Tom has long been fascinated with how the web works… and how he could break it. In this presentation, Tom will discuss some of the times that he has discovered security issues in Google, Facebook and Twitter. He will discuss compromising Search Console so that he could look up any penalty in the Manual Action tool, how he took control of tens of thousands of websites, and how he recently discovered a major bug that let him rank brand new sites on the first page with no links at all. Tom will outline how these exploits work, and in doing so share some details about the technical side of the web.
SearchLove Boston 2018 - Emily Grossman - The Marketer’s Guide to Performance...Distilled
Most marketers know that improving site speed leads to better engagement, conversion rates, and even improved performance in search engines. Still, many marketers don’t get involved in web performance optimization projects, expecting them to be handled entirely by developers. In this talk, you’ll learn about marketing’s critical role in measuring, auditing, and optimizing performance to drive greater impact for your business.
SearchLove Boston 2018 - Bartosz Goralewicz - JavaScript: Looking Past the ...Distilled
Thanks to his numerous experiments and viral articles, Elephate’s Bartosz Góralewicz has become an authoritative and trusted voice when it comes to JavaScript SEO. At SearchLove Boston, Bartosz is ready to unveil never-before-seen experiments and research to reveal whether or not you can rank with a JS website, if JavaScript crawling and indexing is as good as Google claims, and more. This eye-opening session will change your perception on the state of JavaScript today.
SearchLove London 2016 | Dom Woodman | How to Get Insight From Your LogsDistilled
In the SEO industry, we obsess on everything Google says, from John Mueller dropping a hint in a Webmaster Hangout, to the ranking data we spend £1000s to gather. Yet we ignore the data Google throws at us every day, the crawling data. For the longest time, site crawls, traffic data, and rankings have been the pillars of SEO data gathering. Log files should join them as something everyone is doing. We'll go through how to get everything set-up, look at some of the tools to make it easy and repeatable and go through the kinds of analysis you can do to get insights from the data.
BrightonSEO, July 2021 - To better understand a website's content search engines developed Web Rendering Services and are now able to render pages more or less like a normal user. Those Web Rendering Services are strictly connected to other phases of the crawling-indexing-ranking pipeline - if a rendering fails, it may affect all of them. In this session Giacomo will guide you through the process of understanding why rendering could be a problem also for non-Javascript pages, how to manually debug page rendering, the difference between understanding WRSs' capabilities and debugging problems on a website, and eventually how to test pages at scale.
SearchLove San Diego 2018 | Will Critchlow | From the Horse’s Mouth: What We ...Distilled
If you pay close enough attention, you can learn all kinds of things from what Google does and doesn’t say in public. From patents to official statements, to comments that Googlers leave on message boards, there is a wealth of information out there that hints at what they really think.
In this presentation, Will is going to work through some of the most significant official announcements and the most insight-heavy comments and leaks of Google’s first 20 years. You’ll come away from this presentation not only with a deeper understanding of the search giant, but also with the tools to understand and interpret future statements and leaks.
Introduction to PWAs & New JS Frameworks for MobileMobileMoxie
Emily Grossman's talk about PWAs from BrightonSEO September 2017
Video slides have been replaced by a screenshot with links to the videos or their original sources.
SearchLove Boston 2018 - Emily Grossman - The Marketer’s Guide to Performance...Distilled
Most marketers know that improving site speed leads to better engagement, conversion rates, and even improved performance in search engines. Still, many marketers don’t get involved in web performance optimization projects, expecting them to be handled entirely by developers. In this talk, you’ll learn about marketing’s critical role in measuring, auditing, and optimizing performance to drive greater impact for your business.
SearchLove Boston 2018 - Bartosz Goralewicz - JavaScript: Looking Past the ...Distilled
Thanks to his numerous experiments and viral articles, Elephate’s Bartosz Góralewicz has become an authoritative and trusted voice when it comes to JavaScript SEO. At SearchLove Boston, Bartosz is ready to unveil never-before-seen experiments and research to reveal whether or not you can rank with a JS website, if JavaScript crawling and indexing is as good as Google claims, and more. This eye-opening session will change your perception on the state of JavaScript today.
SearchLove London 2016 | Dom Woodman | How to Get Insight From Your LogsDistilled
In the SEO industry, we obsess on everything Google says, from John Mueller dropping a hint in a Webmaster Hangout, to the ranking data we spend £1000s to gather. Yet we ignore the data Google throws at us every day, the crawling data. For the longest time, site crawls, traffic data, and rankings have been the pillars of SEO data gathering. Log files should join them as something everyone is doing. We'll go through how to get everything set-up, look at some of the tools to make it easy and repeatable and go through the kinds of analysis you can do to get insights from the data.
