We live in a post algorithmic Organic Reality. At any minute, our sites can be penalized or lose 70% of their organic traffic. How to can you survive and thrive in these conditions? This presentation sets out to assist those looking to increase their visibility through these harrowing times.
6. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Threat Assessment:
Panda
• Onsite Content
• Quality of Content
• Semantic Structure
• Missing or Unorganized Content Elements
• Misspelled Words
• Unnatural Language within Content
• % of Cross Domain Duplicate Content
• % of Sitewide Duplicate Content
• Bounce Rate Metrics
Panda affects the entire website. It is not a page by page penalty.
7. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Threat Assessment:
Penguin
• Backlink Quality
• Backlink Authority
• Backlink History
• Over-optimized Anchor Text
• Paid Links
• Link Spam
Blog Commenting
Forum Profiles
Forum Spamming
Article Syndication
Directory Spam
Sitewide Footer Links
Paid Links
Link Farms
Blog Networks
8. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Threat Assessment:
Hummingbird
• Parses entire search strings, not just words within
strings
• Tries to better match search queries to the
searcher’s intent
• The future of Google
• Will force Ecoms to provide non-commercial
content
9. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Threat Assessment:
Vince
• Pushes big brands higher in rankings
• Gives more weight to larger brands
11. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
Optimized H1 Tag>Page Title>Proper
Semantic Structure>Quality
Content>Proper Navigation>UX>Engaging
Content>Fast Page Speed>Proper
Canonical Elements>Optimized Crawling &
Indexing Elements>Quality
Backlinks>Social Shares = Highly Relevant
Ranking Signal
12. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
Still the most important Single element
for Organic Search
13. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
• Quality content has a distinguishable
flow
• Title, Content, heading and all other
elements will have a relationship to
one another
• Content about a subject has
predictable words and variations that
should be present in the content
14. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
• One Canonical Site Structure
• WWW.
• Non-WWW.
• HTTP://
• HTTPS://
• /home
• /default.aspx
• /index.php
15. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
16. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
Cross Domain Duplicate Content
• Using manufacturer descriptions
• Syndicating content
• Sharing your content on other sites
17. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
Sitewide Duplicate Content
• Site.com/blue-widget
• Site.com/category1/blue-widget
• Site.com/category2/blue-widget
• Site.com/category/widget?color=blue
• Site.com/category/widget?color=white
• Site.com/category/widget?color=red
18. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
Control Google’s Access
19. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
Control Google’s Access
20. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
Control Google’s Access
Search Operators
• Site:yoursite.com
• Site:yoursite.com “snippet of text”
• Site:yoursite.com inurl:search
21. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
Screaming Frog
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Error Pages
Redirects
Duplicate/missing Headings
Duplicate/Missing Title Tags
Canonical Issues
Crawling issues
22. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
23. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
Action Steps
• Set Domain Canonical using 301 Redirect
• Set page level Canonicals
• Canonical Tag
• Robots.txt
• Meta Robots Noindex
• Nofollow non-useful portions of your site
• Account
• Wishlist
• Search
• Checkout Pages
• Cross Domain Duplicate Content
• Hide pages from Google
• Title Tag Optimization
• Heading Optimization
• No Headings in Navigation
• One H1 per page
24. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
Content Performance Ratio
# of Pages with Organic Traffic / # of Indexed Pages x 100
2,650 pages bringing in organic traffic on a site with
45,000 pages indexed
(2650/45,000)x100=5.89%
25. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
Content Ratio
26. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Panda
Content Ratio
27. Surviving the Post Algorithmic Organic
Apocalypse
Neutralize the Threat:
Penguin/Hummingbird/Vince
44. Competitive Research
Look for Content Identifiers in
Competitors' Site Navigation
Content Identifiers:
• /blog
• /articles
• /news
• /resources
• /white-papers
45. Competitive Research
Majestic SEO
Find Competitors’ Top Pages
Look for Top Pages that are Content
based
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Know what people are linking to
Know what people are sharing
Know what people are
interested in