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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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2 Index What is SEO? How Search Engines Work? SEO Building Blocks.. Major Function of SEO What is Keyword and Different Types of Keywords Google Keyword Planner Tool Overview Keyword Mix Google Operators Summary and Conclusion

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3 Definition of Search Engine Optimization "Natural" or "organic" search engine optimization (SEO) is designing, writing, and HTML - coding a Web site to maximize the chance its pages will appear at the top of spider-based search engine results for selected keywords and phrases Organic Listings : Listings that search engines do not sell (unlike paid listings) Functions of search engine - 1- Crawling 2- Indexing 3- Search

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4 Indexing Indexing - It is the process of submitting your website pages in Google’s database so that webpages can be found on SERP.   Google webmasters tool By links Auto crawling by Google (web server) Indexing process --- Crawling (frequency of crawling by google MG) Main program(evaluation the webpages on the bases of keywords, car, reviews-back links) Database Index or partial indexing NB: Who check whether your site is indexed or how many pages of your site is indexed in google “site:domain.com”

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5 Defining Success (Context) Search-Friendly (SEO) High ranking Terms and conditions set by search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN Search) User- Friendly Site must satisfy the needs of visitors Profitable for site owner

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6 What is keyword and different types of keywords Types of keywords - (what should be our keywords and shortlist keywords for which we want to rank-Nike shoes example) Primary—Buy shoes online Secondary---what kind of shoes, formal or casual Long tail/phrase-”how to loose your girlfriend in 5 mins” Short tail keyword “ high searched (“Amir khan” “buy shoes, nike shoes, shoes) low searched “rajender rawat” high competitive (quantity, quality) low competitive (quantity, quality) Seasonal (IPL, FIFA World cup) Misspelled (roger Federer, roger federrer) Money (buy shoes, buy iPhone 5-easy to convert into sale) Broad match, exact match and phase match

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7 Keyword tools Keyword tools Google keyword planner tool Word tracker Longtailpro Keywordtool.io

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8 Keyword research process Class-2 Search-Exercise Categorization - on the basic of similarity Analysis Selection Quality competition – Page rank Domain age Domain authority Page authority No: of back links Quality of backlinks Quantity competition- -no of result displayed by SERP

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9 Keyword research process ANALYSIS No: of searches (top ranking with decent amount of traffic) Relevancy- (how close the keyword match with your biz) Competition-(what is competition for this KW) Frequency –(how frequent the KW appears in SERP) Monetary value (Buy shoes on line) Google trends (current search for KW if the searches are dying)google.com/trends. Exercise: Write down 10 keywords relevant to your organization, using the Google Keyword Tool at https://adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool to analyze each keyword. Next to each keyword write down a.) how competitive the word is, b.) the number of global monthly searches for that keyword, and c.) the number of local monthly searches.

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10 How to do SEO? --- On page (optimizing website content) Keywords Placement Meta tags creation Content optimization Internal linking Google webmasters tool Creating sitemap Uploading sitemap --- Off page (increasing visibility and building backlinks)

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11 How to do SEO? On Page SEO- Keywords Placement Title tags --Title- (words 65-75) buy branded shoes online in India buy branded shoes buy shoes buy shoes in India buy shoes online buy branded shoes online buy branded shoes in India shoes in India Shoes online in India

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12 How to do SEO? Meta tags Meta Description- (135-165) Online Shopping Store in India for Branded Shoes, Clothing; Accessories for Men and Women. Cash on Delivery, END OF SEASON SALE, Free Shipping, 30 day returns  Buy Nike Shoes for Men online in India. Select from the wide range of Nike Men Shoes at Jabong.com. ✔ Free Shipping ✔ COD ✔ 30 Days Return

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13 How to do SEO? Headings (H1, H2, H3----- H6) H1= HEADING H2= HEADING H3= HEADING Keyword- “narendra modi career” All you want to know about narendra modi Narendra modi career highlights- Everything answered.   Text-content Domain name abccompany.com abcadvertisingagency.com

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14 How to do SEO? URL : Uniform resource locator Address of any given webpage, URL optimization- adding keywords to your URL http://myntra.com/134/abc/xyz.html http://myntra.com/shoes/puma/men.html Anchor text link Anchor text link- Add link on our “keywords”… and not on words like “click here”   customers keyword  example- Click here to know more Click here to read about “customers”

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15 How to do SEO? Alt tag Alt Tags, alternate text. Is a way to tell SE what an image is all about…. Keyword is “Honda Jazz interiors”   ALT Tag Examples - Honda car Image shows Honda Jazz car Interiors IN WordPress Sitemap - Sitemap.html - is for user Sitemap.xml - is for robots Meta Robots.txt Page layout update

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16 How to do SEO? Content Optimization: How You View Your Page Share three websites you regularly visit and indicate what you feel are the strengths and weaknesses of each, noting how “user friendly” you feel they are. Are there common characteristics “good” websites share that you can apply to your own efforts? Discussion: Consider the three scenarios below and discuss how you’d provide clarity and quality to each of the audience groups that are visiting the “Explore California” website for information: a.) a resident of California planning a one-day backpacking trip near her home; b.) a father in Massachusetts planning a two-week vacation in California for a family of four; c.) an international visitor from Japan interested in cycling across the state. Exercise: Search one keyword using a search engine of your choice, and then identify take one keyword and search in google analysis the result at number 1 position and 20th position and write as many characteristics about about each website as you can easily identify.

