We don’t need to create content for Google or for social; we need to create content that sells. Stephen discusses what content should look like when rankings and shares are the by-product of creative that drives business value.
B3Seminar: You'll never build a natural link until you're worth talking about...Branded3
Businesses cannot ignore the changing Google landscape and the real need to add value. A website’s popularity can no longer be manipulated; you have to take an asset-led approach to link building that allows you to tap into online conversations. You will not be able to develop a natural link strategy until your business is worth talking about.
SearchLeeds, Danny Denhard 'The content wars: The real power of UGC'Branded3
1. The document discusses the power of user-generated content (UGC) and provides examples of businesses that rely heavily on UGC like Wikipedia, Airbnb, and JustGiving.
2. It provides tips for incorporating UGC, noting that UGC works best when it is local, provides wisdom and shortcuts, and offers dedicated insights.
3. Great UGC is decision-worthy, personal, and expert according to the document. It discusses the three components needed to make UGC work: people, technology, and the right content.
Digital Futures: Getting ROI from Social Media - Georgia HalstonBranded3
Georgia takes a detailed look at why investment in Social Media is a justifiable spend for your business and what return on investment you can achieve from effectively utilising its channels.
SearchLeeds, Tom Anthony 'The next trilion searches: Intelligent personal ass...Branded3
Distilled's Tom Anthony looks at 'The next trilion searches: Intelligent personal assistants' in his presentation for SearchLeeds 2016. With a degree in Computer Science Tom works on a variety of secret projects at Distilled from developming novel forms of reporting to trying to predict which new technologies will impact the Search Industry.
Our Head of PR & Social Laura Crimmons takes a look at how PR has changed in recent years in particular due to the rise in social media usage and makes some predictions for how it might continue to change in the future.
The guardian angels and the deadly sins of ecommerce SEO - Dan Saunders - Pin...Branded3
Ecommerce is growing every day and done well, the average retail brand can often expect to see massive growth in their income. Done incorrectly however, your ecommerce site can be a giant money pit, Dan's talk guides you through the dos and don’ts of SEO for an ecommerce site.
B3Seminar: You'll never build a natural link until you're worth talking about...Branded3
Businesses cannot ignore the changing Google landscape and the real need to add value. A website’s popularity can no longer be manipulated; you have to take an asset-led approach to link building that allows you to tap into online conversations. You will not be able to develop a natural link strategy until your business is worth talking about.
SearchLeeds, Danny Denhard 'The content wars: The real power of UGC'Branded3
1. The document discusses the power of user-generated content (UGC) and provides examples of businesses that rely heavily on UGC like Wikipedia, Airbnb, and JustGiving.
2. It provides tips for incorporating UGC, noting that UGC works best when it is local, provides wisdom and shortcuts, and offers dedicated insights.
3. Great UGC is decision-worthy, personal, and expert according to the document. It discusses the three components needed to make UGC work: people, technology, and the right content.
Digital Futures: Getting ROI from Social Media - Georgia HalstonBranded3
Georgia takes a detailed look at why investment in Social Media is a justifiable spend for your business and what return on investment you can achieve from effectively utilising its channels.
SearchLeeds, Tom Anthony 'The next trilion searches: Intelligent personal ass...Branded3
Distilled's Tom Anthony looks at 'The next trilion searches: Intelligent personal assistants' in his presentation for SearchLeeds 2016. With a degree in Computer Science Tom works on a variety of secret projects at Distilled from developming novel forms of reporting to trying to predict which new technologies will impact the Search Industry.
Our Head of PR & Social Laura Crimmons takes a look at how PR has changed in recent years in particular due to the rise in social media usage and makes some predictions for how it might continue to change in the future.
The guardian angels and the deadly sins of ecommerce SEO - Dan Saunders - Pin...Branded3
Ecommerce is growing every day and done well, the average retail brand can often expect to see massive growth in their income. Done incorrectly however, your ecommerce site can be a giant money pit, Dan's talk guides you through the dos and don’ts of SEO for an ecommerce site.
