An Introduction to SEO: Guest Lecture
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The document is a guest lecture by Benjamin Morel on SEO, emphasizing its importance for driving organic visibility and revenue. It discusses how search engines work, the significance of creating value through effective website design, content, and the use of keywords. It concludes that SEO is an ongoing process that requires continuous effort and relationship building to succeed.
An Introduction to SEO: Guest Lecture
- 1. An Introduction to SEO Guest Lecture by Benjamin Morel
- 2. An Introduction To Me 2 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 3. An Introduction To Me Benjamin Morel Project Manager and Digital Marketer @BenjaminMorel Linkedin.com/in/benmorel ben@obergine.com 3 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 4. An Introduction To Me Obergine Creative Digital Agency @Obergine Linkedin.com/company/obergine Obergine.com Slideshare.net/obergine 4 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 5. What is SEO? 5 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 6. What is SEO? First: Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) 6 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 7. What is SEO? Paid search listings (ads) 7 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 8. What is SEO? Organic Listings: you canât pay! 8 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 9. What is SEO? Or universal listings 9 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 10. What is SEO? SEO is the attempt to gain search enginesâ organic visibility in and universal results with the aim of driving revenue 10 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 11. How do Search Engines Work? 11 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 12. What is SEO? âOur goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to find the information you need and get the things that you need to do doneâ - Google http://www.google.co.uk/about/company/products/ 12 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 13. What is SEO? 13 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 14. How do Search Engines Work? 14 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 15. How do Search Engines Work? 15 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 16. How do Search Engines Work? 16 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 17. How Do We Achieve SERP Visibility? Links â Citations 17 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 18. How Do We Increase Our Visibility? 18 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 19. How Do We Achieve SERP Visibility? By Creating 19 Value An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 20. How Do We Achieve SERP Visibility? âThe more creative you are or the better the experience is with your website, the more likely you are to be successfulâ â Matt Cutts http://www.stonetemple.com/link-building-is-not-illegal-or-bad/ 20 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 21. How Do We Create Value? 21 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 22. 1. Have A Site That Works Well 22 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 23. Create Value: Have A Site That Works Use search engine friendly URLs: they keep people happy as well. 23 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 24. Create Value: Have A Site That Works Which URL means more? http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=95330226 or http://www.linkedin.com/profile/benmorel 24 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 25. Create Value: Have A Site That Works <title> elements and META descriptions are your shop window. 25 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 26. Create Value: Have A Site That Works Which would you click? 26 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 27. Create Value: Have A Site That Works Search engine friendly URL 27 Not-so friendly URL An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 28. Create Value: Have A Site That Works Unique <title> tags 28 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 29. Create Value: Have A Site That Works Unique META description 29 No META description An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 30. Create Value: Have A Site That Works content they need and do it quickly Serve people with the 30 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 31. Create Value: Have A Site That Works 47% of people expect a web page to load in 2 seconds or less http://blog.kissmetrics.com/loading-time/ 31 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 32. Create Value: Have A Site That Works Intuit took average page load time from 15s to 5-6s. They boosted conversion rates by 14% http://velocityconf.com/velocityny2013/public/schedule/detail/30146 32 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 33. Create Value: Have A Site That Works How do search engines know when Iâve written something? 33 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 34. Create Value: Have A Site That Works How do search engines know when Iâve written something? 34 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 35. Create Value: Have A Site That Works How do search engines know I wrote this? 35 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 36. Create Value: Have A Site That Works They read Structured Data 36 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 37. Create Value: Have A Site That Works <p> My name is Benjamin Morel. I have a profile on <a href=âhttp://twitter.com/benjaminmorel> Twitter</a>. </p> 37 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 38. Create Value: Have A Site That Works <p itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Person"> My name is <span itemprop=ânameâ rel=âauthorâ> Benjamin Morel</span>. I have a profile on <a href=http://twitter.com/benjaminmorel itemprop=âsameasâ> Twitter</a>. </p> 38 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 39. Create Value: Have A Site That Works <p itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Person"> My name is <span itemprop=ânameâ rel=âauthorâ> Benjamin Morel</span>. I have a profile on <a href=http://twitter.com/benjaminmorel itemprop=âsameasâ> Twitter</a>. </p > 39 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 40. Create Value: Have A Site That Works Look! Google knows it was written by me! 40 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 41. Create Value: Have A Site That Works Look! Google knows it was written by me! 41 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 42. Create Value: Have A Site That Works Structured data gives rich snippets 42 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 43. Create Value: Have A Site That Works âRich snippets⌠help you communicate a clear, unique value proposition and establish a competitive advantageâ â Hubspot http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/power-google-rich-snippets-ecommerce-seo-ht 43 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 44. 