Info
Level: Intermediate
Presenter: Eli the Computer Guy
Date Created: March 12, 2010
Length of Class: 60 Minutes
Tracks
Web Marketing
Prerequisites
Proficiency Creating Websites
Purpose of Class
This class teaches students how to design their websites so that they achieve higher Google Page Rank.
Topics Covered
Why Google Matters
What is SEO
Sitemaps
Backlinks
Page Speed
Internal Links
Google Web Master Tools
Class Notes
Introduction
SEO — Search Engine Optimization — Means building your website so that Google’s robots can understand it easier
Good SEO translates to free advertising on Google
Only Google really matters… Yearly traffic for EliTheComputerGuy.com = Google 18,475, Yahoo 321, Bing 287
What you should have
Analytics
Google Webmaster tools
Local Business Center
About content
Create Content that regular people like
Write as much TEXT as possible
Google does not understand Flash/Pictures/Videos
XML Site Maps
Tell robots what is important on your site
Can be created by hand, using a script, or automatically
Backlinks
One way links to your site from other sites
The more prominent the site the more significant the backlink is
Page Speed
The speed which your pages load will be counted towards Page Rank soon.
Internal Links
Do not use relative links
Page titles matter
WordPress is allows you to do SEO automatically and easily
Resources
Google Web Master Tools
Google Business Local
XML-Sitemaps.com — Automatically Creates Sitemaps
Google Web Master Channel
SEO INMATE! HAHAHA AWESOME!
Eli, I figure this post seriously needs to be reviewed in the light of all
the Google ninja animals since you did this. I watch quite a bit of your
stuff. It would be nice to get a no nonsense update on the best SEO
practices under the new Google monster Zoo. Figure in a way Google has
cooked its goose. Notice a lot of SEO gurus are looking at ways to do
promotion which does not include Google. Unfortunately we are stuck with
this monster. I notice that I am starting to use other search engines as
they are giving better search results. Google now only promotes the Big
companies and the little guys and Cottage industry have to buy adds to rank
mostly. I have very little faith in SEO currently. Figure it is pretty
unstable (as far as SEO goes, no clear policy – just dictatorship) and a
waste of time. Social media campaigns are more stable and possibly more
rewarding. It would be interesting to hear your valued take on all this.
Hell Eli, your my new best friend. I am trying to get an affiliate sales
website off the ground, I feel I am close. I wonder if I ca get you to
clarify for me, the defference between a “follow” link versus a “no follow”
link… how do I tell one from another? I suspect that the “sharing URL”
listed in “edit” (WP) page side is the one I use? Thank you so much for
sharing your knowledge!
Is this SEO from prison?
What is the difference between Rich Snippet and Meta Description? I thought
Meta Description was the information shown on google??? I am confused.
can apply these same techniques to my weebly site as well. new to SEO and
having fun.
Thanks for sharing SEO information.
Eli, you are now my favorite, not only in this area but all things
computer. Your audience needs to be updated a little bit and watch out for
Penguin. I have heard of a lot of companies that went bankrupt because of
it. This information I found my help:
http://www.highqualitywriting.com/articles/how-to-avoid-a-penguin-penalty/
+Jodsr Apelli SEO is the process of improving the visibility of a website
on organic search engine result pages, by incorporating search engine
friendly elements into a website. A successful search engine optimization
campaign will have, as part of the improvements, carefully select,
relevant, keywords which the on-page optimization will be designed to make
prominent for search engine algorithms.
Thank you for the info Eli
The quickest way to get top rank of google is by making use of this seo
strategy *SPEEDRANKSEO. COM*
Interesting tip in terms of XML site map. Thanks.
Research into SEO…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIhe7nFcbUg
Very helpful thnx sir.
if somebody watches this video it doesn’t look at the date, they could get
in some real trouble
Well what about businesses that run completely online? How does Google
Local Business Center help them? What alternatives are there? Those
businesses need to increase their search rankings for all areas. It doesn’t
do a business any good to get increases in local areas, when they don’t
actually have a physical location.
Thumbs down for calling the viewers a moron. 57:17
well stated. Moreover I would like to say that I am a marketer and I
utilize youtube to get web traffic, and this specific video has been very
useful for me. thank you. go to my channel on youtube and learn more about
what you can do to *increase traffic* to your site. take care
Beautiful educational tutorial, many thanks
God Bless You Sir
Good info
You performed an amazing video recording about this selected issue. Really
helpful video and this supports a whole lot. Thanks for sharing!
OMG you look like a prisoner!
Good tutorial, thx
Man you look like a prophet.
This is really great information. Great examples and explanations of the
terminology. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.