In this humorous and data-heavy Master Class, join us in a joyous celebration of life honoring the long list of SEO tactics and concepts we lost this year. Remember fondly the beautiful time you shared with defunct ideas like link building, keyword cannibalization, search volume as a value indicator, and even our most cherished of friends: the funnel. Make peace with their loss as you embrace a new paradigm for organic content: Pillar-Based Marketing. Along the way, discover that the results that old SEO and all its trappings brought you weren’t really very good at all, actually.
In this respectful and life-affirming service—erm, session—join Ryan Brock (Chief Solution Officer at DemandJump and author of Pillar-Based Marketing: A Data-Driven Methodology for SEO and Content that Actually Works) and leave with:
• Clear and compelling evidence that most legacy SEO metrics and tactics have slim to no impact on SEO outcomes
• A major mindset shift that eliminates most of the metrics and tactics associated with SEO in favor of a single metric that defines and drives organic ranking success
• Practical, step-by-step methodology for choosing SEO pillar topics and publishing content quickly that ranks fast
8. 2020 Content Preferences Study Report,
DemandGen
63% of marketers said that e-
books and whitepapers, which are
often used as gated content, were
the top-performing content
types for driving qualified leads.
10. Brian Halligan,
HubSpot
"People shop and learn in a whole
new way compared to just a few
years ago, so marketers need to
adapt or risk extinction."
15. Dying Words of The Funnel
“Your job is no longer to build
individual funnels that follow
linear paths. It’s to recreate as
many of these search behavior
roadways as possible.”
30. Turner Pest Control (44)
● critter removal from attic (above
terminix, wildlife animal control)
● pest control orlando (above Yelp,
Terminix, Orkin)
● fastest way to get rid of
raccoons (above Forbes, Pests.org,
Angi, wikiHow)
31. Yourco (8)
● employee survey distribution
(above Qualtrics, 15Five, Gallup)
● Work related text messages
(above LinkedIn, CNN, Monster
Jobs)
● free employee alerts for
employees (above Capterra,
LinkedIn, Intuit Quickbooks)
33. Milestone (16)
● Payroll Services Examples (above
Forbes, Paychex, SurePayroll)
● Can I do Payroll Myself? (above ADP,
IRS, Intuit, Paychex, Surepayroll)
● How much is payroll service? (above
Paychex, ADP, US News & World
Report)
47. One marketer in particular, but likely
attributable to many marketers
“I just know that if I see keyword
cannibalization, like, if two
articles talk about the same
stuff at all, it’s going to lead to
indexing problems.”
57. Google on Artificial Intelligence
Appropriate use of AI or
automation is not against our
guidelines. This means that it is not
used to generate content primarily
to manipulate search rankings,
which is against our spam policies.