Impression's Liam Wade, Petar Jovetic, Edd Wilson and Mikey Emery provide their insights for advanced digital marketers. As presented at an event co-hosted by Google.
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What’s coming up
The Automation Challenge:
Assessing Your Options
LIAM WADE
HEAD OF PPC, IMPRESSION
Creating Strategies for
Incremental Gains
PETAR JOVETIC
HEAD OF SEO, IMPRESSION
The Technologies Influencing
Search Success
EDD WILSON
SEO STRATEGIST, IMPRESSION
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What’s coming up
Your YouTube
Opportunity
KELSEY BOWERS
GOOGLE
The Recipe for Profitable
Customer Journeys: Personas,
Experiences and Attribution
JOHN ROWLEY
DMM - FERRERO / THORNTONS
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Accelerating
Growth in
Technology
(condensed)
Printing Press Telescope Steam Engine
Telegraph
Lightbulb
Telephone
Car
Man on Moon
Microprocessor
Wordprecessor
MS-DOS
Apple Macintosh
Windows
WWW
Cell Phones
DVDs
Hybrid Cars
Google
YouTube
Facebook
iPad
Google Driverless Car
3D Movies
First 3D Chip
1400 1450 1500 1550 1600 1650 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
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What we need to
be conscious of
Attribution, Technology,
Incremental Gains & Omni
Channel Marketing
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Trust in a platform’s ad rotation setting...
Why would Google or Facebook want
you to have fewer clicks?
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“Debunking Ad Testing”
- Martin Roettgerding
Still using statistical significance to
evaluate your ad testing?
If you want to test, use experiments
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Bidding signals
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1,008 Bidding Decisions
Keyword
Device
Day of Week
Hour of Day
Location (London or Other)
Signals Added Total Bidding Decisions
Signals
Added
Total
Bidding
Decisions
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Bidding signals
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54,432 Bidding Decisions
Keyword
Device
Day of Week
Hour of Day
Location (London or Other)
Gender
Age
Parental Status
Signals Added Total Bidding Decisions
Signals
Added
Total
Bidding
Decisions
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Bidding signals
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108,864 Bidding Decisions
Keyword
Device
Day of Week
Hour of Day
Location (London or Other)
Gender
Age
Parental Status
Audiences
Signals Added Total Bidding Decisions
Signals
Added
Total
Bidding
Decisions
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Modifiers
X%+ increase on mobile…
X%+ increase in London…
Even if we have the time
How do we deal with these signals now?
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Impressions Clicks CTR
2,000 200 10%
1,000 180 18%
1,000 20 2%
3,000 270 9%
1,000 220 22%
2,000 50 2.5%
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Testing smart bidding
Lauren vs The Machine
8 Week Trial
eCommerce client
Split Product Range in 2
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Lauren The Machine
Can make mistakes (rarely)
Product knowledge
Ability to use context
Has a life outside of work
Mathematically accurate
Maintains consistency
Ability to calculate infinite
bidding signals
Runs 24/7
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Semi-automated bidding
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Context-Driven Influence
Scripts flag detailed reports
and make bid recommendations
Experienced account managers
approve select decisions
Target ROI Driven Human Approach
Scripts are authorised to make bid changes on
low performance & high performance targets
Automated bid strategies are used on
“tried & tested” product ranges, or high-volume catalogues.
Automation
+
80% of our bidding is automated, and we’d rather it be 100%
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Using automation with attribution
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Channel Traffic Last Click First Click Data-Driven
Search
Brand Y
Non-Brand Y
Shopping
Brand Y
Non-Brand Y
Use Search Ads 360 to tailor your
automated bidding strategy to a
specified campaign goal
Continue to report on multiple models,
but have a “target model” per
campaign goal
For within channel reporting, continue
to use Data-Driven (or Position / Time-
Based)
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● The amount of data points within paid media are consistently increasing
● To deal with this vastness of data, humans like dealing with averages - and averages lie
● Automate the areas of your marketing campaigns that do not need human intervention -
machines are very good at logic, not so good as strategic thinking
● The need for automation isn’t higher marketing performance, it’s business efficiency.
● Attribution will add an extra layer of difficulty, but doesn’t have to slow automation down
Key Takeaways
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Oct 2018
Strength of correlation:
Domain authority & rankings
0.260
0.070
0.023
Source: Tom Capper @ Distilled
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May 2015 Feb 2017
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Stories and videos
Published per day
The Washington Post
The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
Buzzfeed
500
230
240
222
Source: The Atlantic
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“For big SEO results, start small...