BrightonSEO, July 2021 - To better understand a website's content search engines developed Web Rendering Services and are now able to render pages more or less like a normal user. Those Web Rendering Services are strictly connected to other phases of the crawling-indexing-ranking pipeline - if a rendering fails, it may affect all of them. In this session Giacomo will guide you through the process of understanding why rendering could be a problem also for non-Javascript pages, how to manually debug page rendering, the difference between understanding WRSs' capabilities and debugging problems on a website, and eventually how to test pages at scale.
SearchLove San Diego 2018 | Will Critchlow | From the Horse’s Mouth: What We ...Distilled
If you pay close enough attention, you can learn all kinds of things from what Google does and doesn’t say in public. From patents to official statements, to comments that Googlers leave on message boards, there is a wealth of information out there that hints at what they really think.
In this presentation, Will is going to work through some of the most significant official announcements and the most insight-heavy comments and leaks of Google’s first 20 years. You’ll come away from this presentation not only with a deeper understanding of the search giant, but also with the tools to understand and interpret future statements and leaks.
Introduction to PWAs & New JS Frameworks for MobileMobileMoxie
Emily Grossman's talk about PWAs from BrightonSEO September 2017
Video slides have been replaced by a screenshot with links to the videos or their original sources.
How to build simple web apps to automate your SEO tasks - BrightonSEO Spring ...Charly Wargnier
Time to speed-up your SEO workflows!
In this talk, I will show you how to:
+ Build simple Python Web apps to automate your tasks via the mighty Streamlit framework
+ Deploy them in one click and for free, so you can share them with your teammates (or the word!)
I'll finish the talk with some exciting use cases!
SearchLove London 2018 - John Campbell - Voice Search – Calculating and Seizi...Distilled
Voice has and continues to be the hot topic of 2018, fuelled by the statistic that “50% of searches" will be conducted via voice by 2020. Voice is still an emerging marking as such there is very little data or tools which allow individuals to understand the opportunity in the market by vertical or key phrase.
John will be talking about the voice market landscape today, how you can calculate the opportunity at a key phrase level and practical steps to how to cease the opportunity ready for the supposedly “50% of searches” in 2020.
Rendering SEO Manifesto - Why we need to go beyond JavaScript SEOOnely
Want to make sure that your content gets properly accessed by search engines and ranks high? Look no further! In this beginner-friendly introduction to batch-optimized rendering, Bartosz will guide you through how Google is rendering websites on a large scale. You’ll gain groundbreaking insights based on Google’s patents and documentation. Join Bartosz to get a new perspective on technical SEO and use it to get more traffic!
SearchLove San Diego 2018 | Mat Clayton | Site Speed for Digital MarketersDistilled
We all know that site speed matters not only for users but also for search rankings. As marketers, how can we measure and improve the impact of site speed? Mat will cover a range of topics and tools, from the basic quick wins to some of the more surprising and cutting-edge techniques used by the largest websites in the world.
On-Page SEO EXTREME - SEOZone Istanbul 2013Bastian Grimm
My presentation from #SEOZone Istanbul 2013 covering advanced On-Page SEO optimization aspects such as crawl-ability, semantics, duplicate content issues as well as performance optimization stragies.
What have we learning from 9 months of SEO split testing?
What works and what failed? How do you run your own tests? All of that and a free tool. Hooray free.
If you want something a little more comprehensive, all these tests were run by me with DistilledODN our split testing platform. Find out more here! - https://odn.distilled.net/
TechSEO Boost 2021 - Rendering Strategies: Measuring the Devil’s Details in C...Catalyst
View the recording here: https://www.catalystdigital.com/techseoboost/#on-demand-recordings
Jamie Indigo, Technical SEO Consultant, DeepCrawl
Everyone's buzzing about Core Web Vitals, but we often overlook critical context-- these metrics are the results of how we render content. Let's deep dive into render mechanics, strategies, performance measurement and what's the best fit for your site. As with most things SEO: it's not about what you do; it's how you do it.
The State of the Web: Pagination and Infinite ScrollAdam Gent
Providing recommendations on how to optimize pagination (post rel=next and rel=prev) based on results of testing pagination and infinite scroll in the wild.
