2016 searchhou - badass: making seo awesome
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What do Users have to do with SEO?
Learn How to Fish
Kathy Sierra
• History Lesson
• Serious Pony
• Programmer
• Writer
Making Users Awesome
• appreciating the context within which your site experience lives
• focusing on reducing cognitive resource leaks
• helping users find a state of flow when using your product in their context
• high value - very high quantity learning process
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– Kathy Sierra
Simple Test
2 vs. 7
Cognitive Resource Leak
Baba Shiv and Alex Fedorikhin, 1999@jonti | [email protected]
All The Things@jonti | [email protected]
Skip B ?@jonti | [email protected]
How do you teach a Mastered Skill?
• 10000 Repetitions?
• Perceptual Knowledge
• “How do you do it ?- I Just know”
• https://twitter.com/george_10g
Single Task - Shorten the Time to Expert
High Quality
Very - High Quantity
Examples
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Situational Awareness
• Schema Markup
• Events
• City Specific
• Audience Specific
• What Makes a Success
• Markup
• Write Great Titles
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Make users feel awesome
Mobile Views
Recurring or one Time Events
Specific Dates
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Like Minded Audience
Can you create an event type?
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Annual Events
Build in the URL structure
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Local Events
Leverage other Event Lists
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Learn Something New
Can you create an event type?
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Bad Ass
• Practicing mediocrity makes you really good at mediocrity
• Perishable Skill?
• Run it hard
• Experts Practice Better
Resource Links
• BadAss: Making Users Awesome - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920036593.do
• Serious Pony Blog - http://www.seriouspony.com/
• Early HeadRush - http://headrush.typepad.com/
• schema-creator.org - http://schema-creator.org/
• Structured Data Testing Tool - http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
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June 15, 2016 @jonti | [email protected] Jonti Bolles