It might sound simple, but focusing on
small, incremental changes to a website’s
overall SEO strategy really can produce
noticeable gains over time.”
T H I N K W I T H G O O G L E
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/advertising-channels/search/google-website-seo/
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“I really wish SEOs went back to the basics
(i.e. MAKE THAT DAMN SITE CRAWLABLE)
instead of focusing on silly updates and
made up terms by the rank trackers, and
that they talked more with the developers
of the website once done with the first part
of this sentence.”
G A R Y I L L Y E S, W E B M A S T E R T R E N D S A N A L Y S T
https://www.reddit.com/r/TechSEO/comments/ao3fmk/i_am_gary_illyes_googles_chief_of_sunshine_and/
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Incrementality is the interplay
between treading new ground with
proactive strategy while refining
what’s already there with reactive
strategy.
D E F I N I T I O N
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It demands a thorough and holistic
approach to web search that takes
into account all aspects of SEO and
user experience.
D E F I N I T I O N
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● Jamjar is a car buying comparison site
● Domain previously owned by RBS
● Impression was tasked to build their web search
presence with a £30K budget over a period of 10 months
C A S E S T U D Y
Jamjar
https://www.jamjar.com/
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● Conducted a monthly round of disavow
● Expanded on Wikipedia article
● Improved site speed
● Redirected 404s w/backlinks to live pages, inc.
those from the BBC
S T E P # 1
Leveraging
what’s there
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should i sell my car • when should i sell my car • should i trade in my car or sell it • should i sell my car
or keep it • should i sell or donate my car • should i fix my car or sell it • should i sell my car and buy a
cheaper one
can i sell my car if its on finance • should i remove my license plate when i sell my car • can i sell my
car without logbook • sell my mot failure car • what documents do i need to sell my car
how to sell my car • where to sell my car • best car dealers • car buying comparison • car buying
comparison sites • car buying service comparison • car valuation • value my car • how much is my car
worth
sell my car • sell my [car manufacturer] • sell my car [location]
S T E P # 2
Researching the
conversion funnel
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S T E P # 3
Establishing the
information architecture
● Which content will be present in the
sitemap?
● How will we internally link up and across
the structure?
● How will the URL structures support the
information hierarchy, if at all?
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● Each piece of content was carefully crafted
over the period of 10-months with each of
the following items being considered;
○ Keyword and supplementary keyword
targeting
○ Header hierarchy
S T E P # 4
Gradual content
creation & launch
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● Once each piece of content was “let out
into the wild”, we conducted competitor
SERP analysis.
● What were ranking competitors still doing
that we weren’t?
○ Looked at streamlining content
○ Keyword intent
○ Internal linking
○ Utilising TF*IDF
S T E P # 5
Launch and refine
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S T E P # 6
Audit, audit, audit
● Throughout the process, we continually
audited the site ensuring no crawl
waste was occurring, be that on the site
or XML sitemap
○ 3XX redirects
○ 4XX errors
○ 200 pages
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S U M M A R Y
Rounding it up
● Never disregard the fundamentals; incrementality is proven to work
time and time again
● Content marketing is no longer the only go-to
● Requires businesses to be agile - that’s the challenge
● Methodology is scalable; consider working in silos for larger sites
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hello@impression.co.uk
Crawling HTML
1. Googlebot downloads an HTML
1. Googlebot extracts the links from the source code
1. Googlebot downloads the CSS Files
1. Googlebot sends all the downloaded resources to the
indexer
1. The indexer then indexes the page
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hello@impression.co.uk
Crawling JS vs HTML
1. Googlebot downloads the HTML
1. Googlebot downloads the CSS and Javascript.
1. Googlebot uses their Web Rendering Service to parse, compile and
execute Javascript code.
1. The WRS fetches data from external APIs
1. The Indexer can now index the content
1. Google can discover new links and add it to Googlebot’s crawling
queue
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One of the UK’s largest online
tool suppliers were just seeing
a quarter of their 200,000
pages being indexed by
Google
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A global search platform for
venues & events built on a
single page application saw a
decline in organic
performance
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154. 2007 2010 2013 2017
Desktop Mobile Living
Room
200M 500M 1B 1.5B# of users
Multi-
platform
Evolution of the world of digital video
2M 4M 8M 30M# of creators
4M 12M 26M 100M# of uploads
07 10 13 1608 09 11 12 14 1505 06 17 18 19
155. By 2021
we expect video to make up
82%
of all consumer Internet traffic
Source: Cisco
157. ...And a lot of them are on YouTube
1.9B monthly
logged-in viewers
watching over 1 hr per day
on mobile alone
:30/:15
158. Introducing YouTube for Action
Reach people based on their intent
with signals from Google Search and more
Make it easy for them to take action
with new YouTube video ad formats
Prove it works & optimize to actions
with cross device & in-store measurement
+ conversion bidding
BUY NOW
159. What if you could reach audiences on YouTube
that just searched Google for what you offer?
