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3. ✓ SEO: Search Engine Optimization
✓ SERP: Search Engine Results Page
✓ Crawler (Bot, Spider): Software SE use 

to navigate the web and capture the links
✓ Index: Gigantic database
✓ Rank: Position in SERP
Jargon
11. • Follow links from one web page to another
• Save the all pages (HTML) in the Index
• Match search queries with web pages indexed
• Return results in SERP
How Google (and SE) works
14.  SEO:

practice of optimizing your web
pages to make them reach a high
position in the search results of
Google or other search engines.
15. SEO focuses on improving 

the rankings in the organic 

– that means non-paid – 

search results.
16. Google determines the ranking
in SERP through a secret
algorithm. However, the
experience makes us pretty 

sure about SEO practice.
17. • Technical aspects

(e.g. quality of the code, speed, accessibility)
• Content related aspects

(e.g. site structure, copy, key phrases)
On-page SEO factors
(all the elements of SEO you can control best)
18. • Links from other websites
• Traffic from social media
• Other marketing activities getting traffic 

to the website
Off-page SEO factors
(factors more difficult to manage)
20. • Allows you to set up all the SEO technical
elements
• Guides you to set up the On-page factors 

(eg Internal linking count)
• Gives you advices on how to improve your content
Yoast SEO
25. SEO analysis
(Keyphrase-based
assessments)
• Keyphrase in introduction
• Keyphrase length
• Keyphrase density
• Keyphrase in meta description
• Keyphrase in subheadings
• Link focus keyphrase
• Keyphrase in image alt
attributes
• Keyphrase in title
• Keyphrase in slug
• Previously used keyphrase
26. SEO analysis
(Other SEO
assessments)
• Text length
• Outbound links
• Internal links
• SEO title width
• Meta description length
• Text length for taxonomy
pages
27. Readability
analysis
• Subheading distribution
• Paragraph length
• Sentence length
• Consecutive sentences
• Passive voice
• Transition words
• Flesch Reading Ease
• Text presence
• Single H1
37. • SEO is not a magic nor a trick. It’s a strategy
with a lot of hard work under the hood.
• Build a strong and clear site structure.
• Take care of On-page and of Off-page factors
• Properly set up all technical elements

(Yoast is your friend for a lot, but not for all)
Holistic SEO
38. Yoast SEO is a tool, an awesome, useful and
powerful tool, but only a tool.


Write GREAT content with your readers in mind
and use the plugin for improving, but don’t focus
on turning all bullets green. ;-)
But, most important