure that
what you are doing is achieving the desired result and address
issues when they arise before it becomes a costly experience. When
creating a new website or launching a new product online you want
to check the status frequently and various great tools are available
for doing so.
G OOGLE A NALYTICS
Google Analytics for example is a free tool from Google that will
track the amount of visitors you had on your website, where they
came from and how they arrived to your website. This information
is useful because you can see the effect of your SEO. The more
people that come in via search engines the better your SEO has
been. You will also see to what page within your website they are
arriving, it might be that they come to a certain subpage because
this has been ranked higher in the search engines. With this
information you would be able to update this subpage with a bit
more relevant sales information.
You can register your analytics account by visiting the below url:
http://www.google.com/analytics/
After you register you will receive a special code that you will need
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to paste in every page you want to “track”. After 24hours your
account should be fully activated and you can start analyzing your
traffic.
T HE D ASHBOARD
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B REAKING DOWN THE NUM BERS
In order for a “real” statistic to form we will need to calculate out a
few factors, the following factors are important in this calculation.
1. The total amount of Visits
2. The total amount of The Bounce Rate
3. An one month “period”
Now we have the average number of visitors per month and the
average number of visitors per day
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W HICH T RAFFIC SOURCES REACHES YOUR SITE
It is also important to find out how users are able to find your
website; this can be either by Search Engines, Referring sites or
through direct access (by typing in the website address in to the
browser. The breakdown for the month period 1st May to 1st June
is like this:
As you can see the Shops and Restaurants page on the website is
the main traffic bringer while the links on the main pages are on the
second spot.
Another element of traffic sources is that of the search engines we
can do a break down on these as well to see which keywords users
are looking for to reach your website.
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Google is the number one way that users find your website with
almost 4000 visits while the runner up Yahoo just has a little under
a 100 visits in the month period.
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G OOGLE W EBMASTER T OOLS
This book is almost starting to sound like a Google Product
promotion manual but this is only because at the moment of
writing these are the best tools around and they are free. Another
great tool from Google is called Webmaster tools which is freely
available via the following url
https://www.google.com/webmasters/
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Your webmaster tools dashboard will look like this one:
As you can see its main view is split in 4 segments: Top search
queries, Links to your site, Crawl Errors and Keywords
The top search queries segments will display which are the most
popular search terms that attracted visitors to your website. This
also gives an indication on how your keyword SEO has been. You
can see which words worked and which didn’t.
Crawl Errors
Google’s robots visit each web page they index and crawl through
the content to see what they content is and how relevant the
keywords are in relation to the text inside of the pages. It will also
check out which links work and which are broken. If something is
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not right it will report on it and you will see an error appearing in
the Crawl Errors segment.
Keywords
The amount of times you use a certain word in your blog or website
gives an indication on how important you really think this word is.
So if you are a web design company but in every page or post you
mention something about a Monkey than Google sees that as your
most important “search word” and the chances are great that the
keyword Monkey will be higher ranked than Web Design because its
more often used. This also gives you a clear hint if you are using the
important keywords enough or not.
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R EVIEWING & R ESUBMITTING
After you have done your research on the webmaster and analytics
tools you want to use those results and implement fixes to adjust it.
If you noticed a lot of broken links reported by Google or you have
seen that certain irrelevant keywords are more important than
others than you will have to changes this. Also riding on the
popularity of certain pages within your website and blog and writing
new follow up content about it is recommended after a review.
When done with this you will have to regenerate your sitemap and
resubmit it again and also you might have to ask the search engine
to reconsider your website to be submitted. Just make sure you
fixed all the bugs before resubmitting it because if it is not fixed it
will take longer for you to resubmit a website the 3rd time.
Step 1: Which pages are more popular via Google Analytics and
Webmaster tool and try to write follow up content on those pages
Step 2: Which pages have a high bounce rate and adjust them to be
more interested
Step 3: Fix all the errors that are reported by Webmaster tools
Step 4: Make sure that your most important keywords are in almost
all the content
Step 5: Re-generate your sitemap and Resubmit your website or
blog to the search engines and the various blog directories (Blog
Pingers)
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difference in your site visits in a couple of days or weeks (Depending
on how fast the search engines visit your page again). The next
chapters in the book will discuss more advanced SEO techniques
and we will also discuss the benefits of Social Networking and Social
Media Optimization and how it affects not just your website ranking
but also your online image.
