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Rankings arethe Start!
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Don’t get fooledinto thinking you are
winningBecause you got a top
ranking
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Complete the JOB!
Layovers Suck
Already bought a ticket
Be thecontent
YOUwish
YOUFOUND!
Things I’ve seenthat made me pivot
HARD!
Ranked, NO BIZ!
Mozcon 2011SEO CompanySEO AgencySEO Consultant
$$ Never Came
Show Seer Clients
Not forme!!
Lost Rankings
Lost Traffic
Growing like
crazy
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The Speed of Machine Learning24 HOURS > 10 Years
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Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai “Ngaje Ngai,” the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
Kilimanjaro is 19,710 feet of the mountain covered with snow, and it is said that the highest mountain in Africa. Top of the west, “NgajeNgai” in the Maasai language, has been referred to as the house of God. The top close to the west, there is a dry, frozen carcass of a leopard. Whether the leopard had what the demand at that altitude, there is no that nobody explained.
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Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai “Ngaje Ngai,” the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
Kilimanjaro is a mountain of 19,710 feet covered with snow and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. The summit of the west is called “Ngaje Ngai” in Masai, the house of God. Near the top of the west there is a dry and frozen dead body of leopard. No one has ever explained what leopard wanted at that altitude.
Hours!
Industry LeaderCouldn’t Rank
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Up until about 3 years ago NONE of these companies ranked in the top 10 for the word cloud computing
The Great Ranking Chase
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Mistake #1:Is it even worth chasing?
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GET MORE DATA!!!!
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1.7 Million Queries
KWs Top 3 position, where PPC CTR is much higher
KWs Top 3 position, where PPC CTR is lower
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Might that change your keyword priority?
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MISTAKE #2:Ask client,
“Who are your competitors?”
Dumbest Question Ever!
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I’m not going to talk about how to get rankings, but instead how to solve
problems for people.
What would you Google to find this?
Searcher has evolved
2007
2018
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What’s impacting rank, that you don’t see, personalization!
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Getting people to your site during the early parts of the funnel may lead to your site ranking higher during later parts of their
journey(converting keywords).
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Effectiveness of Branded search is going to
become super important to monitor
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Protect the house!!!
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Mistake #3Ranking as a KPI can be a big problem
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Snippets!!
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EagleLocal in San Diego
vsLocal in Philadelphia
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Pluralize it (in San Diego)
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Mobilize it
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Snippets +
Location+
Device--------------------CRAZYPANTS!
We MUST evolve
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Get Cracking on your existing rankings, testing how to pull more clicks to your organic!!!
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Look at competitors @ Scale,am I the right answer?
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Build Strategy By Categorizing Competitors
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Advice / Comparison Sites
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PR/SEO Outreach
North face
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3 Different Strategies
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1 – Shift mindset on ranking as KPI2 - Augment Keyword Research with Other data
PPC, GSC, Hotjar, Analytics, Screaming Frog3 - Use Big Data Tools (not Excel)
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Thank you!@wilreynolds