3. Lots of money and little return, so
WHY HAVE A WEBSITE?
4. Australian Searches per Month
• “Metal Detectors” These are
1,900 potential
• Metal detector phrases customers!
8,097
• Metal detector related market
29,695
Based on around 1,000 identified search terms and data from the Google Keyword Tool
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6. What are your True Goals?
• Sell Stuff • Customer Loyalty
• Get Leads • Brand Awareness
• Support Customers
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7. How are your Goals Achieved?
• Online Purchase • Always push visitors
• Email Contact towards your Goals
• Phone Call • People have their own
• Walk In preferred ways …
8. Who Are your Customers?
• Put yourself in their shoes
• Design for them
9. What are they looking for?
Information Do Research
• Answers to Questions • Search Phrases
• Solutions to Problems • Popularity
• To Learn/Research • Competition
• To Compare • Conversion Rate
• To Buy
Google Keyword Tool
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10. Give them what they want
• Answers
• Solutions
• Product Information
• Guides
• Tutorials
• Informative Content
• Great Content
• Original Content
• Use their Words
11. Why You?
• What Makes You Different?
• The Cheapest
• The Best Service
• Unique Selling Point
• Free Coffee
• Trust
• Testimonials
• Awards
12. Why not you?
• Not User Friendly
• Poor Quality Content
• Irrelevant Content
• Lack of Trust
• Who are you?
• Data Confidentially
• Data Security
• Uncertainties
14. Focus on Needs not Wants
Needs
• Contact Form
• Phone Number
• Informational Pages
• Products
• Easy Shopping
• User Friendly
• Search Engine Visibility
Wants
• Flashy Stuff
• What other websites have
• Continually adding new wants
• Lots of small (irrelevant) changes
• Complex Stuff
15. Design to Sell
• Make it Easy to Contact you
• Add Call To Actions
• Provide Incentives
• Address Concerns
• Create Trust
• Show Secure
16. If you build it, they will not come
PROMOTE YOURSELF
17. How you get found
Referrals Search
Social Advertising
Networking
Outbound
Newsletters
Fliers Word of Mouth
Newspaper Ads Business Cards
Radio Ads Events & Shows
TV Ads
18. Link Building
• Referral Traffic • Local Business Directories
• Helps Search Ranking • Suppliers
• Related Businesses
• Sharable Content
• Social (Forums…)
• 1 million links for $10
• Link Networks
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19. Being Social
• Facebook • Needs Interaction
• Twitter • Needs a human face
• Google+
• Forums
• Q&A Sites
• Blogging
• Pinterest
23. Advertising
• Pay Per Click (PPC)
• Clicks from 10c to $10
• Finely targetable
• Instant
• Continuing Cost
• Don’t throw money away
• Free Start-up Vouchers
• Also Facebook, Twitter…
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24. Organic Results
• Search Term Match • Same words on the
website
• Importance • Quality Incoming Link
Authority
Ranking
• Visible Content • SEO Code
• Rich Snippets • Great SEO Code
Author
Ratings
http://min.to/keywordtool
http://min.to/linkbuilding
25. And keep Improving
• Fix Errors
• Get More links
• Better Content
• Test Variations
• Monitor for Issues
• Analyse Data
• Try New Ideas
26. Thank You
Tony McCreath
Web Site Advantage
Questions?
tony@WebsiteAdvantage.com.au
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27. SEO 101
• Content • Keyword Analysis
• Titles Tags • Link Building
• Meta Descriptions • Find & Fix Broken Links
• Content • Social Media
• Link Text • Competitor Analysis
• Image Alt Text
• Friendly URLs
• Rich Snippets
• Content http://min.to/titles
http://min.to/descriptions
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28. Tools
• Google Keyword Tool • SEOmoz Affiliate Links
• Google Webmaster Tools • Raven SEO Tools
• Google Analytics • HootSuite (Social)
• Google Alerts
• My Online Tools
• My Online Articles
http://min.to/tools
29. Enhancing Search Results
Title Tag
Google+ Author Meta Description
Breadcrumbs
Review Ratings
http://min.to/titles
http://min.to/descriptions
30. Chose Your System
• Off the Shelf CMS • WordPress
Quick, Cheap, Tested, • Free eCommerce
Feature Rich, • Paid eCommerce
Developers, Restricted
• Fully Custom
• Custom Website
Slow, Expensive,
Buggy, Feature Poor,
Fully Configurable
• Built-in SEO
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31. Chose Your Team
• Do it yourself • Verify Portfolios
• Small Developer • Verify Testimonials
• A Firm • Verify Location
• Copywriter
• Graphic Designer
• Online Marketer
• SEO
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32. Develop In Stages
• Live Now
• CMS Soon
• eCommerce later
• Keep Improving
• Avoid Feature creep
• Pay for changes
CLIENT: What would it take for you to add this feature to the site?
ME: Money.
CLIENT: Um … what else?
ME: Cash.
CLIENT: I’m not getting this for free, am I?
33. Going Live
• Don’t disappear • Google Analytics
• Monitor • Google Webmaster Tools
• Fix issues
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35. Personalised Search
• They know where you’ve been
• They know where you are
• They know what you like
• They know who you hang out with
• Results fluctuate
• What you see is not what others see!!!!!!
36. Choose your Battles
• What quality keywords • High traffic low
can you win in? competition
• Find Low Hanging Fruit • Already have some
results
• Do the easy rewarding • Places, Content
stuff
Notes de l'éditeur
Note down the link to get hold if these slides and more later. SEO is just a part of Online Marketing. SEO is focused on getting a good Google position. Making your website work for you covers a lot more than that.
A lot of people who have websites that just gather dust. If you make your website work for you then you will get return on your investment.
These are just estimates. A top ranking website gets around 7,000 Australian visits per month from Google
Let’s work out what the final goals are first then work back to find out how to achieve them
It’s not being #1, having a cool website, to tell people how great you are. Left: primary goals. Right: secondary goals.
Some of the main ways to reach your goals.
Personas. Demographics (age, affluence, interests, location…). Put yourself in their shoes.
Information they want. How to find out.
No difference then price is the decider. Have to state why your service is the best. Free shipping. Guarantee. Brand awareness. What value added services are you not telling people – free coffee.
Do you exist? Business name, phone number, address, abn. Unknowns: freight, in stock, secure…
Call To Actions: Buy Now, Call. Incentives: Time limits, bonuses, while stock lasts. Concerns: Shipping Price, Privacy, Delivery Times, Guarantee, Support, Payment Options. Trust: You exist, Secure Badges, Privacy.
Outreach. Social: Forums, Q&A, Signatures.
Causes Traffic. Reputation Management. Branding. Author, Friend based Ranking.
Universal Search. 33% click on top organic listing, few on adverts. Enhanced listings (top organic has address). Organic: based on merit.
Localised results.
Google AdWords. AdWords Express (Places) has poor results. Facebook has good demographic control.
I’ve covered what you need to do already. This is SEO. It takes time. Target what you can get (low hanging fruit).
Typos. Broken links.
Search Result Emulator. Redirect Generator. PageRank Checker. 404 Checker.
Complex features may require custom. Avoid custom if you can.
DIY: own time, own skills.
301 redirects.
When checking your ranking, watch out.
Strengthen keywords that already cause traffic. Places, directory listing.