Tim presents his thoughts on Ecommerce SEO at BrightonSEO. The changing Google landscape means Ecommerce businesses have to become publishes. If you want people to link to you, you have to be worth talking about, Google doesn't want to list another set of results, they want sites to rank that add value. Time to be a part of the conversation.
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It was cheap4#
But mainly because…..
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This Categorically Doesn’t
Work Anymore
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Manual Reviews
Trigger
Review
Approved
Applied
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But Also Because…..
• Disavow Data
• Devaluation of other signals
• Network Discovery
• Webmasters are more inclined to report
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Unnatural Links
Bad Strategy
Penguin 2.0
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If this is your strategy,
Please STOP.
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Google's Thoughts
Want to sell products?
- Adwords
- Google Shopping
- AKA – You pay us for it
Want to rank organically?
- Add value
- Become a brand (the result people want)
- AKA – Pay someone else for it
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What’s Your Leverage?
PR
CONTEN
T
SOCIAL
Creative
Leverage
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Your New Link Strategy
• Create something to talk about
• Promote to relevant audience
• Be a part of the conversation
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Don’t worry about
• Anchor text
• Keyword relevance
• Target pages (Unless it’s based on link
worthiness)
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Biggest Challenge for Ecommerce
You need
a new
approach