Digital and Social Analytics Exam 2 Flashcards
SEO
Search engine optimization
-practice of increasing quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results
Search Engines
want to match people browsing with relevant content
- conversion rate
conversion rate
see AND buy; many people see
Rank Matters
SERP
SERP
Search engine result page (first few are critical to traffic)
How much of the internet search traffic does google own?
90% (bing owns 6%)
We have been seeing what within mimic pro
Ad rank (SEM)
What is the unpaid version of SEM referred to as?
SEO- organic or natural
Who searches the internet?
Google’s spiders
Not searching the internet
Google doesn’t search the internet as you need it; they’ve already searched it and pull it from their database
Robots.txt.
html to tell it to ignore a website/ not catalog it
Webpage marketing 101
SEO vs SEM
SEO (full description)
Organic based on:
-content= need words for what you are looking for
-structure= Google deprioritizes badly formed html
-links (references)= if people link to site it increases your results
SEM
paid placement of ads in search results:
-keywords
-campaigns
-metered/structured budgets= structure how you spend
The old days: Meta tags
key words in head of document to tell google what the site was about
- abused by people “stuffing” the key words with stuff just to drive up traffic
Common Meta tags
<meta name= “ “ content= >
-“ “= description, keywords, author, viewport
viewport
tells device if people are allowed to pinch (zoom) or not
SEO- HTML
Use <h1></h1>… <h6></h6>
Use paragraphs
Use attribute for images
-alternative text for what it is
Do not “game” the system, they detect and remember it
SEO layers on website
AMP
Accelerated mobile pages
-standard to help mobile users
Google gives credit if pages can load quickly on mobile device (SPEED MATTERS!)
HTML, javascript
Caching
Leaving something for someone else to find later
-allows content to be shared for a certain amount of time closer to where the users are using it
WYSIWYG Editors
What you see is what you get
A note to editors: Some editors let you control the HTML, others don’t
A fine level of control allows for better SEO, but also requires more talent to manage
- some editors do it for you- still have to know jargon and impacts
Matts Meta Message
CONTENT WINS EVERYTIME
quality content= quality traffic