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10 Simple Steps To WordPress SEO Success

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In this talk, Patrick will give 10 simple steps to set up a WordPress site for SEO Success. He will start with why SEO is important and then break down, step by step, how to set up the site for immediate and ongoing SEO success.

10 Simple Steps To WordPress SEO Success by Patrick Stevens 

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Patrick lives for wisdom, sports, startups, coding cool stuff, creative marketing, mobile tech, music, and movies. He’s passionate about learning and bringing value to those around me. He has a unique background that includes the military, account management, sales, and building businesses prior to launching his career as a web developer and digital marketer.

Data Hierarchy – Collecting data thats valuable

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Data Hierarchy is a web series turned (free) E-book that helps companies understand how to work with data they are collecting. As websites become the leading edge of that data collection its important for the company to know how to leverage it for future success. Working with clients to help them gather the right kind of data makes developers even more valuable, and referable. 

Data Hierarchy – Collecting data thats valuable by Justin Trowbridge  

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Justin is the Business Development Officer for Contemporary Analysis. Over his career Justin has worked at Fortune 100 companies connecting people to technology. In his role at Contemporary Analysis Justin acts as a “data visionary” and helps companies see what is possible with data. Justin is an actual Laird of Glencoe & Lochaber Scotland (technically). With degrees in both Industrial Design and Marketing he can “translate” concepts from the very technical elements to laymen’s terms.

Speaker Spotlight: Sergio Esquivel

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Talk title: Rewrite API: Setting Custom Permalink Structures for Custom Post Types

Sergio will be telling us all about the WordPress Rewrite API, (a topic we often don’t hear of). Specifically, he’ll show how to set a custom permalink structure for a custom post types. This will cover wp_query, query vars, permalinks, pre_get_posts hook, rewrite rules and tags.

Sergio has been a WordPress developer a little over 4 years. He currently works as a full-stack web developer at Firespring in Lincoln, NE.

Session Spotlight: Robots Make the Best Marketers

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People think that Marketing is synonymous with VooDoo. It’s not. Marketing is a series of well-made, precise, decisions executed in a systematic and structured way. WordPress allows for some great marketing automation tools and process that can help you grow your business WITHOUT losing your brand voice or human touch.

Robots Make The Best Marketers by Larissa Uredi  

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Speaker Spotlight: Stacy Carlson

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Talk Title: Affiliate Marketing 101

Have you been thinking about launching an affiliate program for your brand but have no idea where to start? This is the talk for you! Stacy will walk you through what to look for in an affiliate platform, how to recruit new affiliates as well as understanding how best to nurture and build the loyalty of your affiliates.

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Stacy L. Carlson is a serial entrepreneur and self-proclaimed systems and process nerd from Lincoln, Nebraska. She is the Partnership Manager for Smile, a software company that creates TextExpander and PDFpen. She is a 2014 Alumni of the nMotion Accelerator and she was a co-facilitator of nMotion’s pre-incubator program, Prelaunch, which helps entrepreneurs validate their early business ideas through customer development and validated learning.