Post on 18-Jul-2015
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SOMERSET WESTNETWORKING EVENT
Speed Date with SEO
What Google wants?
What business owner can do?
How to get noticed?
Bashia Galt
What is SEO?“Search Engine Optimization”
Imagine this:GOOGLE IS A TEENAGER!
Understands simple language Loves Social Media Looks at images Doesn’t like to read… too much Looks for answers. Quickly. Eats junk. Doesn’t sleep Youtubes Its VERY CLICKY It likes what others like Doesn’t understand old school practices
Simple Language, Titles, Bolds, Flesch Reading Score
Example: Wedding photography Score: -49 Wedding pics Score: 78
http://readability-score.com/
The headings. Using H1 (heading one), H2, H3 and so on. Titles are the names of each paragraph which makes it easier for Google to understand what the parts of contents are about.
Bolds Text length To the point answers!
Google Bots
We want food! If its good we will be back for more…
Blogs
Websites ARE NOT JUST business cards anymore.
Be an absolute expert within your industry.
Conversations: your sales pitch, your arguments, your feedback, your opinion etc. Google can’t hear them!
Trends and information within your industry.
Google absolutely despites copies.
It all HAS TO BE unique, original and structured properly for SEO.
Content
Google is clicky! Google Maps & Google Places +Google Plus Youtube Blogger Paid Advertising Analytics
Social Media “word of mouth” of the 21st century
Direct traffic to your website via social media
Pintrest
Backlinks Backlinks are about 50% of success on Google.
Backlink is a link to your website.
Sample backlink:
DIY on Meta Descriptions and Titles
CTR: click through rateCTR = click / impressions
For ex.
Impressions = 100
Clicks = 5
CTR = 5%
BR: bounce rateBounce Rate is the percentage of single-page sessions. Less = better performance and UX (user experience).
User Experience / Website Usability Look at your website for 10 seconds.
• What does the company do?• Who is it for?• What are the core services?• Where is the company based?
• Easy to read?• To the point?• Easy to navigate?• RESPONSIVE?
Mobile Readiness! ie. Is your website RESPONSIVE?
Mobilegeddon 2015
The biggest Google updated threatens to wipe out millions of websites!
Is your website responsive (mobile friendly)?
If not – come April 21st 2015 – it can be seriously affected by Google’s by far the most aggressive algorithm update.
Architecture Sitemap.
Google needs a map to know what is where on your site.
Robots.txt.
Robots.txt fie instructs search engine robots by allowing or restricting access to selected folders and pages of your website.
Indexing.
And a few more which would take me ages to explain …
Go to www.found.co.uk/seo-tool/
Do you have any error/warning icons?
SPEED DATE WITH SEO
Bashia Galtinfo@bmgmarketing.co.za072 1991 342
Thank you!