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SEO for 2020 Vision
What to Focus on for
SEO Success in the
New Year
LEIGH-SAN MO
2 OCTOBER 2019
1
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
LEIGH
LEIGH-SAN MO
SEO DIRECTOR
Hi, my name is Leigh
• 7+ years in the industry
• Worked across everything from brands to
not-for-profits to small businesses
• Passionate about helping people gain more
from their digital marketing efforts
• Tired of hearing the phrase:SEO is dead
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THE BIG TAKEAWAY
FROM TODAY’S TALK
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
What a study of 3.25
Billion site visits says
Source: https://growthbadger.com/traffic-study/ (SimilarWeb Data September 2019)
Search is still the most
common way to get traffic
to your site
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
Search drives over
8X more traffic
than all social
platforms combined
Source: https://growthbadger.com/traffic-study/ (SimilarWeb Data September 2019)
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
Google dominates with 95% of market share
Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/australia
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
What a typical SERP
looks like today
4.5% of clicks
SEM (Google Adwords)
46.5% of clicks
SEO (Organic)
Source: https://sparktoro.com/blog/how-much-of-googles-
search-traffic-is-left-for-anyone-but-themselves/
49% don’t click
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
A higher % of no
clicks on mobile
Source: https://sparktoro.com/blog/how-much-of-googles-
search-traffic-is-left-for-anyone-but-themselves/
4% of clicks
SEM (Google Adwords)
35% of clicks
SEO (Organic)
61% don’t click
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
But SEO can still drive results if you can adapt to change
Finance Industry Recruiters
(Small Business )
+328% Increase YoY
Insurance Start-up
+92% Increase YoY
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
From a
Gateway…
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…to a Destination
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Let me take you on a
journey
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In the old
days
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Source: https://search.googleblog.com/2013/09/fifteen-years-onand-were-just-getting.html
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Source: https://www.click.co.uk/resource/google-timeline-infographic/
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
Knowledge
graph and
Answer boxes
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It’s even more prevalent on mobile devices
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
The travel
industry:
hotels and
flights
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
Google My
Business
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
Voice search is a phenomenon
• 8 billion voice assistants will
be in use in 2023
• Growth rate between 2019
and 2023 will be 25.4%
Source: https://www.juniperresearch.com/press/press-releases/digital-voice-assistants-in-use-to-triple
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
Search is
everywhere now
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Where do voice searches come from?
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So what does this mean
for SEO moving forward?
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Technical SEO is more
important than ever
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Be mobile friendly
Source: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
Speed
matters
Source: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
Use Schema mark-up
Source: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
Meta data is still great
Source: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data
Use numbers,
characters, $$ to
stand out where
possible
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
Content needs to be valuable,
relevant and unique
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Expertise
Authority
Trust
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YM:YL = Highest standards of content
• Financial advice
• Legal advice
• Health advice
• Anything that will greatly
impact a person’s wellbeing
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Answer
Questions
Position 0
Position 3
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The inverted pyramid style of writing
Most important facts
summarised
Quotes and
supporting
details
General
background
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Answer the
public
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Links still matter
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Link-building example: Brand mentions
Use a tool to scrape
Google to find
potential mentions
WWW.INMARKETINGWETRUST.COM.AU |
Link-building example: Offer discount
If students are a target
market, you could
offer an exclusive
discount.
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CONCLUSION
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TAKEAWAY
39
• Search engines are being used more
than ever, although people are
getting answers or getting what they
need there and then
• Google will continue to capture more
of search and other industries
• But SEO still works
• If you can cover the three pillars
(tech, content and links) then you can
expect good results over time
THANKS
FOR LISTENING.
ANY QUESTIONS?
LEIGH
leighsan@inmarketingwetrust.com.au
www.inmarketingwetrust.com.au
www.linkedin.com/in/lsmo

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