Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid ("organic") search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users.
2. Objective
Search engines
SE Indexing
SEO
SEO Importance
Natural listing.
SEOTechniques
Essentials SEO Practice
3. is a tool that enables users to locate information on the
World Wide Web. Search engines use keywords entered by
users to find Web sites which contain the information sought.
5. • SEO is a process of trying to get
higher ranking from the Search
Engine.
6. > 90% online user uses search engine to find products and
info.
Natural search receives 250% more traffic than paid
search.
1st
page of SE result get atleast 80% clicks.
If your website is not found within top 30 result (page 1, 2
and 3) no one will find it.
7. A spider or crawler which is a component of a SE gathers
listings by automatically "crawling" the web
The spider follows links to web pages, makes copies of the
pages and stores them in the SE’s index
Based on this data, the SE then indexes the pages and
ranks the websites
Major SEs that index pages using spiders: Google, Yahoo,
AltaVista, MSN, AOL, Lycos
8. SEO Techniques
Discussing the clients objectives keeping in mind the budget
Understanding the business model of the website
Website domain name (deciding the domain name)
Webpage names and file/directory names (deciding the page names and file
names)
Deciding Page titles , headers, sub-headers
Choosing & embedding relevant keywords throughout the website
Developing strategies for increasing in-bound traffic
Studying competing websites and learning form their SEO efforts
Handling customer inquiries and problems
10. • domain names are traffic magnets
> 63 million domain names registered
• choose a domain name that will increase your search engine ranking.
• Register for >5 years – registered longer is more serious business.
• use keywords, location, advertising terms, product names.
• choose a keyword that is important for your business.
DOMAIN NAME STRATEGIES
11. PUT KEYWORD TAG
<html>
<head>
<title>Pengenalan Kepada PECAMP</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="PECAMP, Persatuan Capaian
Maklumat dan Pengurusan Pengetahuan, capaian maklumat,
information retrieval, pengurusan pengetahuan, knowledge
management" />
<meta name="description" content="PECAMP - Persatuan
Capaian Maklumat dan Pengurusan Pengetahuan" />
…
13. GENERATE CONTENT
Content is the king
This is to generate more traffic from the search engine,
because if there’re more content than there will be more
keywords. More keywords indexed in the search engine, surely
more traffic to the website.
14. Linking strategies (Backlink)
- the more inbound links the higher the SE ranking
- if the site linking to you is already indexed, spiders will also receive your
site
- target a list of sites from which you can request inbound links
15. USE SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY URL
Good URL
http://www.pecamp.org/web/senarai-ahli.html
Bad URL
http://www.kuis.edu.my/v2/index.php?
option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=12&Itemid=72
16. USE SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY URL
Joomla
In Global Configuration, set this SEO settings
20. ESSENTIALS SEO STRATEGIES
WRITE GOOD CONTENT
DO YOUR KEYWORD RESEARCH
USE YOUR KEYWORDS WISELY
DESCRIPTION AND KEYWORDS
GET OTHER SITES LINKING TO YOURS
STRUCTURE YOUR SITE FOR SEO
ANALYSE YOUR SITE
KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST SEO NEWS
WATCH OUT FOR DUPLICATE CONTENT