The document summarizes a presentation about Google's dominance and the new rules of search engine optimization (SEO). It discusses how Google now focuses on content quality, design, trustworthiness and speed over traditional SEO techniques. It also notes that search traffic to publishers has dropped by over 30% in the last eight months. Additional topics covered include how users engage with mobile/tablet devices, influencing influencers, brand protection, engagement mistakes to avoid, and how SEO may evolve with schema.org metadata standards.
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Simon Heseltine
Director of Audience
Development
Twitter: @simonheseltine
May 16th 2013
The new rules of Google
Dominance
Presented By:
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Google killed SEO?
• Looks at content quality
• Design
• Trustworthiness
• Speed
• Depth of content
• Historically has run on top of the
algorithm
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Has User Behavior Changed?
Search traffic to publishers has
taken a dive in the last eight
months, with traffic from
Google dropping more than
30% from August 2012
through March 2013,
according to research done by
BuzzFeed. While Google
makes up the bulk of search
traffic to publishers, traffic from
all search engines has
dropped by 20% in the same
period.
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“To be trusted is
a greater
compliment than
being loved.”
George MacDonald
“To be trusted is
a greater
compliment than
being loved.”
George MacDonald
Google+ and SEO
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Source: AOL survey of Tablet owning Engadget Readers
Engaging with consumers –Tablets
89% say tablets are the
perfect TV viewing
companion
Sometimes tablets
enhance TV viewing
Sometimes tablets
replace TV viewing
63% say they often
use their tablets as a
replacement for TV
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Engaging with consumers – Mobile / tablets /
comments
51%
Tablets
as TV
companions
Search for info related to
the TV show they are
watching
38%
Research products or
services they saw in a
commercial on TV
33%
Read what others
are saying who
are watching the
same TV show
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Protecting your Brand
71% of consumers have
ended their relationship
with a company due to poor
customer service
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/retaining-customers/
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“All the world is
made of faith, and
trust, and pixie
dust.”
J.M. Barrie
Peter Pan
The new rules of Google Dominance
“All the world is
made of faith, and
trust, and pixie
dust.”
J.M. Barrie
Peter Pan
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Simon Heseltine
Director of Audience
Development
Twitter:
@simonheseltine
May 16th 2013
The new rules of Google
Dominance
Presented By:
Andy Beal
CEO, Trackur
Twitter: @andybeal