5. Evolving with Google
The problem
âą Twitter & Facebook
are private clubs
âą Google can only use
signals it can see and
can crawl
â Nofollow
â Dofollow
6. IMAGINE not having to worry about anonymous
blog spam because you know exactly who the
person is that wrote the article or comment
= GREATER accountability and a better web.
7. Evolving with Google
âą Social Search (SEO): really interesting because itâs
one of the areas where you donât have to necessarily
optimise for search engines
âą Itâs new, interesting & future proofing
8. Is SEO dead?
Move from an
anonymous web to a
web in which
everybody has at
least some idea of
the reputation of an
author
9. Some believe that Apple will displace Google as the
search engine of Is SEO dead? Siri technology
choice with its new
13. 3 key G+1 actions to implement
immediately
1. Put your keyword(s) in profile links
14. âą Not logged into
Google
âą No backlinks
âą Ranking achieved
using social
media only
15. 3 key G+1 actions to implement
immediately
2. Claim your content using - rel="author
Rich Snippits
<a href=â[profile_url]?rel=authorâ>Google+</a>
The + at the end of the âanchor textâ is important!
The challenge:How to improve the way users retrieve information from the web is actually limited by Goolgeâs own search interface. Google's simple search box interface has successfully trained most users to abstract complex queries into few keywords, and as result, much context is lost as we are searching.In some way, Google Instant was a way to mitigate this problem by previewing results per keywords, but the search experience is still limited to a keyword index, regardless the interface Google wraps around with.Moving forward, what's interesting is how AI can help search - & NOT to discard the constraints of human language. In ML, constraints are good, and for searchEnd of day, human being still converse in sentences, not keywords.
Content needs to align and answer what searchers are looking for â or being recommended to readOn page site elements are still key â headings, URLs, image naming etcBut off-page (links) are where the change is being seen â Traditional contextual âbacklinksâ are being supported / replaced by social signals: like, tweet, +1s
The challenge:How to improve the way users retrieve information from the web is actually limited by Goolgeâs own search interface. NOFOLLOW = = facebook links - tweetsDOFOLLOW = Tweetmeme & Google +1s (which feed directly into its algorithm)
SEO today is a mixture of âBlackhat / whitehatâ and various shades inbetweenâ in the search for more and more backlinks to rank for keywords and phrases that âwe useâ that are increasingly becoming more and more competitiveWe see the results 100s of comments on blogs, and sites set up with content that is practically illedgible
With social, itâs interesting as we donât have to optimise content for search resultsInstead we optimise content for the reader: inspiring / motivating them to click like, tweet, share and now +1 and share it with people they know
And my answer is a resounding NO⊠Itâs just evolving quickly. As quick as the technology (hardware and software) that we see changing daily
Is SEO dead?Will Apple topple Goolge ?Time will tell ⊠but Google was caught off guard with Appleâs release of Siri and now has itâs Android developers working flat outâŠ!
Google (and this is subjective opinion) is moving towards a recommendation engineWhere people are accountable and authority takes precedenceItâs using verified accounts to influence itâs algorithm and the SERPs â albeit in its infancyBut what google is now providing are insights into the reach being achieved by every post publish on G+ using ripples
Talk through visualPlus and this is a huge plus, yesterday night at 10pm Google announce that it had upgraded its webmaster tools to provide stats for publishers / authorsJust login to google.com/webmasters with Google Plus login details - simple