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ABOUT MARKETING MOJO
• Search engine marketing firm founded in 2005
› Search engine optimization (SEO)
› Pay-per-click advertising management (PPC)
› Social media advertising
› Online reputation management
• Headquartered in Charlottesville, VA
› Office in Charleston, SC
• Featured in the Washington Post, B2B Magazine,
MarketingSherpa, Visibility Magazine and many blogs
• Speakers at SMX Advanced, MarketingProfs, PubCon and more
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SEO ISN’T DEAD. IT’S DIFFERENT.
• Inbound links
– Press releases
– Spammy sites
• Greater emphasis on content
– Authorship
• Greater emphasis on social
– Google+
• SEO has become more
holistic
– More barriers to success
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HOW KEYWORDS HAVE CHANGED
• Tools aren’t as good for research
› Free Google keyword tool retired
› New Google Keyword Planner data isn’t completely accurate
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HOW CONTENT HAS CHANGED
• Authorship
› Emphasis on author’s authority on a subject
› How do you get everyone to embrace authorship
and write online?
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HOW CONTENT HAS CHANGED
• When to add it?
› How big is your site?
› Cost/benefit analysis
• Not all CMS support innately
› May have to involve developer time
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HOW LINKS HAVE CHANGED
• Three main changes in the last year
› Penguin updates
› Google’s position on press releases
› Value of anchor text in links
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PENGUIN UPDATES
• Penguin focused on linkspam
• “Any links intended to
manipulate PageRank or a
site's ranking in Google search
results may be considered
part of a link scheme and a
violation of
Google’s Webmaster
Guidelines. This includes any
behavior that manipulates
links to your site.”
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GOOGLE’S POSITION ON PRESS
RELEASES
• Google’s guidelines re: link schemes
› “Links with optimized anchor text in articles or press releases
distributed on other sites.”
• Google: If you are publishing a press release or an article on your site and
distribute it through a wire or through an article site, you must make sure
to nofollow the links if those links are “optimized anchor text.”
• Pubcon 2013, Matt Cutts:
› Press releases are considered “paid links”
› Google just doesn’t count them
› Press release anchor-text linking isn’t necessarily helping you today
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GOOGLE’S POSITION ON
PRESS RELEASES
• Messages from Google are cryptic.
Make press release links
“nofollow” and avoid anchor text
optimization.
We don’t follow those links
anyways because they are paid
links.
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GOOGLE PERSONALIZATION AND
GOOGLE+
• The default setting for Google signed-in users
is “Search Plus Your World”
• These results are heavily personalized on
search history, location and the connections
and content associated in Google Plus with +1
votes and G+ shares
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FOCUS ON QUALITY CONTENT
• Knowledge Graph relies on “sentences”, i.e.
the relationship of various objects
› Paris is the capital of France.
• Google creates relationships from what it
learns and returns it via Knowledge Graph
• Hummingbird = sentence queries
• Schema (structured data) also helps search
engines understand relationships
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FOCUS ON QUALITY CONTENT
• AuthorRank vs. Authority
› Authority = measure of importance on a subject
› AuthorRank = type of algorithm adjustmentCurrent: PageRank
PR 8
PR 3 PR 6
Coming: PageRank + AuthorRank
+
PR 8
AR 10
PR 3 PR 6
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FOCUS ON QUALITY CONTENT
Within search results, information tied to verified
online profiles will be ranked higher than content
without such verification, which will result in
most users naturally clicking on the top (verified)
results. The true cost of remaining anonymous,
then, might be irrelevance.
-- Eric Schmidt
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FOCUS ON SOCIAL
• Pubcon Keynote Oct. 2013
› While Google can’t necessarily crawl all of Facebook (or other social
networks) today, they clearly recognize how social influence can be a
key indicator in understanding a person’s authority. Google will
continue to try to read these social signals moving forward. So even if
some social engagement doesn’t have direct ranking impact today, it
may in the future. Just do what you can to be an authority in your
space across these social networks.
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CONTACT
JANET DRISCOLL MILLER
President and CEO
Marketing Mojo
@janetdmiller +Janet Driscoll Miller
MARKETING MOJO
Twitter: @MarketingMojo
Facebook: facebook.com/MarketingMojoAgency
Google+: +Marketing Mojo
Notas del editor
Insert Scott’s Info here.
Google said, “In general, you’ll notice that the average search volume data is higher in Keyword Planner as compared to the exact match search volume data you got with Keyword Tool. That’s because we’ll show you the average number of searches for a keyword idea on all devices (desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and mobile phones). With Keyword Tool, we showed you average search volume for desktop and laptop computers by default.”
Matt Cutts shared this data at his Pubcon Keynote in October 2013
http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/mobileplanet
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