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A DVANCED SEO
Social Networking
Social Media
Keyword-analytics &
Trending anticipation
Integrating tools
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S OCIAL N ETWORKING
At the moment of writing this I can predict that 75% of you reading
this are already part of the social network and maybe it is through
websites like: Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hyves, Hi5, and LinkedIn. I
can also predict that maybe only 10 % will have their company
profile setup on these social sites and maybe only 2% will have it
done correctly.
The main reason for companies not to embrace this new trend is
mostly due to the fact that they are not sure how beneficial it will
be and how to generate business out of it. This chapter will discuss
the dos and don’ts and we will use the same businesses discussed in
the previous chapters for our case studies.
Integration with Blogger, Twitter, and many more other web tools
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T HE S TORY OF J OHNNY AND J IMMY : J OHNNY ’ S
REVENGE
As we have seen in previous chapters both Johnny and Jimmy are
whiskey manufactures that went their separate ways. Johnny had
his budget and marketing team but made some crucial mistakes
which cause Jimmy who had a lot less budget to overtake in the
race for the Google top 10. Months have passed on Johnny decided
to take the marketing for his whiskey in his own hands. Reading up
on the latest news and finding out more social networking pushed
him to get involved with Facebook. He started by creating a simple
Fan Page on Facebook and invited all his friends from his personal
profile to become fans. After a couple of week his page had more
“friends” than his personal profile and it started growing rapidly, a
developer friend approached him and asked if he was interested in
a Facebook application. Although he wasn’t really sure to go and
create application; he did trust his friend and it only costs a few
hundred to develop so he gave him the go ahead.
A week later the application was born and the concept was very
simple. You could give your friend on Facebook a virtual Johnny’s
brand whiskey glass, jug or bottle. This would create a simple post
on the friend’s page with an image of the item and an option to
“pass” on a drink. The tool was free, simple and fast and it became
hype. Facebook friends were passing virtual drinks to each other
and Johnnies fan page become a huge success growing
exponentially. Not only was his brand being pushed around the
internet, also the interest in the “real” thing grew and before he
knew it he was getting orders from around the world. This triggered
many different responses and his brand was being blogged about
from all corners of the globe and started trending as a popular drink
in clubs and bars.
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Which resulted in not only a huge increase in sales but also because
the term become so popular on the web it created a large number
of inbound links that caused Johnnies website to overtake that of
Jimmy.
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The 8 steps of Social Networking success
Step 2: Fill these fan and company pages with interesting content,
pictures and videos. Try to find out something which is fun and
what other members would like to share for greater exposure and
with Step 3 in place it will be a lot less work then you think.
Step 3: Integrate and connect all your social media tools like
Twitter, Blogging services and News updates in to your Social
Network Profile(s) and on to your website for more exposure with a
lot less work.
Step 4: Invite all your friends to your fan page or company profile
and start adding friends of friends to your page as well. You will get
comments either positive or negative but at least you will get
another view of your site and product from the social community.
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Step 7: Listen and participate, you want to find out what people are
saying about your brand and company. Submit to websites like
Google Alert or Twitter alert and follow what is being said on your
fan pages.
Step 8: Be patient. Some can take weeks some can take years to
start boosting but just because you took the step of being part of
the social network you will have gotten yourself an edge over the
competition.
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S OCIAL M EDIA
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So it’s a company started in Feb 2005 and it managed to be bought
for 1.65 Billion dollar 1 and a half year later. This gives an indication
on how the company managed to boom their product and because
it became so popular Google bought the company with the
knowledge that the public wanted to upload their own video’s and
share. Social Media was born. Since Google became owner die
integrated the YouTube site with their own Ad-Word system which
allowed popular amateur video makers to gain revenue from the
freely available and uploaded video by displaying ads on top of the
video frame. Mainstream television channels and music producers
are doing the same by also freely uploading their content.
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S OCIAL M EDIA O PTIMIZATION
Doing Optimization the right way takes some time although there
are some tools available that will speed up this process but let’s first
run down the steps.
