AMP is no longer a requirement of the top stories carousel on Google. And with the introduction of page experience as a ranking factor, this talk intends to provide insights into behind the scenes of a major news publisher de-commissioning AMP. Revealing what happens to top stories performance as well as the pros and cons of the AMP framework for publishers as well as it’s future in a new page experience world in News SEO.
How to Use Search Intent to Dominate Google DiscoverFelipe Bazon
In this talk you will learn how search intent can help you benefit from the growing popularity of Google Discover. You’ll get actionable tips, a case study example and exclusive data from SEMrush.
In this talk, Riaz will look at shifting B2B buyer, which reduces time with potential suppliers is forcing sellers today to evolve as a result.
He will cover:
1. The new B2B buyer and how new demographics and behaviour have altered the way companies buy from each other.
2. How to build relationships earlier and get ahead of your competitors.
3. Making use of dark funnel data to power both sales and marketing.
Automate The Technical SEO Stuff by Michael Van Den Reym
In this talk, Michael will show you how to automate technical SEO tasks. You will learn how to schedule and compare crawls to spot technical errors faster, how to use RPA to speed up technical SEO audits and how to automatically optimize images. You will get inspired to execute technical SEO better and faster.
Will Critchlow's presentation at BrightonSEO October 2022.
At SearchPilot, we run huge numbers of tests. It's natural to look first to the winning tests, but there is a lot we can learn from the tests that fail - both the inconclusive ones and the negative outcomes.
Learn how we run SEO tests, how we analyse winners and losers, and take advantage of the lessons we have learned from dozens of losing tests. Take away actionable insights you can use in your own testing or SEO program.
How to Use Search Intent to Dominate Google DiscoverFelipe Bazon
In this talk you will learn how search intent can help you benefit from the growing popularity of Google Discover. You’ll get actionable tips, a case study example and exclusive data from SEMrush.
In this talk, Riaz will look at shifting B2B buyer, which reduces time with potential suppliers is forcing sellers today to evolve as a result.
He will cover:
1. The new B2B buyer and how new demographics and behaviour have altered the way companies buy from each other.
2. How to build relationships earlier and get ahead of your competitors.
3. Making use of dark funnel data to power both sales and marketing.
Automate The Technical SEO Stuff by Michael Van Den Reym
In this talk, Michael will show you how to automate technical SEO tasks. You will learn how to schedule and compare crawls to spot technical errors faster, how to use RPA to speed up technical SEO audits and how to automatically optimize images. You will get inspired to execute technical SEO better and faster.
Will Critchlow's presentation at BrightonSEO October 2022.
At SearchPilot, we run huge numbers of tests. It's natural to look first to the winning tests, but there is a lot we can learn from the tests that fail - both the inconclusive ones and the negative outcomes.
Learn how we run SEO tests, how we analyse winners and losers, and take advantage of the lessons we have learned from dozens of losing tests. Take away actionable insights you can use in your own testing or SEO program.
How to Incorporate ML in your SERP Analysis, Lazarina Stoy -BrightonSEO Oct, ...LazarinaStoyanova
How are you currently doing SERP analysis? Is your approach efficient or scalable?
How SEOs can incorporate programmatic approaches and advances in machine learning in order to identify winning strategies?
This talk will leave you with a better understanding of what is possible for SERP analysis at scale, what insights you can capture with the help of machine learning quickly, and how to incorporate insights into your strategy and visualize your findings to impress your stakeholders.
How often is Google rewriting your title tags and creating a custom title link on the SERP? Moreover, why is Google not relying on your title tags anymore for the title on the SERP?
Dive in with this look at Google's title rewrites!
BrightonSEO - Master Crawl Budget Optimization for Enterprise WebsitesManick Bhan
For every website on the internet, Google has a fixed budget for how many pages their bots can and are willing to crawl. The internet is a big place, so Googlebot can only spend so much time crawling and indexing our websites. Crawl budget optimization is the process of ensuring that the right pages of our websites end up in Google’s index and are ultimately shown to searchers.
