wordpress seo - that's google friendly

Post on 14-May-2015

5.760 Views

Category:

Technology

3 Downloads

Preview:

Click to see full reader

DESCRIPTION

Benjamin Beck of Local Stampede's Wordcamp Las Vegas 2013 presentation on how to optmize your Wordpress site to rank well in the search engines.

TRANSCRIPT

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Wordpress SEOThat’s Friendly

By: Benjamin Beck

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Hello

Founder, Local Stampede

Contact@LocalStampede.com

@Ben_Beck

Benjamin Beck

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Slides & LinksBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Connect@Ben_Beck

I’m Going To Talk Fast!

Intro To SEO

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

What Does SEO Stand For?

Spam Everyone Online?

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

What Does SEO Stand For?

Spam Everyone Online?Search Engine Optimization

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

PaidAds

Free(SEO)

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

20%Clicks

80%Clicks

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

How Does Rank Results?

Free(SEO)

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Their Algorithm Is Always Changing

Source: http://moz.com/blog/33-link-building-questions-answered

Over 200 Ranking Factors

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

The Dark Side of SEO

1. Keyword Stuffing 2. Comment Spamming3. Link Exchanges4. Creating Link Networks5. Exact-Match-Domains6. Hacked Websites

Non-Google Friendly Tactics

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Problem Is, It Doesn’t Work Long Term

Google Updates Penalize Spammy SEO

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Resources To Learn SEO

• Moz – SEO Beginners Guide• Quick Sprout University• Yoast Wordpress SEO

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Building A Google Friendly Site

SCRO

Offsite

Onsite

Built Right

11 Steps To Build Your Site

Right

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#1 Use Wordpress

A Fantastic piece of software, it makes your site easily crawlable by search engines, solves some 80 – 90% of SEO and is the first big step anyone can take towards creating a popular online business.” - Matt Cutts, Google

DONE!

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#2 Don’t Block Search Engines

Settings / Reading

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#3 Pick www. OR non-www.

Set up aswww. OR non-www.

Settings / General

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#4 Set Permalink SettingsBest Practice: /Post Name OR /Category/Post Name

Settings / Permalinks

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#5 Control Indexing

Pages per a day

Data per a day

Time per a day

Google Web Master Tools

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Yoast Wordpress SEO

Setting Up Indexing On Your Site

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

No Index Subpages & Archives

No Index:Subpages & archives

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

No Index Media

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

No Index Taxonomies

Keep Categories

Indexed

No – IndexFormat

No – IndexTags

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

No Index Archives

KeepAuthors Indexed

No – IndexDate

Archives

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#6 Create A Site Map

Helps Search Engines Crawl Your Site

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#7 Install W3 Total Cache

Speed Up Your Site With Caching

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#8 Install WP Smush.it

Decrease Media Files

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#9 Clean House

Eliminate Excess Content

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#10 Speed Up Your Site

Google Speed Test Pingdom GTMetrixP3 Plugin

Find & Fix What’s Slowing Your Site

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#11 Get A Responsive Theme

ResponsiveTest.net – Check Your Site

5 Steps To Optimize

Onsite

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#1 Pick The Right Keywords

Source: https://adwords.google.com/ko/KeywordPlanner/Home

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

19X More Search Volume

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Source: http://moz.com/

#2 Use Those Keywords On The Page

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Yoast Wordpress SEO

Optimizing Onsite Content

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Optimize Site Content With Yoast

Pick AKeyword

Follow Suggestions

Set A Title & Meta

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Advanced SEO Tips

AdvancedSEO Tips

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#3 Encourage Social Sharing

I use the Digg Digg plugin

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#4 Passive Internal Link Building

I Use Yet Another Related Post Plugin

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#5 Fix Broken Links

Redirect 404 & 302’s To Correct Page

+ RedirectionPlugin

Offsite Link Building

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Lots of Ways to Build Offsite

• Content Creation• Building A Community• Speaking & Events

Each Could Be A Whole Other Presentation

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

6 Ways To Harvest Links

Link Harvesting Book Coming Soon Book.BenjaminBeck.com

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#1 Get Links From Copy Cats

Tynt.com links to site when copied

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#2 Reach Out To Relationships

• Organizations • Affiliations• Vendors• Alumni• Testimonials

Friends Link To Friends

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Manage & Scale Outreach

GetBuzzStream.com

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#3 Get Interviewed By Reporters

HelpAReporter.com

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#4 Find Company Mentions

Whose Talking About You, But Not Linking?

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#5 Get Links From Your Images

ImageRaider.com – Tracks Your Images

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#6 Set Up Alerts For Everything!

• Google Alerts – Search Alert• Talker Walker – Search Alert• Image Raider – Image Alert• Pin Alerts – Pinterest Alert• HARO – Expert Interview Alert

Automate Finding Link Opportunities

6 SCRO Tips

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

What’s SCRO?

How To Stand Out On Search Result Pages

S - SERPC - ConversionR - RateO - Optimization

S – SearchE – Engine R – ResultsP – Page

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#1 Meta Descriptions

Use Keywords, Numbers, & CTA’s

MetaDescription

BoldedKeywords

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#2 Google Authorship

plus.google.com/authorship

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#3 Use Call To Actions

Tell Them What To Do

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#4 Use Schema

Ratings

Reviews

Price

Raven Schema Creator Plugin

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#5 Video Snippets

wistia.com/doc/video-seo

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

#6 PPC Can Increase SEO

Source: http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/part-one-adwords-paid-organic-report-results

SEO CTR rises from 6% to 38% with PPC Ads

@Ben_BeckBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Thank You!

Founder, LocalStampede

Contact@LocalStampede

@Ben_Beck

Benjamin Beck

top related