How to find those previous keywords and what to do with all the data. At eMetrics SF 2013 I discussed Keyword Research and measuring organic keyword traffic.

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Keyword
Discovery and
„Damn‟ How
Do I Measure
Success!
Barbara Coll, CEO
WebMama.com Inc.
@webmama
#eMetrics
San Francisco 2013

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Search Visibility
“SEO has evolved: from a narrow focus on
optimization, to a broad focus on search
visibility.” -- webmama, 2013

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EGO
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Factors Effecting Rankings
Warning: Your computer may show different search
results than my computer, or phone, or tablet, or …
 IP Address / Server Location  Domain of Origin
 Click History  Social Signals
 paid or organic  Who‟s in your circles?
 YouTube  What did you just tweet?
 Images
 Device
 Browsing History
 Logged in?  Browser

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You Need to
be VISIBLE
Where Your
Audience is
SEARCHING

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Traditional Criteria

7. And Domination of an
Industry Category
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Across All Searchable
Sites.
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Sources
 People – sales, marketing, product management, executives,
support
 Competitors
 Keyword expansion tools
 Recent news
 Customer website, training manuals, support docs, video
transcripts
 Internal demand generation campaigns (like email
campaigns/webinars)

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Brainstorming

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Keyword Project
 Corporate Website  Readwriteweb.com
 Company employees  Wikipedia
 YouTube
 Competitor Sites
 Corporate Site
 Related Video Descriptions
 Competitive Analysis Tools
 Category tags
 SEMRush.com
 Internal Messaging Documents From  Compete.com
Product Marketing
 iSpionage.com
 Corporate Twitter Accounts
 Opensiteexplorer.org
 Site Scraping Tools
 Keyword Expansion Tools
 Wordtracker
 Google Keyword Tool
 Google Keyword Tool
 Webconfs.com Keyword Density  Wordle.net

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Brand

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Category
Complete Domination

15. VMware DominatesVirtualization& All
Related Phrases.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=virtualizatio
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Trendy
PR, Facebook Lingo,
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Legacy “Required”
Contact Center • Call Center
Accounting
Software
• Quickbooks
Interconnection
Ecosystem
•Data Center

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CEO Pain Threshold
CEO Pain
Relevancy
Brand Trendy Category Legacy
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Keyword Research – Metrics
Required of Analytics Team
 Paid Search – From SEM Campaigns
 Keyword expansion (given basic set of words)
 Volume
 Conversion Data
 Organic Traffic – From Analytics Tool
 Current referring keywords
 Webmaster Tools Data (Google)
 Search Queries (impressions)
 Clicks
 Link anchor text
 Internal Search Keywords
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Added
Bonus
Material
@webmama
Handling Not Provided Keyword Information

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Dreaded “Not Provided”
Brand NOPE!
Useful
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1 - Referring Keyword Information
Use what‟s available. Map to „Not Provided‟.

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2 - Other Search Engines
Bing and Yahoo Statistics

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Deeply at „Not Provided‟ Traffic
3 – Where are the People Landing?
4 – Is it Brand Traffic?

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3 – Where are they landing?
Landing Page 1 Take „not
Shoe Traffic provided‟
Landing Page 2 information and
All Traffic map it the
Landing Page 3 same way
based on
Sock Traffic
landing page
Landing Page 4
BUT in
reverse.

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Don‟t Forget Your
Recommendations to Marketing
Action – What can you do to make
those pages higher converting?

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4 – Brand Keyword Performance -
Estimation
 Is the performance similar to Brand keyword search behavior in
paid
 Is the performance similar to Brand keyword search behavior in
„provided‟ keywords

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5 - Special Cases
Online Applications
GEEKS  New or Returning Visitors
 Do you have an online
 Always logged in! applications where customers
are using search engines as
 IT product – they are in „not navigation devices
provided‟
B2B
 Metrics is trials/demos not sales
necessarily

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6 – Paid Search

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7 – Webmaster Tools - Queries
 Sort by Click – Shows Searches that Bring
the MOST Traffic

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 Sort by CTR – Shows Success of Searches
That Brought Traffic

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Questions to Ask About Queries
 Arethey qualified – from your keyword discovery
results?
 Are they the queries you expected?
 Are there any missing?

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Value of Not Provided Visitor
Landing Page – Content Flow
(home page – exit page would be fine)
 Landson Home Page and moves on to download
demo = $??
 Lands/Moves On To White Paper Download = $??
 Lands on Job Page = $??

35. + Opportunities for
Flag
Improvement for
Content
Optimization, SEO
Components, Internal
Linking
Talk to Marketing and
Sales

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Obtaining for FREE the Value of
a Single Organic Search
Keyword is Becoming History
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Sorry…..

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Sources of Information on „Not
Provided‟
 AvinashKaushik – Smarter Data Analysis of Google‟s https (not
provided) change: 5 steps
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/google-secure-search-keyword-
data-analysis/
 KISSmetrics – How to Unlock Your „Not Provided‟ Keywords in
Google Analytics
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/unlock-keyword-not-provided/
 Me
 http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/02/make-
most-of-search-queries-in.html

38. Thank You.
Barbara
Coll, CEO, WebMam
a.com
+Inc.
@webmama
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