GTM Clowns, fun and hacks - Search Elite - May 2017 Gerry WhiteGerry White
As Google becomes a JavaScript crawler, GTM becomes an incredible way to improve your site for both users and bots. This goes through some very simple methods, and what they can be used for...
Challenges of building a search engine like web rendering serviceGiacomo Zecchini
SMX Advanced Europe, June 2021 - With the advent of new technologies and the massive use of Javascript on the internet, search engines have started using Web Rendering Services to better understand the content of pages on the internet. What are the difficulties in building a WRS? Are tools we use every day replicating what search engines do? In this session, Giacomo will drive you on a discovery journey digging in some techy implementation details of a search engine like web rendering service building process, covering edge cases such as infinite scrolling, iframe, web component, and shadow DOM and how to approach them.
If you want a fast web site, you have to get a lot of things right. It's worth it - revenue rises steeply if you can get load times under 2 seconds. This is my ever-growing list of tips, tricks and warnings about improving page speed load times.
#CMC2019: Advanced SEO: Competitive intelligence, Web Scraping, and More. Mel Sciorra
It's all about getting ahead of the competition and winning the war on the web. Learn how to scrape your competitors top performing content and keywords, analyze the text with AI tools to find tone, style and consistent themes, and apply that intelligence to develop your own content strategy rooted in performance that will better appeal to your readers and fans and deliver results.
Attend this session to learn advanced optimization secrets:
•Key elements of a web page that can be extracted for research.
•Top discovery tools to quickly find optimized topics, titles and tags.
•How to use XPath and Screaming Frog Web Crawler to fuel research.
•New tools to analyze content and predict the big five characteristics.
•Sneak peek at some new tools for advanced search engine optimization.
Duplicate content continues to confuse many of us. Part of the problem is there are different types of duplicate content which may be treated differently by search engines. There are different ways to deal with this in your SEO and content marketing strategy. It's important to be careful when removing content to ensure you're not shooting yourself in the foot. Instead of remove, try to improve or regroup content which is being triggered for the same query class / cluster and may be diluting. Change the emphasis and make something of added value for users. Consider query and category agnostic filtering versus content which is considered at query run-time auction in search results.
SEO Case Study: Choosing the Correct TLD (Top Level Domain)Michael Jones
A presentation I gave at the Melbourne SEO Meetup event in December 2014, this was a case study I undertook to determine the affects of moving a website that has international appeal from a .com.au domain to a .com domain (everything on the website apart from the domain name remained the same).
I go through why I did the test, how i did it and the immediate results I saw. It was a pretty straight forward and quick process to migrate to the new domain, and judging my the results (I am uploading this now a month after i did the case study and results have maintained or improved further)
Please feel free to ask any questions in the comment box below, email me at info@holidaypoint.com.au, or if you live in Melbourne, come to the dedicated SEO Meetup at http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-SEO/
Vortrag von Christoph C. Cemper auf der SEOkomm 2013 mit einem Fallbeispiel wie das Rücknehmen einer Google Penalty nach zwei Fehlversuchen so beschleunigt werden konnte, dass das Google Spam Team innerhalb von Tagen die Penalty weggenommen hat.
How to build simple web apps to automate your SEO tasks - BrightonSEO Spring ...Charly Wargnier
Time to speed-up your SEO workflows!
In this talk, I will show you how to:
+ Build simple Python Web apps to automate your tasks via the mighty Streamlit framework
+ Deploy them in one click and for free, so you can share them with your teammates (or the word!)
I'll finish the talk with some exciting use cases!
SearchLove London 2018 - John Campbell - Voice Search – Calculating and Seizi...Distilled
Voice has and continues to be the hot topic of 2018, fuelled by the statistic that “50% of searches" will be conducted via voice by 2020. Voice is still an emerging marking as such there is very little data or tools which allow individuals to understand the opportunity in the market by vertical or key phrase.
John will be talking about the voice market landscape today, how you can calculate the opportunity at a key phrase level and practical steps to how to cease the opportunity ready for the supposedly “50% of searches” in 2020.
Rendering SEO Manifesto - Why we need to go beyond JavaScript SEOOnely
Want to make sure that your content gets properly accessed by search engines and ranks high? Look no further! In this beginner-friendly introduction to batch-optimized rendering, Bartosz will guide you through how Google is rendering websites on a large scale. You’ll gain groundbreaking insights based on Google’s patents and documentation. Join Bartosz to get a new perspective on technical SEO and use it to get more traffic!
