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SEO Web Seminar
January 20th 2010
The Ship and Mitre
Liverpool
Urrgh. Sorry about using this term.
When the World Wide Web was first envisaged by its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee
it was designed as a way for academics to pass on and share discoveries
and data quickly and easily.
Anyone could post documents and information.
And, with the web address of a document anyone could read any information
posted on the internet, and it became a useful resource with a simple
click to take you to any document.
Please name some of the websites you use on a daily basis.
We all use web 2.0 sites every day.
Web 2.0 is any of the dynamic websites that form a template for
the users to upload, write and create the content.
User generated content!
Web 2.0 is nothing new. The world wide web was designed to
allow anyone to upload content.
Although most of us are not academics, all of us have a
need to network and communicate.
Yahoo and Google were the first and most successful web 2.0 sites.
Yahoo was a an attempt to list every one of the 300 or so websites
in existence by placing all of them in categorised
lists making all sites easy to find quickly.
Google was an attempt to automatically index and present every
single web page in existence when keywords relevant to
the document were searched for.
Even if you are using social networking sites to promote your
business, you will still need a point of contact for users.
You still need your own website.
For example a business related email address is always needed.
Sales pages are best hosted on your own website.
Google Ads cannot be used on social network sites.
Video content uploaded to YouTube contains keyword rich descriptions that
are often indexed more quickly than standard web pages, and with the
page rank of YouTube the videos often appear high up in keyword searches.
You can host video on your own site, but YouTube will probably be a
better option from the search engine results aspect.
Twitter is a micro blogging system which allows anyone to post
comments and news in real time. Followers receive your updates
as soon as they happen. Ideal for breaking news and one off promotions.
Wordpress is a free blogging system that is installed hosted on your
own web server. Easy way to add content to a site that is also very
search engine friendly. Feedback can be left by your users thereby
increasing your content at no cost in time and effort.
Any web page can have social bookmarking icons and links added,
which allow quick and easy inbound linking to that page.
This is useful for both your users who can add the web page to their own
bookmarks easier, and to begin the process of search engine
promotion on your own pages.
Mixx, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Digg, Delicious etc all provide genuine
text links to your pages.
Linkedin is the business to business equivalent of Facebook. It encourages
users to connect to other individuals and networks via their connections
and build up a wider network of contacts via personal recommendations.
Facebook is the most used of the social networks, but mostly by the under
30s. Many companies are actively promoting via Facebook,
even before their own website.
Eg: facebook.com/mellowbirds
As a business owner you know your own business.
Become a resource. Write a blog. Actively encourage users to ask
questions of you. Ask satisfied customers to leave feedback.
Host a forum or similar on your subject, and allow anyone to post to
your site. Your users provide the content with no effort from you....
And you have succeeded at web 2.0!
See tonight as the first step in increasing your network.
Make sure you have a note of every attendee's Twitter, Facebook
and Linkedin profiles.
We will have a list of attendee's posted on littledetails.co.uk in
the next few days.... use the list to make contact.
SEO Web Seminar
Thank you
Simon Robinson - January 2010
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