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SEO Strategies. Drive Into Oncoming Traffic. Chad Hyams. Chad Hyams. Southeast Region Growth and Productivity Director. Please complete an evaluation form found in the back of your program guide . What We Will Cover. Which search engines matter How you get to page #1
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SEO Strategies Drive Into Oncoming Traffic Chad Hyams
Chad Hyams Southeast Region Growth and Productivity Director SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Please complete an evaluation formfound in the back of your program guide. SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
What We Will Cover • Which search engines matter • How you get to page #1 • What you should not do • And more! SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Where to Start? 1,000,000,000 Unique Monthly Visitors 290,000,000 Unique Monthly Visitors SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic Stats from eBizMBA 1/1/14
The Animals Are Running the Zoo! SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Google Panda • Released February 2011 • Goal was to lower rankings of “low-quality sites” SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Google Penguin • Released April 2012 • Goal was to lower rankings of sites that are artificially increased due to manipulation of links SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Google Hummingbird • Released September 2013 • Launched to celebrate Google’s 15thbirthday • Goal is to answer questions instead of provide search results SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Google+ • Released June 2011 • “Social network” • 540,000,000+ users (sort of) SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Social Media Impact • Likes, shares, retweets, +1s SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
What Is Google Looking For? • Domain Authority • Page Authority • Author Authority SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Domain Authority • Age • Size • Activity • Popularity SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Page Authority • Content • Links • Images • Content SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Author Authority • Shared • Located • Influence • Plus SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Become the Expert • Geographic • Demographic • Psychographic SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Geographic Expert • Specific locations, not wide areas • Focus on one area at a time SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Demographic Expert • Specific age group • Gender group SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Psychographic Expert • Specific interests • Specific lifestyles SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Blog Your Way to the Top • Content, content, content • Size matters • Google gets the point—limit keywords SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Keyword Placement • Opening sentence • Title of photo • Anchor text for hyperlink • Closing sentence SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Google Authorship • Verify that it is your content SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
Things NOT to Do • Don’t hire it out • Duplicate content • Link schemes • Forget to promote SEO Strategies: Drive Into Oncoming Traffic
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