Improve SEO Publishing with edocr
Part two

Jan 1, 2021 (refreshed July 30, 2024): In order to take advantage of SEO with
edocr, you must be a paid Premium or approved Philanthropic user. If you
have not been approved, edocr will not submit your edocr document to be
indexed by Google or Bing crawlers.

Why place documents on edocr that cannot be found or benefit SEO?

Edocr is a free document sharing service, but we do not provide free
indexing or free long-term storage without a Premium Account.

Further, when your Premium Account or trial version expires, new shares
will no longer be marked for submission to search engines and older shares
are subject to deletion. To take full advantage of edocr for SEO, YOU MUST
REMAIN A PREMIUM ACCOUNT.

Use our Help link to contact us for more information about our various
Premium Plans, including our free education and charity Philanthropy
accounts. PREMIUM PRICING PLANS

May 2018: Welcome to "Improve SEO via edocr 201"! In 2015 we published
"Improve SEO via edocr 101", which was written just after the rebranding and
relaunch of edocr.com. “Improve SEO via edocr 101” was designed to assist with
information on maximizing SEO for your content on edocr.

“Improve SEO via edocr 201” is a follow-up blog post that gives you updated
information on edocr and new steps you’ll need to take for SEO purposes.
What has changed? Our success is off the charts for one thing, but much of the
submitted content is, let's just say, not so useful. For the last three years or so we
have monitored the content. The monitoring process involved a manual 'thumbs-
down' procedure to reject content or authors who placed unsavory content on our
site.

This process assumed content was reputable and good until we saw an issue.
With the explosive growth that we have seen we are now getting over 100,000
documents submitted to our site a month, and this number is steadily going
upwards!

In fairness to our many publishers and authors using edocr for branding, SEO and
other marketing uses, we are changing how we approve content on the edocr site.
Instead of allowing content to be posted and immediately crawlable by search
engines, we will set all documents that are submitted by unknown authors not to
be crawled by search engines. This will mean a better SEO ranking for content on
our site for our approved authors.

Further, our search engine will also rank accordingly, so if content is not from an
approved user, the document will come up at the bottom, or possibly miss the cut,
of a search.

Please note, you will need to take action to get your content approved in
order to receive a 'thumbs-up' from us.

SEO is the whole point of posting on edocr! So all you need to do is contact us
and have your account approved as a 'thumbs-up' account.

Here are the quick steps to take:
1. Your profile should be set up so we know who you are. Here is our blog post
about setting up your profile. This is a one-time set-up, and takes less than
five minutes. Anyway, why bother sharing content if you don't maximize
means of contact?
2. Share at least one document that represents the type of content you will be
sharing.
3. Click the 'Help Center' link on the top of the edocr web page and submit a
ticket with a link to your Profile Page, or your document share page (or just
email it to info@edocr.com). Please say "SEO" as the subject.

Need help or suggestions, just ask!

On the next page are a few reminders for those of you that skipped our
previous blog posts....

Stand out in a crowd. Your edocr profile is like an alternative web page, where you
can post your picture or logo, a description about you or your company and
contact information.

1. Tell the world who you are, why you matter, what you have to say, and
where to find you on your profile main page:




2. Your documents. Setting up your document viewing page correctly is important
to maximize your SEO results. Best of all, you can set up multiple template
options for posting documents, saving you time. If you have a local business,
make sure city or region is mentioned. Even random subject matter expert
documents, combined with your template, tie you to the published document.
Powerful stuff!

Also, the template title becomes part of the URL, so be sure to change your title
every time you post a document.

3. Additional tips to create the perfect page: Select a category, or save one with
your template, to help interested people find you. And as an added bonus, our
viewer automatically creates a word cloud that links your most popular words with
other documents.


So, 1, 2, 3 - it’s that easy to do it right and maximize your published content.

See how you can use all this space on the viewer page to your advantage, and
create some templates!