The Simple and Smart SEO Show What is Black Hat SEO? w/ Stephanie Long (Part 2)
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What's in our 23rd Episode with SEO expert & consultant Stephanie Long, part 2?
Our Takeaways:
1. Use Screaming Frog and Google's Page Speed Tool to optimize images and improve page speed.
- Use Screaming Frog to optimize images for alt text and size.
- Site structure should be easy to navigate and make sense logically.
- Contact Stephanie for a free consultation and audit.
2. Optimize your Wordpress pages and Shopify pages.
- WordPress users: update your URL slug to something relevant and optimized.
- Shopify users: remember to check the box for automatic redirection when you make changes to a page.
- For URL slugs, try to keep them 3-4 terms long and relevant to the page topic.
3. What is White Hat SEO? What is Black Hat SEO?
- White hat SEO is optimizing your blog appropriately, putting in the targeted keyword on each page, two to three times max.
- Black hat SEO: keyword stuffing, buying links, shady stuff behind the scenes.
- Competitive research falls under white hat seo.
4. How to choose the best keywords for your site:
- Make sure that the keywords you're targeting are actually being Searched by potential customers.
- Using UberSuggest and Answer the Public can help ensure that you're using white hat SEO techniques.
5. Find out the difference between a web developer's job
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