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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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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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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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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
Key Tools:1) Webmaster tools (Google & Bing)2) Firefox Web Developer from (Chris Pederick)\3) cURL
Key Tools:-
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