[500DISTRO] Cracking the SEO Code: Tricks & Tactics To Magnify Search Visibility
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Rand Fishkin discusses how SEO has evolved and which tactics marketers should embrace or leave behind. Key changes include more complex ranking algorithms using more user data signals, personalized search results, and less direct traffic data. Tactics to leave include building keyword-targeted pages with minimal unique content, acquiring links through directories and guest posting, and expecting social shares alone to boost rankings. Tactics to embrace include creating uniquely valuable and helpful content, earning links editorially, using social media to expose content, and measuring ROI through attribution models and search traffic to pages.
[500DISTRO] Cracking the SEO Code: Tricks & Tactics To Magnify Search Visibility
- 1. Rand Fishkin, Wizard of Moz | @randfish | rand@moz.com Cracking the SEO Code for 2015: Tactics to Love vs. Leave
- 2. Download this Slide Deck bit.ly/seoloveleave
- 3. A brief look at how SEO has evolved over the past five years. What Changed?
- 4. Ranking algorithms are far more complex – more inputs, more subtlety, more quality checks. #1:
- 5. Advancements in User Data Signals Via Eric Fischer
- 6. An UncannyAbility to Spot Editorial VS. Manipulative Links
- 7. Keyword Matching Has Become Query Intent Matching
- 8. Personalization by History, Device, Location, and Google+
- 9. SEO has become a job description, not a job title. #2:
- 10. LinkedInAnalysis Common job titles for those doing SEO include: Marketing Executive Marketing Manager Web Designer Search Marketing Manager Marketing Strategist Marketing ConsultantDirector of Marketing Website Manager
- 11. SEOs Have Learned that Doing Their Jobs Isn’t Good Enough
- 12. Policing of webspam is more aggressive, more difficult to recover from, and less evenly applied. #3:
- 13. Non-Editorial LinksAre More Dangerous Than Ever
- 14. Webspam Has Become Every Site Owner’s Problem Via David McSweeney
- 15. Google is shortening the searcher’s path and disintermediating content creators. #4:
- 16. Less Opportunity in Many Simplistic “Give Me theAnswer” Queries
- 17. Less Opportunity in Many Simplistic “Give Me theAnswer” Queries
- 18. Less Opportunity in Many Simplistic “Give Me theAnswer” Queries
- 19. Less Opportunity In Some Not-So-Simplistic Queries, Too:
- 20. More Opportunity in the Ever-Growing Long Tail Almost 6 Billion queries/day
- 21. The ubiquity of social media has broadened the field of “influencers.” #5:
- 22. 1997-2011: The Linkerati Rule the Web Via Forrester Research 13% of web users can amplify content
- 23. 2012-Present: WeAreAll PotentialAmplifiers Via Pew Research Data 72% of web users can amplify content
- 24. Disappearing data makes SEO more challenging to measure and improve. #6:
- 25. Keyword Referral Data is Gone On average, 87.5% of keywords from Google are now “not provided” (source)
- 26. ASignificant Portion of Search Traffic May Be Falsely Counted as Direct Groupon’s experiment showing up to 60% of traffic reported as “direct” may be organic search
- 27. How do these changes affect which tactics we can still pursue vs. those we must leave behind? So…
- 28. Great SEO Is No Longer Just “SEO” KeywordsLinks Crawl Rankings SEO in 2004
- 29. Great SEO Is No Longer Just “SEO” Keywords Links Crawl Rankings SEO in 2014 Social Content Design & UX Speed Accessibility Email Press & PR CX Webspam Mobile InternationalizationLocalization
- 30. Our Job: Choose the Tactics that Marry Our Strengths to Our Opportunities
- 31. No tactic will be right for everyone. But, awareness of our potential arsenal is essential.
- 32. Tactics to Leave Behind vs. Tactics to Embrace for the Future:
- 33. Keyword Research
- 35. AdWords-Only Discovery Leave It Behind
- 36. AdWords + Suggest + Customer Data Many queries with 100s or 1000s of monthly searches don’t show up in AdWords but will show up here.
- 37. AdWords + Suggest + Customer Data My favorite tool for keyword suggest research: Keywordtool.io This tool makes the process easier.
- 38. AdWords + Suggest + Customer Data Popular questions, phrases, and terms that your audience uses in web forums/social media are excellent sources of keyword data expansion
- 39. Content Creation
- 40. Create & Scale Keyword-Targeted Pages of “Good, Unique Content” This example from Wikihow is, granted, a bit ludicrous.
