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The Future of Search is a predictive and interactive Assistant
that takes something like this and knows enough about you
to pick exactly what you’d want
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Well, what do we need?
Location Persistent
User
Context
The World’s
Information
An always
on device
Natural
Language
Processing
Machine
Learning +
Computing
Power
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OLD SCHOOL
SEO
App Store Optimization is built on
old school SEO practices of
metadata optimization and
engagement metrics such as
downloads and reviews.
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Search everywhere.
I anticipate that search will become
the common interface in the future of
technology, but it will evolve to more
natural and conversational language.
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Google develops a set of contexts on the user leveraging
months of queries + click data. (h/t @willcrithclow &
@tomanthonyseo)
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Align with the User Journey
“Multichannel custom publishing.”
You’ll want to develop the right KPIs to match up with the right types of videos. Top of funnel videos should be measured by awareness KPIs,
whereas bottom funnel videos like how-tos and guides are more likely to lead to conversions that are closer to the business objective.
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The implication of mobile-first indexation is that desktop-
driven sites will lose visibility.
I suspect this was
Google testing the
mobile-first index
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Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), for many sites, is the
quickest way to ensure mobile-friendliness in a mobile-first
world.
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Google understands that “paired” sites are a nuisance.
Ideally, they want people to move to “Canonical” AMP.
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This suggests that pages that validate as AMP are definitely
fast while other methods of building pages may not be.
91. However you do it, make
sure your site is mobile-
friendly.
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Learn more about HTTP/2
https://moz.com/blog/http2-a-fast-secure-bedrock-for-the-
future-of-seo
Read Up On HTTP/2
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If you want to dig into more of the technical details, check
out my latest on Moz. https://moz.com/blog/the-technical-
seo-renaissance
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I Made the Case, we Got our 301s, they Got Their Money
The project was at an implementation stand still until I put those numbers in front of the client. Shortly
thereafter, they made the push for 301s and traffic went up pretty dramatically despite seasonality.
August 27th
301 redirects
11,039,188
10,455,517
11,348,902
12,049,481
11,250,148
12,902,847
11,040,192
13,158,296
11,287,790 12,203,998
12,508,164
13,158,296
14,041,313
15,609,390
0
2,000,000
4,000,000
6,000,000
8,000,000
10,000,000
12,000,000
14,000,000
16,000,000
18,000,000
April May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct
Organic Visits
2014 2015
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Your SEO firm should be able to tell a compelling story
Mapping keyword data back to the consumer insights
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BUILD BETTER
BUSINESS CASES
Your keyword research in context conversion data and search traffic through the lens of a specific persona
yields a far better business case than “hey, I have this cool idea”
118. A better SEO business
case means better
keyword research
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Great Keyword Research Maps to Need States and Personas
Mapping keywords to the phases of the consumer decision journey provides more granularity to the understanding of what
users are actually looking to do with their search.
[flowers]
[when do roses bloom]
[what flowers for a first date]
[buying chrysanthemums]
[flower a month club]
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Good Keyword Research Visualizes Opportunities
Visualizing the data makes it easier to digest.
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Your SEO firm Should Build CTR Models Based
on Your Own Data
Anecdotal CTR models are not as valuable as using data about your own site.
122. Your SEO firm needs to not
take screenshots of Google
tools and call them a
deliverable.
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They should Prioritize
Recommendations
Give priority scores to your
recommendations. People
want to know what the
impact will be so they can
determine what to go after.
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They Should Give
Context
Your recommendations will
go across many people’s
desk before it potentially
gets implemented. Be sure
to give business and
technical context.
126. How to Make the Right SEO
Hire
Spoiler Alert: It’s not your Creative agency
127. First, they should have a
fundamental understanding
of marketing. Stop thinking
of SEO as not a marketing
function.
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Skills Your SEO Staff
Should Have
HTML/CSS
JavaScript
JavaScript Frameworks
One Backend Language (PHP,
NodeJs, Ruby, et al)
Understanding of How Browsers
Work
Understanding of Web Hosting
Excel
MySQL
Outreach
Content Ideation
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They Should Understand the Document Object
Model
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model/Introduction
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They Should Understand Structured Markup
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data
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They Should Understand the Critical Rendering Path
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/critical-rendering-path/analyzing-crp?hl=en
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They Should Understand What Impacts Page Speed
https://www.portent.com/blog/design-dev/ultimate-site-speed-guide-what-impacts-site-speed.htm