Search Engine, SEO and Google Algorithms

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Search engine optimization is a methodology of strategies, techniques and tactics used to increase the amount of visitors to a website by obtaining a high-ranking placement in the search results page of a search engine(SERP) -- including Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines. SEO helps to ensure that a site is accessible to a search engine and improves the chances that the site will be found by the search engine.

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SEO vs Google Algorithms

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What is Search Engine?

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Search Engine

Definition: An internet-based tool that searches a websites for a particular term, phrase or text specified by the user.

100 Billion SearchesEach Month!

By 2013, search volume has grown upto 2 Trillions searches annually.

How does Search Engine works?

Crawling & Indexing

Without links, the engines might never find this page

New web-page

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Organic vs Paid Search

Pay per click: is an internet advertisement used to direct traffic to websites, in which advertiser pay the publishers when the ad is clicked.

Paid

Organic

Google Algorithms

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Google Algorithms Rollout

20112010 2012 2013

What is PageRank?

● Definition: It is an algorithm used by Google web search engine to rank websites in their search engine results.

● Google crawls websites in decreasing orderof PageRank.

● PageRank is a whole number between 0 and 10.

● Most popular websites=PageRank 10 Least popular websites=PageRank 0.

● Twitter= PageRank 10Facebook= PageRank 9Google= PageRank 9 http://getfblike.com/

Why is Search Engine Marketing important?

● 85% of all traffic on the internet is referred to by search engines.

● 90% of all users don’t look past the first 30 results (most only view top 10).

● Search engine traffic is low and websites aren’t indexed because they are generally poorly optimized.

● Cost-effective advertising.

● Clear and measurable ROI (return on investment).

● Operates under this assumption:More (relevant) traffic + Good Conversions Rate = More Profit

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What is SEO?

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Search Engine Optimization

● Definition: It is a technique which helps search engines find and rank your site higher than the millions of other sites in response to the search query.

● SEO also refers to the process of “optimizing” both the on-page and off-page ranking factors in order to increase relevant traffic to a website.

● SEO helps search engines figure out what each page is about, and how it may be useful for users.

● Without SEO, many websites remain invisible to the search engines.

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Search Engine Optimization

Off-page Optimization Techniques:● Blog Submission ● Directory Submission● Social Bookmarking● Ad Posting

On-page Optimization Techniques:● Content● Meta tag optimization● Sitemap & robot.txt● URL Structure

Note: More link-building, more is traffic, higher is the PageRank.

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Off-page SEO

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Blog Submission

Blogs are way to share facts, ideas and opinions directly between people.

Directory Submission

Directory submission is the process of submitting site URL to website directory.

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a way of sharing sites or pages of a website that we come across with the online community.

Ads Posting

Social media effect

On-page SEO

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Crawlability/Link Architecture

Well structured/linked websites are easily crawlable.

Avoid Duplicate content

Duplicate content are contents that appears on the Internet in one or more than one places(URL).

URL Structuring

URL should be search friendly.

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/african-elephants

Informative domain name

Shallow folder structurewith relevant words

Keywords in page name,separated by hyphen

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Sitemap (HTML & XML)

Sitemap is a simple page that displays the structure of website.

HTML Sitemap: for the users

XML Sitemap: for the search engines

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Restrict crawling with robot.txt

A “robot.txt” file tells search engine whether they can access or crawl parts of the sites.

This file is placed in the root directory of the website.

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Important tags

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Title tag

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Meta Descriptions

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Tag Length Recommendation

White Hat vs Black HatSEO

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Black Hat SEO

● Hidden Content:Stuffed content as keyword within comments/ website code.

● Meta Description:It describes content of your website.

CORRECT:<meta name=”description” content=”We are an online marketing

agency providing digital marketing service. If you need SEM or SEO we can help you @www.seohelper.com”>

INCORRECT:<meta name=”description” content=”MadeUp restaurant website

is the best. Our restaurant is better than any other, good food restaurant. We are the best @www.madeup.com”>

White Hat SEO

● Content should be genuine and of good quality.

● Using Structural mark-up makes easy for search engine( heading tags).

● Effective use of keywords.

● Quality inbound links.

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Google Planning SEO Future

● By HummingBird update 2013, Google is using SSL encryption search result both for signed in, not signed in users.

● With further updates, search engine got better understanding of the concepts of human being language, rather then few scattered words i.e. “human friendly” searches than ever.

● This gave better handle for “conversational” search queries.ex: “golden gate pictures” “give me some pictures of the golden gate pictures”

● With increase in smartphone & tablet use, 2014 will be year of mobile SEO. Websites mobile performance matters for SEO ranking.

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Thank You

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