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SEO Risk Management is the practice of assessing and controlling SEO risk that affects the SEO project, process, or product.
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RISK MANAGEMENT IN SEO
An active and ongoing SEO project always has risk.
Table of Content
1. What is SEO Risk
Management
2. Risk Components
3. SEO Risk Event
4. Impact of SEO Risk
5. Risk Management
Process
6. Risk Management
benefits
SEO Risk Management is the practice of assessing and controlling SEO risk that affects the SEO project, process, or product.
What is SEO Risk Management?
Risk Event Impact Process Benefits
Categories
Risk Components
Website redesign during SEO ongoing projects
Migration to a new CMS
Google updates search algorithm unexpectedly
Important backlink is being devaluated
SEO Risk Event
Google's Penguin #3 Update - Oct 5, 2012
Google's Panda #21 — Nov 5, 2012
Google's EMD Update – Sept 27, 2012
Google's Panda #22 — Nov 21, 2012
Risk Categories
• Website Redesign
• Competitors follow their own SEO
strategy and bias success of your
SEO efforts• Change of Google search algorithm
• Caused by frequent change requests
or defects• Delays, dependencies, wrong
estimates or multiple critical paths
• Outsourcing, distributed teams, integration of new -- team members
Known Risks
Unknown Risks
Scope Risks
Schedule Risks
Resource-based Risks
Impact of SEO Risk Multiple pages vanish from index
Google sweeps that take websites from the top of the
rankings to off the first page altogether.
Drop in SEO Traffic after a Website Redesign:
Client won’t pay because he is not satisfied.
Context of Risk Management
Risk managem
ent
Stakeholder
management
Software
development
Knowledgemanagemen
t
IT and technical
administration
Requirements
management
Estimation and
controlling of effort
Web
development
Context of Risk ManagementStakeholder Management recognize and acknowledge stakeholder's needs, concerns, wants, authority, common relationships, interfaces and align this information within the Stakeholder Matrix.
Software development efforts estimation is the process of predicting the most realistic use of effort required to develop or maintain software based on incomplete, uncertain and/or noisy input. Effort estimates may be used as input to project plans, iteration plans, budgets, and investment analyses, pricing processes and bidding rounds.Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project. A requirement is a capability to which a project outcome (product or service) should conform.Estimation and controlling of effort- These estimates are used to estimate the effort for a given task and, in the hands of a business user/project manager, added up to get the completion date for the project as a whole.
Risk Management Process
Identify risks
Analyze risks
Prioritize risks
Risk management
Risk monitoring
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Risk management benefits• Future problems are recognized and can
be eliminated in due time
• Incentive to deal with project more
intensely
• Incentive to deal with project
stakeholders more intensely
• Promotion of censorious thinking in
project team
• More successful projects
• Risk management as a team building
activity
• Continuous improvement of project
management
SEO DISASTER DURING A WEBSITE REDESIGN
A Steep Drop in SEO Traffic after a Website Redesign
SEO Case Studies
SEO DISASTER DURING A WEBSITE REDESIGN
SEO Traffic Dropping Twice After CMS Migration:
SEO Case Studies
SEO DISASTER DURING A WEBSITE REDESIGN
SEO Case Studies
Identify risks
Crawl Your Site. Know Your Site.
Perform an Inbound Link Analysis
The 301 Redirection Plan
SEO Technical Audits
SEO DISASTER DURING A WEBSITE REDESIGN
SEO Case Studies
Analyzing Site Reporting During a Redesign
Analyzing On-Page Optimization
Google Webmaster Analysis
Analyze risks
SEO DISASTER DURING A WEBSITE REDESIGN
SEO Case Studies
Don’t Stop Optimization During the Redesign or Migration
Focus on 301 Redirection
Keep the same URL structure as your original website when redesigning or migrating a website, if possible
Prioritize risks
SEO DISASTER DURING A WEBSITE REDESIGN
SEO Case Studies
Prioritize risks - Optimization
SEO DISASTER DURING A WEBSITE REDESIGN
SEO Case Studies
Prioritize risks - Optimization
SEO DISASTER DURING A WEBSITE REDESIGN
SEO Case Studies
Prioritize risks - Redirects
SEO DISASTER DURING A WEBSITE REDESIGN
SEO Case Studies
Finding Code Problems That Can Damage SEO
Summary – Preparing for Redesigns and CMS Migrations is Critically Important
Risk management
Risk monitoring
SEO DISASTER DURING A WEBSITE REDESIGN
SEO Case Studies
Check status of risks continuously. Risk status shouldbe part of every status meeting.
Are there new risks to be analyzed?
Has there been a change of risk priorities? Is thetop-list of risks still up-to-date?
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