Claudia Higgins, Argos | Simon Dale, Organic
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12. • The team were having to jump from one job to another and found it hard to focus
on future projects or plans
• The agency wasn’t utilised to its full potential
• Senior Natural Search team members were either asked simple SEO questions
where a more appropriate person should be questioned, or not asked at all
• Similar questions kept on being asked - little retention of learning or lack of
confidence
• Internal team’s time was spent on firefighting.
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13. Any real insight or strategic
projects were de-prioritised
to fix smaller issues
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14. Hired a new agency
Created a new internal
role
Agency brought
onboard
October 2016
NS team had
knowledge but
needed to focus
Needed to get the right
people doing the right
jobs
Background
What changed?
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15. What changed?
What Organic did
Started empowerment
classroom sessions
Classroom sessions attended
by members of wider teams
Sessions ran initially once
a month then once a
week
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23. Onsite Analytics Google Search
Console ConductorOnsite Analytics
Google Search
Console
Conductor
• How many people entered the
site on this page from an organic
search engine result?
• How many people who landed
here placed an order?
• How much did they spend?
• Which keywords drove traffic to
this page?
• What is the CTR?
• What is the trend in interest?
• For the keywords we are targeting
with this page, where are we
ranking?
• What is the rank trend?
• Where do our competitors rank?
• Are there Answer Box
opportunities?
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24. We needed to be able to
answer everything at once
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