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ONE PERSON ONE BILLION PAGES
Stefan Pioso
Director Search Marketing, Ancestry.com
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STEFAN PIOSO
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Ancestry.com
Linkedin.com/in/spioso
Facebook.com/Ancestry.com
spioso@ancestry.com
Leading Online Family History Resource
@ancestrydotcom
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AGENDA
• Who is Ancestry.com
• How one approaches one billion
• Building the team [spoiler alert]
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WHO WE ARE
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WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE…
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• Largest online family history resource
• 11+ billion records
• 50 million family trees
• 5 billion profiles
• 1+ billion indexed pages
• Products
• Records & tools subscriptions
• Desktop & mobile Apps
• DNA
• 1x Public | 2x Private
• Sold to Permira $1.6b in 2012
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WHO WE ARE NOT…
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CAN ONE MANAGE ONE BILLION?
• Sure…
• Caveat 1
• Caveat 2
• Caveat 3….
• Wait, it depends…
• The answer is not binary…
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HOW ONE APPROACHES ONE BILLION
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SCOPING PROBLEMS & OPPORTUNITIES
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Tools Assessment
- Tracking systems
- SEO configuration
- CMS / publishing
Site Audit
- Inventory content
- Tech assessment
- Link profile audit
Find Stakeholders
- SEO proponents
- Content creators
- Standards owner(s)
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SITUATION OVERVIEW
• Assets
• Domain authority
• Link profile
• Scale of available content
• Challenges
• 100+ subdomains
• 5k owned domains
• Duplicate content
• Few tools to influence site
• Disparate platforms, high dependencies
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MY REVOLUTIONARY THREE STEP APPROACH
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Maintain Improve Grow
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ANCESTRY’S APPROACH
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Maintain
 You can’t grow if the baseline is shrinking!
• Benchmark
• Set SEO standards
• Configure & monitor early warning
systems
• Ensure you have the tools to react
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ANCESTRY’S APPROACH
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Improve
 Make proven entry points work harder &
cultivate new ones.
• Test what you can change & build what
you can test
• Leverage common conversion paths
where possible.
• Focus on template-level SEO
enhancements.
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ANCESTRY’S APPROACH
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Grow
 Exploit available content & build
where necessary.
• Growth opportunities
• Collections porting
• Data aggregation
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BUILDING THE TEAM
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ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS IS?
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CAN ONE MANAGE ONE BILLION?
 Yes, but you’ll need help!
• Build credibility
• How: Training & data feedback
• Demonstrate opportunity
• How: Do it, then talk about it
• Define clear, measurable plan
• How: Create your top 100
• Use skillset to expand into adjacent
channels
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…IN CLOSING
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WHAT EXCITES US ABOUT THE FUTURE…
• Building more content at scale
• Asset consolidation
• Exploring what big data and cross
channel search optimization can
deliver
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SHAMELESS PLUG…
 Very competitive salary & relocation to San Francisco available for
the right candidate.
• SEO Product Manager
• Description: http://goo.gl/MhzirT
• SEO Manager
• Not yet listed…contact me directly in interested
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Contact me: spioso@ancestry.com
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QUESTIONS?
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Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. Key Tools:1) Webmaster tools (Google & Bing)2) Firefox Web Developer from (Chris Pederick)\3) cURL
  2. Key Tools:-
  3. Tool Tip:-Used webmaster tools, Conductor & automated tests as primary early warning systems-Used cURL to identify 404 issue for our homepage (per Google, it’s the closest proxy to Googlebot)-Tools to react: we configured our CMS (Fatwire) to publish all robots.txt files to enable on-demand changes