SearchLove San Diego 2018 | Mat Clayton | Site Speed for Digital MarketersDistilled
We all know that site speed matters not only for users but also for search rankings. As marketers, how can we measure and improve the impact of site speed? Mat will cover a range of topics and tools, from the basic quick wins to some of the more surprising and cutting-edge techniques used by the largest websites in the world.
On-Page SEO EXTREME - SEOZone Istanbul 2013Bastian Grimm
My presentation from #SEOZone Istanbul 2013 covering advanced On-Page SEO optimization aspects such as crawl-ability, semantics, duplicate content issues as well as performance optimization stragies.
What have we learning from 9 months of SEO split testing?
What works and what failed? How do you run your own tests? All of that and a free tool. Hooray free.
If you want something a little more comprehensive, all these tests were run by me with DistilledODN our split testing platform. Find out more here! - https://odn.distilled.net/
TechSEO Boost 2021 - Rendering Strategies: Measuring the Devil’s Details in C...Catalyst
View the recording here: https://www.catalystdigital.com/techseoboost/#on-demand-recordings
Jamie Indigo, Technical SEO Consultant, DeepCrawl
Everyone's buzzing about Core Web Vitals, but we often overlook critical context-- these metrics are the results of how we render content. Let's deep dive into render mechanics, strategies, performance measurement and what's the best fit for your site. As with most things SEO: it's not about what you do; it's how you do it.
The State of the Web: Pagination and Infinite ScrollAdam Gent
Providing recommendations on how to optimize pagination (post rel=next and rel=prev) based on results of testing pagination and infinite scroll in the wild.
GTM Clowns, fun and hacks - Search Elite - May 2017 Gerry WhiteGerry White
As Google becomes a JavaScript crawler, GTM becomes an incredible way to improve your site for both users and bots. This goes through some very simple methods, and what they can be used for...
Challenges of building a search engine like web rendering serviceGiacomo Zecchini
SMX Advanced Europe, June 2021 - With the advent of new technologies and the massive use of Javascript on the internet, search engines have started using Web Rendering Services to better understand the content of pages on the internet. What are the difficulties in building a WRS? Are tools we use every day replicating what search engines do? In this session, Giacomo will drive you on a discovery journey digging in some techy implementation details of a search engine like web rendering service building process, covering edge cases such as infinite scrolling, iframe, web component, and shadow DOM and how to approach them.
If you want a fast web site, you have to get a lot of things right. It's worth it - revenue rises steeply if you can get load times under 2 seconds. This is my ever-growing list of tips, tricks and warnings about improving page speed load times.
#CMC2019: Advanced SEO: Competitive intelligence, Web Scraping, and More. Mel Sciorra
It's all about getting ahead of the competition and winning the war on the web. Learn how to scrape your competitors top performing content and keywords, analyze the text with AI tools to find tone, style and consistent themes, and apply that intelligence to develop your own content strategy rooted in performance that will better appeal to your readers and fans and deliver results.
Attend this session to learn advanced optimization secrets:
•Key elements of a web page that can be extracted for research.
•Top discovery tools to quickly find optimized topics, titles and tags.
•How to use XPath and Screaming Frog Web Crawler to fuel research.
•New tools to analyze content and predict the big five characteristics.
•Sneak peek at some new tools for advanced search engine optimization.
Duplicate content continues to confuse many of us. Part of the problem is there are different types of duplicate content which may be treated differently by search engines. There are different ways to deal with this in your SEO and content marketing strategy. It's important to be careful when removing content to ensure you're not shooting yourself in the foot. Instead of remove, try to improve or regroup content which is being triggered for the same query class / cluster and may be diluting. Change the emphasis and make something of added value for users. Consider query and category agnostic filtering versus content which is considered at query run-time auction in search results.
SEO Case Study: Choosing the Correct TLD (Top Level Domain)Michael Jones
A presentation I gave at the Melbourne SEO Meetup event in December 2014, this was a case study I undertook to determine the affects of moving a website that has international appeal from a .com.au domain to a .com domain (everything on the website apart from the domain name remained the same).
I go through why I did the test, how i did it and the immediate results I saw. It was a pretty straight forward and quick process to migrate to the new domain, and judging my the results (I am uploading this now a month after i did the case study and results have maintained or improved further)
Please feel free to ask any questions in the comment box below, email me at info@holidaypoint.com.au, or if you live in Melbourne, come to the dedicated SEO Meetup at http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-SEO/
Vortrag von Christoph C. Cemper auf der SEOkomm 2013 mit einem Fallbeispiel wie das Rücknehmen einer Google Penalty nach zwei Fehlversuchen so beschleunigt werden konnte, dass das Google Spam Team innerhalb von Tagen die Penalty weggenommen hat.