Google’s recommendations for optimizing crawl budget are rather limited, because Googlebot crawls through most websites without reaching its limit. But enterprise-level and ecommerce sites with thousands of landing pages are at risk of maxing out their budget. A 2018 study even found that Google’s crawlers failed to crawl over half of the webpages of larger sites in the experiment.
Influencing how crawl budget is spent can be a more difficult technical optimization for strategists to implement. But for enterprise-level and ecommerce sites, it’s worth the effort to maximize crawl budget where you can. With a few tweaks, site owners and SEO strategists can guide Googlebot to regularly crawl and index their best-performing pages.
[BrightonSEO 2022] Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Product Listing PagesAreej AbuAli
E-commerce websites’ product listing pages contain untapped hidden potential. This talk is all about unlocking the magic of your listing pages by making the most out of filters and internal linking. Instead of being fixated on those landing page head terms, let’s turn our attention to the indexability of long-tail pages with high conversion. Whether you work in e-commerce or not, we’ll also cover how to embed yourself within Tech teams and analyse impactful changes.
[BrightonSEO October 2022] On-page SEO: from intention to conversionFelipe Bazon
In this talk from BrightonSEO October 2022 you will learn how to use the Conversion Index, Topical Authority and the Skyscraper Technique to really optimise for the user.
David vs Goliath: The rise of sustainable fashion against fast fashion giants
Slides from BrightonSEO October 2022.
This talk covered the rise of sustainable brands against fast fashion giants. Opening with a brief intro into the David vs Goliath principle and how that can be aligned to online retail today.
This talk was a comparison of the ecommerce space, specifically fast fashion and its impact socially, environmentally and lastly online.
Providing SEO "stones" to use against the Goliath of your industry.
Swipe left: Why your content is getting ghostedEleni Cashell
Creating engaging content is a tricky thing, and even if your work is perfectly targeted to your audience, with all the SEO research to back it up, it doesn’t guarantee engagement.
In this talk, Eleni will showcase some of the mistakes she’s made and seen first-hand, explain why this isn’t getting engagement, and reveal how to fix it. From making content more accessible and inclusive, to key research methods that are often ignored, this talk will show you how to turn content that’s being ghosted and ignored, into something that creates meaningful connections.
Probabilistic Thinking in SEO - BrightonSEO October 2022Andrew Charlton
Andrew talks through practical ways to think in probabilities to make better decisions in SEO at BrightonSEO.
From methodologies to help you increase the chances of successful outcomes, to reframing decisions as bets to prioritise your recommendations.
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) were introduced by Google in 2015 in partnership with dozens of media from around the world. The goal is to make mobile web surfing more mobile by significantly accelerating the loading speed of the pages. If you use the browser to surf the web from your mobile device, you have already encountered this new mobile web page format.
AMP for Publishers: Deleting AMP on News SEO | NESS 2021Daniel Smullen
Mediahuis Ireland decommissioned AMP. This presentation goes into detail on what the impact was on SEO metrics such as page experience and search traffic. TLDR deleting AMP had no impact on SEO.
How to Incorporate ML in your SERP Analysis, Lazarina Stoy -BrightonSEO Oct, ...LazarinaStoyanova
How are you currently doing SERP analysis? Is your approach efficient or scalable?
How SEOs can incorporate programmatic approaches and advances in machine learning in order to identify winning strategies?
This talk will leave you with a better understanding of what is possible for SERP analysis at scale, what insights you can capture with the help of machine learning quickly, and how to incorporate insights into your strategy and visualize your findings to impress your stakeholders.
How often is Google rewriting your title tags and creating a custom title link on the SERP? Moreover, why is Google not relying on your title tags anymore for the title on the SERP?
Dive in with this look at Google's title rewrites!
BrightonSEO - Master Crawl Budget Optimization for Enterprise WebsitesManick Bhan
For every website on the internet, Google has a fixed budget for how many pages their bots can and are willing to crawl. The internet is a big place, so Googlebot can only spend so much time crawling and indexing our websites. Crawl budget optimization is the process of ensuring that the right pages of our websites end up in Google’s index and are ultimately shown to searchers.
