Getting your SEO basics right is essential for getting results in Google and other search engines. Myths and misconceptions are debunked in this easy-to-understand presentation by Jens Peter Nielsen
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SEO basics - a guide to SEO for everyone
1. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Getting the basics right
Keywords
Traffic or rankings
Linkbuilding
Tools of the trade
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2. Jens Peter Nielsen
First SEO job in 1998
Marketing background – code? Couldn't write a line of it for my life
Founded Netclue Online Marketing in early 2012
Assists all kinds of website owners with SEO and PPC
The ”bragging” list:
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3. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
SEO
Definition:
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4. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
All SEO is keyword driven
But…..
If you forget about the basics, all
your SEO-efforts will fail!
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5. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Getting the basics right:
Choosing the right platform
Domain – are you global or local?
URLs – Help Google
Navigation – Most wanted action + structure
The title-tag
The Meta Description tag
Headings
Keywords
Traffic vs. rankings
Linkbuilding
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6. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Choosing the right webplatform – test for
“SEO-friendlyness”
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7. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Domain – are you global or local?
What kind of domain?
gTLD (generic Top Level Domain -
.com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov)
ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain - .dk)
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8. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Domain – are you global or local?
Guess what? Google is going local
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9. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
URLs – Help Google
Looking for “adidas” – pop quiz: which of the
following is better?
http://www.zappos.com/adidas
or
http://www.soccer.com/Navigation.process?Ne=646&N=4294
959043
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10. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Navigation – Most wanted action + structure
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11. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Navigation – Most wanted action + structure
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12. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Keep navigation and menus simple – it
works! (no. 1 and 2 in Google.com when
searching for “shoes”)
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13. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Navigation – Most wanted action + structure
Keep it simple – it works!
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14. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
<title>The title-tag</title>
Google gives you 65 characters of free
advertising space – do you make the most of it?
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15. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
The title-tag – spam doesn’t work
<title>
</title>
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16. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
The title-tag – keep it simple – avoid “stop
words” if the competition is tough!
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17. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
The Meta Description tag – how about 150
characters more from Google? It’s free!
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18. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
<H1>Headings</H1>
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19. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
<H1>Headings</H1>
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20. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Keywords
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21. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Keywords
Misconceptions about keywords:
“We know what our clients search for”
“Our new product xclabytl is a good keyword
– it’s patented and trademark protected”
“If we are not ranked no. 1 in Google on this
keyword, it’s not worth the trouble”
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22. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Keywords
Myths about keyword-implementation:
“Keyword density is all that matters”
“Using keywords in domains will be
penalized by Google”
“The meta-keyword tag is a good place
for your most important keywords”
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23. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Keywords
It pays off to watch out for the trends
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24. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Keywords - usage gets more and more precise – more than 70 %
of Google’s users, use 2 or more keywords when searching
2 words 33%
Words in search engines 3 words 27%
1 words 15%
4 words 14%
5 words 6%
3% 2% 6 words 3%
7 words 1%
6%
33%
14%
15%
27%
OneStat Oct. 2012
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25. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Keywords – users want to feel they are in control
Research – generic keyword use
60-80 %
Selection – use of brand or
name of product in search
10-15 %
Conversion –
exact desire in
keyword use
6-8%
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26. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Keywords – Knowing user-intentions is
better than guessing….
Keyword Purpose of search
(Source: Microsoft Ad Intelligence)
Google SEO Research
SEO services Selection
SEO company Colorado Purchase
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27. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Keywords – know where to ”attack”
Short tail: many searches – high competition – low conversion
Medium-tail: Medium no. of searches – medium to low competition – medium to
high conversion
Volume Long-tail: Low volume pr. unique phrase – low competition – high
conversion
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28. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Traffic or rankings
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29. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
Traffic or rankings
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30. SEO-Search Engine Optimization
Linkbuilding – always make content people wants to link to!
Fixing dead links –
internal as well as Press-sites
external
Social bookmarking
Digg.com
Flickr.com
Free apps linking
Social back to your site
Networks (Link-bait)
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31. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
A few free tools and inspirational sites for you
http://www.fasttrackseo.net
http://www.webposition.com
http://www.keywordspy.com
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
http://www.google.com/trends
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=wikipedia.org
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
http://www.iwebtool.com/tools/
http://www.seo-browser.com
http://www.google.com/analytics
http://www.seomoz.org
http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/type/googleseo/
……that should keep you busy for a while
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32. SEO – Search Engine Optimization
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