3. Agenda
What is SEO and why is it important?
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4. Agenda
What is SEO and why is it important?
WordPress + Sweet SEO Plugins
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5. Agenda
What is SEO and why is it important?
WordPress + Sweet SEO Plugins
You’ve got tools. Now What?
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6. What is SEO?
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7. What is SEO? A Marketer’s Definition
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the art of
understanding search engines and and using that
knowledge to make a website rank high on search engines
— Neil Patel
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8. What is SEO? A Technical Fella’s Definition
SEO is the combination of tactics and strategies, including,
but not limited to, optimization of information architecture,
usability, content focus, audience targeting, design,
development, keyword research, keyword placement, link
building, social media marketing and any other online or
offline branding/marketing elements that support the goal
of receiving more traffic from search engines. — Rand
Fishkin
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9. Why it’s
important
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10. Why it’s
important
➡More than 80% of research begins on the internet.
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11. Why it’s
important
➡More than 80% of research begins on the internet.
➡Search engines drive the majority of traffic to websites
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12. Why it’s
important
➡More than 80% of research begins on the internet.
➡Search engines drive the majority of traffic to websites
➡A search engine will not index what it cannot find. How will you get found?
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13. Why it’s
important
➡More than 80% of research begins on the internet.
➡Search engines drive the majority of traffic to websites
➡A search engine will not index what it cannot find. How will you get found?
➡A #1 position in Google’s search results receives 18.2% of click-through
traffic.
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14. Why it’s
important
➡More than 80% of research begins on the internet.
➡Search engines drive the majority of traffic to websites
➡A search engine will not index what it cannot find. How will you get found?
➡A #1 position in Google’s search results receives 18.2% of click-through
traffic.
➡The 2nd position receives 10.1%, the 3rd 7.2%, the 4th 4.8%; all others under 2%
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15. SEO Plugins.
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16. SEO Plugins.
WordPress SEO by Yoast
➡ Free.
➡ Full-Featured. Meta Desc. Meta Titles
Sitemaps, Template Creation etc.
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17. SEO Plugins.
WordPress SEO by Yoast
➡ Free.
➡ Full-Featured. Meta Desc. Meta Titles
Sitemaps, Template Creation etc.
SEO Smartlinks
➡ Free & Premium Versions
➡ Helps you automagically create
links within your own content.
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18. SEO Plugins.
WordPress SEO by Yoast Redirection
➡ Free. ➡ Free.
➡ Full-Featured. Meta Desc. Meta Titles ➡ Provides easy management of 301 redirects
Sitemaps, Template Creation etc. which are SEO friendly
SEO Smartlinks
➡ Free & Premium Versions
➡ Helps you automagically create
links within your own content.
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19. SEO Plugins.
WordPress SEO by Yoast Redirection
➡ Free. ➡ Free.
➡ Full-Featured. Meta Desc. Meta Titles ➡ Provides easy management of 301 redirects
Sitemaps, Template Creation etc. which are SEO friendly
SEO Smartlinks SEO Friendly Images
➡ Free & Premium Versions ➡ Free
➡ Helps you automagically create ➡ Optimizes alt and title attributes for all your
links within your own content. images for you.
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20. Honorable
Mention
All-in-One-SEO SEO Transporter
Headspace 2
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21. Most Effective
SEO TIP...
Alex
EVAR?
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22. SEO Kitteh Says...
Double the SEO Plugins
Does not Mean Double the
Alex SEO. Just sayin’
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23. Create
Content on a
Topic You
Alex
Love.
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24. And Do it.
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25. And Do it.
A Lot.
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26. Here is Me Sucking
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27. Here is Me Sucking
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28. Here is Me Sucking
➡ 132 Page Views over 30 days!!! Thanks, Mom!
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29. Here is Me Sucking
➡ 132 Page Views over 30 days!!! Thanks, Mom!
➡ 4 Pieces of content for that period
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30. Here is Me Sucking
➡ 132 Page Views over 30 days!!! Thanks, Mom!
➡ 4 Pieces of content for that period
➡ Using Joomla
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31. Now With Less Suckage!
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32. Now With Less Suckage!
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33. Now With Less Suckage!
➡ Switched to WordPress
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34. Now With Less Suckage!
➡ Switched to WordPress
➡ Wrote 18 articles for the month
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37. Awesome++
➡ Wrote one or two articles a day, every day for December
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38. Awesome++
➡ Wrote one or two articles a day, every day for December
➡ Made sure to Use All in One SEO to optimize new and
existing content.
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39. Thank You!
Got Any ?s
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