1. Optimizing Your Web Site for Discovery Jesse S. McDougall, Catalyst Webworks

2. @jsmcdougall #discovery

3. Discovery vs. Interruption

19. #discovery So...where are people looking?

20. #discovery A Brief History of Search

22. #discovery

23. SEO becomes CDO: Content Discovery Optimization

24. #discovery The Basics: Content must be reachable. Content must be readable. Content must be shareable. Content must be useful.

25. #discovery 1. Reachable: Are crawlers allowed? Blocked by robots.txt? Blocked by nofollow, noindex tags?

26. #discovery 2. Readable: File Formats OpenOffice text (.odt) Rich Text Format (.rtf,.wri) Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg) TeX/LaTeX (.tex) Text (.txt,.text, other file extensions), including source code in common programming languages: Basic source code (.bas) C/C++ source code (.c,.cc,.cpp,.cxx,.h,.hpp) C# source code (.cs) Java source code (.java) Perl source code (.pl) Python source code (.py) Wireless Markup Language (.wml,.wap) XML (.xml) Adobe Flash (.swf) Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) Adobe PostScript (.ps) Autodesk Design Web Format (.dwf) Google Earth (.kml,.kmz) GPS eXchange Format (.gpx) Hancom Hanword (.hwp) HTML (.htm,.html, other file extensions) Microsoft Excel (.xls,.xlsx) Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt,.pptx) Microsoft Word (.doc,.docx) OpenOffice presentation (.odp) OpenOffice spreadsheet (.ods)

27. #discovery 3. Readable: e-Books Google eBooks Scribd

28. #discovery 4. Readable: Keywords

29. #discovery 5. Readable: Information Hierarchy How to Paint H1 { color:red; font-size:72px; font-weight:bold; } How to Paint

30. #discovery 6. Readable: Within a CMS

31. #discovery 7. Readable: Headlines

32. #discovery 8. Readable & Reachable Tools google.com/webmasters seomoz.org SEO for WordPress by Yoast

33. #discovery 9. Shareable

34. #discovery 10. Shareable: A Trail to You (The Right) Embedded Links in Text, Watermarks in Photos, Text Links in Video, etc. Always embed link to source.

35. #discovery 11. OpenGraph http://ogp.me/ns# The Rock (1996) om/title/tt0117500/" /> <meta proper... ad>... http://ogp.me

36. #discovery 11. OpenGraph http://ogp.me

37. #discovery And here the work begins...

40. #discovery The Real Work: Content Promotion 1. Find Your Audience 2. Follow Your Audience 3. Publish Your Content to Their Streams

41. @jsmcdougall #discovery