3. Who has been to SEO Seminars?
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4. Goal – look at SEO in a completely
different way
• Personal philosophy
• Foundational things that are often overlooked and done
incorrectly
• Must get these right before you can even get to more advanced
• Set you up for good long-term digital marketing foundation
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5. General knowledge of SEO
• 2008 – not as many people knew
• Now – much greater percentage
• Result = MORE MISCONCEPTIONS
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No Clue
Some Idea
6. 1st – Good Marketers
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7. Next – Put in a format that
“Makes Google Happy”
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8. Goal – Relevant Traffic
• Get in front of right people
• Not all about volume
• Does that traffic convert?
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9. “I’m Going to Make You #1 for ____”
• No guarantees
• Tactics chasing the algo
• Put your business
or your client’s business at risk
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15. Link signals constantly being updated
• # of links
• Authoritative – Page Rank
• “Right” back link text (anchor text)
• Relevant Site
• What’s the content on the page that’s referring you?
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17. Content signals constantly being updated
• Keyword stuffing
• Change to no stuffing
• Keyword density
• Keywords to topics – Hummingbird
• Is your website/page talking about that topic
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18. You could be chasing this your whole life
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19. “Doing SEO”
• Organizations need to not think about it as SEO
• Speaking to your target audience with content that is part of a
comprehensive marketing plan
• Making sure that your website not getting in the way of Google
understanding your content
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22. Example: Marketing Automation Company
• Not speaking to target audience
• Talking “above” the language of their target reader
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23. Example – Car dealership adding content but
doing it based on old info about Google
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24. Google Wants Clarity and Authority
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• Quality and Simplicity => Clarity on Topics
• Depth of information => Authority on Topics
28. What kind of topics to write about
• No one wants to hear about just your business
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29. What kind of topics to write about
• Think Laterally
Dog friendly travel site talks about other dog friendly things
• Think Vertically
Other dog related topics –choosing the right pet food
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30. This is why on-page optimization is so
important!
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31. Title Tag – Doesn’t have to match
• But you better still
include the topic!
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32. Meta Description – Your Sales Pitch
• If it doesn’t include topic – Google may replace
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33. Header Tags
• H1 Headline and H2 Subheads
• Not a deal-breaker – but why not?
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34. Images
• Name of image --- Alt Tags
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