Delight Your Customers with Modern SEO
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The document provides guidelines for modern SEO practices, emphasizing the importance of keyword optimization in title tags, headers, body copy, alt attributes, URLs, and meta descriptions to enhance search visibility. It highlights the significance of creating quality, customer-focused content to improve user engagement and satisfaction, while also warning against practices that may lead to penalties from search engines. Additionally, it stresses the necessity of a responsive design, excellent user experience, and the incorporation of valuable external links.
Delight Your Customers with Modern SEO
- 1. D E L I G H T Y O U R C U S T O M E R S W I T H M O D E R N S E O
- 2. C H A R L O T T E H A N @ S U N S I R E N D I G I TA L A N A LY S T @ S A P 1 0 + Y E A R S I N M A R K E T I N G 7 + Y E A R S I N S I L I C O N VA L L E Y W E B A N A LY T I C S S O C I A L M E D I A I N T E L L I G E N C E D I G I TA L C H A N N E L O P T I M I Z AT I O N S E O / S E M C O N T E N T S T R AT E G Y C O N T E N T M A R K E T I N G
- 3. W H AT I S S E O ? W H AT A B O U T S E M ?
- 4. Best place to hide a dead body? Page 2 of Google search results.
- 5. S E O B A S I C S
- 6. O N - PA G E O P T I M I Z AT I O N W I T H K E Y W O R D P H R A S E S 1. In the title at least once, as close to the beginning of the title tag the better. (Between <title></title>) 2. Once prominently near the top of the page. (Between <h1></h1>)
- 7. O N - PA G E O P T I M I Z AT I O N W I T H K E Y W O R D P H R A S E S ( C O N T I N U E D ) 3. At least 2-3 times in the body copy, including variations. (Between <body></body>) 4. At least once in the image alt attribute. <img src=“lipbalm.gif" alt="The best lip balm with SPF for summer”>
- 8. O N - PA G E O P T I M I Z AT I O N W I T H K E Y W O R D P H R A S E S ( C O N T I N U E D ) 5. Once in URL. 6. At least once in meta description. Not for search engine ranking but rather to attract searchers. (e.g. <meta name="description" content=“Find out which lip balm with SPF is the best for summer. This will often show up in search results.”>) Does this make me want to click?
- 9. PAGE TARGETING THE PHRASE “RUNNING SHOES” TITLE: Running Shoes for Runners Who Love Quality, Comfortable Shoes H1 HEADER TAG: Find the Best Running Shoes to Fit Your Needs BODY COPY: Some compelling text about the benefits of choosing the right running shoes, finding the brands and sizes that fit your feet and how to compare running shoes in a logical, easy to follow way. This is also a good place to describe how different running shoes apply to different activities like trail running, long-distance running, sprinting…, etc. ALT ATTRIBUTE TO PHOTO: The famous running shoes of an Olympian URL: http://www.yourdomain.com/RunningShoes
- 10. W H AT D O E S G O O G L E ’ S PA N D A U P D AT E M E A N T O Y O U ?
- 11. Q U A L I T Y C O N T E N T = C U S T O M E R - F O C U S E D A N D E N G A G I N G .
- 12. W H AT W I L L D I E • Content stuffed with empty, irrelevant keywords • Unauthoritative content that offers no knowledge • Scraped content • Affiliate pages that don’t say anything substantial • Automatically generated content • Duplicate content* • Pages for phishing or installing malware
- 13. I T ’ S N O T A B O U T Y O U . I T ’ S A B O U T T H E M .
- 14. S T O P T H I N K I N G A B O U T O P T I M I Z I N G Y O U R PA G E T H I N K A B O U T O P T I M I Z I N G T H E S E A R C H E X P E R I E N C E F O R Y O U R P R O S P E C T S A N D C U S T O M E R S I N S T E A D .
- 15. H O W C A N Y O U H E L P Y O U R A U D I E N C E ? PA I N G O A L H E L P What keeps them awake at night? What’s their biggest problem? What’s their goal? What do they really want? What is their dream? How can you help solve their problem? How can you make their job easier? How can you help? What’s their pain point?
- 16. S AT I S F Y I N G A N D Q U A L I T Y C O N T E N T: S U C C E S S FA C T O R S Uniquely Valuable: the content offers everything a searcher might want in a unique high-quality combination. Phenomenal UX: clear layout, solid visuals, beautiful and simple design make the page easy to use and enjoy.
- 17. S AT I S F Y I N G A N D Q U A L I T Y C O N T E N T: S U C C E S S FA C T O R S ( C O N T I N U E D ) Built to share: social buttons make it easy for visitors to share on their favorite social networks and provide social proof. Responsive design: the page should load looking great on any device, screen size, and browsers.
- 18. S AT I S F Y I N G A N D Q U A L I T Y C O N T E N T: S U C C E S S FA C T O R S ( C O N T I N U E D ) Barriers Removed: make your site accessible for both search robots and humans. In other words, don’t do this
- 19. S AT I S F Y I N G A N D Q U A L I T Y C O N T E N T: S U C C E S S FA C T O R S ( C O N T I N U E D ) Speed it up: scientists at Microsoft have shown that users will visit a site less often if it’s only 250 milliseconds slower than the competition. Source: NYTimes
- 20. S AT I S F Y I N G A N D Q U A L I T Y C O N T E N T: S U C C E S S FA C T O R S ( C O N T I N U E D ) Linking out: link to other valuable sources of information when appropriate to satisfy user query, so they don’t return to Google to try again. In this case, you are the authority hub.
- 21. S H A R E Y O U R T I P S A N D T R I C K S !
- 22. SET GOAL. MAKE PLAN. GET TO WORK. STICK TO IT. REACH GOAL. C H A R L O T T E H A N | @ S U N S I R E N