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Search and FindabilityThe Voodoo that Drives Readers Deeper

Presented by Aaron Brazell

Theme StructureTheme Elements that Make a Blog Deeper

Related Posts

Related Posts

Provide relevant content based on the post

Related Posts

Provide relevant content based on the post

Landing page modules to help search engine visitors go deeper

Related Posts

Provide relevant content based on the post

Landing page modules to help search engine visitors go deeper

Post listings based on tags

Search

Search

Full content/context search results

Search

Full content/context search results

Search indexing of social content

Search

Full content/context search results

Search indexing of social content

YouTube

Search

Full content/context search results

Search indexing of social content

YouTube

Facebook

Search

Full content/context search results

Search indexing of social content

YouTube

Facebook

Flickr

Search

Full content/context search results

Search indexing of social content

YouTube

Facebook

Flickr

Popular search listings

Structural Categorization

Structural Categorization

Theme organization by category

Structural Categorization

Theme organization by category

Pseudo-blog categorization

Structural Categorization

Theme organization by category

Pseudo-blog categorization

in_category()

Structural Categorization

Theme organization by category

Pseudo-blog categorization

in_category()

is_category()

Structural Categorization

Theme organization by category

Pseudo-blog categorization

in_category()

is_category()

Recent Posts/Comments relative to archive type

Content StructureContent, Rich Media and Metadata

Microformats

Microformats

WordPress core microformat support

Microformats

WordPress core microformat support

XFN

Microformats

WordPress core microformat support

XFN

rel-tag (rel=”tag”)

Microformats

WordPress core microformat support

XFN

rel-tag (rel=”tag”)

rel-nofollow (rel=”nofollow”)

Microformats

WordPress core microformat support

XFN

rel-tag (rel=”tag”)

rel-nofollow (rel=”nofollow”)

Enhances human understanding

Microformats

WordPress core microformat support

XFN

rel-tag (rel=”tag”)

rel-nofollow (rel=”nofollow”)

Enhances human understanding

Special styling opportunities

Microformats

WordPress core microformat support

XFN

rel-tag (rel=”tag”)

rel-nofollow (rel=”nofollow”)

Enhances human understanding

Special styling opportunities

CSS3

Microformats

WordPress core microformat support

XFN

rel-tag (rel=”tag”)

rel-nofollow (rel=”nofollow”)

Enhances human understanding

Special styling opportunities

CSS3

Javascript/jQuery

Images, Audio and Video

Images, Audio and Video

Descriptive Titles/Captions

Images, Audio and Video

Descriptive Titles/Captions

Images: Use the alt attribute!

Images, Audio and Video

Descriptive Titles/Captions

Images: Use the alt attribute!

Images: Tag the image

Images, Audio and Video

Descriptive Titles/Captions

Images: Use the alt attribute!

Images: Tag the image

Video: Write descriptive content

Images, Audio and Video

Descriptive Titles/Captions

Images: Use the alt attribute!

Images: Tag the image

Video: Write descriptive content

Audio: Show Notes!

Tags

Tags

Technorati Handles Categories and Tags Identically

Tags

Technorati Handles Categories and Tags Identically

Tags: Considered relevant keywords for most search engines

Tags

Technorati Handles Categories and Tags Identically

Tags: Considered relevant keywords for most search engines

Categories: Inconsistent relevancy assumption

Tags

Technorati Handles Categories and Tags Identically

Tags: Considered relevant keywords for most search engines

Categories: Inconsistent relevancy assumption

Tags are descriptive data (meta data) while categories are structural data

Tags

Technorati Handles Categories and Tags Identically

Tags: Considered relevant keywords for most search engines

Categories: Inconsistent relevancy assumption

Tags are descriptive data (meta data) while categories are structural data

Tag Clouds demonstrate popularity

Ambient FindabilityThe right content, in the right place, at the right time

Ambient Findability

Ambient Findability

Based on Peter Morville’s Book from O’Reilly

Ambient Findability

Based on Peter Morville’s Book from O’Reilly

Can people find your blog?

Ambient Findability

Based on Peter Morville’s Book from O’Reilly

Can people find your blog?

Can people find their way around your blog?

Ambient Findability

Based on Peter Morville’s Book from O’Reilly

Can people find your blog?

Can people find their way around your blog?

Can people find your content, products and services despite your blog?

AF in a WP World

AF in a WP World

Your Blog serves as a nexus for information about you!

AF in a WP World

Your Blog serves as a nexus for information about you!

You serve as the nexus for trust and relevance

AF in a WP World

Your Blog serves as a nexus for information about you!

You serve as the nexus for trust and relevance

Readers should find what they need because of you, not Google.

Low Hanging Fruit...or, “I just want to write and don’t want to go overboard on the tech!”

Possibly Related Posts

Available to WordPress.com users

Opt-in/Opt-out

Automatically generated

Cross-pollinates with other WordPress.com blogs

Search Everything

Searches pages, posts, categories, tags, custom fields, attachments, etc.

Multi-lingual support

Microformats Plugins

Micro Anywhere

Blog Summary

Save Microformats

Lijit for WordPress

Provides trust-based search (user-centric)

Provides re-search/related content

Provides search clouds

Thank You! Aaron Brazell

aaron@technosailor.com :: 410-608-6620

technosailor.com :: lijit.com

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