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Search Engine Optimization Basics: Tips and Tricks for Building an Effective SEO Strategy. Bill Balderaz Webbed Marketing. Webbed Marketing. A full service web marketing organization
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Search Engine Optimization Basics: Tips and Tricks for Building an Effective SEO Strategy Bill Balderaz Webbed Marketing
Webbed Marketing • A full service web marketing organization • Clients include: Cardinal Health, Dominion Homes and YUM Brands, Ohio Dominican, Moochie and Co., Birds Eye Foods • Creators of the Webbed-O-Meter, the first tool to measure online “Buzz” • Measurable results
What is SEO? SEO: Search Engine Optimization Making your website more visible to search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask…) Marketing your website
Why does my company need SEO? Majority of traffic to your website is driven from the search engines
Organic vs Paid Search Paid Search Organic Search
What do search engines care about? Onsite Offsite Technical Stuff Voodoo
Onsite Optimization • A lot of relevant, descriptive, free, updated and original content • Use of keyword in body copy • Headers, bold, and link text • Killer title tags • Keyword Use in URL • Alt Tags • Internal Linking • External Linking
Offsite Optimization Quality of links Number of links Relevancy of links Growth of links Age of link Text surrounding link Anchor text
Technical Stuff Age of domain Meta description Meta tags Domain Extension PageRank Accessibility
Voodoo Historical performance (time on page, clicks, Analytics) Semantic Association “Manual Authority”
Onsite Optimization Highest level of control Most immediate impact Lowest resource requirement
A well optimized page… Title tag Repetition of keywords Alt tags
A Word about the Wiki • Why Wikipedia is damn near perfect for SEO
Wikipedia Title Tag Meta Description