turbo-charging your seo and link building
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My presentation from A4U London 2012 - Turbo-Charging Your SEO and Link Building.TRANSCRIPT
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TURBO-CHARGING YOUR SEO
Jon Quinton
SEOgadget.co.uk
@jonquinton1
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WHAT’S THE CRACK?
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TRIPOMATIC.COM
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PROBLEM #1
WHERE TO START?
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CHECKING SEARCH VISIBILITY
Good growth but still plenty of opportunity
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Non-Brand
Brand
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TOP TRAFFIC DRIVING KEYWORDS (NON-BRAND)
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Note: the tourist maps are bringing in a good volume of traffic
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PROBLEM #2
DISCOVERING OPPORTUNITIES
WITH META DATA
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FIRST, COMBINE ALL YOUR EXPORTS:
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COMBINE THE DATA USING VLOOKUP:
=VLOOKUP(A2,[TABLE2],2,0)
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SORT BY SEARCH VOLUME TO SPOT META
IMPROVEMENTS
Is the page title
optimised for the
biggest ranking
keyword?
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PROBLEM #3
QUICKLY FINDING TECHNICAL
PROBLEMS
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FINDING DUPLICATION WITH SCREAMING FROG
Finding duplicate
meta data usually
leads to deeper
problems…
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http://www.tripomatic.com/Singapore/
http://www.tripomatic.com/singapore/
http://www.tripomatic.com/Singapore/Singapore-city/
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Also check meta
descriptions – are
they harming your
CTR?
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COMPARING WITH CLICK THROUGH DATA
What’s working
well and what
lessons can we
learn?
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SIGNIFICANT SPIKE IN ‘NOT SELECTED’ URLS
‘Not Selected’ URLs are pages that Google
deem to be duplicate or ‘thin’.
Did something change on the 8th May?
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IIS CRAWL REPORT
132,330 linked to
redirects
11,852 pages
blocked by
Robots.txt
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Download: http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/search-engine-optimization-toolkit
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The link to http://www.tripomatic.com/widgets/ 301 redirects to
http://www.tripomatic.com/lp/widgets/
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Once redirects are implemented, make sure internal links are updated to reflect new locations.
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ROBOTS.TXT
Many of these pages are still indexed.
It would be more efficient to set to NoIndex, Follow:
<meta name=“robots” content=“noindex,follow”>
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PROBLEM #4
DIAGNOSING ARCHITECTURE
PROBLEMS
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CURRENT NAVIGATION
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EXPORT XENU REPORT INTO EXCEL
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FILTER BY ‘LEVEL’
From 4105 analysed
URLs, 2,101 were
over 3 clicks deep
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MAP OUT NEW STRUCTURE
Destination Guides
Asia Delhi
Far East
Bangkok
Hong Kong
Europe
London
Paris
Eastern Europe
Krakow
Budapest
USA
New York
LA
Canada
Vancouver
Toronto
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PROBLEM #5
FINDING BAD LINKS
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GATHER AND COMBINE DATA
Use OSE, Majestic and Webmaster Tools
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DE-DUPE YOUR LIST
Once combined, de-dupe by ‘sourceURL’ and remove metrics that are not required
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ARE MY LINKS STILL LIVE?
Use Screaming Frog SEO spider in ‘list mode’ and configure a custom filter to
search for your domain in the source code of each URL
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SEPARATE DOMAINS
• =IFERROR(MID(A2,8,FIND("/",A2,8)-8),MID(A2,8,LEN(A2)))
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USE SEOTOOLS FOR EXCEL TO PULL IN DOMAIN PR
Ensure that you work in a new tab with a de-duped list of domains. Paste as values once finished!
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DOMAIN PAGE RANK DISTRIBUTION
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Domain Page Rank Distribution
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ANCHOR TEXT DISTRIBUTION
24%
54%
22%
Keyword: Trip Planner
Includes Brand
Other
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PROBLEM #7
BUILDING GOOD LINKS
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EMBED MAPS
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SCRAPE A LIST OF OPPORTUNITIES
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BRING BACK THE BLOG – THIS TIME ON A SUB FOLDER
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ASSOCIATE WITH SMALL LOCAL BUSINESSES
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KEY ACTION POINTS:
1. GAIN A REALISTIC VIEW
2. QUICKLY FIND TECHNICAL ISSUES
3. ANALYSE BACKLINK PROFILE –
BUILD THE LINKS YOU NEED