What does Google want these days?
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The document discusses modern search engine optimization (SEO) strategies, emphasizing that content quality is more important than sheer quantity for ranking in Google's search algorithm. It highlights that authority and relevance now depend on user context and interest, as well as the need for organic link attraction over manipulative tactics. Lastly, it calls for alignment of business objectives, analytics, and cross-functional efforts to effectively drive and test changes in search traffic.
What does Google want these days?
- 1. What does Google want these days? Ross Monaghan Director, Digital Marketing 5/16/2013
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- 8. Q U I C K P O L L
- 9. How many of you know what Search Engine Optimization is? How many of you know SEO the ranking factors? How many ranking factors do Google have in their algorithm? What are Panda & Penguin? Show of hands…
- 10. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E Side note…
- 11. • Why don’t I rank #1 for this keyword? – Because you don’t mention it on your page? • What is the correct keyword density to use? • Should I put every variation of the keyword in my page title or meta keywords? • Should we just buy links? • Should we just be changing our page content every day for freshness – per the QDF algo factor? • Do you think the $200 per month options for SEO management are legit? Frustrating Asked Questions
- 12. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E And finally…
- 13. Keyword stuffing? Anchor text manipulation? Cloaking? Internal link spamming? Comment spamming? Buying links? Sitewide links? Reciprocal links? Are these solid options for us?
- 14. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E No!!!!
- 15. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E Please move on…
- 16. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E SEO is NOT SIMPLE QUICK CHEAP ONE-TIME
- 17. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E C O M P L E X I T Y
- 18. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E So what’s changed?
- 19. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E Authority & Relevance are no longer simply about… # of inbound links keyword rich anchor text links from .gov or .org sites etc.
- 20. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E No, simply adding photos of a Panda or Penguin to your site will not make you rank!
- 21. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E So what is important today?
- 22. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E Well what I hear daily is… Content, content, content… It is KING! ARGH!!!!
- 23. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E Not really. Content is MOST important but it better be GREAT and on TOPIC content in order to RANK
- 24. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E Quality > Quantity
- 25. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E What are the new algorithm related updates?
- 26. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E Thin light content (quality vs. quantity) Over optimization + link spamming
- 27. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E Penguin + Panda = Manipulation Cleansing
- 28. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E 2.0 C O M I N G S O O N !
- 29. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E A deeper look at a couple new Google principles…
- 30. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E User context + Interest graph
- 31. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E What type of search query is it? Navigational Informational Transactional U S E R C O N T E X T
- 32. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E Where are users located? Not just geographically… U S E R C O N T E X T
- 33. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E Are they on their phone walking to a store or restaurant? Sitting on the couch on an iPad? At the office? U S E R C O N T E X T
- 34. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E This all aligns to the “USER CONTEXT” U S E R C O N T E X T
- 35. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E So what is the “INTEREST GRAPH”?
- 36. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E A temporal SIGNAL SIGN INDICATOR GUAGE POINTER I N T E R E S T G R A P H
- 37. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E Reason To be relevant based on the user context of the query I N T E R E S T G R A P H
- 38. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E So if now know the users context and interest graph… How do I gain followers and links?
- 39. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E • Focus on the user • Understand the context of their query • Develop content for what the user needs or wants • Link attraction vs. Link Building • Market your content (impact interest graph) – PR – Outreach ** Remember – It is not worth it to manipulate for rank R E C A P
- 40. • Business Objectives & Analytics Alignment – are we driving the right traffic? What are they doing when they arrive? Are we testing our changes? • Cross functional alignment within your organization • On-Page optimization targeting • Technical problems – flash, robots.txt, canonicalization (duplicate content) COMMON ISSUES FOUND
- 42. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E THANK YOU
- 43. C L I C K T O E D I T M A S T E R T I T L E S T Y L E QUESTIONS
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