Source: Google/Magid Advisors, "The Role of Digital
Video in People’s Lives”, Global (US, CA, BR, UK, DE,
FR, JP, IN, KR, AU), August 2018, n=20,000, A18-64
general online population.
55%
of people search for
a product on Google,
and then learn more
by going to YouTube
before they buy it
[your keywords]
MORE THAN
160. searches for your
product/service
clicks to
your website
assumin
g 20%
CVR
conversions
on your website
unconverted
site visitors
assumin
g 10%
CTR
untapped
in-market
consumers
Even strong Search campaigns miss undecided
shoppers
161. Betterment
betterment.com
Skip ad
LEARN MORE
Purple Mattress
onpurple.com
BUY NOW
Marley Spoon
marleyspoon.com
TRY NOW
Skip ad Skip ad
With a video ad that explains and shows off your business...
AND gives viewers a way to TAKE ACTION
162. On a platform where people
are really paying attention
3X
2X
95%
more likely to pay attention to
online video ads vs. TV2
more likely to pay attention to ads
on YouTube vs. social media1
of ads on YouTube are viewable, and
95% are watched with sound on³
Attention drives results: +150% YoY growth of conversions
generated by YouTube ads in the past 12 months
1. Google/Ipsos, Video Mobile Diary, US, 2017, n of 4,381 (saw ads occasions)
2. Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience: U.S., Video Ad Cross-Platform Research Commissioned by Google
3. Google and DoubleClick advertising platforms data, Global, May 2017; Google Internal Data, Global, August 2016 (when volume is at least 10%)
Google Internal Data, Global, 6/1/16 - 5/1/17 vs. 6/1/17 - 5/1/18
163. Convert INTENT into ACTION on YouTube
Reach people based on their intent
with intent signals directly from Google
Make it easy for them to take action
with new ad formats that drive viewers to take action
Prove it works and optimize to a target CPA
with cross-device and in-store measurement + tCPA bidding
Tailor your creative to work for direct-response
with new guidelines for direct-response video
BUY NOW
164. First, reach only the audiences that are
most likely to do business with you
with real-time intent signals
from Google Search
and the rest
of Google
165. We’ve built new and improved audiences
based on intents and interests
Existing affinity and in-
market audiences are
more accurate and reach
+15% more people now
that we’ve added signals
from Google Search,
Maps, and Play
Stronger Affinity and
In-Market Segments
Reach audiences on
YouTube who have
recently searched for
your keywords on Google
[New] Custom Intent
Audiences
Reach people during
major life milestones like
getting married, moving,
or graduating college
[New] Life Events
Audiences
Reach frequent grocery,
big box, department,
convenience store
shoppers, frequent
restaurant goers, and
more
[New] Consumer
Patterns Audiences
On average, TrueView for action campaigns that use custom intent audiences generate 30% higher
conversion rates compared to TrueView for action campaigns that use other targeting.
YouTube Internal Data, Global, June 2018 - July 2018
+30%
than other audiences*
greater
conversion rate
166. Video can drive big results
when you reach a high-intent audience
Leveraged custom-
intent audiences and
in-market targeting to
generate sales revenue
VAVAVOOM
10:1
ROAS Goal
1409%
ROAS
167. Video ad formats &
extensions are built to
drive action directly from
video views
drive custom site
conversions
acquire leads
acquire leads
(beta)
Introduce your
business AND
drive action
168. Flexibility to measure
what matters most to you
All Conversion Types
Including Cross
Device
Offline Store Visits Brand Lift
169. Capture the full value of TrueView for action
Conversions
from video
Conversions
from search
Brand
impact
Store Visits
online offline
-40%
CPA
+200%
CTR
+8%
Search Conversions
+3%
Search Conversion
rate
-4%
Search CPAs
+30%
Lift in
consideration
+40%
Lift in purchase
intent
+70%
of YouTube
campaigns drove
a significant lift
on offline sales
Brand impact of ads served with
intent signals vs. demo signals
Impact of YouTube on
Search
vs. standard TrueView
170. Customized calls to action drive sales
and find new customers
Increase sales by shortening the
purchasing path.
