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Page 1: Seo guide for web designers and developers

For Web Developers/Designers

SEO GUIDE

Presented by Sampath Liyanage, Internet Marketing StrategistTwitter: @sampaliyanage Linkedin : linkedin.com/in/ssampathliyanage

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OVERVIEW• Where are people searching?• How are people searching online?• How do search engines find & rank websites?• What is SEO?• Common SEO mistake• Resources• Q&A

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WHERE ARE PEOPLE?

Search Engine Market Share

14%

64%

16%

Numbers as of March 2011; Source: Mashable6% Other

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Homeowners, Clients, Buyers,

Sellers

Your Business or Website/Blog

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HOW DO SEARCH ENGINES WORK?

There are over 200 factors Google uses to rank a website.

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Google Places Map

Google Places

Organic Search Results Ads or

Paid Advertising

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HOW ARE WE SEARCHING?

The top three results receive 58% of all clicks

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Search Engine Optimization – SEOSearch engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website from search engines via natural (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.*

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

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SEO•Pull in people already searching for what you offer –

•Keywords/Content•Links•Social Media•Effective Web Design

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Common SEO Mistakes Made by Designers and Developers•Ignoring the Impact of site speed•Title tag usage•Meta tag usage•Header tag usage•Converting text to images

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Common SEO Mistakes Made by Designers and Developers

•Broken links and sitemaps•Bad URL’s•Flash only sites•No alt text for images•java script/CSS usage•The use of tobots.txt

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The impact Of Site Speed

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• In a page have multiple image it take much time to load. Therefore best practises keep image size less than 100kb

• Java script directly impact to page loading time, it's better less usage and less usage in header section. (don't load menu from java script)

• It will impact to increase bounce rate of site. That mean bad user experience. (3-5s)

• https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/

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Title Tag

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• Essential element

• Title Length 30 and 65 characters. that the length search engine display on each search result

• Each page should have unique title tag (title tag essential) That mean can't duplicate each title tag with different URL

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Title Tag

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Meta Tag• Robert meta tag• Meta keyword• Meta description

Robert Meta tag

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

• Important for crawlers• <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

Meta Keyword

• Not much important• Improve relevancy of each page

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It's essential for every page

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Meta Description

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

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Header Tag

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• Header tags are using h1 to h6

• If you use header tag on page it's better to start with h1 on each page, only one h1 tag on each page

• There order should begin with h1 to h6

• If you use logo as h1, it will duplicate on entire site, SEO best practises is use h1 on each page.

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URL Structure

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• Site URL need to use www or with out that, Cannot be duplicate entire site URL between this two URL version.

• When use CMS, Dynamic URL structure need to more user friendly, like following.

www.example.com/topic-name

Following type url not user friendly and crawler readable

www.example.com/?p=578544

•Google recommends using hyphens (-) instead of underscores (_) in URL names, since a phrase in which the words

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URL Structure

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EX: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IZ1XJ3Q/ref=s9_al_gw_g107_i2/181-6881209-3123159?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0PPK6ZWAB7BCF8FBDGRS&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1926403182&pf_rd_i=507846

Above product more index able if use following type

http://www.amazon.com/electronic/mobile/galaxys5-white

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Converting Text to Images

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• When there text on image use that can be read to crawlers

• It will impact to on page density of site.

Ex: http://3prg.com

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Broken Links and Sitemaps

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• Google hates dead links

• Dead Links are not user-friendly

• Dead Links affects your website’s conversion rate

• Dead Links stop Search Engine Crawlers.

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Flash Sites

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• Crawlers cant read flash sites

• Take much time to load compare with html sites

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Alt Text For Images

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• Crawlers cant read images, therefore alt tag is the way to give information about picture,

• Image description improve on page density

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Make JavaScript/CSS External

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• Normally do not block to JavaScript and css to crawlers, Therefore make sure site follow on w3 standard.

• Best practises, when you use javascript or css to design web page call from external javascript and css files.

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Robots. txt usage

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• Robots txt is the way to deal with search engine crawlers

• When you design a site, setup user agent as follows to block crawlers

User-agent: * Disallow: /

• After went live remove forward slash as follow

User-agent: *Disallow:

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Redirection

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• Three type• 301 redirection• 302 redirection• Meta redirection

• 301 redirection - permanent redirection

A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes link juice between 90-99%.

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Redirection

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• 302 redirection - temporally redirection

This not pass link juice

• Meta refresh this is not accepted method

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WHY SHOULD I CARE?•Be Found•Make Sales•Build a Client Base•Build a Community

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RESOURCES:•SEO Book - www.seobook.com•SEOMoz - www.seomoz.com•SearchEnginejournal –

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/

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Questions?

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Presented by Sampath Liyanage, Internet Marketing StrategistTwitter: @sampaliyanage Linkedin : linkedin.com/in/ssampathliyanage

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Thank You

SEO Guide for Web Developers/Designers

Presented by Sampath Liyanage, Internet Marketing StrategistTwitter: @sampaliyanage Linkedin : linkedin.com/in/ssampathliyanage