Fast and accurate SEO reporting and diagnostics with Google Analytics - Cardi...Branded3
Emma Cardiff SEO Meet talk is a 20 minute introduction to how to ensure what you’re reporting on is accurate, how to do it quickly (so you can spend more time doing SEO and less time reporting) and how to use Google Analytics to help diagnose problems and opportunities for SEO.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Chris Rowett - Supercharging google shoppingBranded3
Build, enhance and optimise. From building powerful feeds to
advanced analysis techniques and the latest tech, Chris Rowett's SearchLeeds talk teaches you the three steps to supercharging your Google Shopping campaigns.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Emma Barnes - Branded3 - Analytics Tracking: or how I lear...Branded3
Have you ever been at the back of a developer queue thinking “I wish I could just do this myself” but find Google Tag Manager slightly daunting? Emma's SearchLeeds 2018 talk provided a wealth of inspiration on how to use Google Tag Manager for SEO, PPC, Event Tracking and advanced Google Analytics implementations.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Hannah Mckie - PLAs: Small company or large, everyone has ...Branded3
Hannah McKie discussed optimizing Google Shopping campaigns through data-driven testing and iteration. She emphasized that there is no single best practice, and campaigns should be structured based on business goals like return on ad spend or margins. Custom labels allow segmenting products in strategic ways. Proper feed setup and maintenance is also important, including optimizing fields like title, keywords, and Google product categories. Testing different approaches is key to continuous improvement, as the market is always changing.
The advancement of AI and machine learning in social and Google algorithms have created an enormous impact on consumer perceptions and behaviour. Lexi Mills' SearchLeeds talk delved into how publishers are responding to this and in turn how we, as content marketers, should be adapting our tactics and strategies to continue to influence rankings and build links and brands in this environment.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Luke Carthy - How to optimise the s*** out of your interna...Branded3
Key reasons why optimising your internal web search is essential for SEO and a proven method to get it right, grow traffic, improve conversion and improve UX.
A lot changes in SEO but one thing that hasn’t is the essential need to understand how your customers are searching and the words they’re using. Kelvin's practical SearchLeeds session shares some hands-on ways of taking keyword ideals from your SERP rivals.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Anu Adegbola - MindSwan - Adwords Script Automation and th...Branded3
Anu believes in working efficiently – and making use of tools that do the hard work for you – even when you’re on holiday! Anu's SearchLeeds talk takes you through AdWords Scripts that will do exactly that for you and tips to ensure that you don’t get a mystic error message where you actually have no idea how to fix the problem.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Jon Greenhalgh & Sam Wright - Edit & Branded3 - How to del...Branded3
Jon and Sam’s SearchLeeds talk aimed to educate on methods of understanding your audience in more detail and linking that audience with commercial knowledge of an organisation. This will help you to unlock the value of using in-depth audience data to maximise the benefit from all of your acquisition activity to really deliver growth.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Elizabeth Clark - Dream Agility - The future of ShoppingBranded3
Undoubtedly, Google’s fastest growing product, Shopping, is one of the hardest products to master cost effectively. And it’s getting harder by the day as Google encourages more and more retailers on to it, by offering a new automated shopping solution. Where does that leave you as an agency or as an in-house practitioner? How can you protect yourself from automation and your campaigns from spiralling costs and competition? Find out how Google’s top industry trends such as increasing walled gardens, shift to transaction-based ad formats and machine learning can work to your advantage rather than against you.
John Rowley - Ferrero - Creating a data-driven customer journey with personas...Branded3
Today, the customer journey is a complicated matrix of multi-channel, hyper-targeted and in-the-moment marketing. So it’s no surprise that digital strategies rely heavily on data. Delivering fantastic commercials & loyal customers requires a data-driven marketing strategy to understand the customers you’re marketing to and how to invest in areas that really matter.
Fili Weise - SearchLeeds 2018 - Structured data explainedBranded3
Want to know how and which structured data to implement on your website? This no-hype session focuses on SEO tips that will help you move the needle. No complex theory but highly actionable SEO tips. This session will have SEO tips for all levels of experience. Join ex-Google engineer Fili Wiese to learn all about structured data and how to make it work for you and avoid common pitfalls. Having programmed websites and Google internal tools, Fili Wiese is the go-to guy when it comes to technical and international SEO.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Craig Campbell - How to fix the most common technical SEO ...Branded3
Craig Campbell is an SEO consultant based in Glasgow, Scotland with 16 years of experience in the industry. He discusses common SEO mistakes and how to fix them, including performing audits using SEMRush to identify issues like crawlability, errors, and warnings. Campbell also covers optimizing site speed by reducing page load times and improving time to first byte through techniques like trimming page size, updating plugins, caching, and using a content delivery network like Cloudflare.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Matt Holmes - Distrelec - The International Paid Search Pl...Branded3
What’s the difference between a Superbowl-winning NFL team and a winning international PPC team? Not as much as you’d think. Combining his love of the NFL and experience running global campaigns for Distrelec and Emirates, Matt Holmes brings you his top 5 strategies for winning now and leading change for the future.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Oliver Brett - Screaming Frog Branded3
SEOs are great at optimising sites for search engines, but they don’t always know what’s great for users. With an ever increasing focus from search engines on the abstract concept of ‘quality’ sites in competitive markets need every advantage they can get to rank higher. User testing is a vital component of a meaningful UX review, and user feedback can be essential in sussing out where, what, and why a site ‘feels’ bad. It’s how you take audits beyond just checking off technical best practices. Hobbits aren’t super powerful or especially wise, but sometimes you need them in your fellowship to get the job done.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Julia Logan - Irish Wonder - How to audit your site for se...Branded3
Nobody likes a site with security issues – neither Google nor your visitors. (Hackers do but you probably don’t want to make their life easier at your expense, do you?) Making sure your site is secure can save you a lot of headache. Luckily, you don’t have to be an InfoSec whiz to do it – find out about some simple checks you could incorporate into your regular onsite audits to help make your site more secure.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Holly Ellwood - Receptional - What’s new in PPC?Branded3
Holly's SearchLeeds talk covered what’s new in PPC and what we can expect from 2018 according to latest releases and search trends. She also looked at areas that are under-utilised currently in the world of paid search, so as to highlight both missed and new opportunities for paid search marketers throughout this year.
