content strategists: use seo to achieve your content goals #confabeu

#seoforcontent AT #confabEU BY @aleyda FROM @orainti

Making the Most Out of Seo to Achieve Your Content Goals

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WHO’S THIS SEO AMONG SO MANY CONTENT SPECIALISTS?

Speaker

Blogger Sharer@aleyda +aleydasolis

Consultant

Hi, My name is Aleyda Solis

RAISE YOUR HAND: WHO HAS SEO EXPERIENCE IN THE ROOM?

who WAS successful and loved it?

SEO shouldn’t be a pain FOR CONTENT STRATEGISTS

SEO <> SPAM

SEO CAN HELP CONTENT TO ACHIEVE ITS GOALS

to sell

to educate

to communicate

to support

to promote

it CONNECTS search audience interest with WEBSITE offer

WITH BETTER visibility by improving relevance & popularity

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LET’S SEE HOW…

FIRST, LET’S identify your SEARCH audience needs

WHAT ARE YOUR POTENTIAL SEARCH VISITORS LOOKING FOR?

relevance & intent

search volume,

seasonality & competition

current rankings &

content existence

industry keyword

suggestions

competitors keywords

performance

current keywords &

content performance

business goals, volume &

profitability

your prioritized keywords and topics

DO A keyword & topical research

start by getting keywords & PHRASES suggestions

http://keywordtool.io/

look for modifiers MATCHING customer journey & personas

informational review

tips guide news

transactional buy

reserve purchase register

products

brands

topics

identify their search volume & seasonality

www.semrush.com/

expand YOUR KEYWORDS with those of your competitors

see which search vertical gives more traffic

www.similarweb.com/

check your linked content, rankings & organic traffic

http://www.google.com/analytics/www.google.com/webmasters/tools/www.opensiteexplorer.org/

& verify these keywords competition level

moz.com/tools/keyword-difficulty

consolidate and prioritize your keywords & TOPICS

use them to create, OPTIMIZE & REORGANIZE CONTENT

Relevance search volume competition seasonality

intent

existence format

rankingstraffic

conversions

INDUSTRY behavior current content!!

VOLUME PROFITABILITY

business offering

DISCOVER OPPORTUNITIES TO SATISFY YOUR AUDIENCE CONTENT NEEDS

NOW, LET’S OPTIMIZE YOUR CONTENT FOR SEARCH

how to attract the visibility your content deserves?

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets#seoforcontent AT #confabEU BY @aleyda FROM @orainti

ACHIEVING BETTER POSITIONS FOR RELEVANT QUERIES

http://moz.com/blog/google-organic-click-through-rates-in-2014

but is not just about rankings anymore

IS ABOUT MAKING the most out of search features FOR VISIBILITY

OPTIMIZE THE relevance & search-friendliness of YOUR content

map keywords with web

architecture

identify content type &

format to target each

optimize content (pages, images, videos) for targeted

keywords

use structured

markup to give a meaning to your content

verify that your content is correctly seen

by search engines

make sure your content is correctly

shown in ALL devices

facilitate your content share-ability

BETTER SEARCH

VISIBILITY

map your TOPICS & KEYWORDS with your web areas

community

product category

learning center

events

product 1a

product 1b

product n1

product n2

category a

categoRy b

blogproduct category

product category

AS WELL AS the content type & format

www.distilled.net/blog/the-content-matrix/

avoid THE lack of targeted relevance

BAD GOOD

THERE ARE ALWAYS SEO FRIENDLY WAYS TO IMPLEMENT

http://moz.com/blog/parallax-scrolling-websites-and-seo-a-collection-of-solutions-and-examples

use siteliner to check internal content duplication ISSUES

www.siteliner.com/

optimize pages relevance towards their targeted terms

featurE them in key areas & elements of your pages

meta description

headings

body text

images

keywords or topics in

videos

make the most out of the title, meta description & url

good poor

meta description

Begin with targeted term ~ 55 characters for desktop & ~ 60 for mobile

descriptive and attractive expanding title, inviting users to click ~150 characters for desktop & ~115 characters for mobile

short & descriptive

targeted terms in url

use A meta tag CHECKER to preview them

tools.seochat.com/tools/metatags-google-preview/

OPTIMIZE YOUR images relevance

surrounding text

alt description

file name

optimize with the targeted terms

STRUCTURED MARKUP

and your videos relevance TOO

file name

optimize with the targeted terms

caption or surrounding text

STRUCTURED MARKUP

search engines should see the same content than your users

www.browseo.net https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en

in all TYPE OF devices

mobilephoneemulator.com/

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

if you require registration FOR CONTENT, balance your approach

REMEMBER THAT your content needs a body

http://youtu.be/8DNzUWgHtKc

and a meaning, WHICH CAN BE GIVEN BY USING STRUCTURED DATA

support.google.com/webmasters/answer/99170?hl=en

in some cases IT will ALSO give you more visibility

USE GENERATORS & TESTERS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION

www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

tools.seochat.com/category/schema-generators

UGH, BUT ALL THIS IS SO MUCH WORK

but now you’LL HAVE A “perfectly optimized page” AS A RESULT!

moz.com/blog/visual-guide-to-keyword-targeting-onpage-optimization

you can ALSO support yourself with an on-page SEO grader

http://moz.com/tools/onpage-grader

or USE SEO CRAWLERS TO do large SCALE analysis

PLUS, REMEMBER THAT OUR WORK IS MULTIDISCIPLINARY

start WORKING along (your new bFF) the seo

TOGETHER WE CAN GIVE CONTENT THE SEARCH VISIBILITY IT DESERVES

thanks #confabeu

It’s time for your questions!

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