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SEO BASICS \Wakabayashi outpost
How does content rank? Google has over 1,000,000,000,000 unique web pages in its search index
with 91 Million Searches performed every day.
Algorithm Stuff: Keyword in URL + Keyword in Domain Name + Keyword in TitleTag+ Size of Title Tag + All Kinds of Links + Link Structures + Top Level domain + Applied SemanKcs + Frequency of updates + Page themes + Site Size + DMoz+ Unique Content + Quality Content + Site Mapping – Popularity + other secret juice + Social media RegistraKons + Social plug ins + other social components+everything else an engineer can think of.
Searches Are from Venus
Algorithms are From Mars
Viral. Social Media. Globalism.
• LinkedIn saw record traffic in September 2008 with 11.9M unique visitors, up more than 10% from August (10.8M) and a gain of
193% since last year.
There are now at least 150,000 and likely over 200,000 videos published everyday on YouTube.
• More than 120 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day. More than two-‐thirds of Facebook users are outside of college . The fastest growing demographic is
those 35 years old and older
The audience
talks and listens at the same Kme.
Bloggers Rule.
Search Engines like blogs the most.
The most recent figure of blogs by TechnoraW currently stands at 133 million. The same report of the Blogosphere also revealed that on average, 900,000 blog posts are created within a single 24-‐hour period.
How does it all work together?
How to use Social Media to increase your SEO
DaWng Google : How to have a good relaWonship.
Wordp
ress Plugins aid SEO
Buddypress.org
Ephemeral Publishing
AutomaWc S
EO sitemap
The perfect tool
You and swine flu. The more you have in common with news and the world around you.. the more visible you become to the search engines.
Honesty as a content policy
How to use Social Media to increase your SEO UGC POWER
Of the 105 million Americans who parWcipate in social media, seven million are considered "heavy" social media contributors -‐-‐ defined as people who parWcipate in six or more acWviWes and connect with at least 248 people on a one-‐to-‐many basis on a typical week.
~media shibs to social research
Diverse content is key to ranking
Be Global
Resources A social media guide: hXp://mashable.com/
List of SEO plug-‐ins for Wordpress: hcp://www.wolf-‐howl.com/seo/seo-‐plugins-‐for-‐wordpress-‐part-‐ii/
List of social media sites with descripKons: hcp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
Social media from the google perspecKve: hcp://googleblog.blogspot.com/
Social media insight and staKsKcs: hcp://www.web-‐strategist.com/blog/
Dennis Wakabayashi is a Colorado naWve and entrepreneur who's constantly involved with new media, online business and technologies. When not covering TED for Examiner.com or spending Wme with the family, he's the founder of MojofiW, supplying global companies with real-‐Wme/ self service language translaWons.
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