When it comes to building an SEO strategy, many people (especially those who don't spend a significant amount of time with SEO) start off by asking a few key questions. That's a good start, but only if you're asking the right questions. We want to show you five things to consider when formulating your SEO strategy and the best ways to implement them.
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DO NOT DO THOSE THINGS!
If you did, please see the last few slides on
how to recover from a Google Delisting.
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What’s Goal?
What’s the point in driving 10,000 visitors to your
website every hour if none of them convert?
Are you taking FULL advantage of every opportunity?
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5 Questions To Develop Your
Strategy
What do (or can) we create that helps solve
searchers' questions or problems?
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This is the default question when beginning
content and relationship marketing efforts.
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5 Questions To Develop Your
Strategy
What is the unique value we provide that no
one else does?
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Why do you exist when there is already a
solution available? Purple Cow! How are you
different?
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5 Questions To Develop Your
Strategy
Who will help amplify our message and
why will they do it?
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This is essential due to the shift from the SEO
tactic of ranking signal (link) building to
ranking signal (link) earning.
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5 Questions To Develop Your
Strategy
We need people that care enough about what we’re
doing to share it with others via social media, email,
word of mouth, etc.
Without them, we’re shouting into a void like a
forgotten blog and we’re going to fail.
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5 Questions To Develop Your
Strategy
Since we need the amplification to get these ranking
signals, we need to know WHO we’re looking for.
• Target Audience
• Target Customer
• Influencers
• Current Customers (if they want to share you!)
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5 Questions To Develop Your
Strategy
What is our process for turning visitors from
search into customers?
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This is how you get your ROI. What does your
web marketing / sales funnel look like?
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5 Questions To Develop Your
Strategy
How do we expose our content in a way that
search engines can easily crawl, understand,
and deliver to searchers?
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5 Questions To Develop Your
Strategy
• This is your more typical on-site SEO tactic.
• How are we going to turn our legal knowledge
into something that a search engine can
perceive?
• Content needs to answer the question and not
just contain the keywords.
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5 Questions To Develop Your
Strategy
This is your more typical on-site SEO tactic.
How are we going to turn our legal knowledge into
something that a search engine can perceive?
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5 Questions To Develop Your
Strategy
• What is truly shareable? Lead Magnets,
Infographics, Videos, Short Form Content.
• Analyze your competitors tactics.
• IT: schemas, tags, above the fold, h1, open graph,
descriptions, page structure, redirects, site load
speed, canonical link tags, URL structure.
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Local vs Global SEO
• I’m FIRST on Google! … In Anniston …
But that’s okay!
• Global Requires Budget. Think about the
competition you’re up against.
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Delisting? That happens?
• What happened? Google hates being “gamed”
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Delisting? That happens?
• Google Analytics + Webmaster Tools
• Disavow all bad links. All links aren’t created equal.
microsoft.com vs bobsgolfcartsoxford.com
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It’s A Mystery!
• What we know today is a matter of trial and error
• Moz.com is a great resource.
• Focus on content and conversion over trickery.
• Consider using a CMS to make the on-site easier.
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