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Eight ways to optimise
your website for search
engines and people.
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What is SEO?
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SEO is an outcome of
digital marketing.
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Digital marketing is…
Making websites:
•  Easier to find
•  Easier to use
•  Easier to measure
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4 easy ways to
improve your SEO.
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1. STOP THINKING
ABOUT SEARCH
ENGINES
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A good way
to do this is
by creating
customer
personas….
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A CCTV customer?
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Access control customer?
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2.  Read around the subject.
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www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
Search for‘google beginners guide to seo’
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3. Check out the competition.
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www.opensiteexplorer.org
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4. Create links
between
related
pages on
your website.
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4 harder ways to
improve your SEO
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1. Commit to
writing regularly.
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2.  Learn to do
keyword research.
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3. Learn to use social media.
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Doing social media
properly means…
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Being genuine…
and generous
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4.  Develop meaningful
measures for your
website….
And then measure regularly.
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Status Description
Needs immediate
attention
Status concerning, but
actions are underway
Status is good, no action
required
Hat tip: smartinsights.com
•  Plan
•  Reach
•  Act
•  Convert
•  Engage
RED
AMBER
GREEN
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A digital marketing
measurement framework
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Just to recap…
Easy ways to improve your
SEO:
1.  Spend more time thinking
about your customers, less
time about search engines
2.  Read around the subject
3.  Check out the competition
4.  Create links between pages
on your website
Harder ways to improve
your SEO:
1.  Commit to writing, regularly
2.  Learn to do keyword research
3.  Learn to use social media
4.  Develop meaningful measures
for your website… and then
measure regularly
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Ned Wells
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Thank you
ned@cicada-online.com
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I’m a head teacher at a secondary
school in Wolverhampton.
I’m looking for a CCTV system for my
school, and I want a reputable
suppler… perhaps with a track record of
supplying the education sector.
I wonder what I can find online?
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“
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Or….
I work for Air Nigeria. We’re interested in the latest
security solutions and we’d like to buy British.
I wonder who would be a good supplier in the access
control / close protection / physical security sector.
They’ll need experience of exporting their product,
and we’d like them to have a good track record.
I wonder what I can find online?
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www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
Good reading
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Four places to find out
what people want:
•  ubersuggest.org
•  soovle.com
•  quora.com
•  uk.answers.yahoo.com
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