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How to Make SEO an Integral Part of your
Community Strategy
Jennifer Sable Lopez Director of Community at Moz
@jennita
How many times per day do you search?
https://history.google.com/history/lookup
How many times per day do you search?
What do you search for?
What do you search for?
What’s after search?
You click the link Oh! An online community.
And then another…
Looks like I can search!
An internal search?
Looks like I can search!
This is what I want!
Just what I was hoping for
How do you find it again?
This looks similar, but not the same.
Actually… This is better!
*click*
3.5 billion + Google searches/day
46,042 searches in just one second
People search with specific intent.
Make sure your community can be easily found.
How can a Community Manager do that?
How can a Community Manager do that?
We’ll start with keywords!
Knowing the language your community uses is a win-win!
You create the right content.
You create the right content. They find it.
You create the right content. They find it. Everyone wins!
Twitter Card code !<!-- Twitter card data -->!<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">!!<meta name="twitter:site" content="@twitterhandle">!!<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@AuthorTwitter”> ! !<meta name="twitter:title" content=”Title specific to Twitter – short works great!">!!<meta name="twitter:description" content=”Remember this is being shared on Twitter, make it enticing to the FB user.">!!<meta name="twitter:image" content=”image URL for the image you want to display">!!
Wait. What does social sharing have to do with search?
The first few days are key to gaining momentum…
It usually starts with social shares.
Create a great resource
Get lots of social shares
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Shared with authority
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Of varying degrees
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Lots of people see it
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Get mentions across web
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Earn lots of links
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With varying anchor text
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The words used to link to
the content
From high authority sites
Page Authority
Rank #1 in Google!
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Got it. But what if we already have a bunch of links *and* social shares?
Got it. But what if we already have a bunch of links?
Ok. Let’s make sure they’re working!
Find & fix broken links
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Open Site Explorer - Top Pages
These pages return 404 page not found error.
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Any low-hanging fruit?
This one has 31 links from 7 different websites
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Ok, this one looks easy!
This page, links to http://www.fitbit.com/%E2%80%8E instead of http://www.fitbit.com/
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Send the author an email
Hi! Would you mind
fixing this link?
Thanks!
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Go back and fix the next one!
Another page with several good backlinks
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Then temporary redirects
These pages do a 302 (temporary) redirect. You want a 301 (permanent)
redirect instead.
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Then temporary redirects
Holy shmoly! This page has 424 links from 134
different sites.
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Then temporary redirects
Simply changing this 302 to a 301 will help
increase your authority.
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Email your dev right away Hi! Can you fix this
from 302s to 301? It
will help us show
up in Google better.
Cool. I’ll get that on my list to change. Will let you know
when it’s done!
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Let’s talk a bit about evergreen content.
Use same URL over & over
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We do this every two
years
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It continues to earn social
shares
Use same URL over & over
Keep earning links!
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Because we don’t change the current
URL
Keep earning links!
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And we keep earning links each year it
gets updated
Keep earning links!
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355 links in the past 60
days… and it’s 3 years old!
Keep earning links!
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All of which helps give this page
super high page authority
Which helps you rank better
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Oh, hai! That’s Moz.
Whew. What’s next?
Whew. What’s next?
Can Google crawl my site?
Screaming Frog
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
Moz Analytics
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q Integrate keyword research & optimization
q Longtail FTW q Set up Open Graph + Twitter cards for
easy sharing q Social assists Search q Fix links to increase authority q Remember evergreen content q Run checks for crawlability q Make friends with your SEO & dev!
Checklist
Integrate SEO into your Community Strategy.
Because your community is searching for you.
SEO + Community =
Jennifer Sable Lopez Director of Community at Moz
@jennita !!
Thank You
Ø Google History Lookup Ø Google Suggest Ø Keywordtool.io Ø Followerwonk Ø Open Site Explorer Ø Open Graph Ø Facebook Debugger Ø Twitter Cards Ø Screaming Frog Spider Ø Moz Analytics
Tools Mentioned
Ø Beginner’s Guide to SEO http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
Ø 7 Advanced SEO Concepts http://moz.com/blog/7-advanced-SEO-concepts
Ø Visual Guide to Keyword Targeting http://moz.com/blog/visual-guide-to-keyword-targeting-onpage-optimization