2. HOW TO WORK IN A CHANGING LANDSCAPE
Importance of focusing on Organic Traffic
Benefits of a great SEO Program
Adapting to a Changing Landscape
Setting Up Your Program
3. TERMS
• Organic Traffic: Visitors that come
to your website through unpaid,
natural (Organic) search engine
results.
• SERP: Search Engine Results Page.
The result of performing a query in a
search engine.
• PPC & SEM: Pay Per Click &
Search Engine Marketing. These
terms I use interchangeable for Paid
Search marketing programs.
• Mobile: When referring to Mobile
we are most often referring to both
phones and tablets unless otherwise
stipulated.
6. GOOGLE LOVES ORGANIC
• Paid makes $ but Organic makes
Sense
• Organic Drives Paid Search
• Fine Tuning Organic is the
Driving Force of Google
• Majority of users utilize Organic
85%
15%
Share of Listings by Type
Organic
Paid
10. WHAT THAT TRAFFIC CAN MEAN
Current Revenue:
Position 2 = 1,500 Visitors/Day
Current Overall Organic Conversion Rate = 1%
Average Order Value = $50.00
Revenue/Day By Organic = $750/Day
Potential Revenue at #1:
Position 1 = 5,250
Current Overall Organic Conversion Rate = 1%
Average Order Value = $50.00
Revenue/Day By Organic = $2,600/Day
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11. SEO BENEFITS SEM
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A high Quality Score means that for a
given keyword bid, an advertiser may
receive a higher Avg. Position, higher
Impression Share and lower Cost per
Click than competitors with lower
Quality Scores.
13. ADAPTING TO A CHANGING
LANDSCAPE
PANDA, PENGUIN, AND MORE
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14. THE GOOGLE ALGORITHM
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Google Looks for clues to better
understand what you mean.
Things like
spelling, context, synonyms, etc…
Then Google Uses those clues to
pull related content from the
Index.
Google then filters those pieces of
content based on a number of
factors. Page
Quality, Freshness, Domain
History, etc..
Google Displays the results in a
number of different ways to
facilitate a users search. Things
like the Knowledge Graph, Google
Answers, Google
News, Videos, etc..
Google is also constantly updating
its algorithm to ensure the
highest quality results it can.
1.
5.
4.3.
2.
17. MOBILE SEO COMPLIANCE
Top 100 Fortune 500 Companies:
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ONLY 6%
Currently comply
with Google
Mobile
Requirements
ONLY 11%
Target
smartphone
users via
responsive
design
ONLY 56%
Served mobile
formatted
content to
people on
smartphones
While nearly half had a mobile
dedicated site 0%
Of those sites
comply with
Google’s
configuration
requirements
This information comes from a
study recently performed by Pure
Oxygen Labs. It was focused on
the top 100 companies in the
Fortune 500.
18. MOBILE AND SEARCH
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Multi-platform
consumption is
today’s new reality.
1 in 3 minutes
spent online is
now spent beyond
the PC
“The digital media landscape is already well into this
transition, and smartphone and tablet usage can no longer
be considered a mere rounding error in digital consumer
behavior.”
-Comscore Mobile Future In Focus 2013
37%
Mobile
63%
Desktop
Source: comScore Media Matrix Multi-Platform (Beta), U.S., Dec-2012
19. WHERE TO START AND HOW TO KEEP UP
SETTING UP YOUR
PROGRAM
20. INTERNAL SEO V. EXTERNAL SEO
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OR
Internal:
• Small Cost Investment
• Large Time Investment
• You know your sites limitations
• Department Education is easier
• Longer ROI
Agency:
• Larger Cost Investment
• Smaller Time Investment
• Generally Highly Knowledgeable
• Can be harder to break the Silo
• Quicker ROI
• Innovative Tools
21. THE WHOLE PROGRAM
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SEO
Program
Web
Development
IT
Copywriters
Marketing
Teams
• Title Tags
• Meta Descriptions
• Canonical Tags
• Alt Tags
• Robots.txt
• Reference to Site Map
• Customized XML Sitemap
• Correct Re-Directs
• Keyword Mapping
• Keyword Density
• Images
• Header Tag Structure
A lot of SEO is Education and
relaying the importance of a
shared effort.
22. TRACKING THE RIGHT METRICS
Keyword Movement in the SERP
Traffic From Keywords
Traffic by Indexation
Keyword Conversion Rates
Conversion Rates by Indexation
Organic Channel RPV, AOV, CR
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Put in visuals about Money and Position with AOV and CR
Panda First came out in early 2011 and was intended to lower the rank of low quality sites. Penguin was released in Early 2012 (April) and was aimed at decreasing the rankings of sites using black hat strategies. All updates to this algorithm are publicly announced by Google.
Announced After the Fact or tell you how/why “Most of the Time”Mobile Algorithm Changes Coming Up this Year Still37 Known Updates Last year21 in 20112011 Updates:-Freshness Update in November impacted 35% of queries (Almost 3x as Panda 1.0)