Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc
About Virante, Inc. and Me
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
• Research & Data Driven Search Marketing Company in RTP• In business since 2001• 23 Strong and Growing
The King of Infomercials
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
The ROI of On Site Optimization
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
The Goal
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
• Self Optimizing• Self Healing• Self Repairing Websites• So You Can Write Content• And Hustle for Links instead.
Self Optimizing
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
• Second Page Poaching• Sooooo last year, but wait…
There’s
More!
Second Page Poaching
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
• Highest RoI Movement• Non-Competitive Placement
Second Page Poaching
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
• Simple to Automate• Record All Pages & Keywords that Rank on Page 2 Using
Google Referrers (google.com/?q=keyword&start=10)• Distribute Links Across Site to Flow PR to Those Pages
Second Page Poaching
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
http://t1ny.us/pzy2k
May cause your website to explode…
Real-Time Referrer Indexing
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
Making the most of the links you already have.
What percentage of the pages that link to you are actually indexed by Google?
Since your link was added to the page?
Real-Time Referrer Indexing
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
Making the most of the links you already have.
• Over 10,000 Referring Pages with Followed Links
• 500+ Never Indexed by Google
• Tons of link juice waiting to be squeezed out.
Real-Time Referrer Indexing
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
Real-Time Referrer Indexing
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
Will likely melt your processor, seriously, bug test before you go live.
http://t1ny.us/iiy6o
Self Healing
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
• Catch Canonicals BeforeThey Kill!
• Fix Fat Fingered 404s on theFly!
Canonical Issue Detection & Repair
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
The problem…
• How do I find and remove potential canonical issues before they are found by the search engines?
• Somebody just linked to my page but added a ? At the end…
Canonical Issue Detection & Repair
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
A little digression
• String Similarity Measurements• Levenshtein Distance: minimum number of edits needed to
transform one string into the other, with the allowable edit operations being insertion, deletion, or substitution of a single character
• Eg: russ to best has an LD of 3 (replace r with b, u with e, and the last s with t)
• Rand to best has an LD of 4. Meaning russ is closer to best than Rand. Just sayin.
Canonical Issue Detection & Repair
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
XML Sitemaps Are Your Friend…
Canonical Issue Detection & Repair
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
Server may find you in a dark alley, ask you uncomfortable questions about your decision
to not test this code before running…
http://t1ny.us/uj0tk
PageRank Recovery on the Fly
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
Fixing Fat Fingered 404s Fantastically
• Someone linked to my page but spelled it wrong. Do I really have to find all of these one by one and contact the webmaster to change the link or, even worse, update my .htaccess file to redirect them? Don’t you have a solution that lets me spend my day in a snuggie while drinking 5 hour energy? Oooh, look, Facts of Life is on.
PageRank Recovery on the Fly
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
Shooting myself in the foot, time and time again
• Finds 404 pages with MozRank and helps you build an HTACCESS file to 301 redirect them.
• Reactive.
PageRank Recovery on the Fly
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
Fixing Fat Fingered 404s Fantastically
PageRank Recovery on the Fly
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
No Sitemap, Eh?
• Got a database of pages, like Wordpress wp_posts table?Simple, just grab the URLs from this table rather than using your sitemap.
• Got flat files? Try mod_speling http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_speling.html
• Got Windows IIS? On your own.
PageRank Recovery on the Fly
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
These Actually Work, Mostly
• Wordpress Plugin: http://t1ny.us/ybh31• Drupal Plugin: Brian Gilley, http://www.socialseo.com• PHP code: http://t1ny.us/eid23
Contact, Questions, etc.
Russ Jones, CTO, Virante, Inc.@rjonesx :: [email protected]
• Twitter: @rjonesx• Blog: thegooglecache.com• Website: www.virante.com• People You Should Meet:
• Jenn Summe: SEO Manager and Head of Virante Link Building
Jacob Bohall: Director of Business Development