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Super League: 10 SEO Experiments That Will Blow Your Mind
1. SEMRush Webinar, October 2017
Presented by:
• Will Critchlow, CEO, Distilled
• Larry Kim, CEO, MobileMonkey
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2. Google Uses User
Engagement Rates like Click
Through Rates (CTR) and
Dwell Times to Determine
Organic Search Rankings
Larry’s Crazy SEO Theory:
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3. User Query Entered
ML Algo Makes a Guess and Re-Writes The Query into
Something it Recognizes (Query Interpretation)
Did The
Result Satisfy
The User?
Great. Next Time I
See Queries Like
This, I’ll Put This
Page at the Top.
Larry’s Greatly Simplified Machine Learning Diagram*
*Note: Not Official Google Diagram.
Rats. Next Time I See
a Query Like This, I’ll
Try Some Other
Page
4. But Google Says They Don’t Use User Engagement
Metrics as a “Direct Ranking Factor”!
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19. Larry’s #1 Crazy SEO Experiment: Searching for a Machine
Learning Fingerprint in Search Algorithms.
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20. Larry’s #1 Experiment: What’s A Good Click Through Rate
for Organic Search? (Spoiler Alert: It’s in Flux)
OrganicSearchClickThroughRate
High CTR Listings
Floating To Top
Positions
Low CTR Listings
Sinking To
Bottom of Page
Organic Search Position
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21. Does CTR Impact Rankings?
Larry’s #2 Crazy SEO Experiment:
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22. Obviously Ranking Impacts CTR.
But How About The Reverse?
A CTR Study by.
Philip Petrescu for
Moz.
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23. +/- 3% Increase in
Post Engagement
+/- 1 Spot in Organic
Position
CTR-Based Rewards & Penalties?
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24. Larry’s #3 Crazy SEO Experiment:
What Happens When You Make a Headline More Clicky?
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25. Behold The Power of CTR
Optimization
WHAT?
Page Title CTR Rank
Guerrilla Marketing: 20+ Examples & Strategies to Stand Out 1% 8
20+ Jaw-Dropping Guerrilla Marketing Examples & Strategies 4.2% 5
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53. Summary: 7+1 Crazy SEO Experiments!
1. CTR Impacts Ranking
Beat the expected CTR for a
given position. Avg. CTRs
going UP!
2. Dwell Time Impacts
Ranking: Validates CTR and
featured snippet eligibility.
Overrides other signals!
3.Other Systems Reward
High Engagement:
Facebook newsfeed, PPC
and CRO!
Key Takeaway: New Unicorn of Ranking Factors - User Engagement!
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54. #CMCa2z @larrykim
The Future of Content
Marketing is Increasingly
Winner-Take-All. Time to
Adjust Content Strategy!
Traffic to the Top 10 Posts of the Month at Inc Magazine
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55. #CMCa2z @larrykim
Visibility on Social Media is
Increasingly Winner-Take-All!
What to do about it??
Number of Facebook Shares for the Top Articles
of the Year for Inc. Magazine in 2015 vs 2016
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70. Keyword Headlines Using Dynamic
Keyword Insertion Do OK, Not GreatRelativeFrequency
Average CTR Top 15% Top 5% Top 1%
Ads without DKI
Ads with DKI
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71. Keyword-y Headlines Less Likely To Be UnicornsRelativeFrequency
Top 5%
Ads without
DKI
Ads with DKI
Top 1% Relative CTR
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74. The Top 9 Emotions That Make
People Click Like Crazy:
Step 1: Pick One of These Emotional
Triggers
• Laughter
• Amusement
• Curiosity
• Awe
• Anger
• Fear
• Joy
• Empathy
• Sadness
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75. Step 2. Write Headline Copy From
Perspective of One of These Personas
The Bearer
of Bad News
The Hero/Villain The Comedian The Feel
Good Friend
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76. 3. Use This Title Template Commonly
Employed By ‘Viral’ Articles
Format
List post, quiz, Infographic
Emotional Hook
Emotional word or
superlative
Content Type
Images, quotes, pictures,
facts
Topic
Love, cats, dogs, fitness,
health, Donald Trump
5 AWESOME SEO STRATEGIES TO DEFEAT RANKBRAIN
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77. Unicorn Headlines = Top 10%
Odds of Finding Unicorn = 1:10
So Test 10 Different Headlines
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82. Identify Donkeys (worst 10%)
Write 10 Headlines
Test With AdWords or Facebook
Replace Old Headline With Winner
Summary: Donkey To Unicorn Converter
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86. Quality Score affects your CPC
10 Discounted by 50.0%
9 Discounted by 44.2%
8 Discounted by 37.5%
7 Discounted by 28.6%
6 Discounted by 16.7%
5 Google benchmark
4 Increased by 25.0%
3 Increased by 67.3%
2 Increased by 150.0%
1 Increased by 400.0%
You Save
You Pay
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