Google’s recommendations for optimizing crawl budget are rather limited, because Googlebot crawls through most websites without reaching its limit. But enterprise-level and ecommerce sites with thousands of landing pages are at risk of maxing out their budget. A 2018 study even found that Google’s crawlers failed to crawl over half of the webpages of larger sites in the experiment.
Influencing how crawl budget is spent can be a more difficult technical optimization for strategists to implement. But for enterprise-level and ecommerce sites, it’s worth the effort to maximize crawl budget where you can. With a few tweaks, site owners and SEO strategists can guide Googlebot to regularly crawl and index their best-performing pages.
[BrightonSEO 2022] Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Product Listing PagesAreej AbuAli
E-commerce websites’ product listing pages contain untapped hidden potential. This talk is all about unlocking the magic of your listing pages by making the most out of filters and internal linking. Instead of being fixated on those landing page head terms, let’s turn our attention to the indexability of long-tail pages with high conversion. Whether you work in e-commerce or not, we’ll also cover how to embed yourself within Tech teams and analyse impactful changes.
[BrightonSEO October 2022] On-page SEO: from intention to conversionFelipe Bazon
In this talk from BrightonSEO October 2022 you will learn how to use the Conversion Index, Topical Authority and the Skyscraper Technique to really optimise for the user.
David vs Goliath: The rise of sustainable fashion against fast fashion giants
Slides from BrightonSEO October 2022.
This talk covered the rise of sustainable brands against fast fashion giants. Opening with a brief intro into the David vs Goliath principle and how that can be aligned to online retail today.
This talk was a comparison of the ecommerce space, specifically fast fashion and its impact socially, environmentally and lastly online.
Providing SEO "stones" to use against the Goliath of your industry.
Swipe left: Why your content is getting ghostedEleni Cashell
Creating engaging content is a tricky thing, and even if your work is perfectly targeted to your audience, with all the SEO research to back it up, it doesn’t guarantee engagement.
In this talk, Eleni will showcase some of the mistakes she’s made and seen first-hand, explain why this isn’t getting engagement, and reveal how to fix it. From making content more accessible and inclusive, to key research methods that are often ignored, this talk will show you how to turn content that’s being ghosted and ignored, into something that creates meaningful connections.
Probabilistic Thinking in SEO - BrightonSEO October 2022Andrew Charlton
Andrew talks through practical ways to think in probabilities to make better decisions in SEO at BrightonSEO.
From methodologies to help you increase the chances of successful outcomes, to reframing decisions as bets to prioritise your recommendations.
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) were introduced by Google in 2015 in partnership with dozens of media from around the world. The goal is to make mobile web surfing more mobile by significantly accelerating the loading speed of the pages. If you use the browser to surf the web from your mobile device, you have already encountered this new mobile web page format.
AMP for Publishers: Deleting AMP on News SEO | NESS 2021Daniel Smullen
Mediahuis Ireland decommissioned AMP. This presentation goes into detail on what the impact was on SEO metrics such as page experience and search traffic. TLDR deleting AMP had no impact on SEO.
AMP is an open source project designed to help web publishers create mobile-optimized content that loads instantly on all devices, according to Google.
Website performance and an introduction to AMPMichael Gearon
Why website performance matters, and what is the business cost of not improving your page speed. Part two is looking at the AMP project, including AMP stories and AMP email
Jenny Halasz, Founder of JLH Marketing, Inc. | @jennyhalasz
Are we entering the Age of Mobile, or are we already there? Either way, you need to be looking at mobile analytics, including acquisition, demographic, and speed data. Join this session to learn why it’s so important to track mobile analytics, how easy it really is, and how to get started. You’ll get a custom dashboard template suitable for any Google Analytics account and learn how to use it to start making mobile-based decisions about your business.
Google AMP – a framework that optimizes an existing page for mobile use and serves it from the Google AMP cache – promises to make it easier for users to access and interact with your content when they are on mobile devices.
This framework achieves major Search Engine Optimization (SEO) goals by speeding up page load times, thereby increasing user satisfaction, especially for students who are mobile-dependent. But is Google AMP a good fit for higher ed content?
In this presentation, a developer and a content strategist will present iFactory's current Google AMP projects and suggest approaches tailored to institutions of higher education.
