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2009 PubCon Las Vegas Seo Design & Organic Site Structure Panel Presentation by Michael Martin of Internet Marketing Inc.

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Setting Your SEO Foundation

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•Means resolving web content that has more than one possible URL

•YOU arbitrate to remove confusion from users and Search Engines

•Purpose is not so much preventing duplicate pages but link dilution

•Choose www or non-www and explicitly go with either

•Resolve default and index pages to the end slash /

•Have a uniform link reference internally and externally

•Use 301 redirects as a backstop for improper link references

•Can resolve in the .htaccess file on Apache or in IIS for Microsoft

•Stephan Spencer of NetConcepts provides excellent .htaccess insights

Setting YourSEO FoundationFirst Pillar – Canonicalization

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Your site’s Ground Rules for the Search Engines

Prevent discoverability of private pages or sections

Reduce spam

Reduce bandwidth

Indentify Sitemap.XML location

Setting YourSEO FoundationSecond Pillar – Robots.txt

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• Google Webmaster Tools is a MUST to expand your insight & sync with Google

• Bing Webmaster Center is growing in importance and use

• Both provide crawl issues and resolutions

• Both reveal better page strength indicators as well more accurate link data

• Submission to Yahoo Site Explorer is really a secondary task

Setting YourSEO FoundationThird Pillar – Webmaster Tools & Center

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Setting YourSEO FoundationA Strong “C R We” Foundation

Canonicalization

Robots.txt

WEbmaster Tools

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