SEO
Increasing speed
- File smaller - Compress text and files - Upgrade web host
Title tags
- Heavy weight on page SEO signals - Single most important place to include keywords - Higher rankings if done correctly - First view
Raking factors
- Keyword presence in title tags - Loading speed of web page - Website reputation
SERPs types
1. Classic 2. Universal 3. Extended
SEO steps
1. Crawling 2. Indexing 3. Ranking
SEO objectives Benefits
1. Encourage buying from key stakeholders 2. Help formulate your SEO strategies 3. Ensure objective are met
Keyword value steps
1. Get kw search volumes 2. get kw difficulty score 3. get kw ranking 4. review kws 5. assign relevancy score from 1 to 3
Keyword research benefits
1. Get right kind of visitors 2. Identify keywords with high search volumes 3. identify content gaps on website 4. target keywords within your reach
Crawlability steps
1. Minimize site errors 2. Use redirects wisely 3. Create and submit an up to date XML sitemap 4. Minimize duplicate content 5. Check for indexed pages
Keywords types
1. Navigational 2. Informational 3. Transactional
Keyword research steps
1. Pick a topic 2. Brainstorm 3. Review KW value 4. Prioritize KWs
On-page optimization categories
1. Pre-click 2. Post-Click
Ranking factors
1. Site speed 2. Mobile friendliness 3. HTTPs
Principles of SEO
1. Technical optimization 2. On-age optimization 3. OFf-page optimization
XML sitemap
A guide that search engines use to help them index a website, which indicates how many pages there are, how often they are updated and how important they are. It will list all the URLs that exist on your website.
SEMrush
A paid tool used to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of ones SEO efforts Great for finding new, long tail keyword phrases.
keyword stuffing
An unpopular practice of including a huge variety of keywords in the header of an HTML document in the hopes that a search engine will display it even when the content of the page is not relevant to the search.
Bing Webmaster tools
Bing service similar to google search console
Objective types
Can be related to - Keyword - Traffic - Market share - Brand and product awareness - Lead generation - reputation and backlinks - e-commerce - Ads revenue
Quantity over quality
During the brainstorm of keywords you have to aim at ____ over _____
Keyword everywhere
Free chrome plugin useful for kw research
Google Search Console
Free service that helps control and maintain your site presence in Google search results
Google Hummingbird
Google main search algorithm responsible for how to order and rank SERPs Upgraded in 2013
Page Speed Insights
Google tool that gives you score of how well optimized web page speed is
RankBrain
Google's name for a machine-learning artificial intelligence system that's used to help process its search results Sub-algorithm of google hummingbird
Test My Site - Think with Google
Goole tool that gives you more detailed analysis on page speed, including if there is 3G, 4G or LSE
Keyword Research
Identification and analysis of words that are commonly used by prospects in searching for specific content
Inbound links
If a page lacks _______ it won't be indexed
Informational
In a _______ business your objectives are brand awareness and website traffic
Transactional
In a ________ business your objective are tracking sales and lead coversions
brand awareness and traffic
In a blog your goals are _____ and _____
ad revenue
In a large publisher business your goals are _____
lead generation
In a non e-commerce commercial site your goals are _______ SEO goals
tracking sales and lead conversion
In an e-commerce business your goals are _____ and ______
ad revenue
Increasing organic page view is an example of ________ goal
HTTPs
It indicates that the page is secure and have certificate
10
It is recommended to have ___ or more keywords
Easier
Long tail keywords are _____ to convert
Specific
Long tail keywords have a _____ intent
Lower and higher
Long tail keywords have a ______ individual search volumes and ______ collective search volume
Greater
Long tail keywords require a _____ amount of content
Backlinks
Off-page optimization is driven by _____ that help build site's reputation
Pingdom
Platform that gives you number of request needed for a website and what is slowing down the website
On-page optimization
Process of ensuring that the content is relevant and provides great UX
Search engine Optimization
SEO
On page optimisation
SEO Principlgethat ensures content on site is relevant and provides great UX
Technical optimization
SEO activities completed on your site that are designed to improve SEO but are NOT related to content
Off-Page Optimization
SEO principle that enhances site's search engine ranks through activities outside of the site
Universal
SERP Type that involves videos, images and local listing
Extended
SERP type that involves: - Knowledge graph - Direct answers - Related question box
Classic
SERPs that involve: - title tag - URL - meta description tag - Rich snippets - Sitelinks
Classic
SERPs type that involves regular results on day to day basis
Easier
Short tail keyword are ____ to search
Harder
Short tail keywords are ____ to convert
Higher and lower
Short tail keywords have a ____ individuals search volume and ____ collective search volume
vague
Short tail keywords have a _____ intent
Smaller
Short tail keywords require a ____ amount of content
30%
Short tail keywords take ____% of all traffic
conversion and retention
The _____ and ______ stages involve navigational and transactional keywords only
Interest and consideration
The ______ and _______ stages involves navigational and informational keywords only
Awareness
The _______ stage involves navigational and informational keywords
2
The ideal loading page is under ____ seconds
512 or 55
The optimum space in title tags is maximum ____ pixel or ___ characters
Requests
The smaller the number of _____ the faster is the website
The Google Keyword Planner
Tool part of Google Ads that gives you list of suggestion and search volumes of kws
Informational
Type of keyword that is used when searcher is looking for infos Largest proportion of keywords
Navigational
Type of keyword that occurs at all stages of buyer journey When you search for specific website
Transactional
Type of keywords where users show that they want to buy
Post-Click
What is visible to the user after they click on listing and land on page Includes: main copy, main heading and sub-headings, hyperlinks and images
Pre-Click
What is visible to the user before they click on a result Includes: title tag, URL and metadescription
Search volume and relevancy score
When prioritizing keywords you have to consider _____ and ______
Indexing
When search engine decides whether to use content it has crawled
Crawling
When the search engine find web crawlers to find new pages and record info about them
paid
_____ search leads to not so good ROI in the long term
Short
_____ tail keywords are less specific
Long
_____ tail keywords are more specific
20 to 30%
_____ to ____ % of audience click on paid search
70 to 80%
_____ to ____% of audience click on organic links
Transactional
______ keywords are at the last stage of buying cycle
Transactional
______ keywords are easier to convert into sales
Navigational
______ keywords are in smaller proportion
Informational
______ keywords are less competitive
SEOptimer, SEO SiteCheckup and Mozbar
______, _______ and _______ are Tools to scan the HTML and identify on page elements, allowing you to quickly check if page has been optimized
Transactional
_______ keywords are more competitive and are in smaller proportions
Organic
_______ search lead to a very good ROI in the long term
Informational
________ keywords are harder to convert into sales
Screaming SEO Frog
a website crawler, that allows you to crawl websites' URLs and fetch key elements to analyse and audit technical and onsite SEO
5
having more than _____ keywords in the title tags is bad
duplicate or low value
if a content is a _____ or has _____ it won't be indexed
Primary keyword
keyword with best relevancy and search volume aka P1
Harder
long tail keywords are ______ to search
70%
long tail keywords take ___% of all traffic
Natural search
organic search synonym
crawl errors
site errors or URL errors
URL redirect
technique for making webpage available under more than one URL address
higher
the _____ the search volume the better
301
type of redact that means that website is "moved permanently" Advised in order to pass reputation
302
type of redirect that means that website is "found" or "moved temporarily
meta fresh
type of redirect that says "if you're not redirect in 5 seconds, click here" quite often it can be generated by JavaScript
Cached
when checking if page was indexed you type URL into google and click on triangle and then click _______