Marketing Week Live: Why engagement should be your focus in 2014 - Tim Grice

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Historically SEO has revolved around keywords and links, however as Google moves to a more sophisticated ranking model it’s important to understand what makes your website the best result. Understanding how users engage with your website is now key to gaining greater visibility in Google, if visitors are leaving your website after a few seconds, you obviously weren’t the right result. This presentation focuses on some of these new signals, how we optimise for them, and show how we blend creativity with data to improve our search rankings.

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Audience Engagement

Why Engagement should be your SEO Focus in 2014!

TIM GRICE – DIRECTOR OF SEARCH

Popularity

Citations

Social

Authority

Engagement

Anchor Text

Keywords

Links Ranking Signals

Popularity Engagement

Ranking Signals

SEO Task List

Find relevant keywords

Add keywords to content

Build links (From anywhere)

Anchor text

£ Traffic You have to

Engage

YOUR SITE

Engage

“There is no shortcut to success.”

…Return to Search

Dwell Time?

“Your goal should be that when a visitor lands on your page, the content answers all of their needs, encouraging their next action to remain with you. If your content does not encourage them to remain with you, they will leave. The search engines can get a sense of this by watching the dwell time. ” Duanne Forrester - Bing

Anyone Remember Panda?

Low quality content

Unclear or no call to actions

Poor navigation

Does your content serve the user

…they leave

Where do we

Start?

Identify Poor Performance

Cross Reference with Keyword Data

Most Panda issues can be solved through better

Engagement

How do we increase

Engagement?

Google Analytics

Social Listening

Market Research

Customer Feedback

Focus Groups

Who are you trying to Engage?

Blogs

Site Search

Competitors

Market Research

Forums

Social Sites

Reviews

Keywords

Audience Reporting

Consumer Surveys

Relevant

User Experience

Fast

Comprehensive

Want

What

Can you get rankings without

Links?

Content Strategy Manual Action/Panda

Manual Action Revoked

Content Strategy

No Link Building

Put your best content in front of people.

Rankings without Links

20% Bounce Reduction

200% Time on Page

If you have enough links to be in the top 5 you have

enough to be at the top.

What about

Popularity?

Your website has to be Popular

60,500

22,200

14,800

12,100 33,100

14,800

All things being equal, branding wins…

Useful

Entertaining

News Worthy

Insightful Provoke Engagement

Audience Led

Creative

TV

Outreach

PR

Display

Social

Paid Search

Creative

Apps

You’ll always rank position ‘1’ for brand search

2014 – The year of building better websites.

tim.grice@branded3.com

@Tim_Grice

Thank You!

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