3. TRENDS
1. Mobile Growth and Device Adoption
2. The Word “Mobile” is Becoming Outdated
3. Tablets Will Likely Replace Majority of Desktop Use Cases
4. HTML5 & Responsive Web Design Continues to Grow but Has
Challenges
5. Mobile Ecommerce is Growing
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10. MOBILE SEO PLAYS
1. Understand the impact of mobile on your business
2. Start tracking mobile search behavior and get user-centric
3. Understand mobile search patterns
4. Segment your traffic, keywords, content and users
5. Plan for mobile first
6. Build your content marketing strategy around mobile
7. Optimize for mobile devices
8. Build a mobile content ecosystem
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11. PLAY #1: UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF MOBILE
ON YOUR BUSINESS
Critical Questions to Answer
@ What is the impact of local?
This will be fairly obvious for your business but deciding early whether you need
to optimize for local search will have a big impact on your content strategy.
Z What is the traffic breakdown by devices?
Many companies are just beginning to measure the breakdown of traffic by
device. Important KPIs to measure include not only traffic by device type today
but, more importantly, month over month growth rate by device type.
$ How does engagement differ by devices?
You need to measure not only engagement and conversions broken down by device
but also whether there is shared behavior between devices by a single user.
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12. PLAY #2: START TRACKING MOBILE USER
BEHAVIOR AND GET USER-CENTRIC
Can you answer:
How does engagement differ
by devices per user?
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13. PLAY #2: START TRACKING MOBILE USER
BEHAVIOR AND GET USER-CENTRIC
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14. PLAY #2: START TRACKING MOBILE USER
BEHAVIOR AND GET USER-CENTRIC
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15. PLAY #2: START TRACKING MOBILE USER
BEHAVIOR AND GET USER-CENTRIC
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16. PLAY #3: UNDERSTAND MOBILE SEARCH PATTERNS
Benchmark Your Business Against Mobile Search Patterns Globally
Globally Your Business
Local Search Queries
Retail-related Queries
Branded Queries
Queries with Purchase Intent
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17. PLAY #4: SEGMENT YOUR TRAFFIC, KEYWORDS,
CONTENT & USERS
Keyword
Segmentation is critical to Segmentation
building SEO strategy
Traffic Content User
Segmentation Strategy Segmentation
Content
Segmentation
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18. PLAY #4: SEGMENT YOUR TRAFFIC, KEYWORDS,
CONTENT & USERS
Traffic Content Keyword User
Segmentation Segmentation Segmentation Segmentation
Location HTML Branded Demographics
Devices Video Head Behavior
Traffic Sources E-Books Long Tail Social Networks
Conversions Images Campaigns LTV
Apps Competitive Psychographic
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19. PLAY #5: PLAN FOR MOBILE FIRST
C
The Cloud
Mobile Design Patterns
Responsive Web Design vs. Separate Sub-domains
Content Consumption on Smartphones vs. Tablets vs. Desktop
Mobile Strategy Pyramid
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20. PLAY #6: BUILD YOUR CONTENT MARKETING
STRATEGY AROUND MOBILE
3 Executive & Organizational Buy-In
3 Build Mobile KPIs as part of your organization
3 Plan for mobile distribution
3 Offsite / Multi-channel content
3 Email is Critical - Targeted email essential
3 Competitive Benchmarking
3 New measurement platforms are required
3 Consider app strategy
3 Budget Creation
3 Editorial Calendar
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21. PLAY #7: OPTIMIZE FOR MOBILE DEVICES
Q Optimize for Performance and Usability
2 Fix metadata
R Encourage & Enable Shareability
y Decide on Responsive vs. Mobile Site
! Stop using Flash
@ Optimize for Local (if relevant)
s Aim for Top 3 and Universal Search Placement
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