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Analysing the SERPS For SEO, Content & Customer Insights
That’s how often Google rewrites the SERP displayed meta description
WHY?
To make SEOs sad?
Just for a laugh?
Nope…
It’s because Google thinks it is smarter than us
Intriguing… Can we use that to our advantage?
Yes, we can! (sorry, that was the last puppy pic)
How? @RoryT11
Deconstruct & analyse the language of the SERPs @RoryT11
Curious? We are in the age of semantic search @RoryT11
Google isn’t ranking a page based on how it uses a keyword On-page Optimisation @RoryT11
• User intent • Query context • Topical relevance • Word relationships Target the keyword, but optimise for this. How does...
Understand customer intent to better tailor your messaging @RoryT11
Structure landing pages to help Google understand context @RoryT11
Create more impactful online experiences @RoryT11
Your Toolkit @RoryT11
You need SERP content There are four ways you can get this. @RoryT11
Scrape at scale with Screaming Frog Follow these instructions @RoryT11 Option A
Option B Get SERP content via an API
Option C Get SERP content using the Scraper Chrome extension Get Scraper
Option D Use ‘Thruuu’ – a free SERP analysis tool Use Thruuu By Samuel Schmitt
There are four ways you can get this. You need Jupyter Notebook What is that?
The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live cod...
Stumped.
Jupyter Notebook is an environment on my laptop where I can learn Python by copying scripts created by people significantl...
Resources to get started… Jupyter Notebook – Getting Started Guide Robin Lord Find scripts Paul Shapiro JR Oakes Hamlet Ba...
You’ll end up with… @RoryT11
Your SERP content in a CSV@RoryT11
Imported into Jupyter Notebook @RoryT11
You’re (nearly) ready to use Python to analyse the SERPs! @RoryT11
There’s a treat for you.
I’ll share a link to a Dropbox with everything you need to get you started @RoryT11
Before we dive in…
Start by cleaning your SERP content @RoryT11
Avoids duplication & punctuation adds no value Lower case & remove punctuation @RoryT11
Get rid of words like: “Do” “Of” “Am” “If” “But” Remove stop words @RoryT11
Chop up a sentence into individual pieces Tokenization @RoryT11
Convert a word to its root: -‘Playing’ > ‘Play’ -‘Crawling’ > ‘Crawl’ Lemmatization (optional) @RoryT11
@RoryT11
@RoryT11
How many times a combination of words appear in your SERP content? Co-occurrence @RoryT11
Co- occurrence @RoryT11
Co- occurrence Shows the topics competitors cover on landing pages @RoryT11
Co- occurrence What does Google see as semantically relevant? @RoryT11
•Additional keyword research •Topical content gaps •Use semantically relevant phrases on landing pages HOW CAN WE APPLY TH...
Cost: Range: Time to Charge: Battery Size/Capacity: All Wheel Drive: Towing Capacity: Semi-Conductor SERP XLT: Product Pag...
What are the most frequently occurring nouns, verbs & adjectives in a SERP? Part of Speech (PoS) tagging @RoryT11
PoS tagging What ‘things’ are competitors writing about? Nouns (people, place, thing) @RoryT11
PoS tagging How is Google interpreting the context and intent of a search Verbs (action or state) @RoryT11
PoS tagging The language & tone that will resonate with a searcher Adjectives (descriptive word) @RoryT11
PoS tagging Credit Card Example Verbs = Intent Clues
PoS tagging Credit Card Example Nouns = Context Clues @RoryT11
PoS tagging Credit Card Example Adjectives = Context Clues @RoryT11
•Align pages with the motivations of a searcher •What language will resonate with your target audience •Use to improve on ...
Can we use NLP to uncover topical trends in the SERPs? Topic modelling @RoryT11
Topic modelling Topic modelling is an NLP method that assumes a corpus contains a mixture of topics. It looks at how words...
Topic modelling OK, computer. Here are some words. Group them. @RoryT11 Rory Truesdale Cheapening machine learning since 2...
Topic modelling Each bubble represents a topic @RoryT11
Topic modelling The bigger the bubble the more prominent the topic @RoryT11
Topic modelling The further away the bubbles are, the more distinct those topic are
Topic modelling Get a breakdown of the terms our topics consist of @RoryT11
Topic modelling @RoryT11
Topic modelling Use Google’s algorithm to help us identify areas of interest for our audience
•Reference for content ideation •Internal linking and content recommendations •Optimise effectively for semantic relevance...
Can we make our scripts work across other data sources to understand our customers? Other useful applications @RoryT11
Product Reviews @RoryT11
GMB Reviews @RoryT11
Reddit @RoryT11
YouTube Captions @RoryT11
Competitors & Top Ranking Pages @RoryT11
You can scrape it all! @RoryT11
With some minor tweaks we can make our scripts work across a huge range of user- centric content Pretty cool, right? @Rory...
