Ryan Erwin (@ryanerwin33) gave a talk titled SEO Audit Techniques on Saturday, April 30 at 2:00 PM.
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Thank you @WordCampChicago ! I had a great time speaking to an outstanding group of attendees. Link to my slideshttps://t.co/h0jKyMtuCZ
— Ryan Erwin (@ryanerwin33) May 1, 2016
Social Recap
Here are some of the highlights and tips our audience shared on Twitter:
🙌 SEO AUDITS 🙌 with @ryanerwin33 at #wcchi — my brain is a sponge & I'm so ready for this.
— Jamie Bell (@jamieclarebell) April 30, 2016
SEO session about to start. #wcchi pic.twitter.com/1HiFKwct2D
— Kari E. McLean (@MsMcLean1) April 30, 2016
Lots of ppl interested in SEO at #wcchi! pic.twitter.com/rNqA2YYVdO
— Sarah Collins (@SarahCollinsWD) April 30, 2016
.@ryanerwin33 – Know error pages, optimize templates to keep users on your site, not frustrated: redirects, fix in Search Console #wcchi
— WordCamp Chicago #WCCHI (@WordCampChicago) April 30, 2016
HTTP Status Codes. Good to know. @ryanerwin33 #wcchi pic.twitter.com/QcZlZWmS44
— Chrisp Media (@chrispmedia) April 30, 2016
https://twitter.com/tyesoftware/status/726489948883312642
Search engines are not a democracy, it's a dictatorship – pass their tests to win the game. #wcchi @ryanerwin33
— WordCamp Chicago #WCCHI (@WordCampChicago) April 30, 2016
"One site to rule them all." Optimize your site for mobile! Because I'm tweeting from my phone riiight now. #wcchi (cc: @ryanerwin33)
— Jamie Bell (@jamieclarebell) April 30, 2016
Why get to know your robots.txt file? You could be hiding your whole site! Make the smartest choices for your site #wcchi @ryanerwin33
— WordCamp Chicago #WCCHI (@WordCampChicago) April 30, 2016
XML Sitemaps (w/ @yoast or other plugins) will help search engines review your whole site. @ryanerwin33 #wcchi
— WordCamp Chicago #WCCHI (@WordCampChicago) April 30, 2016
Content writing tip for both SEO & inspiration: start with an outline w/ good headers, use text editor to confirm html @ryanerwin33 #wcchi
— WordCamp Chicago #WCCHI (@WordCampChicago) April 30, 2016
Image optimization is key for speed, helps w/ SEO too – improving in core, but plenty of plugins can help too #wcchi https://t.co/G3kRcqCEG2
— WordCamp Chicago #WCCHI (@WordCampChicago) April 30, 2016
For image optimization, @zstepek uses compressors like @KrakenIO or @imagify to save an average of 40-60% on each image. #WCChi
— WP Engine (@wpengine) April 30, 2016
From @ryanerwin33's talk at #wcchi #WCChicago pic.twitter.com/s5owBjuYo6
— Sarah Collins (@SarahCollinsWD) April 30, 2016
Have a calendar for creating & publishing content! Road maps for life cycle of prime content – @ryanerwin33 #wcchi
— WordCamp Chicago #WCCHI (@WordCampChicago) April 30, 2016
Leaving @ryanerwin33 with a much better understanding of all those SEO codes. Thanks! #wcchi
— Laurel Johnson (@LaurelCreates) April 30, 2016
Google+? Really, it's only for the SEO people because most people don't use it as a network, but having content there doesn't hurt #wcchi
— WordCamp Chicago #WCCHI (@WordCampChicago) April 30, 2016
@ryanerwin33 talking about SEO Audit at WordCampChicago. Great talk! #wcchi pic.twitter.com/XXMg320eWc
— Patrick Elward (@chiwebmgmt) April 30, 2016
@ryanerwin33 great talk seo audit techniques #wcchi #advancedwpchi @OlenickIT
— Denise K Copening (@QA_Solve) April 30, 2016
@ryanerwin33 Way to practice what you preach. Loved the SEOP Audit presentation
— Matthew Sciannella (@Matt_Sciannella) April 30, 2016
Want an example of defensive domains? Here’s a funny byplay from the conference…
defensive domains: buy alternates (.net / .org) so no one else can run that site against you (also IhateX or Xreviews) @ryanerwin33 #wcchi
— WordCamp Chicago #WCCHI (@WordCampChicago) April 30, 2016
https://twitter.com/bradparbs/status/726806993978040321
https://twitter.com/JJJ/status/726808002158837760
@JJJ @10up LOL – is this what @ryanerwin33 meant about defensive domain purchases?
— WordCamp Chicago #WCCHI (@WordCampChicago) May 1, 2016
@WordCampChicago @JJJ @10up You know it! #wcchi
— Ryan Erwin (@ryanerwin33) May 1, 2016
@ryanerwin33 @WordCampChicago @JJJ thankfully, we trademarked & copyrighted "10up" & our logo long ago… better than domain defense! 😀
— 10up (@10up) May 1, 2016