Tõnis Hinnosaar: Getting Along with Search Engines

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Getting Along with Search

Engines: SEO Tips Tõnis Hinnosaar

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Where we stand

• Search Engine Marketing:

SEM = SEA + SEO

The Funnel

• http://altex.ee/disain/funnel-flat.pdf

SEO & SEA long tail

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SEM is becoming the key element for online user

behaviour

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Why is it difficult?

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› Most users click on organic results› Excellent content is needed› You need to know what people search

for before you offer it to them› You need to speak their language

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Searcher Types

• Depends on their Intends– Navigational searches – Informational searches– Transactional searches

How search engines work

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Process1. Search engines visit websites

automatically2. They index documents3. Carry through queries4. Put results in order

RELEVANCYPOPULARITY

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SERP CTR

• Description (ca 45%)• Title (ca 30%)• URL (ca 20%)• Other – Cached, Similar (ca 5%)

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SEO three legsTechnical

LinkingContent

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1. Technical

• Website “kitchen”• CMS• Stability• Server

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2. Content

• Keyword research• Content creation• Not just text

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3. Linking

• Internal – links on my site• Cross – links between our sites• External – links pointing to my site

from outside

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Onsite and Offsite

Ranking factors

• There are many• Let’s focus on these that you can

control!

First: indexing issues...• Session based URLs• Dynamic URLs• 200+ links per page• Frames• Pages available through “secret doors”• Pages available from “drop-down”

menu• Pages available after redirects

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1. Onsite Factors

Page Title

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Headings (H1 ...)

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Anchor text

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Link magnets

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Unique content

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Redirects (301)

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Image ALT text

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TASK 1

• Tool needed: – Google Adwords Keyword Tool:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

– Web Developer Toolbar http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

(Sub)domain name

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Keyword usage in first 25 -100 words

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Keyword use in body text

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Update frequency

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Sitemap – linked from each page

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JavaScript links

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Download time

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TASK 2

• Tools needed: – Web Developer Toolbar– Site speed tool:

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

Keyword density

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Optimising images

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Page URL

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Meta Description

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404 error page

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HTML / CSS validation

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Robots.txt

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Sitemap.xml

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Broken links

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TASK 3

• Tools needed: – Google Analytics:

http://www.google.com/analytics – Validator: http://www.w3.org/– Broken link check:

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

2. Offsite Factors

External link anchor text

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Linking page quality

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Nr. of links on linking page

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Variety of links

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SERP CTR

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Domain/brand search volume

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TASK 4

• Tools needed:– Backlink checker:

http://www.backlinkwatch.com/index.php– Yahoo Site Explorer:

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/– TouchGraph: http://www.touchgraph.com/– Google Webmaster Central:

http://www.googl.com/webmasters/tools

tonis@altex.eeskype: tonish50www.altex.ee

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Thank you!

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