- Technical SEO
- What is AMP & benefit?
- Difference to mobile site? AMP tester.
- What is AMP stories?
- Page speed importance
- Site improvement with AMP
- AMP SEO
- WordPress plugins
SMX East - Eli Feldblum - Google instant presentationRankAbove
This is a copy of the presentation Eli Feldblum begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting gave at SMX East on the "Google Instant's Impact On SEO & User Behavior" panel
Evolution & AMPlification of Mobile Search Marketing [Driving Traffic & Conve...LeadSquared
In this webinar, Abhishek Mehta from AdLift talks about the evolution and amplification of mobile search marketing! In the webinar, he also talks about:
1) Importance of Mobile SEO for driving traffic and conversions
2) AMP - How it can drive your business conversion rate
3) Why you should go mobile for Local SEO
4) Mobile UI/UX - How to create a mobile landing page that converts
Searchlove London 2016 - The Changing Landscape of Mobile Search - Bridget Ra...Bridget Randolph
Mobile is becoming an increasingly important traffic channel, and given recent developments like app indexation and AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), as well as the addition of new types of devices like wearables and smart tech, understanding how it fits into the bigger search marketing picture is more crucial than ever. This session will take a look at the history of mobile search, how mobile search behaviour has impacted on desktop search, the growing significance of app content and developments such as AMP and app streaming within the search marketing landscape, and some thoughts on where the future of search is heading.
What happens when everybody's website is fixed Jono Alderson
For many of us, a big part of our job is essentially to fix or improve things. We seek out marginal, incremental gains to make our platforms, brands and performance 'good enough', or at least, 'less bad than our competitors'. What happens when all of this is no longer necessary? When everybody's website, app or software is perfect? Few of our brands are equipped to compete - or even to survive - in this new world. We need a radically different way of thinking, and for many, it may already be too late.
SearchLove London 2016 | Bridget Randolph | The Changing Landscape of Mobile ...Distilled
Mobile is becoming an increasingly important traffic channel, and given recent developments like app indexation and AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), as well as the addition of new types of devices like wearables and smart tech, understanding how it fits into the bigger search marketing picture is more crucial than ever. This session will take a look at the history of mobile search, how mobile search behaviour has impacted on desktop search, the growing significance of app content and developments such as AMP and app streaming within the search marketing landscape, and some thoughts on where the future of search is heading.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
10 Video Ideas Any Business Can Make RIGHT NOW!
You'll never draw a blank again on what kind of video to make for your business. Go beyond the basic categories and truly reimagine a brand new advanced way to brainstorm video content creation. During this masterclass you'll be challenged to think creatively and outside of the box and view your videos through lenses you may have never thought of previously. It's guaranteed that you'll leave with more than 10 video ideas, but I like to under-promise and over-deliver. Don't miss this session.
Key Takeaways:
How to use the Video Matrix
How to use additional "Lenses"
Where to source original video ideas
Digital marketing is the art and science of promoting products or services using digital channels to reach and engage with potential customers. It encompasses a wide range of online tactics and strategies aimed at increasing brand visibility, driving website traffic, generating leads, and ultimately, converting those leads into customers.
https://nidmindia.com/
5 big bets to drive growth in 2024 without one additional marketing dollar AND how to adapt to the biggest shifting eCommerce trend- AI.
1) Romance Your Customers - Retention
2) ‘Alternative’ Lead Gen - Advocacy
3) The Beautiful Basics - Conversion Rate Optimization
4) Land that Bottom Line - Profitability
5) Roll the Dice - New Business Models
The What, Why & How of 3D and AR in Digital CommercePushON Ltd
Vladimir Mulhem has over 20 years of experience in commercialising cutting edge creative technology across construction, marketing and retail.
Previously the founder and Tech and Innovation Director of Creative Content Works working with the likes of Next, John Lewis and JD Sport, he now helps retailers, brands and agencies solve challenges of applying the emerging technologies 3D, AR, VR and Gen AI to real-world problems.
In this webinar, Vladimir will be covering the following topics:
Applications of 3D and AR in Digital Commerce,
Benefits of 3D and AR,
Tools to create, manage and publish 3D and AR in Digital Commerce.
Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?Cut-the-SaaS
Discover the transformative power of AI in content creation with our presentation, "Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?" by Puran Parsani, CEO & Editor of Cut-The-SaaS. Learn how AI-generated content is revolutionizing marketing, publishing, education, healthcare, and finance by offering unprecedented efficiency, creativity, and scalability.
Understanding
AI-Generated Content:
AI-generated content includes text, images, videos, and audio produced by AI without direct human involvement. This technology leverages large datasets to create contextually relevant and coherent material, streamlining content production.
Key Benefits:
Content Creation: Rapidly generate high-quality content for blogs, articles, and social media.
Brainstorming: AI simulates conversations to inspire creative ideas.
Research Assistance: Efficiently summarize and research information.
Market Insights:
The content marketing industry is projected to grow to $17.6 billion by 2032, with AI-generated content expected to dominate over 55% of the market.
Case Study: CNET’s AI Content Controversy:
CNET’s use of AI for news articles led to public scrutiny due to factual inaccuracies, highlighting the need for transparency and human oversight.
Benefits Across Industries:
Marketing: Personalize content at scale and optimize engagement with predictive analytics.
Publishing: Automate content creation for faster publication cycles.
Education: Efficiently generate educational materials.
Healthcare: Create accurate content for patients and professionals.
Finance: Produce timely financial content for decision-making.
Challenges and Ethical Considerations:
Transparency: Disclose AI use to maintain trust.
Bias: Address potential AI biases with diverse datasets.
SEO: Ensure AI content meets SEO standards.
Quality: Maintain high standards to prevent misinformation.
Conclusion:
AI-generated content offers significant benefits in efficiency, personalization, and scalability. However, ethical considerations and quality assurance are crucial for responsible use. Explore the future of content creation with us and see how AI is transforming various industries.
Connect with Us:
Follow Cut-The-SaaS on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Medium. Visit cut-the-saas.com for more insights and resources.
Financial curveballs sent many American families reeling in 2023. Household budgets were squeezed by rising interest rates, surging prices on everyday goods, and a stagnating housing market. Consumers were feeling strapped. That sentiment, however, appears to be waning. The question is, to what extent?
To take the pulse of consumers’ feelings about their financial well-being ahead of a highly anticipated election, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey. The survey highlights consumers’ hopes and anxieties as we move into 2024. Let's unpack the key findings to gain insights about where we stand.
AI-Powered Personalization: Principles, Use Cases, and Its Impact on CROVWO
In today’s era of AI, personalization is more than just a trend—it’s a fundamental strategy that unlocks numerous opportunities.
When done effectively, personalization builds trust, loyalty, and satisfaction among your users—key factors for business success. However, relying solely on AI capabilities isn’t enough. You need to anchor your approach in solid principles, understand your users’ context, and master the art of persuasion.
Join us as Sarjak Patel and Naitry Saggu from 3rd Eye Consulting unveil a transformative framework. This approach seamlessly integrates your unique context, consumer insights, and conversion goals, paving the way for unparalleled success in personalization.
It's another new era of digital and marketers are faced with making big bets on their digital strategy. If you are looking at modernizing your tech stack to support your digital evolution, there are a few can't miss (often overlooked) areas that should be part of every conversation. We'll cover setting your vision, avoiding siloes, adding a democratized approach to data strategy, localization, creating critical governance requirements and more. Attendees will walk away with actions they can take into initiatives they are running today and consider for the future.
Digital Commerce Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at UCLA...Valters Lauzums
E-commerce in 2024 is characterized by a dynamic blend of opportunities and significant challenges. Supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages are critical issues, leading to increased shipping delays and rising costs, which impact timely delivery and squeeze profit margins. Efficient logistics management is essential, yet it is often hampered by these external factors. Payment processing, while needing to ensure security and user convenience, grapples with preventing fraud and integrating diverse payment methods, adding another layer of complexity. Furthermore, fulfillment operations require a streamlined approach to handle volume spikes and maintain accuracy in order picking, packing, and shipping, all while meeting customers' heightened expectations for faster delivery times.