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17 How to do SEO? Content Optimization --- CONTENT IS KING Content Quantity (50 words less it should be at least 1000)-marketing on wiki Content Quality Content variety(images, video, infographics, downloaded pdf, table and graph) Content readability Contrast/color Points Small paragraphs Blog Subdomain -- Subdomain- http://blog.xyz.com Directory -- Directory- http://xyz.com/blog Internal links, xyz.com to xyz.com/abc External links, xyz.com to 123.com/abc should be for good sites only Keyword density, 1.5%- 2.5%

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18 How to do SEO? Internal links, xyz.com to xyz.com/abc External links, xyz.com to 123.com/abc should be for good sites only Keyword density, 1.5%- 2.5% Assignment- Write 600 words on keyword - “benefits of digital marketing”

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19 Off page SEO? 1). Directory listing -- travel directory 2). Blogging for back linking --Google operators -- iPhone 5 -Facebook, -twitter, -LinkedIn, -Pinterest 3). webmaster tool --sitemap--https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ 4. google local

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20 Off page SEO? 1. Social Networking Sites Social Networking is bigger than ever these days! Sometimes known as “Online Reputation Management”, getting involved with social media sites is the fundamental step with which you begin to advertise, market and build your online reputation within your niche. You need to sign up to the most popular social networking sites, such as; Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, etc., and create yourself a profile of your own. This allows you to extend your online network of contacts, to connect and interact with your friends, to share things with each other, and most importantly promote your website/blog and help build your online reputation.

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21 Off page SEO? 2. Blogging Blogging is one of the best ways to promote your website online! By writing a blog for your website, you give a reason for visitors to keep returning to your site and keep up to date with your latest posts. It also helps search engines to crawl your site more frequently, as they have to update your latest blog post entries, which ultimately helps you rank higher in search engine results pages (SERPs). You need to produce and include lots of unique content for your blog, such as; Infographics, Top Lists, How To…Tutorials, Viral Videos, etc. Try to remember to be clear and concise in what you are trying to convey to your readers within your blog posts, don’t waffle. To help you promote your blog, submit it to niche blog directories and blog search engines. (See below) If you’re not very good at writing content for your blog, then you could always hire a guest blogger for your blog and ask him/her to write precise and unique content so that your blog can gain more credit from a search engine point of view.

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22 Off page SEO? 3. Blog Marketing Post comments on other blogs within the same niche as yours, which allow you to add a link in the comments section. These links can then be crawled by search engines, helping to point them towards your site.  These blogs are commonly referred to as "Do-Follow” Blogs (Just like ours, where you can comment below!). 4. Forum Marketing Find forums online that are related to your sites niche and get involved within that community. Reply to threads, answer peoples questions, offer advice, etc. This all helps to build up your reputation as someone who is an expert within that niche. Try to use “Do-Follow” Forums so that you can include a link to your site within your signature, which helps search engines crawl your site.

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23 Off page SEO? 5. Search Engine Submission Search engines will eventually find your site online, but that can take a while. To speed everything up, you should submit your website to the most popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. 6. Directory Submission Many people may say that directory submission is dead! I believe that it isn’t as you are increasing the likely hood of people seeing your website. It is purely based on how effectively we are selecting those directories and how efficiently we are choosing the category for submission. You could submit to general directories, but for maximum effect, you are better off submitting to niche directories. Of course, I agree that it gives quite delayed results, but it is worth doing it.

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24 Off page SEO? 7. Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking is another great way of promoting your website. Submit your latest blog posts and pages to the most popular bookmarking sites, like StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious, Reedit, etc. Search engines really like these types of sites because the content on these sites is updated very frequently. You should be very careful while doing this and you must properly handle the tags which are very essential to broadcast your news on a wide area network. This may increase your website traffic based on how effectively you have participated. 8. Link Baiting Link baiting is another popular way of promoting your site. If you produce a really popular unique post for your site, then other people may want to link to it. Perhaps you have copied/published another website’s content on your site, don’t forget to place their website link as a reference. Do it for others and, if your content is trustworthy, let others do it for you. This is another way to increase your link popularity.

