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How to get high
quality search traffic
@bernardjhuang

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I am Bernard Huang
I’m currently a SEO & SEM consultant at Mushi Labs.
I was the growth hacker at 42Floors where I focused
on driving tons of organic traffic to our website.
You can find me at @bernardjhuang.
Hello!

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Agenda
1. What is high quality search traffic?
2. State of SEO in 2015
3. What is content?
4. How to run a SEO-driven content campaign

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What is high quality search
traffic?
People who come from an organic search channel to your website that
convert.
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High quality search
traffic is different for
every business.

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I want more ________.

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More people buying
stuff from me.

8.
More pageviews and
leads for businesses in
my directory.

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More people reading
and sharing my
content.

10.
More people reading my
content and clicking on
my affiliate links.

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More people paying for
my SaaS.

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More people reading
and subscribing to my
emails.

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High quality
search traffic
=
People who
come from
organic
search that
convert.

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The State of SEO in 2015
Focus on satisfying the user and all else will follow.
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https://www.google.
Google’s original mission

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From a 2015 Moz Survey
150 search experts
were asked to weigh
the impact of ranking
signals for SEO.
6 of the top 8 factors
are related to satisfying
user intent with good
user experience.
https://moz.com/search-ranking-factors/survey

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4 of the top 5 ranking
factors were related to
backlinks.
The other top ranking
factor was keyword
usage.
This is drastically different
than what search experts
were saying in 2009
https://moz.com/search-ranking-factors/2009

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Creating
content that
satisfies a
user’s search
intent.
Current SEO =

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Good News
● Content that satisfies a
user’s search intent will
organically rank despite
having limited backlinks,
social signals or domain
authority.
Bad News
● Content that satisfies a
user’s intent is more time
consuming and
expensive to produce
compared to creating
keyword-stuffed
content.
Good news and bad news

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What is content?
Just about anything that is published online.
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Content can be...

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Your product

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Information about your business

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User generated

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Articles

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Videos

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Tools

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Data

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● Your product
● Information about your business
● User generated
● Articles
● Videos
● Tools
● Data
● And just about anything published online.
Content can be:

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Ultimately,
people are on the
internet to consume
content.

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But, how do we
connect this with this?

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SEO-driven content
Content created
specifically to target
what people are
searching for.
[how to play guitar]

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To get high quality search
traffic, create content
that fulfills the searcher’s
intent.

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How to run a SEO-driven
content campaign
Figure out what people are searching for and create content that
solves their problems.
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SEO-driven content campaign
keyword
research
content
creation

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Keyword research is the most important part of a
SEO-driven content campaign because it
● calculates an approximate amount of search
traffic you expect to capture
● identifies the high intent keywords that are
most likely to drive conversions
● defines what your content is going to be about
Keyword research

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Keyword research (example)
● Get ideas on how to
target the keyword
[email marketing].
● Ubersuggest takes
Google’s search
suggestions and
makes a list of the
top 10 keyword
suggestions.

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Keyword research (example)
● Use Google’s
Keyword Planner
Tool to get search
volume data on the
list of keyword ideas
from Ubersuggest.

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● Export as CSV and
figure out which
keywords are
relevant for your
business and group
them into content
categories.
Keyword research (example)

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● The content categories define what types of
content people are looking for and the
keywords now define sub-headers in the
content.
● You must now carefully craft content that
satisfies the user’s intent.
Content creation

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[how to play a guitar]
● Google cares a lot
about giving users a
great search
experience.
● If the search query is
better resolved with a
local search result or
video, then they’ll
display it.
Content creation (cont.)
[lunch]

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So the question is, would
you be satisfied with your
own content given the
keywords you’re
targeting?

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If someone visits your content from the search
results page of a search query and it doesn’t
satisfy their needs…
● Google will know that they came back to the
search results page, clicked on another result,
and if that result satisfied the user’s intent.
Content creation (cont.)

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Google
analytics
view of
organic
traffic by
landing page

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“It appears
that people
are satisfied
with the
result”

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“Hmmm, I
don’t know
about
these…”

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See a
correlation
between
engagement
metrics and
search traffic?

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● Focus on satisfying the user and all else will
follow.
● Use keyword research to drive content
creation and identify high intent keywords.
● Google is using user engagement metrics to
grade how good your content is in
comparison with everything it’s indexed.
Concluding thoughts

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Any questions ?
You can find me:
◉ @bernardjhuang
◉ bernard@mushilabs.com
◉ mushilabs.com
Thanks!