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Page 1: Secrets of Search Engine Rankings€¦ · Search Engine Optimization Matters! Why? SearchBrothers.com Former Google Search Quality for Your SEO. Users. Saving The Day. Why Google?

Secrets of Search Engine Rankings

#itbcon17

SearchBrothers.com Former Google Search Quality for Your SEO

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Search Engine Optimization Matters!

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Why?

SearchBrothers.com Former Google Search Quality for Your SEO

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Users

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Saving The Day

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Why Google?

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Search Engine Optimization

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Search Engine Rankings

Fundamentals

SearchBrothers.com Former Google Search Quality for Your SEO

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How Search Works

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SearchBrothers.com Former Google Search Quality for Your SEO

Search Engine Rankings

Crawling

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Be accessible: Network

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Be accessible: robots.txt

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Discovery: Internal Linking

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Discovery: External Links

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Google Search Console

http://sbr.link/ewm

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Page Speed

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Log File Analysis

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Log File Analysis

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Take Away

Encourage your website to be crawled.

Track what Googlebot sees.

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SearchBrothers.com Former Google Search Quality for Your SEO

Search Engine Rankings

Indexing

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Foundation

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Multi-Device Friendly

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Progressive Enhancement

http://sbr.link/bbx

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Canonicals

http://sbr.link/canonicals

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Noindex

http://sbr.link/noindex

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GSC Settings

http://sbr.link/preferred-domainhttp://sbr.link/country-target

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Localization

http://sbr.link/hreflanghttp://sbr.link/x-default

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Structured Data

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Structured Data: WebSite

http://sbr.link/iaf

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Structured Data: SearchAction

http://sbr.link/hob

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Structured Data: Organization

http://sbr.link/mvh

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Structured Data: BreadcrumbList

http://sbr.link/gzu

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Answers

http://sbr.link/jpy

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Answers

http://sbr.link/jpy

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Manage Link Reputation Risks

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Manage Link Reputation Risks

http://sbr.link/kvr

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Avoid Conflicting Signals

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Avoid Conflicting Signals

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Take Away

Help Googlebot understand your website.

Avoid sending conflicting signals.

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SearchBrothers.com Former Google Search Quality for Your SEO

Search Engine Rankings

Users

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Be a Brand

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Unique Sales Proposition

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User Experience Marketing

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Content Matters

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Solve User's Problems

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Avoid Obstacles

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Other Users

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Take Away

Have a unique sales proposition!

Put users first!

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SearchBrothers.com Former Google Search Quality for Your SEO

Search Engine Rankings

Search Result Rankings

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Rankings != Magic

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Google Webmaster Guidelines

http://sbr.link/wop

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Manage User Expectations

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SERPs

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SERPs

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Recording User Signals

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GSC Search Analytics

http://sbr.link/vhz

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Take Away

User signals and first impressions matter!

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Think About This!

If Googlebot can not crawl your website, can not index your

website, or your website misses user expectations, why expect Google to rank your website?

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Fili Wiese

SEO Consultant

Penalty Recovery Expert

Former Senior Google Support Engineer

Former Senior Google Search Quality Analyst

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SearchBrothers.com Former Google Search Quality for Your SEO

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