agility in seo - mike jeffs - figaro digital - sept 2016

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Agility in SEOMike JeffsBranded313th September 2016

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Be there#1

Be useful#2

#3 Be quick

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#roalddahlday

#roalddahl100

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‘Roald Dahl’ Last 5 Years

Source: Google Trends

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To do newsjacking

You need 1 of 3 things

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Data#1

Creative

An opinion

#2

#3

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Brand search

Sentiment

Authority Relevance

Freshness

is listening to…

Engagement

Satisfaction

StructureQuality

On-site

Off-site

Mentions

Links

Social

BuildDesign

Content

Technical

The current

Organic landscape

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Zero Moment of Truth

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Results

Top 5For “cruises” and “cruise” – previously on the second page

4thFor “cruise deals” – up from the second page, saving £28,065/month on AdWords traffic

46% Increase in YOY organic traffic

900% Attributable ROI in analytics

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Micro Moments

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Source: Think with Google

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Source: https://econsultancy.com/reports/digital-shift-q2-2016/

The pace of change

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Daily Information Needs

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One third of queries go unanswered.

Source: https://backchannel.com/googles-secret-study-to-find-out-our-needs-eba8700263bf#.9kj86u2o6

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Local queries

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Data from Hotels.com states that 74% of mobile bookings are made for

same-day check-in

Source: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/build-your-mobile-centric-search-strategy.html

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Ebay

Ebay and Google are working on:

SMART BUTTONS like ‘buy it now’ and ‘add to cart’

INPUT ELEMENTS like search boxes and check boxes

Source: http://venturebeat.com/2016/06/30/ebay-adopts-googles-amp-to-speed-up-its-mobile-site/

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Transactional Search

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/TomAnthony/emerging-forms-of-search-brightonseo-2016/20

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High impact

Low impact

FutureImmediate

• HTTPS

• Internal site search

• Link acquisition

• Meta titles + H1 tags

• Meta descriptions

• Reducing duplication

• Updating redirects

• ALT tags

• Content strategy

• AMP

• Improving site speed

• Social integration

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Questions?mike.jeffs@branded3.comangus.griffin@branded3.com