In this talk I'll break down a top challenge SEO professionals experience in their day to day roles. I'll also provide 3 actionable takeaways to help you overcome this challenge allowing you to justify more budget and resource for your team.
2. Key Finding:
SEOs tend to have
trouble showing the
value of their work
internally to
stakeholders & decision
makers.
CUSTOMER INTERVIEWS
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3. Become customer obsessed
Three Solutions
Report on business impact metrics
Make friends with your Devs
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6. SPEED IMPACT
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How much revenue are you leaving
on the table by having a slow site?
Test your speed impact:
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/feature/testmysite
$763k
7. SITE NAVIGATION & STRUCTURE
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16. DEV ALIGNMENT
Understand how they prefer to
work.
Understand their current workflow.
Identify opportunities to automate
processes.
Humanize things - Buy them a
beer!
How can you align your team with
your Dev team?
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17. TOOLS
A great way to reduce the friction with Devs, use workflow automation tools.
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18. DEV SURVEY
Pain points: Not enough time
Most Enjoyable: Problem solving
Success Measurement: How
much gets accomplished
And working with SEO’s …..
Feedback about their jobs:
(Sound familiar??)
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22. BIZ CHALLENGES
Management: Revenue has
dropped off
Head of Marketing: Traffic has dropped
off
Customer: I can’t find what I’m looking
for
What happened?
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Site speed sits at the top of the UX hierarchy in terms of importance and is correlated with bounce rate, conversion rate, and, ultimately, your bottom line.
Site speed sits at the top of the UX hierarchy in terms of importance and is correlated with bounce rate, conversion rate, and, ultimately, your bottom line.
Site speed sits at the top of the UX hierarchy in terms of importance and is correlated with bounce rate, conversion rate, and, ultimately, your bottom line.
As SEOs you love a good spreadsheet full of data right? Well guess what? Your execs don’t!
As SEOs you love a good spreadsheet full of data right? Well guess what? Your execs don’t!
As SEOs you love a good spreadsheet full of data right? Well guess what? Your execs don’t!
As SEOs you love a good spreadsheet full of data right? Well guess what? Your execs don’t!
As SEOs you love a good spreadsheet full of data right? Well guess what? Your execs don’t!