cms & database seo

CMS & Database SEO

By Rob Laporte, PresidentDISC, Inc. - “Making Web Sites Make Money”[email protected] www.2disc.com

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DISC, Inc - “Making Web Sites Make Money”www.2disc.com - [email protected] - 413.584.6500 - 123 Bay Rd., Hadley, MA 01035

Overview

• My Background• Questions to Audience• What is CMS-SEO?• CMS-SEO in Relation to Total SEO • This Presentation Based on Two Articles I Published• CMS-SEO in Relation to All SEO • The Database in CMS & Database SEO• SEO Graphic Design, Layout, and Usability• Page-Level CMS-SEO Rules• Site-Wide CMS-SEO Principles


Overview

• What Google’s February 24 “Panda” Update Portends

• A Few Good Resources• Where to Get the Two Articles Behind

this Presentation • Twitter & SEO• A Few Good Resources• Contacting Me At DISC


My Background

• Twitter Hash Tag:

– #CMSSEO


Questions to Audience

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What is CMS-SEO?

• CMS (content management system) & database SEO entails having your CMS pull keywords and phrases from your product or information database into all web-page parts relevant to SEO, except for the body copy. Although it does not apply to static sites without database-driven content, many of the CMS SEO rules below can be applied to such sites manually. Because CMS SEO performs a lot of SEO automatically and can treat thousands of pages, it is the most cost-effective SEO tactic.


This Presentation Based on TwoPrint Articles I Published

• Linked at the end of this presentation

• See 2disc.com/disc_in_the_media.php

• Or See VisbilityMagazine.com

http://www.2disc.com/disc_in_the_media.php

http://www.visbilityMagazine.com/


CMS-SEO in Relation to SEO

• New new client questionnaire

• SEO technical audit (overlap with CMS-SEO)

• Keyword research

• SEO copywriting

• Link marketing

• ROI reporting


The Database inCMS & Database SEO

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SEO Graphic Design,Layout, and Usability

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Page-Level CMS-SEO Rules

• Duplicating key phrases among HTML titles, keyword and descriptive meta-tags, copy headers, and footer taglines within a given web page will help SEO without any risk of raising a spam flag, assuming that you don’t overuse the phrases in the body copy.


Page-Level CMS-SEO Rules

• HTML titles (1)

• Headers in body copy (1)

• Descriptive meta-tags (2, but for click-throughs, not for SEO)

• Keyworded footer taglines (2)

• Keyword meta-tags (3)

• Alt tags (3)

• Title Tags (3)


Example: Page-LevelCMS-SEO Rules

• Meta tags:– <title>Winsor & Newton Artists' Watercolors (SKU #)

</title>

– <meta name="description" content="Winsor & Newton Artists' Watercolors and other discount art supplies from YourDomain.com">

– <meta name="keywords" content="Winsor & Newton Artists' Watercolors, artists materials, discount art supplies, art supply stores, discount art supply warehouse, paint for artists, watercolor paints">


Example: Page-LevelCMS-SEO Rules

• Keyworded footer tagline:

– <h2> Your-Company-Name or YourDomainName.com: Winsor & Newton Artists’ Watercolors and other discount art supplies online from an art supply store offering quality, selection, and affordability. </h2>


Site-Wide CMS-SEO Principles

• Are XML Sitemaps a Magic Bullet?

• SEO’d URLS, Folders, Files

• DHTML – Don’t Hide Text; Make Legitimate

• Can’t cover:– Your JavaScript Brew: Ajax, “Degradable Ajax,”

Hijax, and an Easy Way Out; last modified and server cache issues; site speed issues.

• Siloing


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What Google’s 2/24/11“Panda” Update Portends

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Program Once –Profit in Perpetuity

Programming your CMS to pull keywords into your pages may require a week of skilled labor, but you end up with an intelligent SEO machine that works for you in perpetuity. True, the resulting SEO is not as good as careful manual work – which should be done in addition – but the ROI escalates over months and years because your SEO costs in this area drop to zero.


A Few Good Resources

• SearchEngineLand.com• SearchEngineWatch.com• Books: The Art of SEO, SEO for

Dummies -- both Dummies versions

• Read Google’s vast resources.


Contacting Me at DISC

• Rob Laporte

– [email protected]– 413-584-6500– See 2disc.com– 2disc.com/blog

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• If you find Google’s G-spot, you can stop working for days.

• Sure-fire recipe for web marketing ROI: plan, do, track, repeat until early retirement.

• Detailed graphs of search engine positions are the revenge of the lava lamp.

• If you're a peanut farmer, STOP selling orange juice!

• God made the universe out of nothingness . . . Oh GREAT, thanks a lot. I just knew something wasn’t quite right here.

• Would it be dumb if Tweedledum tweeted Tweedledee?

• @DiscSEM

Twitter & SEO


• I invite your questions and comments

• To read my complete articles on CMS-SEO (much more detail), see:– 2disc.com/disc_in_the_media.php– VisibilityMagazine.com

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