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This is the post-project summary of a 3 month SEO & Analytics setup for a publishing client. The outcome was 25% organic growth in 3 months! I explain how this was achieved…

This is the post-project summary of a 3 month SEO & Analytics setup for a publishing client. The outcome was 25% organic growth in 3 months! I explain how this was achieved…

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  1. 1. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People
  2. 2. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Fun Fact
  3. 3. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Q1 Summary Where were we, where we are now, where are we heading. 1. Project Milestones 2. Project Learnings 3. Future tasks 4. Q&A
  4. 4. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Strategy
  5. 5. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People SEO function stages 1. Title & Meta 2. SEO friendly URLs 3. H1/H2 4. Site Structure 5. Structured Mark-up
  6. 6. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People SEO Maturity Model
  7. 7. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Example...
  8. 8. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Scope of Work
  9. 9. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Scope of Work - one-time tasks 50% cumulative growth at the end of month 4 1. [Done] Website Marketing Audit (SEO and Analytics) (2 days) 2. [Done] Google webmaster optimization (3 hrs) 3. [Done] Bing Webmaster optimization (3 hrs) 4. [Done] CloudFlaire CDN Optimization (3 hrs) 5. [Done] Google & Bing Disavow (1.5 day) 6. [Done] Google Analytics Optimization (2 days) 7. [Done] Google Tag Manager Optimization (0.5 days) 8. [Done] Competitive Intelligence (1 Day)
  10. 10. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Scope of Work - ongoing 50% cumulative growth at the end of month 4 1. [Done] Server Log Analysis, website architecture Analysis & Optimisation 2. [Done] Ongoing Competitive Intelligence and Back engineering of competitor websites 3. [Done] International SEO development and optimization 4. [Done] Ongoing Keyword Analysis and Keyword Conversion Optimization 5. [Doing] Google Guidelines Outreach (white hat link building) content creation done in-house 6. [Done] Ongoing In-house Training - one person site visit one day per month or two people for half a day 7. Content Assessment and Content Strategy advice. 8. Video and Image Optimization 9. Google AdWords Optimization and Analysis including page and advert split testing. 10. Conversion Rate Optimization - Split testing landing pages and triggers (AdWords will be needed for this)
  11. 11. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Reached Target of 50% growth in 4mths (if client had implemented or AMP code) +21% increase in Yr vs Yr organic sessions (+8435 sessions) +3% increase in PDF sessions (+729 sessions) +27% expected increase from AMP sessions (based on Publishing sector data) Total: +51%
  12. 12. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People 27% expected increase from AMP
  13. 13. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Technical Debt CMS is 10 years old and running IIS7.5 (rather than IIS8.5)
  14. 14. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Project Scale Large site
  15. 15. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Highest position GTM injected mark-up Titles & Meta (editable via CMS) Site Structure GWT quick winsMount SEO Climbing the Mountain...
  16. 16. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Key SEO Milestones 1. Google Webmaster Tools Configured & robots.txt updated 2. Google Tag Manager enabled 3. RSS news feed added 4. Review mark-up fixed & Product mark-up added 5. Speed improved by enabling CDN
  17. 17. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Completed task by Inhouse Marketing Junior from BaseCamp 1. Provide est. GA goalValue for top 6 goals (e.g. £1, £10, £25, etc) 2. Watch video on GTM fundamentals (3-4hours of interactive video) 3. Populate "/go/" url lookup table for GA event category, action, label etc 4. Ask why Review Competitions (e.g. Free iPad) have stopped on 15th Feb? 5. Provide sponsor login (need so I can use the sponsor cookie for segmentation in GA & remarketing in GA)
  18. 18. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Completed task by Inhouse Developer from BaseCamp 1. Redirect http://www.clientdomain.de/ >> http://www.clientdomain.net/ 2. Allow GoogleBot to access RSS feed for News content to fix "recent content indexing issue" 3. Broken Category page 4. /editorial-articles/ missing in News sitemap (also &compname= can be removed in "loc" field) 5. Review Spike in JS errors on "write review" page since Thursday 6. JS libraries not loading on this page 7. Speed: Add <script src="/xxx.js" async defer> to all scripts except JQuery library: jquery.min.js 8. Speed: Standardise to one ShareButton: Pick AddThis or ShareThis but not BOTH! 9. Remove trailing ">" in Titles on Application Article and Application Note pages 10. [ignore solved by pending Richardot.txt update] Ask about a small number of blocked image resources 11. Add meta canonical to this 1 page 12. Remove redundant code from Global footer and Global header 13. On product pages - remove link to User page (so we upload robots.txt de-index) 14. Speed: Move CrazyEgg & CANDDi cookie popup into GTM 15. Replace GA code with GTM code in global header on these 3 folders 16. Move HotJar into GTM (helps with speed) (Completed by Richard on 19 Jan) 17. Edit 2 lines of code on global header (aka GA classic seamless migration) 18. Add GTM code to global header (Completed by Richard on 15 Dec) 19. Ask Richard why have these 34 product pages been de-indexed 20. Fix broken link to new scientist on homepage 21. Add backlink on Youtube page 22. Ask Richard to fix inline Product page review markup 23. Review sheet of URL params - confirm which ones cause the content to change (e.g. prodID) 24. Add Brand logo in GoogleyBusiness 25. Ask Richard to register on GoogleMyBusiness via SMS code or Auto-phone Call and grant us access. 