Mihai Aperghis - 8 SEO Related Things you might not know (+bonus round) (2013.12.12, Impact Hub Bucharest)
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The document discusses eight lesser-known SEO strategies and includes insights from four SEO experts. Key points include the importance of schema markup for improved search visibility, effective video SEO techniques, and strategies for international SEO and content marketing. The document also highlights the significance of local SEO, Google Analytics demographics, and expert advice on promoting existing content.
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- 1. 8 SEO Related Things You Might Not Know + Bonus Round! (advice from 4 SEO experts) Mihai Aperghis - 2013
- 3. On-page
- 4. 1. Schema.org Markup • What: structured data markup • Why: improves how search engines “read” your site, can generate rich snippets
- 5. 1. Schema.org Markup Better SERP visibility -> Higher CTR rate -> More traffic (and sometimes better rankings!)
- 6. 2. Facets & Filters • What: e-commerce specific filtration • Why: improves user experience, allows owner to focus on specific keywords
- 7. 2. Facets & Filters Facets Filters Role Category extensions Product narrowing Form Links Select boxes Search engines Index Noindex/canonicalize Genre, Type Price, Color Examples
- 8. 2. Facets & Filters
- 9. 3. Video SEO • What: techniques that focus on video ranking in Google Search • Why: generates video thumbnail snippets for your site, allows your site to rank for the video
- 10. 3. Video SEO
- 11. 4. International SEO • What: techniques for sites that serve multiple languages and/or countries • Why: avoids duplicate content, allows the correct version to be displayed to a user, better ranking
- 12. 4. International SEO Geotargeting in Webmaster Tools rel=alternate hreflang=x
- 13. Off-page
- 14. 5. Content Marketing • What: marketing strategy focused on content • Why: get quality links, brand visibility, brand authority
- 15. 5. Content Marketing But it doesn’t work Client editorial links in: US Foxnews.com DA: 96, PR: 8 Fool.com DA: 90, PR: 7 MLive.com DA: 88, PR: 6 Cision.com DA: 77, PR: 6 Cost: NONE
- 16. 5. Content Marketing But it doesn’t work outside US Client editorial links in: US RO Foxnews.com DA: 96, PR: 8 Adevarul.ro (mention) DA: 76, PR: 7 Fool.com DA: 90, PR: 7 RomaniaTV.net DA: 58, PR: 5 MLive.com DA: 88, PR: 6 Business24.ro DA: 58, PR: 6 Cision.com DA: 77, PR: 6 121.ro DA: 53, PR: 6 Cost: NONE Cost: NONE
- 17. 6. Hummingbird Did you say Angry Birds? • What: the new Google Search algorithm • Why: decreases focus on keywords in light of topics
- 18. 6. Hummingbird
- 19. 7. Local SEO • What: techniques that impact who ranks in local pack results • Why: increasing number of queries that trigger local pack
- 20. 7. Local SEO
- 21. 8. Google Analytics Demographics • What: information about your users’ age, gender, interests • Why: allows you to improve the targeting of your marketing campaigns
- 22. 8. Google Analytics Demographics Visitor age segmentation Visitor interests
- 23. BONUS ROUND Input from Rand Fishkin Will Critchlow Co-Founder of Moz Co-Founder of Distilled Ian Lurie Wil Reynolds Founder of Portent Founder of SEER Interactive
- 24. BONUS ROUND Rand: G+ Bias In Ranking Results Not only will something you share on G+ show up in the SERPs of everyone who has you in circles, but if any of your followers +1/share it, it will then show up to all of their followers, too. G+ results area appearing in a shockingly large number of search results, making it a very interesting Rand Fishkin Co-Founder of Moz end-around to rank in Google.
- 25. BONUS ROUND Will: rel=canonical for Social Signals One thing I screwed up recently is the usefulness of rel=canonical for social. If you don't have one, then people share all kinds of urls (with tracking parameters etc) and the share counts on your page only match the shares of the exact url you are on. With one, the major social networks pick up the correct share counts. Will Critchlow Co-Founder of Distilled See for example: www.distilled.net/brandopolis
- 26. BONUS ROUND Ian: Typography & Format, Language and Paid Promotion 1. Typography and layout matter, a lot. The easier something is to read, the greater impact it'll have on your audience. 2. Measure language. Grade level, reading difficulty and reading time are all good metrics for determining which content works Ian Lurie Founder of Portent best. 3. Promote the content! Marty Weintraub is the king of this - use paid social media campaigns to promote content and give it a 'jump start.'
- 27. BONUS ROUND Wil: Existing Content Promotion So one recommendation is to visit your analytics for your assets / blog posts / etc and find the content that has performed the best. With that list of naturally performing content (i.e. it got links and shares), consider accelerating the impact by buying space on subreddits, twitter, facebook, linkedin, and networks Wil Reynolds Founder of SEER Interactive like outbrain, taboola, and nrelate where we have seen serious successes.
- 28. Thanks! @mihaiaperghis @vertifyro [email protected] www.vertify.ro/blog/ Check out my Man of SEO presentation on how to become an SEO specialist