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Second screen search: how mobile SEO became the only SEO

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Second-screensearch

Stephen Kenwright @stekenwright

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“I want to be buried with a mobile phone,just in case I’m not dead.”

Amanda Holden

Tom Dymond/SYCO/THAMES TV/PA Wire

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TV…not PC

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Percentage of search engine users searching on mobileMarch 2016

Google

50%

Bing

26%

Source: Ofcom

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39.3

21.3

13.0

35.2

18.7

11.7

19.5

5.6

2.8

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10.0

15.0

20.0

25.0

30.0

35.0

40.0

45.0

Google Bing Yahoo!

Total audience Desktop audience Mobile audience

Audience of search engines (millions)March 2016

Source: comScore

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A (brief) history of Google and mobileApple launches

the iPhone

2007

2010

Responsive Web Design

Google launches

1998

Google launchesits first Android

2009

2015

Mobile search

overtakes desktop

Google pays $1bn to be iPhone search default

2014

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The iPhone predates Responsive Web Designby at least 3 years

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“Get your content to go anywhere,because it’s going to go everywhere.”

Brad Frost

Don Clark / Brand New

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Google, Apple, Adobe and Microsoft collaborating on variable fonts

FastCo Design / Erik van Blokland

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Use Resizer to see your content on different screen sizes

design.google.com/resizer

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90% of users start a task on one deviceand complete it on another

Source: Google / LukeW

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Mobile app50%

Mobile browser7%

Tablet app9%

Tablet browser2%

Desktop32%

Share of total digital time spentJuly 2016

Source: comScore

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70.0

61.263.2

47.9

40.2

79.0

68.9

60.4

52.248.7

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Male Female

Average time online on a smartphoneHours in March 2016

Source: Ofcom

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29.3

46.344.3

38.0

31.5

25.630.4

35.5 34.2

28.4

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Male Female

Average time online on a laptop/desktopHours in March 2016

Source: Ofcom

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Proportion of UK adults with a smartphone

Q1 2014

61%

Q1 2016

71%

Source: Ofcom

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Number of 4G subscriptions

Q4 2013

2.7m

Source: Ofcom

Q4 2014

23.6m

Q4 2015

39.5m

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A (brief) history of Google and site speed

2010

Page speed becomes desktop ranking factor

Google launches

1998

2016-17

Mobile page-speed

part of mobile-friendly

5G

expected in UK

2020

4G

available in UK

2013

PageSpeed

Insights

2011

AMP

2016

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AMP adoption

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Mobile-friendly? Or AMP?

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Both at home and outside

66%

Mainly at home16%

Only at home8%

Only out of home1%

Mainly out of home9%

Where do you use the internet on your phone?

Source: Ofcom

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At home68%

At work9%

On the go17%

In store2%

Other4%

Where are you when you search on your mobile?

Source: Think with Google

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3%2%

7%

13%

17%

19%18%

22%

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

Midnight - 3am 3 - 6am 6 - 9am 9am - Noon Noon - 3pm 3 - 6pm 6 - 8pm 8pm - Midnight

When do mobile searches occur?

Source: Think with Google

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36.1% used their smartphone while watching TV

Source: comScore

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8.6% research products or services advertisedon TV programme

Source: comScore

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Still looking for information…not a checkout process.

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Mobile48%

Desktop44%

Tablet8%

Device split for a spread betting site

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Conversion rateLead gen website

Mobile

6.79%

Desktop

4.30%

Tablet

4.57%

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24.46%

21.55%

11.49%

7.80%6.27%

3.29%2.63% 2.42%

1.49% 1.08%

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Mobile click through rateIndustry average: September 2016

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Average 24.46% 21.55% 11.49% 7.80% 6.27% 3.29% 2.63% 2.42% 1.49% 1.08%

