This document discusses strategies for overcoming common challenges with SEO programs and gaining consistent SEO results. It identifies two primary challenges as organizational challenges around investment and alignment across teams, and executional challenges around predictability and prioritization. It advocates taking a user-centric approach to content and integrating the full user journey. The document also compares different SEO tools and highlights how the ALPS tool drives precision by analyzing, simulating, and predicting ranks. It provides guidance on developing short and long-term SEO strategies, including identifying opportunities, prioritizing efforts, and creating implementation plans focused on pages, authority, and technical improvements.

1. Tips to Predict and Drive
Performance to Organic SEO
How to Gain
Consistent
SEO Results
Wayne Cichanski
VP, Search & Site Experience

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Wayne Cichanski, VP Search & Site Experience
28 years career in digital marketing, with 10 years at the brand level & 18 years at the
agency level. Last 9 years in financial services & insurance
• Digital solutions executive
• Search before Google was Google
• UX, Development, Search, Data
• Former CIO/CMO
Wayne.Cichanski@iquanti.com

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Why SEO programs under-achieve
its objectives
• Organizational challenges that
enterprises face
• Executional challenges faced by SEO
and content teams
Approach to SEO form the user
journey perspective
• Integrating the full user journey
• “SEO content” vs “site content”
Tools and methods to drive SEO
predictability
• Gaps of common tools on the market
• The ALPS difference
Developing a short-term and long-
term SEO strategy
• Where to start & how to prioritize
• Creating a way forward
Today’s Discussion Agenda

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Closer look at common challenges & how to overcome them
Why SEO Programs Under-
Achieve it’s Objectives?

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Two Primary Challenges SEO Programs Face
SEO as a channel is typically under-invested compared to paid search
because of two distinct challenges
• Disbelief surrounding SEO
channel
• Challenges aligning and
getting multiple teams to
agree
Organizational Challenges Executional Challenges
• Challenges where to start,
what to do and predicting
the impact
• Challenges executing tasks
& tactics

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Organizational Challenges
Large enterprise brands face several internal challenges at an organizational
level that often deter stakeholders from investing into this channel
01
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03
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SEO program is underinvested.
Making a business case is difficult
SEO spans across multiple teams,
which all need to be aligned
Time / iterations are extensive
and not quantifiable
SEO results vary and are not
predictable

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Audience Poll
In SEO what seems to be your largest challenge?
A. Getting funding for the channel
B. Knowing what to do and how to do it
C. Predicting the results and impact
D. Moving the recommendations through the internal organization

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Executional Challenges
Beyond organizational, there are often executional challenges that site
teams need to overcome
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02
03
04
What to prioritize & how will I
know what works
Why is the competition beating
us on this term?
What should I write? How often
to write?
Staying up to date on Google
updates

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Overcoming Key Challenges
Spend the time to identify what challenges you are faced with and how to
combat them
• Build business case &
planning for the channel
Organizational Challenges Executional Challenges
• Define & understand market
landscape and how much of
that is relevant to you
• Educate and train internal
teams on the SEO culture
• Find senior stakeholder to
sponsor and support
• Use a tool that gives you
the algorithmic gaps and
drives predictability
• Originate your
recommendations in data

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Connecting site experience to SEO strategy
Approach to SEO from the
User’s Perspective

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User Centric Approach to the Site Experience
What’s right for the user is also right for your SEO program. Apply a user
centric focus and you can “future-proof” algo updates
Market Landscape
Content & On-Page Strategy
Off-Page Authority Plan
Funnel Connection’s

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Integrating a Full Funnel Connection
Develop site content that allows a user to flow up and down the funnel,
connecting the content assets with CTA’s
Awareness Consideration Purchase
missing missing missing missing missing missing
missing
User Journey
New Traffic
Point of Entry
Move Down Funnel
Broken Journey
Move Up Funnel
Broken Journey
Loss of Traffic
Point of Entry

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Demystifying “SEO Content”
There is no such thing as “SEO Content”. Content is meant to be read and
engaged with across the entire site experience
Acquisition
Content vs
Blog
Content
SEO
Content
vs

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Demystifying “SEO Content”
There is no such thing as “SEO Content”. Content is meant to be read and
engaged with across the entire site experience

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Demystifying “SEO Content”
There is no such thing as “SEO Content”. Content is meant to be read and
engaged with across the entire site experience
Acquisition
Content vs
Blog
Content
SEO
Content
vs
What’s Good for Google is What’s Good for the User