Are you sending mixed signals to Google? When canonicalisation, pagination, hreflang and mobile alternates aren’t implemented correctly, conflicting website signals will baffle search engines and leave them to make their own assumptions about your website and what’s important. In this talk, Rachel shares examples where a website’s signals can be ignored or overruled, leading to disastrous impacts on performance. Don’t leave anything to chance – be sure that the most important areas of your site are respected and given prioritisation when being indexed and shown to users.
Everything in SEO is directly or indirectly related to content. Just think about that for a second or two. Everything from how we attract, engage and convert consumers is centred around content. This session will explore how to grow your bottom line by creating knockout on-site content that delivers on both traffic and conversion fronts by simply understanding your consumers.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Angus Hamilton - Search Laboratory - Is attribution comin...Branded3
Marketers have known for some time that paid search, SEO and other marketing channels can no longer be evaluated as stand-alone investments. Yet many brands still struggle to find an attribution model that makes sense, and far too many still rely on first- or last-click models. Angus' SearchLeeds talk took a cold hard look at the mathematics behind attribution, and provided insights into Google Attribution and Google Attribution 360.
Fast and accurate SEO reporting and diagnostics with Google Analytics - Cardi...Branded3
Emma Cardiff SEO Meet talk is a 20 minute introduction to how to ensure what you’re reporting on is accurate, how to do it quickly (so you can spend more time doing SEO and less time reporting) and how to use Google Analytics to help diagnose problems and opportunities for SEO.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Chris Rowett - Supercharging google shoppingBranded3
Build, enhance and optimise. From building powerful feeds to
advanced analysis techniques and the latest tech, Chris Rowett's SearchLeeds talk teaches you the three steps to supercharging your Google Shopping campaigns.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Emma Barnes - Branded3 - Analytics Tracking: or how I lear...Branded3
Have you ever been at the back of a developer queue thinking “I wish I could just do this myself” but find Google Tag Manager slightly daunting? Emma's SearchLeeds 2018 talk provided a wealth of inspiration on how to use Google Tag Manager for SEO, PPC, Event Tracking and advanced Google Analytics implementations.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Hannah Mckie - PLAs: Small company or large, everyone has ...Branded3
Hannah McKie discussed optimizing Google Shopping campaigns through data-driven testing and iteration. She emphasized that there is no single best practice, and campaigns should be structured based on business goals like return on ad spend or margins. Custom labels allow segmenting products in strategic ways. Proper feed setup and maintenance is also important, including optimizing fields like title, keywords, and Google product categories. Testing different approaches is key to continuous improvement, as the market is always changing.
The advancement of AI and machine learning in social and Google algorithms have created an enormous impact on consumer perceptions and behaviour. Lexi Mills' SearchLeeds talk delved into how publishers are responding to this and in turn how we, as content marketers, should be adapting our tactics and strategies to continue to influence rankings and build links and brands in this environment.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Luke Carthy - How to optimise the s*** out of your interna...Branded3
Key reasons why optimising your internal web search is essential for SEO and a proven method to get it right, grow traffic, improve conversion and improve UX.
A lot changes in SEO but one thing that hasn’t is the essential need to understand how your customers are searching and the words they’re using. Kelvin's practical SearchLeeds session shares some hands-on ways of taking keyword ideals from your SERP rivals.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Anu Adegbola - MindSwan - Adwords Script Automation and th...Branded3
Anu believes in working efficiently – and making use of tools that do the hard work for you – even when you’re on holiday! Anu's SearchLeeds talk takes you through AdWords Scripts that will do exactly that for you and tips to ensure that you don’t get a mystic error message where you actually have no idea how to fix the problem.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Jon Greenhalgh & Sam Wright - Edit & Branded3 - How to del...Branded3
Jon and Sam’s SearchLeeds talk aimed to educate on methods of understanding your audience in more detail and linking that audience with commercial knowledge of an organisation. This will help you to unlock the value of using in-depth audience data to maximise the benefit from all of your acquisition activity to really deliver growth.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Elizabeth Clark - Dream Agility - The future of ShoppingBranded3
Undoubtedly, Google’s fastest growing product, Shopping, is one of the hardest products to master cost effectively. And it’s getting harder by the day as Google encourages more and more retailers on to it, by offering a new automated shopping solution. Where does that leave you as an agency or as an in-house practitioner? How can you protect yourself from automation and your campaigns from spiralling costs and competition? Find out how Google’s top industry trends such as increasing walled gardens, shift to transaction-based ad formats and machine learning can work to your advantage rather than against you.
