Web and BeyondCast, the Small Business Digital Marketing and Productivity Technology Show

Web and BeyondCast, the Small Business Digital Marketing and Productivity Technology Show


006 How to Build a Website, Part 5 – Search Engine Optimization – Web and BeyondCast

September 07, 2018

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 6, Search Engine Optimization, of Web and BeyondCast. We have an exciting season in store for you, so I hope you enjoy the time we'll be spending together.

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This is just the beginning of Web and BeyondCast, but you have reached the end of our initial series, How to Build a Website. If you haven’t yet listened to the first four episodes on How to Build a Website, I highly recommend that you hop back to the Episode 002 in the podcast feed (which is part 1 in the series) and give those a listen. In this episode, I’m going solo here to explain to you the importance of making your site friendly and accessible to Search Engines (namely Google), so that you can get human eyes on your fledgling Small Business website.

I’m going to cover general Search Engine Optimization techniques, then touch on some of the important concepts you need to understand so that you are able to work on Local, Mobile and Social Search Engine Optimization yourself and/or with your Web designer/developer as you near launch of your website.

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In this Cast | Search Engine Optimization
Ray Sidney-Smith
Show Notes | Search Engine Optimization
Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Webinars on SEO

Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

Check AdSense banned domains: http://bannedcheck.com/

Google Analytics

Google Search Engine Console

Google My Business

Local Listing Ninja

Yext

BrightLocal

Getting Google Reviews (and Responding to Google Reviews)

Yelp

Google Mobile Readiness and Test My Site

Open Graph Test
BONUS: Small Business SEO Checklist 

Additional Resources

SEO & Marketing Tactics to Rank Outside Your Local Area | Webinar
WPSSO Schema JSON-LD Markup – Structured Data, Rich Snippet, Google Rich Cards, Pinterest Rich Pins | WordPress.org
WP SEO Structured Data Schema | WordPress.org