- 41. This is a page from Angie’s List that ranks #1 for “Best Plumbers in Medford, OR”
- 42. This is all the “unique content” on that page
- 43. You’re dreaming! Think you can build pages like that and rank?
- 44. Create & Scale Keyword-Targeted Pages of “Good, Unique Content” Leave It Behind
- 45. Modern Criteria for Content: Unique – does not appear elsewhere on the web in a search-indexable format Relevant – contains terms/phrases the engines can interpret as on-topic Helpful – resolves the searcher’s query (or queries) in a useful, efficient manner Uniquely Valuable – provides information that’s unavailable (or hard to get) elsewhere on the web Great UX– is easy and pleasurable to consume on any device, even with slow connections
- 46. AGreat Example from Genius.com Via Shelter from the Storm on Genius
- 47. AGreat Example from Genius.com Via Shelter from the Storm on Genius Accurate, readable lyrics Uniquely valuable annotations A community of contributors One click to play Data re: popularity & activity
- 48. Link Building
- 49. Acquire Links Via Directories, Forums, Account Profiles, etc.
- 50. Acquire Links Via Directories, Forums, Account Profiles, etc. Leave It Behind
- 51. Acquire Links w/ Off-Topic Infographics & Embeds
- 52. Acquire Links w/ Off-Topic Infographics & Embeds Leave It Behind
- 53. Acquire Links through Guest Posting & Commenting
- 54. Acquire Links through Guest Posting & Commenting Leave It Behind
- 55. The Truth: Google doesn’t want to count links you can “build.”
- 56. The Truth: Google only wants to count links you editorially “earn.”
- 57. Sadly, there isn’t enough time to go into tactics, so check out these resources: Link Building from the Moz Blog Paddy Moogan’s Link Building eBook Experts’Favorite Link Building Tactics How to Leverage PR for Link Building The Future of Link Building
- 59. Share Socially to Get Rankings No doubt about it – there’s a strong CORRELATION between tweets (and Facebook and Google+ shares) and higher rankings.
- 60. Share Socially to Get Rankings See reports from Google’s representatives and Stone Temple Leave It Behind
- 61. Social Impacts SEO Indirectly Social shares expose content to those who might link to it (and amplify in other ways) This blog post from OKTrends earned 100s of links after launch
- 62. Google+ is the Exception for Personalized/Logged-In Results Because I follow Mark on G+, what he shares/+1s can usually ranks higher when I’m logged into my Gmail.
- 64. Publish Blog Posts &Articles to Get Links & Rankings Blog Post Blog Post Article Article Blog Post
- 65. Publish Blog Posts &Articles to Get Links & Rankings Blog Post Blog Post Article Article Blog Post Leave It Behind
- 66. Links & Shares are Tremendously Skewed to the Top 5% of Content http://www.simplereach.com/blog/facebook-continues-to-be-the-biggest-driver-of-social-traffic/
- 67. There’s No Prize For Hitting Publish
- 68. Rules for Content Investments: Strategic & Relevant– the content must tie to business goals and fit with your branding Targets LikelyAmplifiers – there should be an obvious answer to the question “who will help spread this content and why?” Cannot Be Fire & Forget– most content will fail; you need to be willing to invest longer and harder than the competition to find success
- 69. Need Help Getting Inspiration? From Tinfoil Security’s Blog
- 70. Check out Buzzsumo Buzzsumo – my favorite tool for researching the competitive content landscape
- 71. Measuring ROI
- 72. Attribution Models Via the Datalicious Blog This is how most companies (& software packges) do web analytics by default
- 73. Attribution Models Via the Datalicious Blog Leave These 2 Behind A model something like this may make sense.
- 74. Traffic & Performance by Keyword Pre-2012 Post-2012
- 75. Traffic & Performance by Keyword Pre-2012 Post-2012 Leave It Behind
- 76. Search Traffic Performance by Page (or Section) Observing the pages that receive search visits can get close to the old keyword-based performance reports.
- 77. Estimates in SEO Software Packages If you use a tool like Conductor, Searchmetrics, or Moz’s own Moz Analytics, you can see predictions for the keywords sending traffic to given pages
- 79. But that high barrier to entry means greater opportunity for those who succeed.
- 80. Cracking the SEO Code for 2015: Tactics to Love vs. Leave Rand Fishkin, Wizard of Moz | @randfish | rand@moz.com bit.ly/seoloveleave