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State of Search
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Brent Csutoras

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Yesterday
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 Wanted to index the entire web
 Needed your guidance (spoon
feeding)
 Needed your links
 Needed your feedback
 Didn’t tell you how to build your site
Once Upon a Time Google…

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Google’s Evolution
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Panda (2011)
Aimed at eliminating low-quality (or thin)
content, Panda was updated periodically,
eventually becoming integrated into
Google’s core algorithm in 2016.
 Vince
 Caffeine
 Site Speed as Factor
 Knowledge Graph
 Penguin
 Etc, etc
Mobile-First (2018)
Mobile-first indexing means Google uses
the mobile version of the page for
indexing and ranking.

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Tomorrow
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 Wants you to provide them your data
 Wants only your best content
 Doesn’t even require you have a
website
 Uses AI to determine quality
 Doesn’t need your help, links, or
feedback
 Dictates the way you provide your
Going Forward Google…

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Tomorrow
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Going Forward Google…
Doesn’t Care About All
Your Little SEO Tricks!
All my Black Hat friends…
Are White Hat Technical SEOs now…

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Going Forward Google…

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SEO Focus for 2019
• Re-thinking Content Strategy
• Technical SEO

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Re-thinking Content Strategy
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Re-thinking Content Strategy
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Philipp Klöckner

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Re-thinking Content Strategy
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• Create High Quality Content
• Repurpose / Relaunch Existing
Content
• Cut / No-Index Low Quality Content

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High Quality Content Creation
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• Extremely High Quality
• Useful
• Link worthy / Shareable
• You don’t have to publish every
day!

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Repurpose Existing Content
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• Picking a Winner
• Organic Traffic
• Ranking
• Crawl Rate
• Inbound Links
• Conversions
• Bounce Rate
• Consolidate
• Competition
• 301 / Canonical

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Cut Low Quality Content
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Cut Low Quality Content
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TECHNICAL SEO

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Technical SEO – Responsive
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Technical SEO – Mobile Friendly
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Technical SEO – Speed
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Technical SEO – Speed
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Technical SEO - Javascript
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 Javascript
 Platforms & SEOs
 Google’s Two Pass Crawl
 Parsing Issues

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Technical SEO - Schema
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Technical SEO – Schema
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 Product
 Article
 Breadcrumb
 Reviews
 ReviewCount
 AggregateRating
 NewsArticle
 Jobs
 Event
 Person
 LocalBusiness
 Video
 ClaimReview
 Speakable
 ImageGallery
 Application
https://schema.org/docs/full.html

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Technical SEO – Rich Snippets
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Technical SEO – Rich Answers
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Technical SEO – Knowledge Panel
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Technical SEO – AMP Carousels & Articles
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Technical SEO – ClaimReview & Speakable
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Resources
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 https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-algorithm-
history/
 https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
 https://www.webpagetest.org/
 https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/
 https://schema.org/
 https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool

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Thank you
Brent Csutoras, LLC
brent@csutoras.com
Brentcsutoras.com