D&D London CMS Training & SEO Cheat Sheet March 2014
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Logging In – [Restaurant URL/wp-admin]
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Home Screen
Click on one of these to amend/ add an ar8cle to this blog sec8on
Click here to change your password
This sec8on contains all images and PDFs uploaded to your website Click here to amend/add events
Click here to amend/add offers
Click here to amend/add menus
Click here the ‘widgets’ to change the homepage marke8ng boxes
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Home Page Marketing Promotions
Drag a ‘Homepage Feature Promo8on’ to Homepage Marke8ng Boxes
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Home Page Marketing Promotions
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Offers Click here to add offers
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Offers
Add 8tle, text and text links
Publish offer
Select offer type from the following:
Select image (see next page) Add SEO Title & Meta Descrip8on following this formula Select ‘Offer Type’ 8tle and expiry date
Add excerpt (mostly same as Meta Descrip8on); this text is the ‘intro text which can be seen on the main offers page
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Uploading Or Using Images (Offers) Upload JPEG image or select an image already uploaded If adding an image add descrip8ve text for blind users
Publish Offer
Select offer type from the following:
Select image (see next page) Add SEO Title & Meta Descrip8on following this formula Select ‘Offer Type’ 8tle and expiry date
Add excerpt (mostly same as Meta Descrip8on)
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What’s On Events Click here to add events
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Add 8tle, text and text links (see page 11)
Publish event
Select event type from the following:
Select event start/end date Select image (see page 8) Add SEO Title & Meta Descrip8on following this formula State whether this should be featured on the group website too
Add excerpt (mostly same as Meta Descrip8on); this text is the ‘intro text which can be seen on the main events page
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Adding Text Links (Events) Select the text you’d like to link and click on the ‘link’ symbol in the top leU corner of the green box; the box below will appear
You can link to an external page by entering the URL. A PDF should open in a new window; as a general rule another web page should open in the same window To add an email link type, follow the example below: mailto:
[email protected]?subject=Wedding Enquiry You can link to a page on the same website by searching for content and then selec8ng the page
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Blog Articles (Recipes) Click here to add ar8cle
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Add 8tle, text and text links (see page 11)
Publish ar8cle
Select image (see page 8)
Add SEO Title & Meta Descrip8on following this formula State whether this should be featured on the group website too
Add excerpt (mostly same as Meta Descrip8on); this text is the ‘intro text which can be seen on the main blog page
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Blog Articles (Videos) To add a video simply paste the YouTube URL into the text box
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Menus Click here to add menu
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Add 8tle, text and text links (see page 11)
Publish menu
Select restaurant area that menu belongs to; these can be added to if required Select ‘type’ of menu – these can be added to if required
Add SEO Title & Meta Descrip8on following this formula
Upload PDF menu
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SEO Cheat Sheet META TITLES
Should be 70 characters long & should be wri^en so that the first le^er of each word is capitalised. If you go over the character limit it will truncate… Keywords are important but it is also key to indicate to the user what is on the page they’re about to visit.
Offers
Formula [Offer Title] | [Restaurant Name] Offer | D&D London Example Restaurant Set Menu | Bluebird Offer | D&D London
Events
Formula [Event Title] | [Restaurant Name] Event | D&D London Example Semi-‐soU Cheese Tas8ng| Bluebird Event | D&D London
Blog Posts
Formula [Blog Title] | [Restaurant Name] [Post Type] | D&D London Example Fizz The Season| Bluebird Wine | D&D London
Menus
Formula [Menu Title] | [Restaurant Name] Menu | D&D London Example Wine List | Bluebird Menu | D&D London
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SEO Cheat Sheet Cont. META DESCRIPTIONS
Should be 156 characters long and describe the page; if you go over the character limit it will truncate… The first sentence on the page – which should encompass the offer/event in its en8rety – will suffice, as long as it is within character limit and makes sense in isola8on N.B. Homepage marke8ng promos and panels don’t need SEO info.
ALT TEXT
Tips & Extra Information
Should be a descrip8on of the image for screen-‐readers, where the user is visually impaired. Using keywords has some SEO benefit but should be used in context.
LINKS
To external websites should open in the same window To PDFs should open in a new window
PDFS
Should be no more than 2MB 18