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25 Off page SEO? 9. Photo Sharing If you have used any of your own photos or images on your site, then you can share then on many of the major photo sharing websites like Flickr, Picasa, Photo Bucket, etc. Other people will be able to see them and comment on them, hopefully following a link to your site. 10. Video Marketing Just like photo sharing, if you have any videos that you have used on your site, then you can submit them to sites like; YouTube, Vimeo, etc. allowing people to find your content in other ways. 11. Business Reviews Write reviews about others businesses or ask your friends/clients to write a review of your business in major business review sites like RateitAll, Shvoong, Kaboodle, Stylefeeder, etc.

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26 Off page SEO? 12. Local Listings Depending on your site’s niche, you might find that listing in local directories may be useful. You may have a website promoting your local business, therefore instead of going global and facing huge competition, listing your website locally, so that search engines can easily view your website and fetch the content, will be much better. This will help you to reach a targeted audience. Submit your website to sites like; Google Local, Maps, Yahoo Local, Yellow Pages, etc. 13. Article Submission If you write your articles yourself, then you can submit them to popular article directory sites like; Ezine, Go Articles, Now Public, etc. This can help drive traffic to your site, whilst you can also gain some links to your site from other people (though it’s usually a slower process).

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27 Off page SEO? 14. Social Shopping Network If you run an e-commerce website, then a good strategy for advertising and branding your products for free is to submit then to online shopping networks. By submitting your products to sites like; Google Product Search, Yahoo Online Shopping, MSN Online Shopping, and other major social shopping network sites like Kaboodle, Style Feeder, etc. then you increase the likelihood of people finding the products that you are selling. 15. Answer Questions You can actively participate in answering questions on sites like Yahoo Answers. By answering and asking relevant questions on your site niche, you help to build up your reputation as someone that is an expert in your chosen field. You can place a link to your website in the source section if necessary so that people can easily find your site. If you don’t spam, this is another great way to increase your link popularity.

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32 Robots Meta tags You can force the search engine to ignore the ODP information by including a robots meta tag. If the search engine (in this case, Yahoo!) displays information about your site taken from the Yahoo! Directory instead of your description meta tag, you can force it to ignore the directory information by including a robots meta tag like this: . . The "NOODP" robots meta tag is fully supported by Google, Yahoo!, and MSN.

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33 Robots Meta tags If you only have the problem with Google, you can use this: . If you only have the problem with Yahoo!, you can use this: If you only have the problem with MSN, you can use this: . One of the most succinct methods is to use a single robots meta tag with multiple attributes separated by commas like this: payment page no index:

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34 Robots Meta tags If you want to block content from a specific search engine, you need to need to replace the value of robots with the name of the search engine spider. Some common search engine spiders are: googlebot – Google googlebot-news – Google News googlebot-image – Google Images bingbot – Bing teoma – Ask

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35 Robots Meta tags For reference, here is a list of the most common directives that are available to you: all – No restrictions on indexing or linking index – Show the page in search results and show a cached link in search results noindex – Do not show the page in search results and do not show a cached link in search results follow – Follow links on the page nofollow – Do not follow links on the page none – The same as using “noindex, nofollow” noarchive – Do not show a cached link in search results

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36 Robots Meta tags nocache – Do not show a cached link in search results nosnippet – Do not show a snippet for the page in search results noodp – Do not use the meta data from the Open Directory Project for titles or snippets for this page noydir – Do not use the meta data from the Yahoo! Directory for titles or snippets for this page notranslate – Do not offer translation for the page in search results noimageindex – Do not index images from this page unavailable_after: [RFC-850 date/time] – Do not show the page in search results after a date and time specified in the RFC 850 format

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37 Robots Meta tags A few of these directives are redundant too. , for example, will give the same result as . And there is no point using either of those meta tags since search engines will index content and follow links by default anyway.

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38 Off page SEO? WHAT IS PAGE RANK- Score given by Google to a web page on a scale of 0-10. 10 being highest. Page rank depends on- Age of domain name No: of back links Quality of back links Link juice Quality of content (on page seo) Domain authority(1-100) Page authority

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39 Off page SEO? Domain authority- page rank back links (quantity and quality) Traffic Age of the domain   Page authority Types of links Inbound Outbound

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40 Off page SEO? Follow and no follow links: anchor text   Types of link building- One way Two way (reciprocal) Three way   A.com  b.com A.com  b.com A.com b.com

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41 Off page SEO? LINK BUILDING TECHNIQUES Low hanging fruits (1st month) Content Black-hat techniques Google algorithm update  Panda- Content quantity and quality Penguin- Quality of backlinks EMD- Exact match domain

