content writing & seo
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Content writing &
SEO
Google in statistics
#1 Search engine in the world -‐ 65% of shares (global) Search sta*s*cs: Google: 35 000 searches per second Yahoo: 3,200 searches per second Bing: 927 searches per second Social Media sta*s*cs: Facebook status updates: 700 per second Twi=er tweets: 600 per second Buzz posts: 55 per second Search engines use spiders to crawl the web. A single page can be crawled, cached & updated few Fmes per day Total index: Trillions of pages
Revenue comes from PPC: $42.5 billion in 2012
What is Search Engine Optimization?
Ads represents more than 90% of Google’s total revenue.
Goals: -‐ match search queries with the best possible results -‐ Keep users happy -‐ Traffic -‐ Clicks
Eye tracking studies
We can improve our ranking on Google. First we should ask ourselves the following quesFons: Ø Is the content relevant for the user?
-‐ Content quality -‐ Unique content -‐ Authorship
Ø Is the website popular & influen*al? -‐ Who is talking about your website? -‐ Engagement on social media? -‐ Are the people talking about you influenFal? -‐ Author rank
Ø Is your website clear enough? -‐ Website structure -‐ NavigaFon -‐ Loading Fme…
What organic results depends on?
Tips for SEO friendly content • Write for humans first! • Never copy content. Always use unique and fresh content (expt. quotes)
• Repeat main key words few Fmes. Use variaFons, synonyms. Don’t focus on KW density • Title: Use short catchy *tles with main key words at the beginning – impact on CTR
• Meta descripFon: around 24 KW (163 characters) – impact on CTR • ArFcles should content more than 300 words (recommendaFons: +500 words)
• Use internal linking (0-‐2 links max per arFcle) and bald important ideas • Social Media’s engagement will impact SEO. Comment on blogs, social media with a link to
your arFcle. Search engines will prioriFze popular content
• Use Google KW generator for Search volumes, AnalyFcs for top content/categories
Authorship & author rank
• Authorship: 2011: Google begins ahribuFng content to original authors. By connecFng your content to Google+, Your name and picture will show in Google. Impact on CTR. • Author Rank Many SEO suspect that Google will start using author rank to idenFfy quality content and influenFal writers.
Share your content, engage the community
• Blog Comments: -‐ Industry oriented -‐ Generalist blogs -‐ VariaFon in names/links -‐ Direct traffic / SEO
• Use Social Media: -‐ Force engagement -‐ Ask quesFon -‐ Interact with influenFal people (authority rank) -‐ Traffic / SEO
Tools & more TOOLS: For search volumes: Google kw generator For trends: hhp://www.google.com/trends/ For duplicate content: hhp://www.copyscape.com/ For analysis on popular content: Google AnalyFcs or check the monthly reports
-‐ Top pages: Content > Overview -‐ Top queries: Traffic Sources > SEO > Queries
FOR MORE INFOS: MarkeFng news: hhp://searchengineland.com/ and hhp://markeFngland.com/ More details about Titles and descripFons from Google Webmaster Tool Graphic overview of how SEO works
Any questions? Contact us at: www.houseofradon.com