LOCATION: Manchester School of Technology, Manchester, NH
TOPICS: Joomla SEO Tips
ATTENDEES: Liane Haslauer (host), Rob Graham (presenter), Lois Wolter, Justin Herrin, David Phreaner, Paula Frank, Debbie Pryor (newbie)
Welcome to our newest member Debbie!
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips
Below is the presentation that Rob gave...
Download the presentation in the Attachments area below
Some of the highlights include...
- Organic search (popularity contest - relevancy, inbound links, etc) results vs. Sponsored (paid) search results
- Web bots crawl sites and grab textual content and report back to the Search Engine
- Search Engine's "secret" algorithms are constantly changing...
- Relevance of your pages are based on a composite score
- On-page Optimization (your site, your control) vs. Off-site Optimization (other sites you can't control)
- Meta Tags covered: Keywords tags, Description tags, Title tags
- Alt-image tags covered
- Keyword Density Tests: http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-density/
- Website Grader: http://website.grader.com/
- Some tips of how to increase your site's SEO
Next Meeting
We are taking our usual summer break, but be on the lookout for a cookout... Keep an eye our our Google Discussion Group for more details on that soon!
Our next user group meeting is tentatively scheduled for September. We may be switching days on the month that we meet and the location is still to be determined. Keep checking our homepage for details.
 Rob's SEO Presentation | [ ] |