26. Re-upload robots.txt file 27. Ask Richard to add line to robots.tx to Allow: /go/*&url=*clientdomain.net 28. Provide BingWT access (if available) 29. Provide GWT access 30. Provide GA access 31. Login to GWT and create 5 profiles. Then Login 123reg and add a verify CNAME text for... clientdomain.DE + clientdomain.CO.UK + clientdomain.COM + clientdomain.TV + scientistschoiceawards.com 32. Provide access to Bing Webmaster tools 33. VERIFY httpS in GWT and add Phil & Nick. So we can create a Rollup profile set
  19. 19. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Completed task by Agency from BaseCamp 1. Plan Agenda for Call 2. Report on SEO progress report after month1 3. Produce SEO technical audit 4. Investigate SS and competitors Content & Keyword Strategy 5. Setup Benchmarks & Dashboards (Completed by Phil on 9 Jan) 6. Provide Example Dashboards (Completed by Phil on 9 Jan) 7. Add GTM tracking to "RequestPrice" and "InstantPrice" on DEV, so that... 1st/3rd party Cookie can be dropped for manufacturer conversion tracking (Completed by Phil on 27 Feb) 8. Create $20 CloudFlare and Richard to update DNS to point to CloudFlare 9. Copy GA goals & Filter so they can be copied to master profile (Completed by Phil on 19 Jan) 10. Copy Exclude params and filters from GA test profile to Master profile(Completed by Phil on 19 Jan) 11. Enable BounceRate and AvgSessionDuration StepChange on 1st Feb via GTM (e.g. 30sec HeartBeat enabled) (Completed by Phil on 1 Mar) 12. GA/GTM pageview migration - requires inline code changes (Completed by Phil on 19 Jan) 13. Phil to provide utm_id for unit test to check output of Macro Goal Funnel testing (Completed by Phil on 21 Dec) 14. Update CloudFlare settings to speedup Chrome images (Completed by Nick on 10 Apr) 15. Update GWT settings (params, sitemaps, data highlighter, crawl speed, sitelinks)(Completed by Phil on 9 Jan) 16. Add product markup via GTM (Completed by Phil on 9 Jan) 17. Add JSONLD markup for Brand logo and SiteSearch via GTM (Completed by Phil on 9 Jan) 18. Breadcrumbs via GTM - add via 6 tags with conditional nesting (Completed by Phil on 9 Jan) 19. Fix DataHighligher in GWT to work on all News pages not just one page (Completed by Phil on 9 Jan) 20. Run a 250 page scan for British English vs American English content(Completed by Phil on 9 Jan)
  20. 20. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Project Successes: Phase1
  21. 21. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People What went well
  22. 22. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Instant GWT update by an SEO specialist 1. Add Sitemaps and RSS feeds. 2. Add Exclude query parameters 3. Enable Data Highlighter or inject JSONLD 4. Add Social entities (Bing WT setting) 5. Mark Error 404 as fixed & re-crawl 6. Upload Disavow backlinks file (Google & Bing) 7. Add GoogleNews section categories per folder 8. Refresh robots.txt cache 9. Created a GWT rollup property set
  23. 23. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Increase in Google Crawl activity
  24. 24. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Indexation • From 9,799 in Dec ...to... 10,797 in Apr (+10.2%) more pages indexed on Google • Percentage URL submitted- to-ignored has improved from 93% to 85%
  25. 25. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People +10% more Pages indexed vs 4months ago
  26. 26. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Review + Product Mark-up improved… Data Type Source Items Product Markup: schema.org 1,950 AggregateRating Markup: schema.org 1,704 VideoObject Markup: schema.org 1,491 Article Data Highlighter: Articles - Product News 1,410 BreadcrumbList Markup: schema.org 8,274 WebSite Markup: schema.org 12,288 Organization Markup: schema.org 1
  27. 27. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Safer: PII are now hidden in GA... newMember email signUpEmail mailID spMailingID spUserID 1. Adding PII protection 2. 404 error tracking alerts 3. Secure logins enabled 4. Version control GA/GTM safer
  28. 28. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Project Improvements/Learnings
  29. 29. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Known or Remaining issues… 1. IIS (or RSS) to AMP site (solution provided) 2. Video Transcripts (solution provided) 3. PDF 1 page snapshots (solution provided) 4. Image compression (1mb thumbnail images!) 5. Removing Mega Menu (400 links >> 100 links) 6. Faster client task turn around – Ability to edit Title & Meta in CMS waiting 4wks+ – Inline JSON mark-up for "http" domain change - waiting 2wks+
  30. 30. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Site Speed - still excessively slow!