Drive phone calls from users
who click through from the
video.
Find potential new customers
and suggest a simple call to
action.
Pullmantur
4x
Conversion
Rate
+50%
Click-Through
Rate
171. Source: Nielsen Catalina Research via the
Advertising Research Foundation May 2017
REACHING
THE RIGHT
AUDIENCE
THE
CREATIVE
50-80%
172. We can help with video creation & optimization
I have existing assets I’m starting from scratch
Use our new directory at YouTube.com/Ads
to contact YouTube-approved video
production partners that can create the
right video ad for you.
We can help recut and edit your existing
footage to work as a direct response ad on
YouTube. We can also make ads out of
static assets like images and logos.
173. Wrapping it up
● The majority of time on the Internet will be spent on online video -
Will you be there?
● YouTube for Action was created for performance oriented
businesses
● We have support in place including free video creation to help
you get started with YouTube now!
174. .The recipe for profitable customer journeys.
.Personas, Experiences and Attribution.
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179. .Part one.
.Marketing to people.
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180. .Ann Summers know their audience.
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181. .Chloe.
35, Married with 2x kids
Loves buying new dresses
for nights out
“I need to try outfits
on before I buy”
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182. .Chloe.
35, Married with 2x kids
Loves buying new dresses
for nights out
“I need to try outfits
on before I buy”
.Sandra.
65, Retired, Keen gardener
Buys Thorntons chocolate,
especially Alpinis
“Modern technology
confuses me”
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183. .Chloe.
35, Married with 2x kids
Loves buying new dresses
for nights out
“I need to try outfits
on before I buy”
.Keith.
Highly political, taxi driver
Regularly researches car
parts on forums
“I’m not giving my
data to the devil”
.Sandra.
65, Retired, Keen gardener
Buys Thorntons chocolate,
especially Alpinis
“Modern technology
confuses me”
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184. .Chloe.
“I need to try outfits
on before I buy”
28-day payment terms
Returns policy adverts
.Keith.
“I’m not giving my
data to the devil”
On-site security guarantee
Guest checkout
.Sandra.
“Modern technology
confuses me”
Simple checkout
Guided selling chatbot
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185. 35 - 40yr old females
shown lipstick range
.Segmented.
Purchased a snack.
Would you like a drink?
.Behavioural.
“Hey John, Your BMW is
ready for collection”
.Individual.
.Three levels of personalisation.
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190. "People don't
buy what
you do, but
why you do
it"
Simon Sinek
.Consideration.
9/10customers rate
free delivery as
the #1 incentive
.Purchase.
63%more likely to
purchase when
reviews present
.Retention.
CUSTOMER JOURNEY
1/3purchase from a
competitor if
you’re not there
.Awareness.
.Be there.
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191. .Page speed. + .Time to find solution.
= .Speed of experience.
.Be quick.
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196. .£100.
.Social executive. .Media buyer. .Search agency. .Store manager. .Affiliate partner.
Facebook
made £100
The TV ad
generated
£100
£50 spend
returned
200% ROAS
I sold a £100
lightbulb
I want the
£100 sale
commission
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197. TV Store Affiliate
£100
Last click
Google Social
£0 £0 £0 £0 £100
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198. TV Store Affiliate
£100
Last click
First click
Google Social
£0 £0 £0 £0 £100
£100 £0 £0 £0 £0
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199. TV Store Affiliate
£100
Last click
First click
Time
Google Social
£0 £0 £0 £0 £100
£100 £0 £0 £0 £0
£5 £10 £15 £20 £50
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200. TV Store Affiliate
£100
Last click
First click
Time
Position
Google Social
£0 £0 £0 £0 £100
£100 £0 £0 £0 £0
£5 £10 £15 £20 £50
£40 £6.66 £6.66 £6.66 £40
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201. TV Store Affiliate
£100
Last click
First click
Time
Position
Google Social
£40 £4 £6 £10 £40Custom
£0 £0 £0 £0 £100
£100 £0 £0 £0 £0
£5 £10 £15 £20 £50
£40 £6.66 £6.66 £6.66 £40
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202. TV Store Affiliate
£100
Last click
First click
Time
Position
Google Social
£40 £4 £6 £10 £40Custom
£0 £0 £0 £0 £100
£100 £0 £0 £0 £0
£5 £10 £15 £20 £50
£40 £6.66 £6.66 £6.66 £40
£12 £18 £3 £65 £2Data
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217. .Download the Digital Marketing Strategy Playbook.
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.Tweet @JohnARowley.
.or connect on LinkedIn.
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