Presentation about SEO for IAB Belgium @Google Offices BXL (intermediate level)
TOC:
- The SEO Pyramid
- Which ranking factors matter
- SEO trends
- SEO Migration
- New sites & SEO
- Social Media & SEO
- International SEO
- Local SEO
- Video & Image SEO
- Keyword Research (finally done right)
- Optimizing your website / writing content
Give Google What They Want: Beat Panda and Penguin (Plus, Protect Yourself in...Tom Drake
Has your search traffic suddenly dropped? Maybe you just want to ensure it doesn’t happen to you in the future. Tom Drake manages 25 blogs and has recovered traffic for sites impacted by Panda and Penguin. Tom will show you how to tell if an algorithm change has affected you, and, if so, which algorithm is bringing you down. Tom will also provide you with tested strategies to help you recover your search traffic — and never lose it again. Even if you’ve never experienced a loss in traffic, these strategies can protect your site from future search engine updates that could wipe out half your pageviews overnight.
SEO has always sat at the intersection between being a science and an art. We all love to try out new ideas and try to understand what makes the search engines tick, but it can be frustrating to have to cut through the guesswork and speculation just to figure out what Google really wants from us. Even worse, we still find ourselves making SEO changes, seeing uplifts, but then not knowing which changes actually had any impact.
Fortunately, new software and better technologies now make it possible to run proper SEO-focused tests and, for the first time, actually measure the impact that each SEO change has on our site. Rob will share these techniques, discuss some of the experiments that Distilled has been running, reveal the unexpected things they’ve learned along the way, and share how you can start running experiments yourself.
TFM - Using Google Tag Manager for ecom Gerry White
Google Tag Manager is, essentially a manager for JavaScript, which means that you can use it to modify and enhance your website - sometimes to test sometimes when you have a CMS that can't do something as simple as a YouTube embed. Also, because of this, understand the risks.
Web Performance & Search Engines - A look beyond rankingsGiacomo Zecchini
London Web Performance Meetup - 10th November 2020
There is a lot of talk about web performance as a ranking signal in Search Engines and how important or not it is, but often people are overlooking how performance affects multiple phases of a search engine such as crawling, rendering, and indexing.
In this talk, we'll try to understand how a search engine works and how some aspects of web performance affect the online presence of a website.
Learn advanced SEO tactics and strategies in this second installment of my Demand Quest course. Topics include local SEO, link building, and international SEO.
DMSSO 2016 - The Real State of SEO in 2016 and Beyond @nagyseoRobert Nagy
Should we still build links, track rankings and optimize our sites' pages in 2017? Should we look at SEO split testing or A/B testing; should we still care about 30x pages, should we use canonical tags to keep certain pages out of Googlebot; should we look at inlining our CSS and JS? Do we know for a fact that a mobile page loading fast will rank you higher?
Robert is CEO, Director of Digital Services at nagySEO, a fast growing digital agency in Southampton, England. Robert has over 10 years in-depth knowledge and experience in technical SEO, on-site and off-site optimisation. He often runs 1-to-1 SEO sessions and workshops for marketing teams. Robert supports local SMBs and SMEs from sectors including retail, consumer, health, consulting and financial services based across the UK, Europe and Channel Islands.
Robert was a featured speaker at Digital Marketing Summit Southampton 2016 - a series of events created for marketers in South of England. Eventz.Digital creates and hosts events which cover all aspects of digital marketing including paid search, SEO, mobile, e-Commerce and much more.
Eventz.Digital will inspire you to find effective solutions to the real problems you face every day and help you connect with like-minded people. With an action-packed agenda, inspiring key-note presentations and practical workshops, brace yourself for game-changing, dynamic, full-on events.
Key partners include Google UK, Google Capital, Digital Garage, Creative Network South, Business South, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Business Alliance and Digital South.