Amid these operational challenges, customer data has emerged as an important strategy. By focusing on personalization and enhancing customer experience from historical behavior, businesses can deliver improved website and brand experienced, better product recommendations, optimal promotions, and content to meet individual preferences. Better data analytics can also help in effectively creating marketing campaigns, improving customer retention, and driving product development and inventory management.
Innovative formats such as social commerce and live shopping are beginning to impact the digital commerce landscape, offering new ways to engage with customers and drive sales, and may provide opportunity for brands that have been priced out or seen a downturn with post-pandemic shopping behavior. Social commerce integrates shopping experiences directly into social media platforms, tapping into the massive user bases of these networks to increase reach and engagement. Live shopping, on the other hand, combines entertainment and real-time interaction, providing a dynamic platform for showcasing products and encouraging immediate purchases. These innovations not only enhance customer engagement but also provide valuable data for businesses to refine their strategies and deliver superior shopping experiences.
The e-commerce sector is evolving rapidly, and businesses that effectively manage operational challenges and implement innovative strategies are best positioned for long-term success.
The Secret to Engaging Modern Consumers: Journey Mapping and Personalization
In today's digital landscape, understanding the customer's journey and delivering personalized experiences are paramount. This masterclass delves into the art of consumer journey mapping, a powerful technique that visualizes the entire customer experience across touchpoints. Attendees will learn how to create detailed journey maps, identify pain points, and uncover opportunities for optimization. The presentation also explores personalization strategies that leverage data and technology to tailor content, products, and experiences to individual customers. From real-time personalization to predictive analytics, attendees will gain insights into cutting-edge approaches that drive engagement and loyalty.
Key Takeaways:
Current consumer landscape; Steps to mapping an effective consumer journey; Understanding the value of personalization; Integrating mapping and personalization for success; Brands that are getting It right!; Best Practices; Future Trends
First Things First: Building and Effective Marketing Strategy
Too many companies (and marketers) jump straight into activation planning without formalizing a marketing strategy. It may seem tedious, but analyzing the mindset of your targeted audiences and identifying the messaging points most likely to resonate with them is time well spent. That process is also a great opportunity for marketers to collaborate with sales leaders and account managers on a galvanized go-to-market approach. I’ll walk you through the methods and tools we use with our clients to ensure campaign success.
Key Takeaways:
-Recognize the critical role of strategy in marketing
-Learn our approach for building an actionable, effective marketing strategy
-Receive templates and guides for developing a marketing strategy
For too many years marketing and sales have operated in silos...while in some forward thinking companies, the two organizations work together to drive new opportunity development and revenue. This session will explore the lessons learned in that beautiful dance that can occur when marketing and sales work together...to drive new opportunity development, account expansion and customer satisfaction.
No, this is not a conversation about MQLs and SQLs. Instead we will focus on a framework that allows the two organizations to drive company success together.
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
The Forgotten Secret Weapon of Digital Marketing: Email
Digital marketing is a rapidly changing, ever evolving industry--Influencers, Threads, X, AI, etc. But one of the most effective digital marketing tools is also one of the oldest: Email. Find out from two Houston-based digital experts how to maximize your results from email.
Key Takeaways:
Email has the best ROI of any digital tactic
It can be used at any stage of the customer journey
It is increasingly important as the cookie-less future gets closer and closer
Ireland’s most read websites
Irish Independent, Belfast Telegraph & Sunday World, as well as their regional publishers
Digital marketplaces including their car, property and job listing sites, other business ventures that can grow with SEO
Before decommissioning, it’s important to understand why AMP in the first place
For the majority of print publishers websites were afterthoughts. Digital dumping grounds of the print edition.
Little importance was placed on them.
Roll on the 21st century and the mobile web.
News publishers faced incredible challenges in offering compelling mobile experiences.
Slow loading mobile experiences.
Can you imagine if you told a print editor it took under 20 seconds to turn the page. Well this is what was happening on mobile.
Wasn’t just bad for online news consumption. But also bad for Google.
Because if Google is taking users to poor performing website experiences, people will be less likely to use Google.
