SEO - It's All About The User

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Brendan Jackson's presentation from DMX Dublin on March 12th, 2014. I discuss the things we think are important in the SEO industry and how these affect website performance. I also talk through three things which can be used on virtually any website to improve SEO and, more importantly, the experience of your users.

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What we know about

SEOSEO IS

DIFFICULT

SEO IS

TECHNICAL

SEO IS

FOR GEEKS

– Matt CuttsHead of Webspam, Google

“We expect to roll out over 500 improvements to our algorithm this year.

“Hello, We are a fast growing

company with a focus on Search Engine

Optimisation. We have a dedicated team of

professionals to serve you in building appropriate

links and developing SEO.”

“Let’s investigate the effectiveness of latent semantic indexing on your site.

“Let’s investigate the effectiveness of latent semantic indexing on your site.

It’s all about the

USER!

Great Content Wikipedia.com

– Ranks on page 1 for 99% of search terms

Google Analytics site content reports

Google Analytics landing pages reports

Analyse with Followerwonkfollowerwonk.com

Analyse with Followerwonkfollowerwonk.com

Analyse with Followerwonk

Get ideas with Content Idea Generatorseogadget.com/content-strategy-generator-tool-v2-update/

Create a content calendar. And stick to it!

Great Link Building

Eric Ward

“Build links for people, not Google.

“– Eric WardThe Original Link Builder

Analyse with Open Site Explorerwww.opensiteexplorer.org

Analyse with Open Site Explorer

Analyse with Open Site Explorer

Broken linkBUILDING

Analyse with Open Site Explorer

Find old content with Way Back Machinearchive.org/web

Find old content with Way Back Machine

Find old content with Way Back Machine

Great Social Sharing

Lovin’ Dublin

“Social media is like teen sex. Everyone wants to do it. No one actually knows how.– Avinash Kaushik

Analytics Evangelist, Google

Make your content shareable

Analyse with Followerwonk

Create great

content

Takeaways

Build links for

people

Takeaways

Make your content

shareable

Takeaways

THANKYOU