Finance 20.32% 18.56% 8.86% 6.59% 4.91% 2.21% 1.92% 1.48% 1.33% 0.94%

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25.00%

30.00%

Mobile click through rate in financevs. average mobile CTR

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Average 24.46% 21.55% 11.49% 7.80% 6.27% 3.29% 2.63% 2.42% 1.49% 1.08%

iGaming 21.44% 7.48% 6.74% 4.03% 3.72% 2.52% 1.69% 1.70% 1.05% 1.13%

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Mobile click through rate in iGamingvs. average mobile CTR

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Average 24.46% 21.55% 11.49% 7.80% 6.27% 3.29% 2.63% 2.42% 1.49% 1.08%

Travel 21.13% 13.45% 10.30% 5.62% 4.36% 3.19% 2.03% 1.59% 1.56% 1.46%

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Mobile click through rate in travelvs. average mobile CTR

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Morebranded3.com/blog/mobile-ctr

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

September 24.46% 21.55% 11.49% 7.80% 6.27% 3.29% 2.63% 2.42% 1.49% 1.08%

April 30.40% 20.03% 11.81% 9.25% 5.37% 3.86% 3.03% 1.74% 1.47% 1.08%

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Mobile click through rateBefore/after May 2016 mobile-friendly update: September vs. April 2016

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Traffic from 4th text adJune/July 2016

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85% of all pages in the mobile search resultsmeet mobile-friendly criteria

Source: Google

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Mobile-friendly63%

Not mobile-friendly

37%

April 17th 2015

Percentage of mobile-friendly URLs in top 10 results

Mobile-friendly64%

Not mobile-friendly

36%

May 18th 2015

source: Stone Temple

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Traffic trendsClient example

Desktop Mobile Tablet Linear (Desktop) Linear (Mobile) Linear (Tablet)

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Mobile rate of growthClient example

0.0%

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r-1

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-13

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g-1

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Percent of mobile traffic from Google organic Percentage of mobile traffic excluding Google organic

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Mobile40%

Tablet23%

Desktop37%

Search volume by device

Search volume vs. actual trafficClient example

Mobile14%

Tablet36%

Desktop50%

Organic data sources

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Ranking positionClient example: mobile vs. desktop

-9000

-8000

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-5000

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-3000

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0

1000

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Mobile vs. desktop visibilityCompare using SISTRIX

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20% of iOS mobile web traffic over the past two years came from in-app browsers.

Source: LukeW

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0.00%

10.00%

20.00%

30.00%

40.00%

50.00%

60.00%

Friends, family and colleagues Browse the app store Search engines Company website TV

Sources of awareness of smartphone apps

Source: Think with Google 2015

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38.00%

40.00%

42.00%

44.00%

46.00%

48.00%

50.00%

52.00%

Search ads Social ads Banner/graphical ads in apps Banner/graphical ads in websites Video ads

Types of ads driving app downloads

Source: Think with Google 2015

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Spend on app install ads2015

Total ad spend

$3b

Spend on Facebook

$1.7bn+

Source: Recode / Emarketer

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0.00%

10.00%

20.00%

30.00%

40.00%

50.00%

60.00%

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80.00%

90.00%

Price Description Reviews Ratings Free trial

Important factors when deciding to download an app

Source: Think with Google 2015

Mostly app store factors – ads alone

are not enough.

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App store ranking factorsRanking Factors Android iOS

Title

Short Description

Long Description

Keywords

Images

Publisher

Updates

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Under 50 characters89%

Over 50 characters11%

Length of app names

Source: blog.appfigures.com

Apple is removing apps with 50 character+ names

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Use AppLaunchpad to build screenshots for free

theapplaunchpad.com

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Turn your responsive site into a mobile app

“PhoneGap is the original and most popular distribution of Apache Cordova. Turn your HTML, CSS and JavaScript into an app on your device in minutes using our simple desktop and developer apps.”

PhoneGap → phonegap.com

More distributions → cordova.apache.org

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Downloadbranded3.com/blog/app-store-optimisation-checklist

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1 in 4 installed smartphone apps are never used

Source: Think with Google 2015

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“Money spent developing a pretty but limitediPhone app only benefits […] the few, but money spent on the

website UI would have benefitted everyone.”Gary Marshall

Credit: Anna Dahlström / clement127

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[email protected]

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