PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Quintain Marketing 2015 SEO Strategy
Where?
- Google AdWords Keyword planner
- Google Trends
- Bing Ads Intelligence
- Keyword.io
Keyword Search Best Practices
- Find less competitive keywords (.5 and under) that still have a high number of searches
- Use 2-4 competitors to get an idea what people are searching to find their competitors as well
- Using the "suggested" keywords, we can get an idea for the long tail keywords that may be easier to rank for
Sitemapping 101
Use the HubSpot SEO template to help analyze...
What to look for...
- The page purpose
- Target Audience
- Current content
- Offers & conversion rates
- Bounce rates
- Rich snippets (are they relevant?)
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- URLs shouldn't be more than 2,048 characters
- Use hyphens to separate words
- Should semantically make sense and be relevant to the on page copy
- Well written URLs have the benefit of being their own anchor text
Meta Titles / Tags
These are a great way for webmasters to provide search engines info about their websites
Meta Titles/Tags best practices
- Title should be relevant to page
- Good title page is made up of keyword phrases of value
- Keep your title to 59-65 characters
- Optimize for ONE phrase (long tail approach) rather than keyword stuffing
Using the site map analysis, content will be created or updated ensuring it is optimized to the user experience using the relevant keywords from the keyword research. Content should be in line with the questions the personas are asking and not overly keyword heavy.
Content creation best practices
- Content length? 200-400 words
- Keywords should not be stuffed. Should fall naturally and make sense.
- Each page should have at least one H1 tag with the keyword included
Meta description
- Can be included in the meta tag
- When you write your Meta description think if you'd click through to that page
- Use cliffhangers
- Use calls to action
You want me to optimize what?
Every piece of media, image, portfolio piece should include the following....
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- an ALT text
- a clear and relevant file name
- Should be relevant to on page copy
- Compressed images (large images affect site speed)
Finally...Google Webmaster Tools
Why? (because I said so)
- Geographic areas
- Preferred domain
- Malware
- Crawl errors
- HTML Suggestions