• Get your site design, content and overall experience right! • Get your content visible on page 1 of Google SERPS • Earn links, shares, reviews and comments from your customers. • Build brand authority and trust—yielding more conversions. 10 Proven Tips to Create SEO-Friendly Content So you can … Alok Jain Co-CEO & CMO
10 tips on Creating SEO-Friendly Content Optimizing your site’s content to keep it fresh, findable and relevant to changing search engine algorithms is like shooting at a moving target—and under those circumstances, hitting the bull’s-eye with your creative is an art. In this session, you’ll get an update on the latest best practices to guide content creation to maximize SEO. Gain expert insights from a major outsource provider of e-commerce web site content and hear real-life examples of how adjusting creative content improved retailers' SEO and business results.
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• Get your site design, content and
overall experience right!
• Get your content visible on page 1
of Google SERPS
• Earn links, shares, reviews and
comments from your customers.
• Build brand authority and trust—
yielding more conversions.
10 Proven Tips to
Create SEO-Friendly ContentSo you can …
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SEO Landscape
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Tip #1: Use Many TacticsGoogle uses 200+ signals to serve relevant results.
B2C Marketing Usage by Tactic
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Tip #2: Prioritize Define goals & map your priorities to chart course
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Defining your business goal and mapping your priorities will help achieve success.
• For a resource constrained team, you may prioritize tactics that are low effort, high effectiveness.
• For an advanced team, tackling tactics with low to medium effort, high effectiveness might be a good way to start.
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Objective, audience
Content types, marketing channel
Blogs, ad banners, social media posts, infographics, short how-to’s
Buyer’s guides, gift guides, white paper, forums
Top 10/best of editorial lists, product reviews, finders
Product use guides, product reviews, free trials, testimonials
Product/accessories updates, how-to’s, blogs, community forums
When
Daily, short form
Weekly, long form
On customer interaction
On purchase and just after
Customer type/purchased items
Tip #3: Know the Content to Create
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Collect Keyword Data: ideas for sources
Tip #3: Know the Content to CreateIdentify keywords, topics & themes to create content around
Plug variations of these terms into Google Adwords keyword planner to get more keyword
ideas
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• Inbound search terms• Borrowed from your competitor• Keywords in your taxonomy• Social trends• Events & holidays• Customer reviews• Get creative! (Black Friday in July)• site FAQ’s
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1. Eliminate any keywords that don’t fit brand voice or campaign goals
2. Identify share of voice (SOV) by • Filter it for targeted keyword groups by category
and competition.• Apply Organic CTR to keyword position & monthly
search volume and identify traffic.
3. Choose category based upon SOV and business priorities.
Tip #3: Know the Content to CreateTake keyword inventory, define SOV & identify key category
Position #1 equates to an average CTR of 36.4%
Position #2 earns a CTR of 17%
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Is the content unique, readable & valuable?
Did you research keywords using right tools?
Are the primary keywords in the title & URL?
Are there keywords in the image file & alt tag?
Are social sharing options available?
Does the page load fast—less than 4 seconds for all content?
Do redirects from older versions deliver directly to the page?
Is the page available to a robot crawler?
Is the URL included in the sitemap file?
Is the page using semantic (Schema) markups?
Do Not Duplicate Content
Tip #4: Optimize your contentChecklist for optimized page
Leverage URL Structure for SEO Benefit
ideal:
not ideal:
http://ww30.1800flowers.com/product.do?
baseCode=101496&dataset=1012&cm_cid=d1012
http://proflowers.com/plants/Potted-Pink-Calla-
Lilly-494
populated by product title
populated by data base
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Tools
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Tip #4: Optimize your contentWrangle your metadata
Title Tag Meta Description URL
65 characters
158 characters
92characters
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Title tags appear in more than 5 prominent places like browser tabs, SERPS & social media headlines!
Meta descriptions fuels the page “description” on a search result of social media post.
Metadata also includes protocols like Schema.org, Twitter Card, Open Graph & Google authorship
Site metadata is visible … & powerful!
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Tip #5: Scale your effortIn-house vs Outsourcing
Ideas of tasks to outsource:
• keyword research• analytics• specific writing tasks• data validation• image research• fact checking
61% of large companies (1,000+ employees)
outsource some component of their
content creation process.
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Tip #5: Scale your effortFoster collaboration (Internal teams, community & vendors)
• Our experience shows that using a workflow tool for content creation boost writer/editor efficiency by 25%.
Technology ServicesHybrid
Compendium
DivvyHQPercolate
Crowdsource
Crowdflower
ContentlyTextBroker
Brafton
AEM eZdiaKapostSkywor
dZerys
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In house content Influencer (i.e.
catalog managers)
External content partners (i.e.
suppliers)
Content Strategy
External content creators (i.e. Community,
content vendors)
In house content creators (i.e. writes/editors)
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Tip #6: Plan for Content DistributionPlan for content topics, publishing, distribution & refreshment.
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Tip #6: Plan for Content DistributionPlan for content topics, publishing, distribution & refreshment.
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Google+ rich snippets has been shown to significantly increase the click-through-rate from SERPs by as much as 150%.
source: QuickSprout.com
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Tip #7: Get on Google+It’s true! Google loves Google+… and so do searchers!
A recent study by SearchMetrics found Google +1s to be the highest-correlated factor they studied
3 Benefits to Creating Content on Google+
1. Posts are crawled and indexed by google immediately.
2. Each post is published with it’s own unique URL & title tags.
3. Each post earns page rank and can pass link equity through links.