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#INBOUND14 ALL THE RIGHT SEO MOVES DANNY SULLIVAN Chief Content Officer Third Door Media What Marketers Need To Know To About the Changing Landscape of Search

What Marketers Need to Know About the Changing Landscape of SEO & Search Marketing

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From Hubspot's #INBOUND14 & #FutureM conference in Boston, MA - September 16, 2014 - Search Engine Land's Founding Editor & Chief Content Officer Danny Sullivan (@DannySullivan) presents: ALL THE RIGHT SEO MOVES: HOW TO THINK STRATEGICALLY ABOUT SEARCH & AVOID COMMON TRAPS From tapping into the semantic web with web smarts built into Google's "Hummingbird" search technology to ensuring you've built great content and authority, we'll explore ways to build your audience through sustainable SEO. This presentation covers: - The Changing Landscape of Search Results: SERPS are no longer just 10 blue links. Which listing is really #1? Can you spot the real winner? - Penalties & the Google Zoo: Panda, Penguin & Pigeons, oh my! - The Age of Entity Search: People, Places & Things - decoding facts & getting the best, most direct answer in Search Resuls. - Search in a Mobile World: mobile search results, click to call, search to mobile apps, wearable devices with search technology, plus personal digital assitants & predictive search. - Avoiding Common SEO Traps - cold calls & pitches, guest posting, think users first. Visit http://www.SearchEngineLand.com to learn more about each of the topics covered and sign up for email newsletters covering SEO, SEM, local search marketing tactics and more.

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ALL THE RIGHT SEO MOVES

DANNY SULLIVANChief Content Officer

Third Door Media

What Marketers Need To Know To About the Changing Landscape of Search

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The Changing Landscape of Search Results

Penalties & the Google Zoo

The Age of Entity Search

Search in a Mobile World

Avoiding Common SEO Traps

AGENDA

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THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF SEARCH RESULTS

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WHICH

LISTING

IS THE #1

RESULT?

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WHICH

LISTING

IS THE #1

RESULT?

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WHICH

LISTING

IS THE #1

RESULT?

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“BEING #1” &

“10 BLUE LINKS” IS

DEAD

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WHERE’S

THE

FREE

WEB

RESULT?

ADS

ADSLOCAL

WEB

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FREELISTINGSGET LESS SPACE

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WHICH

ARE

THE

“REAL”

RESULTS?

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THERE ARE

NO NORMALRESULTS

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SEO IS DEAD

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THANK YOU!

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SEO IS NOT DEAD

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CHANGE IS

OPPORTUNITY

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…WHAT IS CHANGING?

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PENALTIES & THE GOOGLE ZOO

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• INTENT: keep low-quality or “thin” content from ranking

• FREQUENCY: about once a month filter is re-run

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SURVIVING

PANDA

Focus on real

quality to survive --

always the answer

for any search

success

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• INTENT: targets spam, especially bad or low-quality links

•FREQUENCY: ~6 months+, Google re-runs Penguin

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RANTERMISSIONABOUT LINK RULE INSANITY

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PLAYING SAFE WITH LINKS IS MORE

COMPLICATED THAN EVER

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What about paid links in the age of Native Advertising?

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Widgets, Infographics& too much of a good thing

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Guest Blogging Gone Wild?

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Is It Safer Not To Link?Should You NoFollowEverything?

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Why punish for bad links, rather than discount?

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BACK TO THE

BIRDS…

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SURVIVING

PENGUIN

Don’t think link

building

Think audience

building….

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NEW! Improve local results by blending web signals

(like links) & local search signals (distance, ratings)

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HUMMINGBIRD: A NEW SEARCH ENGINE

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HUMMINGBIRD

Panda, Penguin &

Pigeon part of it

Can use new “fuel”

Improved results for

entities

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THE AGE OF

ENTITY SEARCH

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ENTITIES &

ENTITY SEARCH

PAST: “o-b-a-m-a”

NOW: A “person”

connected to other

people & facts

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FACTS & KNOWLEDGE GRAPH GROWTH

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GROWTH OF QUICK/DIRECT ANSWERS

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GROWTH OF QUICK/DIRECT ANSWERS

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ENTITY

SEARCH

SUCCESS

Markup pages

with relevant

structured data

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SEARCH IN A

MOBILE WORLD

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Landing page >

mobile SEO

The “Always On”

mobile searcher

THE MOBILE

SEARCHER

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SEARCHING ON THE MOVE

SEARCH VOLUME - U.S. CHAIN RESTAURANTS

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CALLS NOT CLICKS: ARE YOU READY?CLICK-TO-CALL VOLUME - FLOWER SEARCHES, CA

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Click-to-call

Mobile-friendly

version of site

App for repeat

visitors

MOBILE

ACTION ITEMS

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SEARCH-TO-APP:

THE NEXT SEO

FRONTIER?

Google App

Indexing

Bing Deep Linking

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WEARABLE

SEARCH

TECHNOLOGY

• On your phone

• On your wrist

• Even on your eyes…

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Google Glass may be niche, but…

~50% of consumers like idea of smartwatches

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Digital Assistants, Agents & Predictive Search

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ANSWERS BEFORE

WE EVEN SEARCH

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LOCATION GATING

LIKELY KEY IN FUTURE

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BEWARE

OF (SEO) TRAPS

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DON’T BE LIKEADMIRAL AKBAR!

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IT’S A TRAP!

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NO GOOD

SEO COMPANY WILLCOLD CALL OR COLD EMAIL YOU

HONEST.

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IT’S A TRAP!

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UNSOLICITED GUEST POSTS WILL LIKELY LEAD TO SPAM ISSUES

ESPECIALLY IF “ALL” THEY WANT IS A LINK

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IT’S A TRAP!

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DEPENDING ENTIRELY ON GOOGLE OR SEO IS

DANGEROUS

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SEO SHOULD BE A BALANCED PART OF YOUR

INBOUND MIX

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IT’S A TRAP!

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THE MORE YOU SEO JUST FOR SEO,THE LESS EFFECTIVE YOUR SEO MAY BE

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PEO -- PEOPLE ENGINE OPTIMIZATIONSTAY ON TRACK WITH SEO

BY THINKING USERS FIRST

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TAKEAWAYS

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BEWARE:

SHINY OBJECTS

Don’t believe any

one tactic is a

magic bullet

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BUT… KNOW SEO FUNDAMENTALSsearchengineland.com/seotable

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INVEST IN QUALITY CONTENT

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BUILD AN AUDIENCE, NOT LINKS

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CONSIDER THE MOBILE EXPERIENCE

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AS ONE DOOR CLOSES, ANOTHER OPENS

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PREDICTIVE, VOICE & WEARABLE SEARCH

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SEARCH SHIFTING TO

CONCEPTS &ENITITIES

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SO BE THE ESSENTIAL ANSWER

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Google SEO

Google Panda Update

Google Penguin Update

Google “Pigeon” Update

Google's Knowledge Graph

Google Hummingbird

Periodic Table of SEO

Infographic: What is the NoFollow Tag?

Structured Data & Schema Markup

Mobile SEO

CREDITS & RESOURCES

some images from Shutterstock, used under license

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THANK YOU!