  31. 31. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People SSL needed on Login pages
  32. 32. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People JS Errors
  33. 33. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Project Improvements 1. IIS 7.5 does not support CloudFlare super-fast option 2. Assumption that Title & Meta could be change easily 3. Clients Developer away for 2 wks with no cover 4. Internet Connectivity issues when using GoToMeeting at clients office 5. First time client has worked with an agency?
  34. 34. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Efficiency improvements • Less time used on client meetings. • More focused on completing tasks.
  35. 35. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Future tasks
  36. 36. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People 1. Has client dependencies 2. Strategically important 3. Cost vs Benefit Future Tasks Priority determine by:
  37. 37. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Increase revenue: £££ 1. Create profile view for Registration converted and Registration non- converted 2. Create profile view for Mobile, Tablet & Desktop 3. Enable sudo-ecommerce content tracking 4. Automate inhouse reporting
  38. 38. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Spend marketing budget better (Attribution) 1. Enable cost data upload for CPA`s 2. Enable lead scoring and/or goal value 3. Improving organic by updating default channel groupings 4. Adding FB and Twitter widget tracking
  39. 39. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Capture abandoned registrations (Remarket) No client involvement: GTM config 1. Enable AdWords Dynamic remarketing. 2. Passing memberMetrics (dateJoined, memberSinceDate, lastLogin) to GTM/GA.
  40. 40. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Analysis Opportunities…
  41. 41. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Quick GA tasks... Enable... 1. Click-to-App download 2. Click-to-Mailto 3. Tap-to-Call 4. Click-to-GoogleMap ...auto-event tracking.
  42. 42. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Next steps….
  43. 43. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Remaining Task for Inhouse Marketing Junior Basecamp 1. Add Videos Transcripts for best 10 videos (great text content) via automatic Audio to Text service. 2. Connect AdSense to GA 3. Add 5 reviews on GoogleMaps 4. Provide login for CMS so we can edit Titles and Meta
  44. 44. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Remaining Task for Inhouse Developers in Basecamp 1. Update IIS rewrite to 301 permanent redirect non-SEO friendly URLs 2. Fix GoogleBot warning about Malformed URL issue: Remove "(" and ")" in URLs (entered as titles in the CMS) to resolve 404 errors skike 3. Improve mobile organic traffic by running adding amp.clientdomain.net 500page News & article Test 4. Added 1 page of text from PDF from top 100 PDF downloads on application notes 5. Force login pages to SSL to remove chome warning and improve registration conversion rate registration conversion rate 6. Add "Social login" to make sign-in/register easier for Linkedin, FB and Google/gmail 7. Cleanup code base - remove all unnecessary gaq.push events. 8. Add ability to edit Titles & Meta Description in CMS 9. Fix missing "http://" in inline Review markup via inline markup (not via GTM) 10. On Product page change ProductName from <h2> to <h1> Richard 11. Bulk images Compress (e.g. JPEG micro offline tool) 12. Reduce 400 links on Homepage to 100 (i.e remove mega menu). See mobile example 13. GoogleNews access denied error - Allow GoogleBot access to PDF pages and then fill in 1click free form Phil
  45. 45. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Remaining Task for Agency in Basecamp 1. Competitive Intel on Competitor1 - Share of Search via SpyFy/AHRef 2. Ongoing Linkbuilding / Brand Ambassadors / Tribe (e.g Professors) 3. Provide feedback on Title & Meta description syntax templates - so we can bulk fix/update 4. Markup for Events via GTM 5. Strategy: Antibodies subdomain 6. Realtime FB content DashBoard Strategy 7. PR communications page - redesign/restructure 8. Analysis on Review Conv Rate - they varies wildly per country & per channel 9. CRO - GoogleOptimise - Upskilling/Training this can be onsite or remote. 1. Provide onsite SEO training for Editors on Content outreach and Optimisation 2. Provide onsite GA training [optional] 3. Provide onsite KPI workshop [optional]
  46. 46. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Thanks & Questions
  47. 47. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People 20% time Moon-shots 1. A/B testing 2. Faceted search on Antibodies 3. Radically different Navigation 4. Personalisation 5. Control SERPs: 2 Domain for similar content by different answers (query deservers diversity) 6. Real-Time content dashboard 7. English to German bulk translation
  48. 48. Results Driven Digital Marketing for Busy People Appendix Brighton Slides http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk/blog/2016/04/26/april-2016-brightonseo-slides/ AMP https://www.slideshare.net/Badams/are-accelerated-mobile-pages-really-worth-it-google-amp- case-studies https://www.slideshare.net/DominicWoodman/what-is-amp-and-do-i-care Google Fonts tips https://www.slideshare.net/bastiangrimm/three-site-speed-optimisation-tips-to-make-your-website- really-fast-brightonseo-2017 GoogleBot Crawl Tips https://www.slideshare.net/Badams/how-to-find-fix-crawl-optimisation-issues-brightonseo Injecting JS Pre-fetch https://earlconf.com/2016/london/download/?id=hxcuw

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