2013 SEO Year End Review - P2 - #seopodcast 219

Episode50 min2014-02-05

This 2013 SEO year-end review covers landing pages, e-commerce SEO, Google authorship setup, content marketing, review strategies, and conversion page optimization drawn from podcasts 196 through 212.

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Key takeaways
The value of getting a G-plus local review is significant.

About this episode

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Questions this episode answers

How do you set up Google authorship correctly?

Log in to Google Plus, edit your About page, and add a link to your website in the contributor section. Then on your site, link back to your Google Plus page and include the tag rel equals author inside that link. Make sure your G Plus profile image is the right size and fully filled out.

What are the most important SEO factors for an e-commerce site?

According to this episode, the three fundamentals are URL structure based on your products, overall site navigation structure, and original content. Copying product descriptions from manufacturers creates duplicate content that makes it nearly impossible to outrank the original brand source.

Why should businesses use a separate thank you or confirmation page after a conversion?

A separate confirmation page lets you place Google Analytics tracking on it to measure and track conversion goals. It also gives you space to cross-sell related products, ask for social engagement or reviews, and present additional offers to a user who has already shown buying intent.

What is SEVO and why does it matter for SEO?

SEVO stands for Search Engine Visitor Optimization, meaning what you do with a visitor after they arrive from a search engine. The episode recommends including a call to action, a Unique Selling Proposition, and business credibility signals on landing pages to turn search traffic into conversions.

In their words

If you have the option of writing for the search engines and keeping your readers in mind versus writing for your readers and keeping the search engines in mind, you should do the latter.

Host

To increase you by one star on Yelp could increase your business between five and 15%.

Guest

G-plus must be included in there. There's no ifs, ands, buts. It's not an option. It's mandatory.

Guest
Terms defined in this episode
SEVO
Search Engine Visitor Optimization. What you do with a visitor after they arrive from the search engine, including calls to action, unique selling propositions, and business credibility elements.
Disavow Tool
A Google tool that lets site owners tell Google to ignore specific inbound links they did not request and cannot have removed, so those links are not counted against the site.
Google Authorship
A configuration linking a Google Plus profile to website content using a rel equals author tag, which can display the author's avatar in search results if the G Plus account is actively used.
Anchor Text
The clickable text used in a hyperlink. Over-using the exact same anchor text across all inbound links is flagged by Google as a manipulation signal.

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Matthew Bertram, host of The Best SEO Podcast
Matthew Bertram
AI keynote speaker · Owner & CEO, EWR Digital · President, ModalPoint

Matthew Bertram is an AI keynote speaker, creator of DIG™ (Digital Information Governance), and owner and CEO of EWR Digital. He helps energy and industrial leaders win visibility in AI search (GEO and AEO), is President of ModalPoint and CMO of the Oil & Gas Global Network, hosts The Best SEO Podcast, and has authored eight books including LLM Visibility. More about Matthew Bertram.

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