2. Some definitions...
The art of marketing a website via search engines
• 85% of all traffic on the Internet comes by search
engines
• 90% of all users don’t look past the first 30 results
(most only view top 10)
More (relevant) traffic + Good Conversions Rate More
Sales/Leads
3. Search Engine Marketing
The art of marketing a website via search engines
• 85% of all traffic on the Internet comes by search
engines
• 90% of all users don’t look past the first 30 results
(most only view top 10)
More (relevant) traffic + Good Conversions Rate More
Sales/Leads
4. What SEM includes
• PPC Advertising (Adwords, Msn ads,
Panama)
• Directories (Dmoz, Yahoo..)
• SEO
• Website architecture, analytic reports
and so on
Choose the right one for you!!
5. What do Web Marketing do?
• In short, it directs ‘qualified’ Internet traffic
(users) to the branded websites
• Which sites do webmarketing advertise for?:
•
• –Booking.com
• –ActiveHotels.com
• –Priceline.co.uk
6. How does Search engine advertising or
Pay Per Click (PPC) work?
• BID for keywords /phrases/ search
terms
• DISPLAY relevant ads
• PAY for every click!
7. Where are the adverts shown?
In 18+ languages around the world in all
countries
Known as “Sponsored Links”
•Google
–Google.com, .co.uk, .de, .fr, .it, .nl … etc.
–Google search network partners – AOL, ASK.com
–Content network – Vogue.com, Reuters, Lycos, Gmail
•Yahoo!
–Yahoo.com, .co.uk, .fr… etc
–Yahoo! network – Wall Street Journal, NationalGeographic.com
•MSN
–MSN.com, Live Search (live.com) & Windows Live
8.
9. Sem & Seo
SEO - Search Engine
SEM - Search Engine
Optimization - refers to
Marketing - refers to all
the practice of ranking
practices that leverage
pages in the organic
search engines for traffic,
results (left side of the
branding, advertising &
page)
marketing.
11. SEO Ranking factors
• Off-Page Factors
• Link Popularity (“votes” for your site)
• Anchor text
• On-Page Factors (Code & Content)
Title tags <title>
o
Header tags <h1>
o
ALT image tags
o
Content, Content, Content (Body text)
o
Hyperlink text
o
Keyword frequency & density
o
12. SEO Ranking factors
• Off-Page Factors
• Link Popularity (“votes” for your site)
• Anchor text
• On-Page Factors (Code & Content)
Title tags <title>
o
Header tags <h1>
o
ALT image tags
o
Content, Content, Content (Body text)
o
Hyperlink text
o
Keyword frequency & density
o
13. Offpage: What is a SE Algorithm?
• Top Secret! Only select employees of a search engines company
know for certain
• Reverse engineering, research and experiments gives SEOs (search
engine optimization professionals) a “pretty good” idea of the major
factors and approximate weight assignments
• The SEO algorithm is constantly changed, tweaked & updated
• Varies by Search Engine – some give more weight to on-page
factors, some to link popularity
14. The Google Algorythm:
Google Page Rank™
Definition
PageRank is a “vote”, by all the other pages on the Web, about how important
a page is. A link to a page counts as a vote of support. If there’s no link
there’s no support.
Google Page Rank diagram
16. Off-page factors
Based on these 2 factors
• Link Popularity (“votes” for your site)
• Anchor text
The quantity of inbound-links using anchor text containing your
target keywords. These should come from pages covering similar
topics, preferably from large, long established authority sites.
17. Off-page factors
To increase the Booking.com rank
• Find links from authority sites (e.g. Tripadvisor, Yahoo travel
some good affiliate partners etc.)
• Give the links a suitable name (Anchor text)
Bad way to name a link:
If you want to reserve an hotel click here.
Right way to name a link:
Need an hotel? Reserve it now through the Europe's market
leader online hotel reservation company.
18. On page factors
• Title tags <title>
• Header tags <h1>
• ALT image tags
• Hyper link text
• Keyword frequency & density
• Content, Content, Content (Body text) <body>
In Italia
19. On page factors
HTML Title
top ranking factor
displayed on most search engine
results pages
Description
Less important ranking factor
Sometimes displayed on results pages
Keyword tags and Image alt tags
Rarely used as a ranking factor
May increase page rank slightly if all
other factors are equal
20. The 20:40:40 Rule
20% 40% 40%
Te n l Sp c
ch ica e Content Link Polularity
• S ite • Relevant • Quality,
Arc h ite c ture • Ac c e s ib le related links
• Na vig a tion • Ke yword • R e le va nt
• Me ta da ta ric h
21. What search engines don't like
• Frames (use the <noframes> tag to insert
content)
• Flash & Javascript
• Dynamic pages (generated from a database)
particularly containing special characters like ? =
& (mod_rewrite..bookmotel.net)
• Images containing text (the S.E can’t read the
text in the image
• http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html (HTML
text, no images and little formatting)
22. Basic Tips & Optimization Techniques
• Research keywords related to your business
• Utilize descriptive title tags for each page
• Ensure that your text is HTML-text and not
image text
• Use text links when ever possible
• Use appropriate keywords in your content and
internal hyperlinks (don’t overdo!)
• Obtain inbound links from related websites
23. Be as more specific as possible
• In case of an affiliate with an huge content ,
divide it into sections. Do not use a long page if
your topic is various.
• Use the proper title, H1 and all the other stuff
according to the content. No general title.. Try to
help Google to understand your pages!
• Link between internal pages whenever is
possible, using the proper anchor text.
25. Farms, Black Hats & “Ethics”
• Black Hat SEO – They try to misrepresent a website by
displaying different information to the search engine versus
the user. >> hidden text, redirects, cloaking etc
• Link Farms – sites/pages that may have thousands of
links, often to unrelated sites. Typically they provide these
links in exchange for links to their site in an attempt to
improve their rankings.
• Google Bombing – establishing links with certain anchor
text in order to achieve a high ranking for that term.
26.
27. Google Bombing
...do you remember Rishi?
• Link Rishi
• Hotelroomreservation.net
• Aghios
• Thousands and thousands more..
28. How to use ranking and traffic
indicators to find potential affiliates
29. How to use ranking and traffic
indicators to find potential affiliates
• Download Search Status Firefox extension
• Check the backlink (also with quot;link: www.example.comquot;)
• Check show related links on the Page Rank bar
• Check Alexa Related links
• Check Alexa categories
IT WORKS!!