travel babble
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Presentation slides from the first Travel Babble event, organised by Fresh Egg in London, June 2012.TRANSCRIPT
Welcome! Travel Babble – Search Landscape Marketplace 2012
• Who is Fresh Egg?
- Fully integrated digital marketing agency focussed on UK work
(Content, Social, SEO, PPC, UX, Insight, Web & App Dev)
- HQ in Worthing with a London presence
- 12 years of successful performance-led client work
- 120 clients and growing…
Welcome to Fresh Egg
The Google Penguin
• Reasonable community consensus
• First one to hit 'real' SEOs
• Reliably five main conclusions
Google Penguin
• Anchor text diversity
• <A>click here</A>
• <A>my brand</A>
• <A>what my brand does</A>
• Depth – Root, L1, Article
• Variety – avoid exact-match!
• Avoid over-programming (35-65%?)
More About Anchors Than You Ever Wanted
Bad Neighbourhoods
Class-C Concentration
Location Clustering
Follow/no-follow ‘Splog’ structures
What is your recommendation on how I can rectify this problem? Recovery
• Weighing our options:
- Do nothing
- Fix ourselves or seek out professionals?
- Abandon site and start afresh
Making the Right Decision
• Recovery – do we ditch sites?
- Yes, potentially…
- Or ditch methods, keep the site
Decision Making Process
Full off-page audit
Understand Link Equity:
=> Domain
=> subsection
=> Landing
Evaluate Taxonomy Toxicity =>
Classification
Logical re-org.
New copy?
Re-indexation
& Recovery
• You’ll need in-depth analysis tools to accomplish this
• Popular options:
• Price vs. functionality
• Or… bring in an expert
Tooling
Data screen shot Normality in - <A> text, TLD, ‘Follow’, Class- C
Data screen shot Anchor Text Keyword Graph
Can you identify quality travel blogs to guest post on?
• Yes, lots
• Words of caution
• Valueless to tell all of you – stop chasing the game
• Work toward a methodology – build relationships
Protect Your Sources
• Appraise your platforms thoroughly
• Tripping no-follow rates
• Spurious domain profiles
• Overly programming Anchor text
• Taxonomy planning
Re-cap Best Practice for Identification
Questions: I’ve heard a lot about rel=author lately and that it is important to utilise in order to improve rankings – what is this about? Is there increasing recognition in the Search community that fresh, original, high-quality travel content makes a difference to Search and Inbound Marketing? And are we seeing more companies willing to invest in securing that content?
• What is rel=author?
• Additional, optional mark-up in links and microformats
• Higher visibility in SERPs
• Greater content consumption in circles
• Extensible authorship association beyond Google
• What is agent rank?
• Google Patent Sept 2011
• Intended to augment PageRank initially
• Overall attempt to improve authority and reduce clutter
Google Developments
A Look to the Future – from Platform Rank to Voice Rank
• Platform authority – domain and PR
• Agent/Author authority
• Object based semantics?
Journalistic commoditisation:
Cars, Jobs, Homes, Holidays
Add More Value and Control Your Voice
Change the way you think: Plug content gaps - perhaps not typically/previously related to travel
Thank You!
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