yoast seo on wordpress - nov 2016
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YOAST SEO PLUGIN
David MackeyModshopr
What you need to know to get results
Ottawa WordPress Meetup
David Mackey@dbmackey
AGENDAWho Are you?
Who Am I?
Problem - More traffic to your website!
Solution - Yoast SEO Plugin (features & demo)
Questions
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WHO ARE YOU?
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WHO AM I?Geek
• B.Math in Computer Science with Electrical Engineering Electives, Honours, Co-op, University of Waterloo
• 23 years in Telecommunications at Nortel/Avaya Programmer/Manager/Architect & Customer Service
Digital Marketing Consultant• Solution Architect who connects businesses with customers• 185 Twitter Followers - @dbmackey
Frustrated Shopper• Modshopper Website• 300 Twitter Followers - @modshopper
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HOMEWORK
Create Your Story (aka Marketing Plan)
Who do you want to attract?
What keywords words do they search for?
What do you want them to do?
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OUR STORY
We are a Christmas* Gift Store
Target: Christmas Shoppers
Keywords: Christmas Gifts
Note: Consider the inclusiveness of keywords
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DIGITAL MARKETING
Customer
Search
Products & Services [Unique Value Proposition]
SEO
Content Marketing
ConversionsWEBSITE
Data Analytics
Social Media
Demand Generation
[Paid Advertising]
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SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO)
Customer Search Engine
UVP
Yoast SEO
Search
Search Engine Result Page
(SERP)
Crawl
Visit
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It’s very popular!
1 Million+ Installs
WHY YOAST SEO?
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YOAST FEATURESContent
• Content Analysis aka Readability• Canonical (avoid duplicate content)• Text, Images & Video (avoid PDFs)
Keywords • Post Titles & Meta Descriptions• Permalinks
Structure • Allow SEO Bots• Title (H1), Sub Headings (H2), etc
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DEMO
SLIDES
http://www.slideshare.net/davidmackey351/presentations
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BACKUP REFERENCES
Yoast SEO Blog
Search Engine Land
MOZ Blog
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QUESTIONS
David [email protected]
@dbmackey - Digital Marketing@modshopper - Shopping UX
https://modshopr.com
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THANK YOU!
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PUPPY PICTURE