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Differences of today’s tools on the market
Tools to Drive SEO

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SEO Tools & Methods that Drive Predictability
What are the types of SEO tools on the market and how do they differ?
Research
Reporting
Analytics
Trends
Toxicity
• Isolated purpose
• Report or research driven
• Lacks SEO action
• Not fluid with the algorithm

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The ALPS Difference
Convergence of all the necessary tools with the addition
of precision & accuracy.
Analyze, Simulate & Take Action
Award Winning Platform
Driven by Predictive Analytics &
Machine Learning

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How ALPS is a Unique SEO Platform
RESULT ORIENTATION
Reports Action
TYPE
OF
ORGANIZATION
Enterprises
SMB
▪ We have taken a radically
different AI-driven result-
oriented approach to SEO
▪ Driven by AI and NLP
models, our Platform tells
you the best course of
action based on all the
available data

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ALPS Drives Precision in Bridging Algorithmic Gaps
Source: ALPS
Note: Competitors ranking on page 1 are considered for comparison.
7.0
8.8 8.8
10.0
6.2
9.0
7.3
9.0
7.3
8.2
8.8
7.5
8.6
7.3
8.7
8.9
8.0 8.2
6.8
8.8
6.6
Authority Relevancy Technical
ALPS Keyword – “Personal Loans”
2.95M Annual Search Volume
Bankrate NerdWallet Discover Earnest Sofi Marcus LendingClub
Current Rank: 19
Current Rank
19th
Current Traffic
0
Ability to model, simulate & predict ranks for SEO consistency

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ALPS Drives Precision in Bridging Algorithmic Gaps
Source: ALPS
Note: Competitors ranking on page 1 are considered for comparison.
7.0
8.8 8.8
10.0
6.2
9.0
7.3
9.0
7.3
8.2
8.8
7.5
8.6
7.3
8.7
8.9
8.0 8.2
6.8
8.8
6.6
Authority Relevancy Technical
ALPS Keyword – “Personal Loans”
2.95M Annual Search Volume
Bankrate NerdWallet Discover Earnest Sofi Marcus LendingClub
Current Rank: 19
10
9.5
Modeled
Score
Modeled
Score
Current Rank
19th
Current Traffic
0
9.5
Modeled
Score
Modeled Rank
1st
Modeled
Traffic
501k
Ability to model, simulate & predict ranks for SEO consistency

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Where to start & how to prioritize your enterprise SEO program
Developing Short & Long-Term
SEO Strategies

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Spend Time in Planning & Strategy Phase
Market Landscape Assets Gaps
Decide How Far Up Funnel
Data to Drive Decisions
Opportunity Planning Through
ALPS
Overlay Existing Assets
Map User Intents
Create Net New
Algorithmic Gaps
Distance to Conversion
Technical Gaps

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Identifying & Prioritizing SEO Opportunities
EFFORT TO RANK
High Effort Low Effort
SEARCH
VOLUME
DEMAND
High
Volume
Low
Volume
Positive Authority
Negative Content
Small Neg. Authority
Small Neg. Content
P1
P2
Large Neg. Authority
Large Neg. Content
P4
Med. Neg. Authority
Large Neg. Content
P3
Priority Factors
• Gap deficiencies
• Search volume
• Distance to conversion
• Impact to the business

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Creating a Way Forward
Thinking short-term & long-term as you develop a way forward
On Page & Content Plan
Refresh pages ranked
first 2 pages
Refresh pages with
content gaps
Build net new pages
Off Page Authority
Remove negative
authority
Build small authority
gaps
Build large authority
gaps
Technical
Resolve SEO hygienic
issues
Improve page speed
on all templates
Improve core web
vitals
▪ Highly authoritative pages
with low content scores
▪ Removal of negative
authority
▪ Improving page speeds at a
template level
Quick Wins
*Short-term plan **Long-term plan

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Success Has Been Achieved
Operationalizing this approach has proven success in many use cases
across many clients
Contact for More Information
Wayne Cichanski
VP, Search & Site Experience
Wayne.Cichanski@iquanti.com
Michael Carle
VP, Sales - ALPS
Michael.Carle@iquanti.com
2018
77k
App Starts
2021
241k
App Starts
2018
5k
Page 1 Ranks
2021
9.5k
Page 1 Ranks
2018
289k
Traffic
2021
624k
Traffic

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Answering anything SEO
Questions?