Visualise sentiment across GMB reviews @RoryT11
Positive: • Simple • Easy to use • Intuitive Negative: • Buggy • Broken exports • Crashes @RoryT11 Identify recurring them...
Create networks based on word relationships @RoryT11
What does it all mean? @RoryT11
SERPs give us amazing insight into what customers want @RoryT11
Python makes getting these insights at scale accessible @RoryT11
Use these insights to align landing pages with intent and semantic relevance @RoryT11
Scripts we create allow us to get these insights from lots of other user- centric sources @RoryT11
http://cndr.co/jupyter Python Dropbox Link @RoryT11
Get the slides link @RoryT11 http://cndr.co/searchlove
• https://www.searchenginejournal.com/scrape-google-serp-custom-extractions/267211/ • https://www.searchenginejournal.com/...
Thanks For Listening! Conductor.com @RoryT11
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SearchLove London 2019 - Rory Truesdale - Using the SERPs to Know Your Audience

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It’s easy to get swept away by monthly search volume and to forget that behind every search there is a person with a specific motivation and set of needs to fulfil. This talk will look at how you can use Google’s algorithmic rewriting of the SERPs to help you identify those motivations so you can effectively optimise for intent and query context to improve the ranking performance of your landing pages. This talk will also help you understand how you can use this information to create more tailored online experiences for your prospective customers and how the same workflows can be applied for more general business intelligence insights.

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  1. 1. Analysing the SERPS For SEO, Content & Customer Insights
  2. 2. That’s how often Google rewrites the SERP displayed meta description
  3. 3. WHY?
  4. 4. To make SEOs sad?
  5. 5. Just for a laugh?
  6. 6. Nope…
  7. 7. It’s because Google thinks it is smarter than us
  8. 8. Intriguing… Can we use that to our advantage?
  9. 9. Yes, we can! (sorry, that was the last puppy pic)
  10. 10. How? @RoryT11
  11. 11. Deconstruct & analyse the language of the SERPs @RoryT11
  12. 12. Curious? We are in the age of semantic search @RoryT11
  13. 13. Google isn’t ranking a page based on how it uses a keyword On-page Optimisation @RoryT11
  14. 14. • User intent • Query context • Topical relevance • Word relationships Target the keyword, but optimise for this. How does Google provide accurate results? @RoryT11
  15. 15. Understand customer intent to better tailor your messaging @RoryT11
  16. 16. Structure landing pages to help Google understand context @RoryT11
  17. 17. Create more impactful online experiences @RoryT11
  18. 18. Your Toolkit @RoryT11
  19. 19. You need SERP content There are four ways you can get this. @RoryT11
  20. 20. Scrape at scale with Screaming Frog Follow these instructions @RoryT11 Option A
  21. 21. Option B Get SERP content via an API
  22. 22. Option C Get SERP content using the Scraper Chrome extension Get Scraper
  23. 23. Option D Use ‘Thruuu’ – a free SERP analysis tool Use Thruuu By Samuel Schmitt
  24. 24. There are four ways you can get this. You need Jupyter Notebook What is that?
  25. 25. The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, data visualization, machine learning, and much more. Jupyter.org @RoryT11
  26. 26. Stumped.
  27. 27. Jupyter Notebook is an environment on my laptop where I can learn Python by copying scripts created by people significantly smarter than me and breaking them or making them do something slightly different. Rory Truesdale Python Charlatan @RoryT11
  28. 28. Resources to get started… Jupyter Notebook – Getting Started Guide Robin Lord Find scripts Paul Shapiro JR Oakes Hamlet Batista Find scripts Find scripts
  29. 29. You’ll end up with… @RoryT11
  30. 30. Your SERP content in a CSV@RoryT11
  31. 31. Imported into Jupyter Notebook @RoryT11
  32. 32. You’re (nearly) ready to use Python to analyse the SERPs! @RoryT11
  33. 33. There’s a treat for you.
