4. Put the “Me” in Meta Tags
• Meta tags help search engines index web
pages so they appear with appropriate
keyword searches.
• They are crucial in influencing users to click.
Think of them as mini advertisements!
5. Are Your Meta Tags Working?
• Search by company name. Does the resulting
listing “sell” you?
• Search by keywords. Does your most
appropriate webpage come up?
7. Anatomy of the Meta Tag
The title tag is your headline.
Every page on your site needs
its own title tag.
Think of the description tag as your “elevator
pitch.” It need to sell them in 25 words or less.
Each page needs its own description tag.
22. Keywords for User Names
Laura Fitton
on Twitter as
“@Pistachio”
The
“Official”
Pistachio
website
23. Location-based Social Media
• Claim your business
• Specials attract interest
• Add pictures, updates
• Add your menu (use
SinglePlatform.com)
24. Google Tools
• Playing with the 800
pound search gorilla
• Google+ Local
(formerly Google
Places)
• Merge Google+ Local
and Google+ Business
25. The Power of Video Content
• The barrier to entry
makes video more
valuable for SEO.
• Set up your channel
• Tag and title your
videos
• Share! Suggest sharing
26. Press Release SEO Tricks
• Keyword your opening link
• Send traffic to a landing page
• Wires – use geography trick for best value
• Use your social media to amplify your content,
open up conversations with reporters, writers,
freelancers, bloggers.
• Getting major media coverage (high pagerank
sites) still best SEO value
27. Your Website
• Easy-to-change CMS
• Update often
• Speed is an issue: (related
to user satisfaction)
• Blogging and inbound links
• Are you mobile-friendly?
28. Questions?
• Leave us a card and we’ll send you the slide
show
• Contact info:
• Bobbie@CarltonPRMarketing.com
• suzanne.rowan.kelleher@gmail.com
Notas do Editor
While Pinterest has exploded on the scene over the last year or so, Tumblr is another image-oriented site that is important to the younger crowd. If you’re talking skiing, boarding, hiking or camping, consider adding a Tumblr account. Again, tagging with keywords helps you turn up in searches. Consider mashups where you cross-pollinate memes with your material. Tumblr passed the 100 million blogs strong in January of this year. Tumblrs post comments and
Get others to share your images and consider watermarking them with your website or company name as well as adding quotes.
As a business owner, you can still use Google Places to manage your business. As a user, you can now rate, review and upload photos through our new local search experience, Google+ Local.Google+ Local is a new destination for all your reviews, plus much more.If you previously wrote reviews or uploaded photos in Google Places, all of your old Google Places reviews and photos are currently public but attributed to, “A Google user.” If you want to attribute these reviews and photos to your Google+ name, all you need to do is migrate your old Google Places reviews and photos to Google+ Local.
Fewer results means a better chance to rank
Google added website speed to its list of SEO factors in 2010. Valentine’s Day 2011 – 62 percent of all restaurant website visits were from mobile devices. Tablets are a mobile device but what you look like on a tablet is very different than what you look like on a Smartphone. m. sites may no longer be your best answer, especially if you went down the path of an ultra-simplified site with only phone, directions, contact. Consider a responsive site.