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People say SEO is dead. Avery Cohen's discussion about SEO strategies and tactics web developers and content marketers need to succeed with search engines in 2014, after Google's Penguin, Panda and Hummingbird updates and secure search's Keyword Not Provided.

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Avery Cohen @averycohen

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Best Content Management System

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Enhance shareholder

wealth!

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Not provided!

Keyword Stuffing

Hidden Text

Spider-Only Text

Spun Content

Link Farms

Link Exchanges and Networks

Social Media Spam

Article Sites

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Photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum-running_in_Windsor

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Authority & Influence

Result: more sequoias, fewer crocuses

Sites with more content, multimedia

Longer articles with authoritative citations

Authors who appear on multiple websites

Social media discussions / Sharing

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How people are finding your website

Your search position

Your brand

Your customers

Your keywords

Google Analytics

Google Webmaster Tools

Google Trends

Google AdWords

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Google Analytics

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Now an option in Organic Search screen

Google Webmaster Tools

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What problems do you solve?

What experience(s) do you offer?

What is your unique value proposition?

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Persona Profiles

Person / Name / Demographics

Problem Statement(s)

What they think they need

How they will find it (behaviors)

Decision making process

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Google Trends

resume writing tips

resume writing help

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Be specific and user centric

◦ “help writing a resume” -- “resume writing in Chicago” “resume writing workshop in Chicago”

Be consistent

◦ Choose your jargon carefully

Add pages (articles) for

◦ “Long Tail” searches

◦ Specific Offerings, specific types of resumes

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Establish an emotional connection

Images and Words people will click on to see more

Stories people will want to share with others

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Links to pages on your site

Links to pages on other authoritative websites

Links inside text ◦ Improve SEO – makes your site look important for

those keywords

◦ Improve User Experience – people can find what they are looking for

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Byline text links to “author” page using rel=“author” in the anchor tag By <a href=/members/john-smith rel=“author”>John Smith</a>

Links on the author page to social media pages for the author.

<a href=http://linkedin.com/public/john-smith rel=“me”>John’s LinkedIn Page</a>

Author-tagged links in article pages on other (authoritative) websites to that author’s page show influence.

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Page Title <title> ◦ Used as listing title

◦ 70 characters, keywords first

Page Description <meta name="description" content=“…”> ◦ Used as listing text

◦ 155 characters

Headline <h1> ◦ One per page, does not appear on SERP

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Call to Action

Value Proposition

More specific keywords

Grouped for more specific ads

Landing Page Messaging

Story

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Avery J. Cohen Metrist Partners

Chicago, Illinois

312-772-5945

averycohen@metrist.com

@averycohen

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