Sponsored by the Ladysmith Downtown Business Association, this free seminar from Paul Mycroft Design presents an overview of what makes Google tick and how you can get your website to perform to its maximum potential in this "monster" of a search engine.

1. Ladysmith Downtown Business Association
presents
Taming the
Google Monster!
June 23rd, 2010
By Paul Mycroft Design

2. Questionnaire results
Taken from 17 questionnaire results at LDBA membership meeting
1. Do you have a business website?
Yes No 21%
79%

3. Questionnaire results
2. Do you use visitor tracking software?
Yes No
47%
53%

4. Questionnaire results
3. If YES, do you analyze traffic?
Yes No
37%
63%

5. Questionnaire results
4. Do you know what “SEO” means?
32%
Yes No
68%

6. Questionnaire results
5. Which search engine(s) do you use?
6%
17%
Google Yahoo!
Other
78%

7. Questionnaire results
6. Are you happy with the results?
26%
Yes No
74%

8. Questionnaire results
7. Do you have a Google account?
42%
Yes No
58%

9. Questionnaire results
8. Do you update your site on a regular basis?
No Yes 47%
53%

10. Questionnaire results
9. If YES, how do you do it?
Self
Other 38%
63%

11. 1) Free Google Account
www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount
1. Email address
2. Password
Google sends a confirmation email to that email address with
verification link
3. Done!

12. 2) Webmaster Tools
www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

13. 2) Webmaster Tools
www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
1. Verify your site (server access required)
2. Set your preferred domain name: www.name.com or name.com.
3. Set the geographic target (e.g. .ca domain name will automatically
appear in google.ca but you may want to limit your .com domain
name to a country such as UK-only).
4. Submit a Sitemap so Google can crawl your site and identify errors
(server access required).
5. Change your web address.
6. See keywords used to find you.
7. See links to your site and internal links.
8. See if any malware has infected the site.
9. Request re-inclusion if you’ve been banned.
10. Control what Google can crawl.

14. 2) Google Analytics
www.google.com/analytics/

15. 2) Google Analytics
www.google.com/analytics/
1. Install the code correctly on your web pages (i.e. just before the
closing </body> tag at the bottom of the page) - use an “include” file.
2. Verify the site is being tracked.
3. Set filters and add other users (to just view reports or full access)
4. Set the time zone.
5. eCommerce?
6. Track site search?
7. Set Goals! Let Google know which areas on your site are your
“actions” then add a $ value to them (if possible).
8. Add more than one website profile so you can see everything in one
convenient place.
9. Connect your Google AdWords account to Analytics.
10. Start tracking in Excel to identify weak points.

16. 2) Google Analytics
www.google.com/analytics/

17. 2) Other Cool Free Stu !
1. Conversion University - free Analytics videos
2. Local Business Center - add your business map location and add
company info, opening hours, logo, photos!
3. “URL builders” to track marketing campaigns
4. Feedburner to help share and optimize your blog feed
5. Merchant Center - upload your product data to Google and make it
available to Google Product Search and other Google services
6. Google Checkout - quickly and easily buy from stores across the web
and track all your orders and shipping in one place
7. Gmail - access webmail from anywhere!
8. Add a search function to your website
9. Google Alerts - sent straight to your inbox
10. Google AdWords keyword research tool

18. What is “SEO”?
Search Engine Optimization or “SEO”
is the active practice of optimizing a
web site by improving internal and
external aspects in order to increase
the “organic” traffic the site receives
from search engines.

19. 3) Internal or On-Site “SEO”
30% of SEO success
1. Know your keyword phrases!
2. Title Tag - under 60 characters
3. Meta Description tag - under 160 characters
4. Headlines and sub-headlines using the phrases
5. Body copy including your keyword phrases
6. Page naming and structure (e.g. www.name.com/web-design/)
7. ALT tags: text behind an image, very useful for screen readers
8. Internal linking to goal pages
9. Add Sitemap page with a link to every page
10. Push important “actionable” copy to the top of each page

20. 3) Page Title and Meta Description
“professional web designer” (#6 from 21.7M)

21. 4) Inbound Links (O -Site SEO)
70% of SEO success
PageRank:
“Pages that we believe are
important pages receive a
higher PageRank and are
more likely to appear at the
top of the search results.”
“PageRank also considers the
importance of each page that
casts a vote, as votes from
some pages are considered
to have greater value, thus
giving the linked page
greater value.”

22. 4) Inbound Links (O -Site SEO)
70% of SEO success
1. Join the LDBA and Chamber(s) to get profile pages and links
2. Join your governing body
3. Submit an article or press release to industry news site - BUZZ!
4. Allow a way for people to easily link to you (“Link to us”)
5. Syndicate your site (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, RSS feed)
6. Trade articles with other websites
7. Submit your site to paid directories—quality matters!
8. See if your manufacturers or retailers or other business partners
might be willing to link to your site—relevancy matters!
9. Craigslist, Yahoo! Answers, Google Groups, forum signatures, real
blog commenting, start a blog,
10. Swap irrelevant links? WHAT?? Nah.

23. 5) Why Content is Still King!
1. Use real, easy-to-understand language that humans can read
2. The search engines don’t buy from you—your visitors do!
3. Adding more keyword-rich pages is good for more “organic” tra c
4. “Link Bait”—catch more of your fish with the exact bait
5. Become a valuable resource to the online community
6. Become an authority/expert in your field
7. Add more links to your target pages
8. Shows the writer’s personality
9. NO MORE “CLICK HERE”—use in-context linking
10. Track keywords and visits in Analytics and do more of the same!

24. Paul Mycroft Design
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• Call us on (250) 245-8777
• Stop by the o ce at 622 1st Avenue, #201, Ladysmith
• Talk to us on the street or at the next business meeting

25. Are you going to tame
the “Monster”?

26. That’s all, folks!
Talk to you online.