the marriage of seo and ux
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THE MARRIAGE OF SEO & UX Jake & Alisha Truemper Present
VS.
User Experience and Organic Search are rumored to be enemies.
WHY? REALLY?
…WHEN PEOPLE HEAR “SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION”
UX & SEO: A Love Story Mark Oleszczak User Experience Designer Usabilla
They think of shady people keyword stuffing…
In the beginning…
SEO WAS ABOUT GAMING THE SYSTEM ...but, SEO matured, with the algorithms
Search engines seek to evaluate quality.
...while UX experts sought the same.
They developed common interests.
OH.
“DON’T BE EVIL.” Google’s Motto
Source: UX Myths that Hurt SEO, start: 07:19; stop 8:43.448
RAND FISHKIN ON UX & SEO
“UX & SEO: A LOVE STORY” Mark Oleszczak, Usabilla
“WHEN SEO, IA, AND UX WORK TOGETHER, HUMAN USERS ARE
THE ULTIMATE WINNERS” “UX is the New SEO” Marianne Sweeny,
Sr. SEO Strategist
Portent
“SEO IS UX FOR ROBOTS” ^
says John Goad, SEO, AddThree.com
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
USER EXPERIENCE
We are both mediators between the
human and the computer.
SEO’S ROLE UX’S ROLE
● Connect searchers with what they are looking for on your site
● Help users achieve their goals on the site
● Improve effectiveness of off and on-site findability
● Test and tailor experiences to appeal to target personas
● Improve quality of traffic ● Turn traffic into conversions
● Target keywords searched by desired personas
● Turn visitors into return visitors ● Turn searchers into visitors
● Increase off-site findability by expanding web visibility
SEOS WILL OFTEN USE UX TO INFORM
DECISIONS AND BACK UP SUGGESTED
ACTIONS.
UX DOES THE SAME WITH SEO DATA.
SEO CAN’T FUNCTION INSIDE OF SILOS.
NEITHER CAN UX
Think of me as a
SEARCH EXPERIENCE ARCHITECT
Google’s Mission Statement
“TO ORGANIZE THE WORLD’S INFORMATION
AND MAKE IT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE
AND USEFUL”
Pre-Campaign
• What’s trending? • How do they search for it?
• What are the related search
terms?
• What’s the intent of search? • What’s the desired landing experience?
• What’s the desired visitor behavior?
• What are good success metrics
and target numbers?
Post
• Did we deliver on searchers’
expectations?
• Where did they come from?
• Where did they go after?
• Cannibalization handling
• Redirect Handling
• Did content earn backlinks?
• Did we reach our target numbers?
• How did this content affect other
pages ranking and traffic earning?
Ask Your SEO
CONTENT STRATEGY
Why UX Loves SEO
Improving accessibility usually improves crawlability
ACCESSIBLE
SEOs assess and earn site authority.
UX assesses and earns credibility.
CREDIBLE
UX directs on-site traffic
SEOs direct off-site traffic
FINDABLE
SEOs analyze results.
UX analyzes actions.
DESIRABLE
SEOs evaluate “intent of search.” UX manages expectation.
USEFUL
USABLE SEO needs a site to be usable to encourage
return visits. UX wants the user to complete the
desired task.
VALUABLE To earn SEOs’ desired trust and freshness metrics,
the site needs to fulfill the searchers’ needs.
UX will help improve crawlability
UX provides insight into visitor behavior
UX helps align search intent with expectation
UX assists in ushering traffic toward conversion
WHY SEO LOVES UX
HUMANS FIRST SEO and UX professionals agree
And then bots
W. Edwards Deming
“THE RESULT OF LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS IS BETTER AND BETTER
QUALITY AND LOWER AND LOWER COSTS.”
THE END
Jake UX, Manifest Digital @Trump29 truemper@gmail.com
Alisha SEO, Scottrade @AlishaTruemper ablu272@yahoo.com
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