3. Hello
My name is Bryan Kelly
SEO & Usability Advocate since 1997
Previous Clients include:
William Hill Plc
The Racing Post
FinSoft
Microgaming Systems
Sportsbook.com
Usability labs in Texas, New York & London
Current role: e-Strategy Specialist, Cytrus Technology
(www.cytrus.biz)
4. Today, you’ll learn
What is SEO & SEM?
What are Microformats?
4 Practical Uses of Microformats
Why you should be using Microformats
Data Web Marketing - A New Channel
6. Search Optimisation & Search Marketing
Getting higher rankings on major search engines,
is about finding the right balance between
Search Engine Optimisation (on-site), and
Search Engine Marketing (off-site) factors.
7. Search Engine Optimisation
Refers to the factors that you can control on your web site
The text on your web page
The number of web pages on your website
The number of keywords and related keywords on your web pages
The links on your web pages to other pages of your site
The links on your web pages to other websites
The structure of your website
The HTML code of your web pages
8. Search Engine Marketing
Refers to the ranking factors that are usually out of your control
The most important off-site factor are the links to your web site:
The number of backlinks that point to your website
The quality of the backlinks that point to your website
How often your website is bookmarked on social bookmark sites
How often your website is mentioned on services such as Twitter
10. What are Microformats?
For years search engine search results were limited to 3 basic pieces of information:
A Title,
A Summary, and
A URL
Microformats markup (fancy HTML code) allows Google and other search engines
(programs) to identify and make use of structured data present in a web page.
11. Most widely supported are: reviews, events, businesses and organizations, people profiles,
products, videos and recipes.
Microformats support is growing...
12. Future Proof?
Ranking on page 1 of Google isn’t all there is to SEO!
You have to entice the searcher to click.
Microformats may be just the thing to increase (clickthroughs) and conversions
Future proof your organic search visibility for increased SERPs real estate
Google Maps and Google Places will be using microformats to populate mapping apps
Microformats may not directly increase your search engine rankings, but they can still be
a vital part of your (local) search strategy.
OK – How? 4 Practical applications of microformats
13. rel=“me” - Use the attribute to create a “social hub on the web”.
<li id="facebook"><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.facebook.com/ProteaHotels"
rel="me">Facebook</a></li><li id="twitter"><a
target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/ProteaHotels"
rel="me">Twitter</a></li>
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14. hCard - Use the markup to GeoTag address information for local SEO
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15. hReview - Use the markup for dealing with individual user reviews
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16. hCalendar - Use the markup for structured information about events
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17. Why you should be using Microformats
Increase click-through rates (15-31% increase in organic traffic, Yahoo!, Google)
“Give users convenient summary information about their search results at a glance“
Encourages engagement - add contact info to address book, add events to calendars, etc.
Increased search results (SERPs) real estate
More organic search traffic, higher conversion rates. Lower other marketing costs.
It is (relatively) easy to implement
Improve your rankings? More visibility, more user engagement, more authority.
18. Data Web Marketing – A New Channel?
Websites who tag their content with structured data are rewarded with better visibility in
search results and social media streams.
The explosion of apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices has further increased
interest in APIs. Publishers can extend their reach via Semantic Travel Vocabularies.
Microformats offer a similar strategic competitive advantage to early SEO, SMM, PPC
adopters.
Whose data will be the authoritative source in each market out there?
Whose data will be embedded in the most exciting third-party applications?
Whose industry-specific vocabularies will become de facto standards?