2. • SEO Basics and Overview
• SEO Optimization for:
• Facebook Posts
• Twitter
• Video
• Extra Tools to help guide you
3. • Fundamental rule: People share content that is Awesome
• Increase ‘searchability’ in your power by:
• Linking in posts
• Using tags effectively
• Use a Site Tree for ‘crawling’
• Use Keyword (Google trends will help you!)
• Use keywords in Page Titles and URL links
• Use phrases and words people will search for
• Outside your power (sort of):
• Do trusted external sites link to you?
• Is it run by a local person to where the site is hosted?
• Are you a publicly trusted authority? (via links, shares and other
factors)
4. • Corel = Blue Line
• WinZip = Red Line
• Flags represent major media events
5. • How do Facebook Posts get SEO?
• The more a post is shared (if you link a website or video and a
user clicks ‘share’ via the ‘selfish sharing’ factor)
• The more comments a post receives
• The more ‘Likes’ a post gets
• How do I increase the odds of feedback?
• Increase the ‘awesome’ better content means more feedback, not
frequency
• It’s always a good idea to ask questions of your community, give
them a reason to engage (Don’t answer the question yourself! And
end the statements with the question)
6. • Key Factors:
• The more @replys you get to a tweet the higher your SEO
• The more retweets you get the higher your SEO
• Make your bio count, Google indexes it! (use keywords in the bio if
necessary)
• How to create success:
• Allow for Quote retweeting, try to keep tweets to 120 characters to
allow for them
• Use Link shorteners such as Hootsuite and Bit.ly for metric tracking
and to reduce character spend
• Above all be ‘real’ twitter is a giant conversation so be conversational,
you wouldn’t want a dude on the street wearing a sandwich board to
offer you a flier with coupons? So don’t do it in Twitter
• Use appropriate hashtags (#awesome) for reach expansion, but don’t
get crazy with them!
7. • How to create success:
• Get out and help others, retweet them, respond to them, they’ll pay
it back
• Try to spread tweets out over the day, often tweet just never ‘bulk
tweet’ (5 posts at the same time)
• Promote Blog sites as it’s an easy glide path for twitter users, from
short conversations to longer opinions where they can still
comment and engage
• Build ‘Followers’, links and PageRank
• Twitter internally links your followers to your profile, therefore
higher PageRank followers give your page a boost as well.
8. • How do videos get more SEO?
• Make tags relevant and use lots
• Use consistent tagging (across all videos, helps aggregators) and
adjectives in those tags
• Match titles and descriptions to tags and use tags that describe
categories
• Don’t use natural language in tags (don’t waste space on words like
‘such, and, or, to’
• Technological Considerations:
• Always make sure you create metadata for files, and use a cleaner to
remove noise created by content creation and publication tools with
CastFire
• Leverage starting point URL and RSS feeds if asked for at all times
• In-Format Tagging – Depending on the tools used you can input
metadata into the video content file itself as tags, much like id3 tags in
mp3 music, in-format metadata tags are readable to any index engine
9. • Amateur Sites to use:
• YouTube, Google Video, MySpace Video, Yahoo! Video, AOL
UnCut, MSN Soapbox, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, Revver – Giant
cheat sheet here
• Submission to Video Searching sites:
• AOL Video http://video.aol.com/ and http://www.truveo.com/
• Or you can use a MRSS feed to submit content hosted
elsewhere(link on Corel.com)
• Blinkx – Use this form to ask for submission to the
database
• AltaVista – Use this form for submission
• Yahoo! – Use this form for submission
10. • Keyword Research:
• This is the foundation step for optimizing your video on YouTube. Use Google
Adwords along with YouTube Keyword research tool to get insights into various
suitable keywords for your video.
• Title Tag/ Description/Tags:
• Once you have zeroed in on your keyword list, use them in your title
tag, description and tags. Remember that search algorithms cannot read videos.
The only way your YouTube video will come up in related search would be through
the keywords you have used to optimize it. Also consider dropping your URL
(Home /Landing Page) in the description to get backlinks.
• Video Transcripts:
• Spiders cannot read Flash files. Feed the spider by giving a transcript of your entire
video.
• Thumbnails:
• YouTube gives you the choice of choosing a thumbnail for your video. Make a wise
choice as this would determine if your video is clicked or not.
11. • Allow comments:
• Allow comments and feedbacks on your video. The more people talk about
your video, the better. If you choose to moderate the comments that are
displayed be cautious as it sometimes angers readers.
• Embed the video in your web site:
• Place a link on your site pointing to your YouTube video. If your site gets
enough traffic, it would help in getting more traffic and more page views for
your video.
• Connect with other videos:
• Link to other related videos on YouTube by dropping a link of your video in
their comment section. However avoid spamming.
• Share your video on social channel:
• Share your videos on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. The more the buzz, the
better!