John Rowley - Ferrero - Creating a data-driven customer journey with personas...Branded3
Today, the customer journey is a complicated matrix of multi-channel, hyper-targeted and in-the-moment marketing. So it’s no surprise that digital strategies rely heavily on data. Delivering fantastic commercials & loyal customers requires a data-driven marketing strategy to understand the customers you’re marketing to and how to invest in areas that really matter.
Fili Weise - SearchLeeds 2018 - Structured data explainedBranded3
Want to know how and which structured data to implement on your website? This no-hype session focuses on SEO tips that will help you move the needle. No complex theory but highly actionable SEO tips. This session will have SEO tips for all levels of experience. Join ex-Google engineer Fili Wiese to learn all about structured data and how to make it work for you and avoid common pitfalls. Having programmed websites and Google internal tools, Fili Wiese is the go-to guy when it comes to technical and international SEO.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Craig Campbell - How to fix the most common technical SEO ...Branded3
Craig Campbell is an SEO consultant based in Glasgow, Scotland with 16 years of experience in the industry. He discusses common SEO mistakes and how to fix them, including performing audits using SEMRush to identify issues like crawlability, errors, and warnings. Campbell also covers optimizing site speed by reducing page load times and improving time to first byte through techniques like trimming page size, updating plugins, caching, and using a content delivery network like Cloudflare.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Matt Holmes - Distrelec - The International Paid Search Pl...Branded3
What’s the difference between a Superbowl-winning NFL team and a winning international PPC team? Not as much as you’d think. Combining his love of the NFL and experience running global campaigns for Distrelec and Emirates, Matt Holmes brings you his top 5 strategies for winning now and leading change for the future.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Oliver Brett - Screaming Frog Branded3
SEOs are great at optimising sites for search engines, but they don’t always know what’s great for users. With an ever increasing focus from search engines on the abstract concept of ‘quality’ sites in competitive markets need every advantage they can get to rank higher. User testing is a vital component of a meaningful UX review, and user feedback can be essential in sussing out where, what, and why a site ‘feels’ bad. It’s how you take audits beyond just checking off technical best practices. Hobbits aren’t super powerful or especially wise, but sometimes you need them in your fellowship to get the job done.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Julia Logan - Irish Wonder - How to audit your site for se...Branded3
Nobody likes a site with security issues – neither Google nor your visitors. (Hackers do but you probably don’t want to make their life easier at your expense, do you?) Making sure your site is secure can save you a lot of headache. Luckily, you don’t have to be an InfoSec whiz to do it – find out about some simple checks you could incorporate into your regular onsite audits to help make your site more secure.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Holly Ellwood - Receptional - What’s new in PPC?Branded3
Holly's SearchLeeds talk covered what’s new in PPC and what we can expect from 2018 according to latest releases and search trends. She also looked at areas that are under-utilised currently in the world of paid search, so as to highlight both missed and new opportunities for paid search marketers throughout this year.
Are you sending mixed signals to Google? When canonicalisation, pagination, hreflang and mobile alternates aren’t implemented correctly, conflicting website signals will baffle search engines and leave them to make their own assumptions about your website and what’s important. In this talk, Rachel shares examples where a website’s signals can be ignored or overruled, leading to disastrous impacts on performance. Don’t leave anything to chance – be sure that the most important areas of your site are respected and given prioritisation when being indexed and shown to users.
Everything in SEO is directly or indirectly related to content. Just think about that for a second or two. Everything from how we attract, engage and convert consumers is centred around content. This session will explore how to grow your bottom line by creating knockout on-site content that delivers on both traffic and conversion fronts by simply understanding your consumers.
SearchLeeds 2018 - Angus Hamilton - Search Laboratory - Is attribution comin...Branded3
Marketers have known for some time that paid search, SEO and other marketing channels can no longer be evaluated as stand-alone investments. Yet many brands still struggle to find an attribution model that makes sense, and far too many still rely on first- or last-click models. Angus' SearchLeeds talk took a cold hard look at the mathematics behind attribution, and provided insights into Google Attribution and Google Attribution 360.