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Today's Agenda

• SEO for Editors• Page Titles / Article Headlines• Tools (Google lets us search the searches!)• Keyword Strategy

Components of Google’s Ranking Algorithm

• HTML Head Tags– Title – Meta Description – Meta Keywords – Meta Robots – Rel="Canonical"– Other Meta Tags

• URL– Length – Keyword Location – Subdomains vs. Pages – Word Separators

• Body Tags– Number of Keyword Repetitions – Keyword Density – Keyword Usage Variations – H1 Headline– H2/H3/H4/Hx– Alt Attribute– Image Filename– Bold/Strong

• Body Tags (cont.)– Number of Keyword Repetitions – Keyword Density – Keyword Usage Variations – H1 Headline– H2/H3/H4/Hx– Alt Attribute– Image Filename– Bold/Strong– Italtic/Emphasized– Internal Link Anchors– HTML Comments

• Internal Links & Location in Site Architecture– Click-Depth– Number/Percentage of Internal Links– Links in Content vs. Permanent Navigation– Link Location in Sidebars & Footers

• Page Architecture– Keyword Location– Content Structure

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IN THE ON-PAGE EQUATION

Title TagsThe most important of on page keyword elements, the page title should

preferably employ the keyword term/phrase as the first word(s). In correlation data studies, the following graph emerged:

www.smh.com.auwww.news.com.au

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steve irwinSteve Irwin

steve irwin deathsteve erwin

steve irwin death videosteve irwin dead

terri irwinsteve irwin video

bindi irwinSTEVE IRWIN

steve irwin’s death

Tools and Resources

Tools & ResourcesGoogle AdWords: Keyword Toolhttps://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Free Keyword Suggestions Tool from Wordtrackerhttp://freekeywords.wordtracker.com

Google Analyticshttp://www.google.com/analytics

Google Searchhttp://www.google.com

Keyword Strategy