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Everything we know about Search Marketing is changing and changing fast. It is essential to understand where the industry is heading and what to focus your time on, which this presentation helps to lay out for you.
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State of Search Brent Csutoras, LLC brent@csutoras.com Brentcsutoras.com
Yesterday Once Upon a Time Google… Wanted to index the entire web Needed your guidance (spoon feeding) Needed your links Needed your feedback Didn’t tell you how to build your site 3
Google’s Evolution Panda (2011) Vince Caffeine Aimed at eliminating low-quality (or thin) content, Panda was updated periodically, eventually becoming integrated into Google’s core algorithm in 2016. Site Speed as Factor Knowledge Graph Penguin Etc, etc Mobile-First (2018) Mobile-first indexing means Google uses the mobile version of the page for indexing and ranking. 4
Tomorrow Going Forward Google… Wants you to provide them your data Wants only your best content Doesn’t even require you have a website Uses AI to determine quality Doesn’t need your help, links, or feedback Dictates the way you provide your information 5
Tomorrow Going Forward Google… Doesn’t Care About All Your Little SEO Tricks! All my Black Hat friends… Are White Hat Technical SEOs now… 6
SEO Focus for 2019 • Re-thinking Content Strategy • Technical SEO 8
Re-thinking Content Strategy 10 Philipp Klöckner
Re-thinking Content Strategy Create High Quality Content Repurpose / Relaunch Existing Content Cut / No-Index Low Quality Content • • • 11
High Quality Content Creation Extremely High Quality Useful Link worthy / Shareable • • • • You don’t have to publish every day! 12
Picking a Winner Organic Traffic Ranking Crawl Rate Inbound Links Conversions Bounce Rate • • • • • • • Consolidate Competition 301 / Canonical • • •
Technical SEO - Javascript Javascript Platforms & SEOs Google’s Two Pass Crawl Parsing Issues 24
Technical SEO – Schema Product Article Breadcrumb Reviews ReviewCount AggregateRating NewsArticle Jobs Event Person LocalBusiness Video ClaimReview Speakable ImageGallery Application https://schema.org/docs/full.html 26
Resources https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-algorithm- history/ https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ https://www.webpagetest.org/ https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/ https://schema.org/ https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool 32
Thank you Brent Csutoras, LLC brent@csutoras.com Brentcsutoras.com