  34. 34. I’ll share a link to a Dropbox with everything you need to get you started @RoryT11
  35. 35. Before we dive in…
  36. 36. Start by cleaning your SERP content @RoryT11
  37. 37. Avoids duplication & punctuation adds no value Lower case & remove punctuation @RoryT11
  38. 38. Get rid of words like: “Do” “Of” “Am” “If” “But” Remove stop words @RoryT11
  39. 39. Chop up a sentence into individual pieces Tokenization @RoryT11
  40. 40. Convert a word to its root: -‘Playing’ > ‘Play’ -‘Crawling’ > ‘Crawl’ Lemmatization (optional) @RoryT11
  41. 41. @RoryT11
  42. 42. @RoryT11
  43. 43. How many times a combination of words appear in your SERP content? Co-occurrence @RoryT11
  44. 44. Co- occurrence @RoryT11
  45. 45. Co- occurrence Shows the topics competitors cover on landing pages @RoryT11
  46. 46. Co- occurrence What does Google see as semantically relevant? @RoryT11
  47. 47. •Additional keyword research •Topical content gaps •Use semantically relevant phrases on landing pages HOW CAN WE APPLY THIS? @RoryT11
  48. 48. Cost: Range: Time to Charge: Battery Size/Capacity: All Wheel Drive: Towing Capacity: Semi-Conductor SERP XLT: Product Page £ 44,360 MSV 9,620 MSV 7,470 MSV 380 MSV 3,040 MSV 180 MSV
  49. 49. What are the most frequently occurring nouns, verbs & adjectives in a SERP? Part of Speech (PoS) tagging @RoryT11
  50. 50. PoS tagging What ‘things’ are competitors writing about? Nouns (people, place, thing) @RoryT11
  51. 51. PoS tagging How is Google interpreting the context and intent of a search Verbs (action or state) @RoryT11
  52. 52. PoS tagging The language & tone that will resonate with a searcher Adjectives (descriptive word) @RoryT11
  53. 53. PoS tagging Credit Card Example Verbs = Intent Clues
  54. 54. PoS tagging Credit Card Example Nouns = Context Clues @RoryT11
  55. 55. PoS tagging Credit Card Example Adjectives = Context Clues @RoryT11
  56. 56. •Align pages with the motivations of a searcher •What language will resonate with your target audience •Use to improve on page optimisation HOW CAN WE APPLY THIS? @RoryT11
  57. 57. Can we use NLP to uncover topical trends in the SERPs? Topic modelling @RoryT11
  58. 58. Topic modelling Topic modelling is an NLP method that assumes a corpus contains a mixture of topics. It looks at how words and phrases co-occur in a corpus and attempts to group them in coherent themes or topics. @RoryT11
  59. 59. Topic modelling OK, computer. Here are some words. Group them. @RoryT11 Rory Truesdale Cheapening machine learning since 2019
  60. 60. Topic modelling Each bubble represents a topic @RoryT11
  61. 61. Topic modelling The bigger the bubble the more prominent the topic @RoryT11
  62. 62. Topic modelling The further away the bubbles are, the more distinct those topic are
  63. 63. Topic modelling Get a breakdown of the terms our topics consist of @RoryT11
  64. 64. Topic modelling @RoryT11
  65. 65. Topic modelling Use Google’s algorithm to help us identify areas of interest for our audience
  66. 66. •Reference for content ideation •Internal linking and content recommendations •Optimise effectively for semantic relevance HOW CAN WE APPLY THIS? @RoryT11
  67. 67. Can we make our scripts work across other data sources to understand our customers? Other useful applications @RoryT11
  68. 68. Product Reviews @RoryT11
  69. 69. GMB Reviews @RoryT11
  70. 70. Reddit @RoryT11
  71. 71. YouTube Captions @RoryT11
  72. 72. Competitors & Top Ranking Pages @RoryT11
  73. 73. You can scrape it all! @RoryT11
  74. 74. With some minor tweaks we can make our scripts work across a huge range of user- centric content Pretty cool, right? @RoryT11
  75. 75. Visualise sentiment across GMB reviews @RoryT11
  76. 76. Positive: • Simple • Easy to use • Intuitive Negative: • Buggy • Broken exports • Crashes @RoryT11 Identify recurring themes in product reviews
  77. 77. Create networks based on word relationships @RoryT11
  78. 78. What does it all mean? @RoryT11
  79. 79. SERPs give us amazing insight into what customers want @RoryT11
  80. 80. Python makes getting these insights at scale accessible @RoryT11
  81. 81. Use these insights to align landing pages with intent and semantic relevance @RoryT11
  82. 82. Scripts we create allow us to get these insights from lots of other user- centric sources @RoryT11
  83. 83. http://cndr.co/jupyter Python Dropbox Link @RoryT11
  84. 84. Get the slides link @RoryT11 http://cndr.co/searchlove
  85. 85. • https://www.searchenginejournal.com/scrape-google-serp-custom-extractions/267211/ • https://www.searchenginejournal.com/mine-serps-seo-content-customer-insights/311137/ • https://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/user-testing-serps-an-audience-first-approach-to-seo/ • https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vl5miyt6sgbvmkl/AAC5365YcWTun_EzkQLtixe1a?dl=0 (Jupyter Notebook tutorial) • http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/algorithm-analysis-in-the-age-of-embeddings • https://www.searchenginejournal.com/semantic-search-seo/264037/#close • https://www.slideshare.net/DawnFitton/natural-language-processing-and-search-intent- understanding-c3-conductor-2019-dawn-anderson • https://moz.com/blog/what-is-semantic-search • https://www.slideshare.net/paulshapiro/redefining-technical-seo-mozcon-2019-by-paul-shapiro Useful Resources @RoryT11
  86. 86. Thanks For Listening! Conductor.com @RoryT11

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