THE CHANGING FACE OF SEOSophie Tosone and Kris Tait

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Exact match domains 200 words of content Black Hat Linkbuilding

Caffeine Social Signals Microsites

Panda +1s schema.org Google + Freshness Update

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Penguin Above the fold

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Hummingbird Semantic SEO Quality Links Social SEO Not Provided

WHAT SHOULD YOU BE CONSIDERING

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» Helping Google to help you !

» Rich Snippets 2009 !

» Google made a joint alliance with Schema.org in June 2011 !

» Provide search engines with more information about your site and its products services !

» Said not to improve rankings but to enhance CTR and improve relevancy to search queries = better chances of ranking anyway

Structured  Data

» Moving towards landing page analysis

» Look at organic traffic growth as a whole - visitor distribution

» Rankings more important for reporting

» Site Search Data - content

» Make more use of your data - Adwords, Analytics & Webmaster tools still provide rich data and other SEO metrics to show us what content works.

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Hummingbird

» Building the next generation of search… !

» Displays entities rather than just query level results !

» Aligning your site with Google interprets data in the future

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Hummingbird

Allows Google to understand user intent more closely (who, what, where, why, how), and in turn longer tail queries. !Better understanding = more use of the ‘answer engine’. !

Conversa@onal  Search

!» Conversational Search

» Decline of short tail

» Content rather than Keywords

» Greater segmentation

» More importance on social content and conversations

Conversa@onal  Search

Knowledge  Graph Who  is  Brad  PiC…

Who  is  he  married  to…

What  movies  has  she  been  in…

» Google making it easy - not hard

» Create something different

» Visually engaging

» Focus on the user

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» Voice Search

» Google Now

» More advanced queries

» Augmented Reality

Future  of  Search“Book me a flight to Paris on friday morning”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

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