2. Create Great Sales Pages 44 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 45. Create Value: Great Sales Pages Not-So-Great http://www.countryattire.com/shop-by-brand/hunter-boots/hunter-original-tall-gloss-wellington-boots-black.html 45 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 46. Create Value: Great Sales Pages Great http://www.zappos.com/hunter-hunter-original-black 46 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 47. Create Value: Great Sales Pages Not-So-Great Minimal product info http://www.countryattire.com/shop-by-brand/hunter-boots/hunter-original-tall-gloss-wellington-boots-black.html 47 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 48. Create Value: Great Sales Pages Great Look at all that useful info! http://www.zappos.com/hunter-hunter-original-black 48 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 49. Create Value: Great Sales Pages Great Reviews build trust http://www.zappos.com/hunter-hunter-original-black 49 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 50. Create Value: Great Sales Pages Great Size guide Size guide accuracy. More trust building http://www.zappos.com/hunter-hunter-original-black 50 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 51. Create Value: Great Sales Pages Not-So-Great Tiny colours, not even on this page http://www.countryattire.com/shop-by-brand/hunter-boots/hunter-original-tall-gloss-wellington-boots-black.html 51 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 52. Create Value: Great Sales Pages Great Easily compare colours, with context http://www.zappos.com/hunter-hunter-original-black 52 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 53. Create Value: Great Sales Pages Give your customers useful that they canât information find anywhere else. Make them trust you and give them a reason to buy 53 from you, not anybody else. An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 54. 3. Have great design 54 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 55. Create Value: Great Design http://livingedge.com.au/shop/ 55 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 56. Create Value: Great Design What We See What Robots Would See http://livingedge.com.au/shop/ 56 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 57. Create Value: Great Design 57 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 58. Create Value: Great Design Robots can read this 58 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 59. Create Value: Great Design Make your design person 59 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture friendly.
- 60. Create Value: Great Design Not person friendly http://cavs.mit.edu/ 60 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 61. Create Value: Great Design Person friendly http://www.hubspot.com 61 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 62. Create Value: Great Design Great design helps everyone find the value in your offering. 62 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 63. 4. Create Remarkable content 63 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 64. Create Value: Remarkable Content âCows, after youâve seen them for a while, are boring. They may be perfect cows, attractive cows, cows with great personalities, cows lit by beautiful light, but theyâre still boring.â 64 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 65. Create Value: Remarkable Content âA Purple Cow, though. Now that would be interesting.â â Seth Godin Seth Godin, Purple Cow (Penguin Books) 65 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 66. Create Value: Remarkable Content People donât talk about good. They talk about remarkable 66
- 67. Create Value: Remarkable Content In the latest Moz correlation survey all of the top 44 ranking factors related to links, social media interaction, and trust. http://moz.com/search-ranking-factors 67
- 68. Create Value: Remarkable Content Getting all four of these right creates clear value 68
- 69. Where Do Keywords Fit? 69 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 70. Where Do Keywords Fit? Keywords = aggregated search queries 70
- 71. Where Do Keywords Fit? They give us targets to aim for. 71
- 72. Where Do Keywords Fit? They help us target the right audience 72
- 73. Create Value: Where Do Keywords Fit? They help set context: Where is the person in the buying process? What are their aims with this search? 73
- 74. Where Do Keywords Fit? Topic vectors Wellington Wellington Welly Wellesley New Zealand Boot Waterloo North Island Rubber Duke Hutt Rain 74 Wellington Napoleon Russell Crowe
- 75. Where Do Keywords Fit? Topic vectors Shoes Cities 75
- 76. Where Do Keywords Fit? Topic vectors Boots Shoes Capital of New Zealand Cities 76
- 77. Where Do Keywords Fit? Topic vectors Boots Wellington Shoes Capital of New Zealand Cities 77
- 78. Where Do Keywords Fit? Good on-page SEO looks a lot like good writing An Introduction to SEO SEO search engines keywords SEO rankings optimisation SEO and Digital Marketing 78
- 79. Where Do Keywords Fit? Remember, rankings are less important than revenue 79
- 80. How Do We Get Exposure For Our Valuable Content? 80 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 81. How do we get Exposure? By building relationships 81
- 82. How do we get Exposure? Social media is an invaluable part of SEO. Make its use a core part of your strategy. 82
- 83. How do we get Exposure? Find influencers who may be interested in your content â and be interested in them. 83
- 84. When Does The SEO Process Finish? 84 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 85. When Does The SEO Process Finish? Never! The search landscape changes: guest blogging, HTML5, Google+, the knowledge graph, universal results, structured data. Theyâve all changed in the last three years. 85 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 86. When Does The SEO Process Finish? Never! There will always be someone smarter, cleverer, more creative, quicker off the mark, better connected, or more interesting than you. And you will always need to beat them. 86 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 87. To Conclude 87 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture
- 88. To Conclude 1. SEO is all about organic search visibility and driving revenue 2. That visibility and revenue comes from providing value 3. Value comes from technical competence, good design, and remarkable content 4. Keywords give you targets (not goals) 5. You need to convince people of your contentâs value. Build relationships with them 6. SEO is an on-going process not a campaign 88 An Introduction to SEO: An Oxford Brookes Guest Lecture