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How to be a Mobile SEOSuper Heroin a Post 4/21 World

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@suzzicksOMG - What is Going On?

@suzzicks We Need a Hero!

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Surveying the Mobile

Landscape

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What is the Threat?

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Google’s Goal

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Types of Mobile Sites

mDot Responsive Design Selective Serving Single Page App

Rel=“Alternate”

Rel=“Canonical”

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Desktop Is the Default Canonical

Responsive/Dynamic Serving App Deep LinkingmDot Site

CANONICAL TO DESKTOP

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Honor the Integrity of the Canonical

Internal Links

Self-Referencing Canonicals

XML Sitemap301 Redirects

Server Rules

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Settings that Impact Mobile Search

Chrome vs.Google Now

Location& Privacy

Androidvs. iOS

LoggedIn or Out

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Standard vs. Basic Search Results

Standard Search Results Basic Search Results

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Fundamental 4/21 Changes

Desktop Crawl is for Content & Desktop Rendering is Canonical

• For mDot Sites

• For Responsive Design & Selective Serving

• In App Indexing & Deep Linking

Mobile Crawl focuses on Rendering Rather Than Content

• Need CSS & JS to Render

• Rendering is about UX

• Hidden Text & Links are Devalued

Why CSS & JavaScript?

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Why CSS & JavaScript?

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Why CSS & JavaScript?

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Why CSS & JavaScript?

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Testing for “Mobile-Friendly”ness

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Mobile-Friendly Test

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Webmaster Console Fetch & Render

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Webmaster Console Mobile-Friendliness

GET IMAGE

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Mobile UX Signals

Font Size & Tap Target Size

View Port Flash & Errors

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Improving Page Speed with Images

Sprites File Size ResponsiveImages.org

Image Server

Quality: 85%

Width: 300px

Quality: 70%

Width: 150px

Quality: 326 PPI

Width: 200px

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ResponsiveImages.org

• HTML5 for:

• Crop

• Scale

• Art Director

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Other Recent Changes to the SERPFe

atur

ed

Answers

Aggregations

Interactions

Easy

to

See

Packs

Cards

Carousels

Expansion Information

Sem

anti

c Natural Language

Compound Search

Entity Understanding

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Hero's Need a Deeper Understanding of

‘Intent’

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IntentDesktop Intent

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IntentMobile Intent

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Device – Intent Matters!

It’s a Ranking Factor.

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What Might Indicate Mobile Intent?

1. Voice Search/Natural Language

2. Searches for Apps

3. Local/Map Search

4. News Search

5. Shopping Search

6. Video Search

7. Image Search

8. Find Phone Numbers

9. Music Download Search

10.Media Download Search

11.Fact Search

12.Function Search

13.Search Device

14.Social Interaction

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Answers aka Featured Rich Snippets

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Answers aka Featured Rich Snippits

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Answer Doubles

“Lois Lane is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, the character first appeared in Action Comics #1 (June 1938). Lois Lane is an award-winning journalist and the primary love interest of Superman.”

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Variable Description Length(Page Scrape - Not Meta Description)

135

306

134

135

340

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More Interaction from the SERP

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More Interaction from the SERP

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Identity Queries & Card Results

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Compound Search Queries

Same QueryQuery + ClickQuery

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Implied Keywords

“How tall is it?”

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Schema.org on Mobile

RestaurantTV ShowRecipe

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Crumb Trail Url Formatting

Westword > news >photos-ten-best-park…

denver.cbslocal.com >top-lists top-pla…

Yelp > search >Find_loc=Denver,+CO

www.denver.org >denver-parks

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Crumb Trail Url Formatting

Yankee Candle > mobile

Bath & Body Works > family

Anthropologie > candles > home-candle

Search for:“Scented Candle”

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Making Apps Your Ally

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5 Types of App Results

App Pack App Single App Carousel Deep LinksIcon Deep Links

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Android&

iOS Intent

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Understanding App Packs

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Android Deep Linking User Experience

Google’s Deep Linking case studies: https://developers.google.com/app-indexing/case-studies

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Google Require Website Parity to Rank Deep Links

“Google will be considering "high quality" apps to be a positive ranking factor in mobile search.”-Mariya Moeva (Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, SMX West 2015)

WebApp

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Deep Links Without Website Parity

Social Media Spotlight Search API Email & Paid Ads

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Maintaining Super Hero

Status

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Leveraging Google+ for Local

-Name-Address-Phone

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Marking Up Email & Contacts

“Mobile email opens have grown by 180% in 3 years.”

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PPC Results Taking Up More Room on Mobile

• click-to-call

• star ratings

• app icons

• links for directions

• ad extensions

• These could be more of a threat to SEO moving forward

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TV & Media Sponsored Results

(No InstallationNecessary)

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Sponsored App Results

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Shopping Sponsored Results

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Travel Sponsored Results

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Predictive Search – Google Now

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Predictive Search – Google Now

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Predictive Search – Google Now

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The End

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Thanks!

Cindy Krum

[email protected]

Call: 720-231-7277

Twitter: @Suzzicks

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