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Critical SEO Steps to Website Redesign
Mike TurnerDirector of Business DevelopmentWebmarketing123
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A few of our clients:SEO | PPC | Social Media | Website Design
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1 Why even bother with SEO during redesign?
2 Map your keyword roadmap
3 Include Social Media
4 Select the right CMS
5 Clarify your call to action
6 Optimize for Visitors
6 Critical Steps to Website Redesign
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Buyers are moving 60-70% of the way through the sales funnel before they engage directly with sales representatives.
Shift in how your audience finds you!
Why bother W/ SEO?
Source: http://www.executiveboard.com/exbd-resources/content/digital-evolution/index.html
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Why bother W/ SEO?
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POLL:
Are you actively planning a website redesign?
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This can lead to:
1) Expensive site design changes that could have been easily implemented during the design process.
2) Missed conversion rate best practices, i.e. call to action placement and tracking issues
3) Not taking into account what keywords your audience is actually searching for and using internal jargon
Website owners often wait until after their site is
redesigned and launched before getting a SEO
expert involved.
Don’t Wait!
Why bother W/ SEO?
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You’re already ranking for some keywords. Make sure you take those rankings with you.
Establish a baseline of where your site
ranks today for your keywords
To-do list
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This client would have lost thousands of
monthly visits & lost revenue!
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• Are URLs changing?
Ex: www.mysite.com/about to www.mysite.com/aboutus
• Are you adding or removing pages?
Ex: altering or adding products and services
• Managing your inbound links
Things to consider:
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Old New
301 Redirect
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• Does my old page pass on 100% of the value to the new
page?
• How long will it take search engines to recognize this move?
• When to use a 301 vs. a 302?
• ‘Map’ old URLs to corresponding New URLs
301 Redirect FAQs
Why bother W/ SEO?
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1 Why even bother with SEO during redesign?
2 Create your keyword roadmap
3 Include Social Media
4 Select the right CMS
5 Clarify your call to action
6 Optimize for visitors
6 Critical Steps to Website Redesign
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Review: How Do Search Spiders Crawl Your Site?The follow links to get from page to page
Data Center
Create Your Keyword Roadmap
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Men’s Shoes
Women’s Shoes
Kids’ Shoes
Women’s Boots
1. Thematically group pages around keywords.
2. Link pages within the same groups to further strengthen the theme.
3. Reduce the click-depth required to reach the majority of your site’s
pages.
Create Your Keyword Roadmap
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Take this opportunity to generate targeted content
Use Google analytics (or other web analytics provider) to determine
what keyword phrases brought significant targeted traffic to your site
by keyword and which phrases resulted in conversions.
Use Google Webmaster Tools to get information about the keyword
phrases for which your site is being found such as impressions (how
many times a page on your site appeared in a search result for a
keyword phrase) and click-throughs (Webmaster Tools / Your Site on
the web / Search queries).
Create Your Keyword Roadmap
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Create Your Keyword Roadmap
- Really helpful for content writers, taking into account what your audience is ACTUALLY searching on.
- Identifies missed opportunity themes
- Gets everyone on the same page
- Needs to be updated
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1 Why even bother with SEO during redesign?
2 Create your keyword roadmap
3 Include Social Media
4 Select the right CMS
5 Clarify your call to action
6 Optimize for visitors
6 Critical Steps to Website Redesign
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Bing: “We do look at the social authority of a user”.
Google: “Yes we do compute and use author quality as a signal.”
From Danny Sullivan’s Dec 2010 Q & A with Google & Bing
Social Media mentions and sentiment are affecting organic rankings more and more
Just as Google’s Pagerank measures how authoritative a web page is deemed
to be, search engines also calculate the social authority of people, and give more
or less value to social media mentions.
Social signals become increasingly influential in organic search results, as
Google & Bing increasingly seek to deliver fresh or recent results.
Include Social Signals
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Encourage Social Media bookmarking
by installing Share buttons and
creating engaging & share-worthy
content.
Include Social Signals
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Google’s +1 Button
impacts your Ranking
Include Social Signals
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Google Authorship is a way to
verify content!
Include Social Signals
5 step Process:
- Create G+ profile for author
- Create Alternate email address*
- Add Blog URL to G+ profile
- Insert G+ profile URL in blog posts (rel=author)
- Verify that its working via WMT
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1 Why even bother with SEO during redesign?
2 Create your keyword roadmap
3 Include Social Media
4 Select the right CMS
5 Clarify your call to action
6 Optimize for visitors
6 Critical Steps to Website Redesign
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Make sure your CMS is SEO and user
friendly
Select the Right CMS
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Use a modern content management system
(CMS) that allows for customization of posts,
and content creation by many users.
50%+
9%+
7%+
% of top million websites using a CMS, Source: W3Techs.com
Select the Right CMS
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1. Page Titles
2. Meta Content
Title, Description, Keywords
3. Headers – H1, H2
4. Content modifications
5. Alt Tags for Images
SEO elements should be customizable:
6. Title Tags for Links
7. Footers
(footers specific to individual page/set of
pages)
8. Internal Links
(add/modify anchor text)
9. Page URLs
10. SEO Friendly Breadcrumbs
Make sure your CMS is SEO and user
friendly
Select the Right CMS
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<meta name="description" content="Free shipping BOTH ways on
shoes, clothing, and more! 365-day return policy, over 1000
brands, 24/7 friendly customer service. 1-800-927-7671" />MetaText
<title>Shoes, Clothing, and More | Zappos.com </title>Page Titles
Select the Right CMS
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Examples Of SEO Elements
H1 Header
Page Title
Select the Right CMS
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Digital Multimeter | Multimeter | Analog Multimeter | True-RMS Multimeter – Fluke
Digital-Multimeter
Content
Internal
Links
URL
Image ALT Tags
Inbound
Links
Examples Of SEO Elements
Select the Right CMS
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Meta Description & Keywords
Examples Of SEO Elements
Select the Right CMS
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1 Why even bother with SEO during redesign?
2 Create your keyword roadmap
3 Include Social Media
4 Select the right CMS
5 Clarify your call to action
6 Optimize for visitors
6 Critical Steps to Website Redesign
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Create a clear path from
attraction to conversion
There are three simple questions users subconsciously ask when they
arrive on your page. Your website must have an answer to:
1. Where am I?
2. What can I do here?
3. Why should I do it?
New visitors must have answers to the first
two crucial questions during the initial seven
seconds they spend on your site.
After that, every element of every page must
answer the third key question
Is your conversion
rate less than 1%
Clarify your Call to Action
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Clarify your Call to Action
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What are you supposed to do on this page?
Select the Right CMS
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What are you supposed to do on this page?
Select the Right CMS
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Recap / To-Do List
1. Talk to an SEO Expert
2. Incorporate SEO proactively
3. Select an SEO friendly CMS
4. Don’t lose the rankings you already have
5. Know your Sales Funnel!!!
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