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@Ben_Bec k BenjaminBeck.com/ WCLV2013 Wordpress SEO That’s Friendly By: Benjamin Beck

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Wordpress SEOThat’s Friendly

By: Benjamin Beck

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Hello

Founder, Local Stampede

[email protected]

@Ben_Beck

Benjamin Beck

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Slides & LinksBenjaminBeck.com/WCLV2013

Connect@Ben_Beck

I’m Going To Talk Fast!

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Intro To SEO

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What Does SEO Stand For?

Spam Everyone Online?

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What Does SEO Stand For?

Spam Everyone Online?Search Engine Optimization

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PaidAds

Free(SEO)

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20%Clicks

80%Clicks

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How Does Rank Results?

Free(SEO)

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Their Algorithm Is Always Changing

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

Over 200 Ranking Factors

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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

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Problem Is, It Doesn’t Work Long Term

Google Updates Penalize Spammy SEO

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Resources To Learn SEO

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

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Building A Google Friendly Site

SCRO

Offsite

Onsite

Built Right

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11 Steps To Build Your Site

Right

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#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!

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#2 Don’t Block Search Engines

Settings / Reading

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#3 Pick www. OR non-www.

Set up aswww. OR non-www.

Settings / General

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

Settings / Permalinks

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#5 Control Indexing

Pages per a day

Data per a day

Time per a day

Google Web Master Tools

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Yoast Wordpress SEO

Setting Up Indexing On Your Site

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No Index Subpages & Archives

No Index:Subpages & archives

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No Index Media

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No Index Taxonomies

Keep Categories

Indexed

No – IndexFormat

No – IndexTags

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No Index Archives

KeepAuthors Indexed

No – IndexDate

Archives

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#6 Create A Site Map

Helps Search Engines Crawl Your Site

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#7 Install W3 Total Cache

Speed Up Your Site With Caching

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#8 Install WP Smush.it

Decrease Media Files

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#9 Clean House

Eliminate Excess Content

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#10 Speed Up Your Site

Google Speed Test Pingdom GTMetrixP3 Plugin

Find & Fix What’s Slowing Your Site

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#11 Get A Responsive Theme

ResponsiveTest.net – Check Your Site

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5 Steps To Optimize

Onsite

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#1 Pick The Right Keywords

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

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19X More Search Volume

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Source: http://moz.com/

#2 Use Those Keywords On The Page

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Yoast Wordpress SEO

Optimizing Onsite Content

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Optimize Site Content With Yoast

Pick AKeyword

Follow Suggestions

Set A Title & Meta

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Advanced SEO Tips

AdvancedSEO Tips

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#3 Encourage Social Sharing

I use the Digg Digg plugin

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#4 Passive Internal Link Building

I Use Yet Another Related Post Plugin

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#5 Fix Broken Links

Redirect 404 & 302’s To Correct Page

+ RedirectionPlugin

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Offsite Link Building

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Lots of Ways to Build Offsite

• Content Creation• Building A Community• Speaking & Events

Each Could Be A Whole Other Presentation

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6 Ways To Harvest Links

Link Harvesting Book Coming Soon Book.BenjaminBeck.com

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#1 Get Links From Copy Cats

Tynt.com links to site when copied

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#2 Reach Out To Relationships

• Organizations • Affiliations• Vendors• Alumni• Testimonials

Friends Link To Friends

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Manage & Scale Outreach

GetBuzzStream.com

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#3 Get Interviewed By Reporters

HelpAReporter.com

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#4 Find Company Mentions

Whose Talking About You, But Not Linking?

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#5 Get Links From Your Images

ImageRaider.com – Tracks Your Images

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#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

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6 SCRO Tips

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What’s SCRO?

How To Stand Out On Search Result Pages

S - SERPC - ConversionR - RateO - Optimization

S – SearchE – Engine R – ResultsP – Page

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#1 Meta Descriptions

Use Keywords, Numbers, & CTA’s

MetaDescription

BoldedKeywords

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#2 Google Authorship

plus.google.com/authorship

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#3 Use Call To Actions

Tell Them What To Do

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#4 Use Schema

Ratings

Reviews

Price

Raven Schema Creator Plugin

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#5 Video Snippets

wistia.com/doc/video-seo

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#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

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Thank You!

Founder, LocalStampede

Contact@LocalStampede

@Ben_Beck

Benjamin Beck