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Engagement: The Key To Higher Rankings

SMX London: Engagement, the key to higher rankings - Tim Grice

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Engagement: The Key To Higher Rankings

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Popularity

Citations

Social

Authority

Engagement

Anchor Text

Keywords

Links Ranking Signals

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Popularity Engagement

Ranking Signals

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SEO Task List

Find relevant keywords

Add keywords to content

Build links (From anywhere)

Anchor text

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£ Traffic You have to

Engage

YOUR SITE

Engage

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“There is no shortcut to success.”

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…Return to Search

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Anyone Remember Panda?

Low quality content

Unclear or no call to actions

Poor navigation

Does your content serve the user

…they leave

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Where do we

Start?

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Identify Poor Performance

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Cross Reference with Keyword Data

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Most Panda issues can be solved through better

Engagement

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How do we increase

Engagement?

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Google Analytics

Social Listening

Market Research

Customer Feedback

Focus Groups

Who are you trying to Engage?

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Blogs

Site Search

Competitors

Market Research

Forums

Social Sites

Reviews

Keywords

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Audience Reporting

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Consumer Surveys

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Relevant

User Experience

Fast

Comprehensive

Want

What

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Can you get rankings without

Links?

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Content Strategy Manual Action/Panda

Manual Action Revoked

Content Strategy

No Link Building

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Put your best content in front of people.

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Rankings without Links

20% Bounce Reduction

200% Time on Page

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

enough to be at the top.

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What about

Popularity?

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Your website has to be Popular

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60,500

22,200

14,800

12,100 33,100

14,800

All things being equal, branding wins…

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Useful

Entertaining

News Worthy

Insightful Provoke Engagement

Audience Led

Creative

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TV

Outreach

PR

Display

Social

Paid Search

Creative

Apps

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

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2014 – The year of building better websites.

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