And that would obviously be bad for Google.
But of course, Google was not going to let that happen.
Spring of 2015, over a hundred journalists and technologists from around the world Newsgeist Europe in Helsinki, an annual event hosted by Google to discuss the future of the news industry.
News publishers expressed the need for a new potential open source approach for distributed content.
Opportunities for syndicating content with a great user experience while maintaining publisher control over business model, branding, and presentation.
Google engineers understood the importance of producing better mobile experiences for the mobile web.
“What Google can do for news”
Came up with AMP
AMP was claimed to load upto “50%” faster
AMP involved creating a stripped-down, mobile-optimized AMP copy of existing HTML5 page content.
The project is backed by LinkedIn, WordPress Twitter, Pinterest, and Bing Google is the key code contributor and main promoter.
Limiting CSS to 75KB. Limiting JavaScript to 150KB.
In action - above was our stripped down valid AMP page scoring 59 on performance and 0 on accessibility with core web vitals.
The voila like a magic trick when google crawls the valid AMP variant, it makes further optimisations such as removing all of the fluff between the critical rendering path
And on Google’s servers, it jumps up to 74 in terms of page speed, and a perfect 90 in terms of accessibility
Real reason AMP - Google AMP top stories carousel.
As a result of this carrot and a stick, Google was “forcing” publishers to use a stripped down HTML version, pre-rendering AMP content, and giving preferential treatment to AMP pages, Google was influencing how publishers built and monetized to shape the internet in its favor.
Canonical AMP, requiring that the AMP page content be almost identical to the (original) canonical page content.
This included functionality images, related articles, navigations, basically any functionality and content that was on the original.
Remember not valid, not eligible for search engine results pages.
And possibly the only thing we can collectively thank 2020 for, was the news that
We went from a publisher who relied on newspaper circulation revenue, to enabling a paywall on our websites.
And in 2020, we went digital first print second - 0 to 30k subscribers in under a year.
The goal of our websites was no longer simply monetizing pageviews, but generating loyal paying subscribers.
And when we discovered that the AMP cache was one of the main reasons for users being logged out, the decision on decommissioning AMP was made at executive level.
Because to pre-render off platforms need to be able to speak with customer management systems.
For example, if someone subscribed via the APP and then searched on Google, they would not be logged in, they would need to log in via Google search.
Some publishers still use AMP or FCF with AMP
On left - mobile or APP - no way to by pass the paywall, but simply searching for the headline on google mobile via AMP everytime you get in for free!
For us, it was a business decision to decommission AMP.
Before removing AMP, we tested on the impact of AMP on top stories, which you can read more on SEJ, break down the test, steps, results and findings as well as commentary.
Google crawls the canonical to discover the AMPhtml document with the amp link
Removing this on newly published as well as the database was the first step of the code set up
At article ID level for already published articles we had a 301 redirect implemented to the canonical
Although it’s possible to request an update of AMP content, this has to be done on a 1:1 request, not scalable for 3+million news articles
Which is where re-submitting the XML sitemaps to be crawled was a much more feasible approach
Tourquise line dropping to null & the blue line, showing that the AMP sessions simply merged into the mobile site.
On a parallel implementation on the Beltel, regional publisher in the UK market
Sessions to mDot actually increased more than the previous period.
AMP sessions were predominantly “fly by users” or as we call them “new users” who have high search intent, but lower subscriber intent.
As the yellow highlighted line indicates when AMP was decomissioned, clicks decrease despite impressions increasing.
We went from perfect near 100% URLs meeting a good page experience to a 0%
Check out the guide on measuring web vitals using Google Analytics.
First highlighted line shows when AMP was decommissioned, and then the second yellow line is mid-june when Google announced that they were rolling out the page experience update.
Newzdash as news keyword tracking tool, compared the visibility % of Google search top stories on mobile in the US and found that prior to mid-june, nonAMP urls had 8% visibility for all top stories that they track, which post mid-june, experienced a 4x increase to 25%
Andrea Pernici, from 3BMeteo when they removed AMP, they experienced 90% drop in Google News traffic from the APP, and when AMP was restored, traffic bounced back to normal.