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NICK SAMUEL 10 MINU TE SEO P RESE N TATIO N

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As part of my interview for role of SEO Analyst for iProspect I had to knock together some onsite recommendations for a miscellaneous website, in this case Innocent Smoothies/Drinks. The ten minute presentation was an informal overview of onsite SEO recommendations I would make, in order to test my basic SEO knowledge. I did alright, but was disappointed that I couldn't work a smooth link juice joke into the proceedings...

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NICK S

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THE BRIEF

“Prepare a 10 minute PowerPoint presentation on

innocentdrinks.co.uk explaining how the company can try to improve their on page SEO.

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MY APPROACH

1. Try and understand the company and the industry it operates within.

2. Brush up on onpage SEO + Google quality guidelines.

3. Go crazy with tools.

4. Interpret the results and make recommendations.

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1. THE CONTEXT

• What they actually do? Business model.

• Where their products are sold? Online Vs Offline.

• What SEO Game do they play? Brand building or “rank ‘n’ bank”.

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2. ON PAGE RANKING FACTORS

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“The on-page factors surrounding. On-page factors are therefore considered more of a prerequisite for ranking higher in

search results pages.”

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3. TOOLS USED

Name URL Descriptionhttp://builtwith.com/ Web technology analyser. Good

for getting a “feel” of the sites components.

http://www.woorank.com/ Highly popular online site which analyses site for SEO, Social Media, Mobile and Conversions

http://nielsbosma.se/projects/seotools/

Excel plugin which provides a wealth of functions for working with SEO and web metrics.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

Actionable pagespeed insights from Google’s point of view.

https://www.pingdom.com/ Performance grader and server request visualiser.

http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

Desktop program which spiders websites’ onpage elements from an SEO perspective.

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4.0 RECOMMENDATIONS

Five Categories:

1. Pagespeed

2. Mobile

3. Social Media Integration

4. HTML Elements

5. Other

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4.1 PAGESPEED

• Leverage browser caching

• Combine (Minify) the 7 External Javascipt files

• Optimise images further - 17 images above 100kb across website.

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4.2 OPTIMISE FOR MOBILE DEVICES

• Create a mobile web strategy; Responsive or @media queries for custom css rules.

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4.3 SOCIAL AND BLOG

Google Plus

• Add Google+ Button to footer. <div class =“iconbar social”>

• Claim Google+ Vanity URL.

• Integrate Google+ Authorship.

Blog

• Write a Blog Post (Last one was 5th October).

• More share options per page.

• Use a subscriptions service (email) and better commenting.

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4.4 HTML ELEMENTSPage Titles261 Page Titles…2 have missing…73

duplicate…246 above 70 characters (Maximum Google displays)

Meta Descriptions2 missing…250 duplicate…

Meta Kewords252 duplicates + their existence!

Heading 1 + 22 missing… 154 h1 unique which appear

twice.

202 missing …3 unique h2 which are duplicated 59 times

Alt Text36 images are missing alt text.

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4.5 OTHER

• Text/HTML Ratio. 6.53% on homepage. Suggestions 25-70%.

• 5 Errors, 2 warnings according to W3C Markup Validator

• 9 Underscores in URLs.

• Explore Rich Snippets/Microdata opportunities.

• Inconsistent home menu; 2 external links and one subdomain.

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CONCLUSION

• Well designed website

• Biggest issues are mobile traffic strategy and top menu links.

• No major SEO problems but enough to annoy people like us.

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THANKS F

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