On June 28th, 2017, Overdrive Interactive hosted a BrightEdge User Group. The user group provides a friendly setting where local SEO and content marketing professionals can meet and share industry insights and platform best practices while enjoying a delicious dinner and drinks. The following presentation by Erik Newton, VP Customer Marketing and Head of SEO at BrightEdge, and Jeff Selig, VP Search, Social, and Analytics at Overdrive Interactive, covers the latest search and content marketing research and strategies. To watch a recording of the presentation and see pictures of the event, visit: http://bit.ly/2u7I6zt
2. Intros
User group set up
New research
Videos
POVs
Certification
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AGENDA
LOTS OF CONTENT, INTERRUPT ME OFTEN
https://www.brightedge.com/events/brightedge-usergroups-2017
3. Function?
Certification?
BE Certified Group?
SEO Maturity?
Share?
Biggest SEO Challenge?
SEO, Content, Management
Certified? Interested?
Never, a few times, regularly
Basic, Foundation, Case Win, Storytelling, Integrated
Been once, twice, more, not yet
Technical, Content, Resources, Political, Silos
GETTING TO KNOW THE BOSTON USER GROUP
4. CHARTER WHAT DO YOU WANT THE
USER GROUP TO DO?
Share ideas
Share product knowledge
Career development
Frequency
Unique online location?
What else?
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5. 1) Moderator
2) Assistant moderator
Nominations? Vote?
Budget: BrightEdge
Must be exclusive BrightEdge user
Brand
No soliciting
MODERATORS
Functions will be more organic with customer moderator
6. Still find that
Organic is over
half of all digital
marketing
channels
Organic and
Paid, collectively,
account for
roughly two thirds
of digital
marketing activity
Far and away the
largest channel
51% 67% HUGE
NEW RESEARCH
SEO Channel Share
Organic
51%
Social
4%
Paid
15%
Other
30%
Channel report
7. MOBILE
• 82% of query results are different on desktop vs
mobile
• 44% of the time the first page that ranks is a
different page
NEW RESEARCH
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9. 1. User experience
2. Reputation
3. Tracking and Analytics
4. AMP
5. PWAs
6. Ranking signal
7. Imperative & Requirement
Yes, you must go to HTTPS in 2017
QUICK POV: HTTPS
10. Yes, they have marketing and SEO value
QUICK POV: PRESS RELEASES
1. Generate traffic
2. Rank on topic within PR
sites
3. Organize news flow
4. Expand site content
11. 1. Voice search is expected to reach 50% share of
queries by 2020 according to Comscore
2. Could be as large a growth factor in search as mobile
was between 2012 and 2017
3. Juniper predicts combined digital assistant
prevalence to grow 255% to 5.5 billion by 2021
Yes, you should start engaging a voice strategy in
2017
QUICK POV: VOICE SEARCH
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Ultimate SEO Dashboard For CMOs
The right SEO dashboard can translate raw SEO data into compelling stories that empower and
persuade decision-makers
14. Bridge the gap between SEO’s importance and the attention it usually gets from management
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15. Agenda – Breakthrough SEO Communication
• Preparation
• Data
• Storytelling
• 10 Key Pieces to the Ultimate SEO Dashboard
16. 7 Questions CMOs Need Answered
1. How are we doing?
2. Are we doing better than last year?
3. Are we growing our brand?
4. Are we doing better than the competition?
5. Are we growing revenue?
6. How is Germany performing? (GEO)
7. How can we do better?
17. CMO’s Increased Accountability in 2016
• Growing expectations of marketing and accountability for results
Source: Gartner: CMO Spend Survey 2015-2016: Digital Marketing Comes of Age
% of marketers own or share
P&L responsibility
73%
% say they plan to have a
P&L in the next 24 months
18%
Only 9% don’t
expect to have
P&L responsibility
20. Summary – Breakthrough SEO Communication
The right SEO dashboard can translate raw SEO data into compelling stories that empower and
persuade decision-makers
21. • BrightEdge certification
• Join the BrightEdge
Certified group
• BrightEdge Content
Writer Training
Free and unlimited
CERTIFICATION
22. We are looking for partners for:
• Integrated search, paid search optimization
• Voice search
• Quick answers
• Page load speed
• Other?
Let’s work on a case together
CASE STUDIES
24. Responsive site is a given
Go to HTTPs
Add gated page link to every SEO landing page
Check your page load speed
Get certified and go to BrightEdge Certified Group and post
Certify a colleague to build SEO team
Think about integrated search and talk to a paid search manager
Harvest keywords by strategy and build into tactical workflow
Advance SEO maturity by defining an experiment and case
Start to get ready for voice search by building focus on rank 0 and 1
Benchmarks and tactics to confirm or try in the office on
Thursday
10 TAKEAWAYS AND FOLLOW UPS
Editor's Notes
What do CMOs care about? When we meet with CMOs they are less concerned about marketing tactics and more concerned about the brand and how they are going to increase performance. are they doing better than the competition? Are they doing better than last year? How are their investments paying off and the ultimate dashboard has to show that. We typically see around 50% or more traffic to a site through the organic channel. Bridging the communication and performance gap is the key to gaining better buy in at the board level.
I love the dashboard in the car. Not only do I like how it looks, I like how it provides me with a lot of valuable information. There is a computer screen that displays GPS information, as well as some statistical information regarding the gas mileage and several other things I do not pretend to understand.
To me, the dashboard of a car provides two types of information; current status and summary.
Current status information provided could include speed, gas levels, RPM, tire pressure, and possible engine problems. This is all critical information while I am operating the car. Based on the information in front of me, I can make adjustments as needed to my speed, or decisions regarding when I need to stop for gas or service. Without this type of information in front of me, I would probably owe a lot of money for speeding tickets, and I would often find myself on the side of the road because I ran out of gas, had a flat tire, or broke down.
Summary information could include statistical information such as average mile per gallon. This type of information is gathered by looking at data over a period of time. Summary information, such as gas mileage, helps me understand the cost of operating my car.
Imagine if I could enter the cost of gas over the past several months into the computer in my car, then the dashboard could show me information like how much it costs me to go to the store, or to drive into the city. Displaying how much it costs to drive to the store instead of the average gas mileage would instantly show me something I understand; money.
So as mentioned earlier, we speak to CMOs all the time and these are their questions about SEO and marketing performance across their programs in general. Regardless of B2B or B2C, performance is ultimately measured at the bottom line and as we have seen over the past several years the CMO and CFO alignment continues to strengthen and accountability for the marketer also continues to rise.. Given the registration we seen a tremendous amount of VPs and CMOs on the line. Would you agree that these are the 7 key questions but especially about SEO which is much harder to quantify
FOR THIS CLIENT……………………
How do we know this. Lets start form the top and define the CMO quandary
Hero image, scorecard view in order similar to moneyball. Rankings helps traffic which drives conversions and of which a percentage becomes MQLs SQL and feeds the pipeline. What's is a hero image and how does it work. How are we doing?
Here is a real overdrive client we have sanitized the names to protect the client identity