An Affiliate's Guide - Navigating the Technical SEO Minefield
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A guide for affiliates;
Navigating the technical SEO minefield
Digital Marketing Show
19th November 2015
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It supports other marketing/SEO work
doing it
Plenty of your competitors aren’t
Much of this is simple to implement
Good news:
Quick wins
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Think of your website like
a shop…
Your content is your staff, site
design the shop building
& technical SEO the layout & signage
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8. URL structure
• Lowercase
• Readable
• Contains
keywords
• Isn’t full or
parameters (?=)
https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls
https://moz.com/learn/seo/url
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14. Page speed
Nobody likes a slow website
47% of consumers
• 40% abandon a website that
expect a web page to
load in
2 seconds or less
40% abandon a website that
takes more than 3 seconds
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47% of consumers
• 40% abandon a website that
expect a web page to load
in 2 seconds or less
40% abandon a website that
takes more than 3 seconds
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• Person
• Product
• Event
• Organisation
• Movie
• Book
• Review
https://developers.google.com/structured-data
Current Schemas in the SERPs
(Rich Snippets)
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How users interact with your site
has become an important ranking
consideration.
https://moz.com/blog/the-massive-ranking-factor-too-many-seos-are-
ignoring-whiteboard-friday
http://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors
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Reading to get you started
• http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide/
• https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/basics-of-search-
engine-friendly-design-and-development
• https://blog.kissmetrics.com/seo-guide/
• http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.co.uk/
en/uk/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-
guide.pdf
• https://www.softwarepromotions.com/news/how-to-carry-out-
an-seo-audit-for-free/