Search Engine Optimization 101 What is SEM? SEO? How can I use SEO on my blogs and/or my personal web space?

Search Engine Marketing 101 Marketing a website via search engines, whether this be improving rank in organic listings (SEO), purchasing paid listings (PPC), or a combination of this

Why SEM? 1,262,000,000 internet users in /3 of consumers who have internet access buy something online 85% of all traffic on the web is referred by search engines 90% of al SE users don’t look past the first 30 results

Cost-effective advertising Clear and measurable ROI More relevant traffic + Good conversion rate = more sales and/or more leads Why SEM?

SEO: Free Traffic SEO vs SEM / SEO vs PPC

How do search engines work? Spider “crawls” the web to find new documents Search engine indexes the content, adding it to their huge database; updates database periodically SE searches its own database when a user enters in a search term SE ranks resulting documents using an algorithm (mathematical formula)

How are pages ranked? Page Relevance (on-page factors) –The degree of relevance matched to the user’s search query Link Popularity (off-page factors) –Quantity and quality of links referring the site

Search Engines love blogs Blogs: from online journals to new media Blog posts are content heavy (text & images) Unique titles Fresh content Easy Navigation Linking across blogs (networking) Simple URL structures

On-page SEO Techniques Title Tags Meta Descriptions Body Content ALT Tags (images) Header Tags, Boldface Internal Linking Place your keyword on your Blog Title! All-in-one SEO Pack Wordpress Plugin Make image’s filename keyword- rich, Use ALT Tag Keyword-rich ancho+ texts (links)

Things to avoid on-page Java or JavaScript navigation Flash-based or overly graphical website Keyword spamming Too many parameters in the URL Nonstandard characters in the URL Mirror sites Same title tags on all pages

Off-page Optimization Competitor’s Link Profile Analysis Submissions –Articles, Press Releases –Web Directories Interactions –Forum postings, Blog comments –Social bookmarking –Link exchange

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