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K EYWORD ANALYTICS & TRENDING
ANTICIPATION
The following chapter is what I call the Voodoo of SEO, not many
companies do this or have heard of it because it is so new but this
method will really provide you with an advantage. Google the
company I have discussed many of times in this book has started to
record what people were searching for in early 2004 and now 6
years later this information up to 24 hours is freely available on the
following website.
http://www.google.com/insights/search
First thing to give you a bit of a feel on how it works you can select
your target region and then just press “Search” which will give you
the most common search terms over the past 6 years but also the
most trending and upcoming search words.
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As you can see since 2004 “YouTube, Facebook, Bebo” have been
the top rising searches *(which means that they made the biggest
climb in search numbers)
“Facebook, BBC, YouTube” were they Top searches as well
(meaning highest amount of times it was search)
Now you have a feel of what is data this can provide so let’s look a
little deeper in a search term by comparing them. So Add multiple
search terms as in the example below
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As you can also see the search term for “Bebo” has been declining
for the last 2 years so you can predict that this will decline even
further in the coming years.
Magic!
So how can this tool be used for SEO? There are many things you
can do with this but I will discuss 2 of the main ones that will have a
positive impact on your SEO.
Content
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Example 1: Meat producer.
The filter has been set for the last 30 days in the UK using the
category “Food & Drink”, and just a search. Based on this you can
see that “Hairy Bikers” and “Haggis” are the rising searches (Biggest
climb) in the last 30 days and “Tesco” and “recipes” are the Top
searches(Most used).
Now already based on this information I could write a nice blog post
for our meat producer:
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So based on what was popular I could write this blog which would
be good content and attract much more visitors that if I did not
investigate they relevant keywords.
This time the filter was set to the last 30 days in the U.K but with
the search term Whiskey. Now the results are specific to Whiskey
and what the top related terms are and what are the rising searches
are. In this case “Whisky sauce” seems to be really kicking off. And
did you notice that “Whisky” is spelled wrong? This information
gives you a niche because not many companies would spell Whiskey
without the E. So this blog post could be as follows:
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Some call it Whiskey sauce, some call it Whisky Sauce but however
you call this tasty sauce it will really taste great with Haggis, You can
use Jimmies brand of Malt whisky and create…..
Have I convinced you yet about the power of insight search? This
great tool really will help you create good and relevant content and
you will notice the difference in your traffic. This research can be
applied on anything you do, from websites, blogs but also for social
media and networking pages and content. Anything you want to
create should be pre-analyzed firsts to get the maximum benefit of
all your hard work.
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I NTEGRATING TOOLS
Now we are coming to a close and I bet it must have been a ride of
too much information from time to time, it might seem that so
much work is not worth it and you may even want to give up but
NO. Trust me the work you put in optimizing your website will be
rewarded. And in order to make the large amount of work to go a
bit smoother we can start using tools and sites that will allow
integration of content over the various platform go a lot easier.
These tools make cross fertilizing of content possible and you often
end up only having to update 1 or 2 areas in your site profile and
the tools will do the rest.
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SEO FOR W ORD P RESS
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C ONNECT TO F ACEBOOK USING W ORDBOOK
Word Book
Yet another Google owned tool that allows you to optimize your
blog further and enables your RSS feeds to be optimized and linked
to 3rd party websites. You can register your blog here:
http://feedburner.google.com
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Ping-Pong – Blog Pingers
Have a short title and description ready and start “pinging” your
blog to various blog directories using Blog Pingers. There are various
types available but the 3 listed below are the most common:
http://autopinger.com/
http://pingomatic.com/
http://bpinger.com/
After submitting your information these services will tell the various
blog directories that there is new content available for them to link
to.
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SEO FOR T WITTER
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W EBSITE OPTIMIZATION TOOLS
Graders
The website grader tool scans your website and tells you what is
missing or wrong in your pages. It gives you a good indication of
things you might have missed and because it’s free and quick it’s
definitely worth doing tests on it.
http://websitegrader.com/
http://www.seoautomatic.com/ (needs registration)
Firefox plugins
When it comes to browsers Firefox is the most versatile for
developers, it has a range of tools that can really spice up your
browsing but it also helps in detecting what can be wrong with
pages.
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development
tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and
monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
http://getfirebug.com
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