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May 2, 2008 Corporate College East Dave Goebel John Inama 1J SEO 101

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Dave Goebel of the Goebel and Jon Inama of Pilot Fish, discuss the basics of Search Engine Optimization at the eMarketing Techniques Conference at Corporate College. Brought to you by the Key Entrepreneur Development Center.

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May 2, 2008Corporate College East

Dave Goebel John Inama

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SEO 101

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Who is Cleveland SEO?ClevelandSEO.com was created to feature

the exceptional talent Cleveland has to offer in the search engine marketing arena.

Greater Cleveland has a good number of industry experts that speak both nationally and internationally.

Coming to ClevelandSEO.com assures you that you are being exposed to the best our industry has to offer.

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Who is Goebel Group Inc.

We consult on how to use search to increase productivityGoogle, Yahoo, MSN

Internet MarketingPR, Email, Surveys

Enterprise SearchIntranet, Website, and Desktop

Clients in North America, [email protected]

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Who is Pilot Fish Established in 1995. Provides website development and optimization

services including keyword research and link building.

Markets: Machinery, Equipment, Plastics, Packaging, Rubber, Metal, Construction, Wood, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Consulting.

www.pilotfishseo.com

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What is Search Engine Optimization?

Also known as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Search Engine Positioning

Leverages Search Engines’ desire to display most relevant pages that match users’ target keywords

Involves an integrated approach to web site development that recognizes the specific content, coding and promotion requirements for good search engine placement.

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The Dawn of Search Engines Search Engine

1993: Excite was introduced (Today part of Ask) 1994: Yahoo was developed by Jerry Yang and

David Filo. Started as a list of favorites. 1994: WebCrawler; first full-text search engine on

the Internet. 1994: Lycos; was a large search engine, indexing

over 60 million documents 1995: Infoseek (now part of Go.com) 1995: AltaVista 1996: Inktomi; started in 1996 at UC Berkeley 1997: Ask Jeeves and Northern Light 1997: Google; was launched in 1997 by Sergey

Brin and Larry Page. Changed search by using inbound links to rank sites.

1998: MSN, Open Directory

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US Market Share

-Nielson Online, December 2007

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Importance of Search Engines

7.3 billion searches conducted monthly in the U.S.

Search engines organize and prioritize over 27 billion web pages.

85% of Internet users use search engines.

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World Usage

-- Internet World Stats, December, 2007

510 million

348 million

238 million

126 million

44 million

34 million

19 million

0 200 400 600

Asia

Europe

North America

Latin America

Africa

Middle East

OceaniaInternet Users Worldwide

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World Usage

-- Internet World Stats, December, 2007

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How People Search-Constructing Keyword Phrases

1 word 23.4%

2 words 26.3%

3 words 21%

4 words 13.4%

5 words 7.4%

6 words 3.9%

7 words 2%

8 words+ 2.6% -- HitWise, 2006

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How People Search- Organic vs. Paid Listings

60.5% Click on Organic Listings39.5% Click on Paid Listings

--iProspect, 2005

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Organic and Paid Listings on an Engine

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Organic

Paid listings

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SEO Basics-Keyword Research

Find the keywords or key-phrases that are relevant to your business or service and that people are searching on.

Use free tools from the internet to do keyword research.

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SEO Basics- Building a site that is SEO Friendly

Allow crawlers or bots accessShould have the proper meta tagsContent must be relevantDo not try to trick crawlers or bots

No white on white text

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SEO Basics- Meta Tags

Tag that tell crawlers or bots what is on the page

Information about the informationMost important

TitleDescriptionRobots

<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content=""><title>SEO</title><meta name="keywords" content=“ "><meta name="description" content=“ "><META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index, follow"><META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW">

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SEO Basics- Content

Content is KingUse relevant keywords or key-phrases with

a density of between 3% and 7% Bold helps

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SEO Basics-Links

InboundHigher ranking siteText in link important

OutboundLess the betterCrawler follows link

Intra siteHelps with navigation

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SEO Basics- NavigationJavaScript

Some Crawlers can not navigateCommonly found in Menus

FlashCrawlers can not viewUse HTML version as option or SWFobject

ImagesShould have alt tags

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Tools for SEO-Keyword Density Checker

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Tools for SEO-Validation Tool

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Tools for SEO-Spider Simulator

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Tools for SEO-Link Checker

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Tools for SEO- SEODIGGER

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Tools for SEO-Google Webmaster Tools

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Conclusion

SEO takes time & never endsContent is King!Make content relevantOrganic clicks are free!

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Resources

www.clevelandseo.comwww.searchenginenews.com www.sempo.orgwww.searchenginewatch.comwww.searchengineland.comwww.pilotfishseo.com www.goebelgroup.com