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42 Off page SEO? Low quality backlinks Non-relevant content Footer links Keywords as anchor text (70-30) Link farms New domains (6 months old) Backlinks of backlink page Links from comments on blogs Too many profile links 80-20 rule in link building (20% links for home page and 80% links for other webpages)

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43 Off page SEO? What not to do in link building?  No non-relevant back links, only get links from relevant content and webpages Do not buy links No link farms Do not go for too many web 2.0 links Do not use same content more than once Do not go only for follow backlinks` Do not go only for keywords match anchor text links Not too many profile links Try to get links from different IP addresses or web servers Try to give multiple external links rather than giving just 1 link to your money site Try not to give links in footer and add them between the content/text Do not build too many/hundreds of back links over night

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44 Off page SEO? Low hanging fruits(1st month of SEO)   Directory submission(only in top) Niche directory submission (all) Article Submission video submission (3-4 submission in 1 month) profile creation (do not build backlinks…… spamy) web 2.0 properties (build credibility, at least 3000 words and minimum 2 months old.. then give link) press release submission (once every month…. With NEWS) blog directory submission (only in top directories.. just once) eBook directory submission (only in top directories….. 2 links- website, download here)

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45 Off page SEO? Low hanging fruits(1st month of SEO)   blog comments/Forums discussions (only on related blogs and with contextual meaning full text….) article submission (1 every month, only on top website and use different URL for link) infographic submission (convert articles into infographics and post) Social bookmarking (only for visibility…. Blog articles infographics, articles, eBooks can be bookmarked, bookmarking should be done from different accounts)

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46 Off page SEO? LINK BUILDING VIA CONTENT (2nd month of SEO) Free stuff Guest blogging Paid blogs  EBook, Video, Demo, Whitepaper (Research Paper), Case study, Trial Versions,   1- Free stuff- Create a survey - Then giveaway the results for free and help others in your niche. Ask questions people want to know the answers to, so that they will pass on the information via links. Create how to videos - Teach people how to use your products, or how to be better at their jobs. Give them the type of insights they'd usually have to pay for and they'll thank you for it. We giveaway how to guides that we could charge for, simply to build brand awareness.

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47 Off page SEO? Build an amazing infographic - Spend the time to make a great looking infographic that presents key information on your niche. Make it fun to view, and post it on infographic sharing sites for a link back. Write a whitepaper - Give it away rather than charging for the results, but ask people to tweet about the whitepaper so they can get it. Here's how the Clockwork Pirate does it. Make a Top 10 list - Then link to everyone in the list and give them a badge to display on their own website. You're giving them links and exposure for free, but if they are proud of the achievement they'll link back.

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48 Off page SEO? Guest blogging Steps- Finding your niche blog that accepts guest post Checking quality of blog Dropping email Correspondence Writing post Getting link Checking live webpage Finding blogs- find blogs via Google search Guest Post “niche” Write for us “niche” “Niche” submit guest post “Niche” submit a post “Niche” guest blogging “Niche” guest blogger Use Google operators for searching

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49 Off page SEO? The following table lists the search operators that work with each Google search service. Click on an operator to jump to its description — or, to read about all of the operators, simply scroll down and read all of this page. allinurl:"guest blog" +"travel"

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50 Off page SEO? Alternative search engines Technorati.com - Blog search engine Alltop.com - Blog directory DuckDuckGo.com - Alternative search engine BlogCatalog.com - Blog search engine Best of the Web (blogs.botw.org) - Blog directory Website to connect with industry- http://myblogguest.com/ and http://www.bloggerlinkup.com/ BlogDash BlogSynergy GuestBlogIt Guest Blog Genius Guestr PostJoint  GroupHigh

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51 Off page SEO? Blackhat techniques for link building- Old Domains (How to do/leverage an old domain which already has a credibility in the eyes of Google) Content farming (content spinning)   Old domains Change your DNS asap and add content Domain should be hosted on different IP address Wait for 1 month at least before you give backlink and 6 months if it is a new domain Give multiple links on the page where you give link of your money site

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52 Off page SEO? Local SEO   Local content on website Citations H card Backlinks from local directories, classified websites Google maps- www.google.co.in/business http://blumenthals.com/google-lbc-categories/

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53 Off page SEO more resources https://majestic.com/ http://moz.com/researchtools/ose http://www.semrush.com/ https://ahrefs.com/ http://www.link-assistant.com/ http://www.longtailpro.com/ http://www.senuke.com/xcr/ http://www.magicsubmitter.com/

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54 more resources-WP plugins grunion contact form Jetpack plugins All in one seo pack. WordPress SEO by yoast Wp-DB-backup WordPress backup to dropbox WP touch Wp typography Contact page 7 Fast secure contact form Easy fancy box Wp pagenavi Yet another related post plugin Facebook lightbox Disqus

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55 Thank You