10 Tactics for Surviving & Thriving in GoogleJen Keller
Google’s search results are vastly different today than they were two years ago. There are new kinds of results (knowledge graph, rich snippets, carousels, verticals, etc) and updated SEO best practices (microdata, backlinking, anchor text, keywords, etc). This presentation explains the relatively recent Google algorithm updates and their potentially devastating effects on non-compliant websites. Plus, it covers 10 sure-fire SEO tactics you can implement to survive and thrive in Google’s ever-changing world. (March 2014)
SearchLove London 2019 - Will Critchlow - Misunderstood Concepts at the Heart...Distilled
The basics of SEO are technical accessibility, relevance, quality, and authority. Or: can it be crawled, does it meet a keyword need, and is it trustworthy? In each of these areas, we need to build on solid foundational understanding, and find the areas where advanced understanding will give us an edge. Will’s recent research has shown common gaps in understanding, and highlighted interesting advanced topics. In this wide-ranging session, he guarantees you’ll learn something, and you’ll come away with training guidelines for the basics.
SearchLove London 2019 - Stacey MacNaught - Actioning Search Intent: What to ...Distilled
Search Intent analysis can give us a ton of really insightful data. But what do we do with it all? In this session, Stacey talks us through using data acquired through Search Intent to create revenue and traffic driving assets on your website. She'll share practical examples of using this data to win back previously lost rankings and generate more ££ through organic search.
International SEO is difficult at the best of times. Maintaining and, hopefully, growing organic search traffic through phased re-architecture and migration of multinational and multilingual organizations is even more complex. Together we’ll look at specific challenges and opportunities from recent complex project examples.
SearchLove London 2019 - Dr. Pete Meyers - Scaling Keyword Research: More Isn...Distilled
Traditional keyword research has been a numbers game, but as SEO evolves, more is no longer better. SEO in 2020 will require deep keyword insight, including understanding brand influence, search intent, synonyms, and content. Findings from enterprise case studies suggest better ways to approach keyword research at scale.
SearchLoveLondon 2019 - Faisal Anderson - Spying on Google: Using Log File An...Distilled
Log File Analysis is rarely touched on by the average SEO... but you're missing out on data that is pure gold. Imagine not "guesstimating" how Googlebot and other crawlers behave on a website with traditional crawling tools and actually knowing how Google is crawling a client's site? Imagine not having to play by the 1000 row limit in search console (without delving into the coding or the API) and having limitless data? All of this and more can be done with Log File Analysis.
Learn how to actually get log files from clients (without making their brain hurt from excessive SEO jargon) and handle different Log File Types & how to diagnose any crawling issue by analysing crawling rates by sub-folder or by crawl depth, seeing behaviours on low value add URLs, reviewing how Googlebot behaves based on page speed and much, much more!
This talk is for any level of SEO, and starts from the absolute basics to more advanced checks that can be performed quickly to bring massive value to clients and reveal big wins for any website.
SearchLove London 2019 - Rory Truesdale - Using the SERPs to Know Your AudienceDistilled
It’s easy to get swept away by monthly search volume and to forget that behind every search there is a person with a specific motivation and set of needs to fulfil. This talk will look at how you can use Google’s algorithmic rewriting of the SERPs to help you identify those motivations so you can effectively optimise for intent and query context to improve the ranking performance of your landing pages. This talk will also help you understand how you can use this information to create more tailored online experiences for your prospective customers and how the same workflows can be applied for more general business intelligence insights.
SearchLove London 2019 - Rand Fishkin - The Search Landscape in 2019Distilled
In this broad look at search trends and searcher data, Rand will explore the key changes affecting search marketers and those seeking to earn influence through Google. From zero-click searches, to tough choices on structured data, to the new ways Google is using information consensus and weighting particular types of authority, this presentation will make every marketer a more strategic thinker about search.
SearchLove London 2019 - Jes Scholtz - Giving Robots an All Access PassDistilled
Optimising crawl budget and encouraging search engine indexation are concepts most SEOs are familiar with. But the devil is in the details. Especially as best practices have altered in recent years and will do so again with the introduction of indexing APIs by both Google and Bing. Should you control crawlers with robots directives? Or XML sitemaps? Or submit via the APIs? Or just let Google figure it out? In this session, Jes will delve into the optimal way to get your content into search engines fast.
SearchLove London 2019 - Heather Physioc - Building a Discoverability PowerhouseDistilled
Search is a channel that can’t live in a silo. In order to be its most effective, search teams have to collaborate successfully across paid, organic, content and more. Get tips for integrating and collaborating from the hard knocks and learnings of merging an organic, paid and performance content team into one Discoverability group. Find out how we went from three teams of individual experts to one integrated Discoverability powerhouse, and learn from our mistakes and wins as you apply the principles in your own company.
SearchLove London 2019 - Andi Jarvis - The Science of PersuasionDistilled
Scientists have been studying how the brain works to try and unlock its secrets for hundreds of years. Since the emergence of marketing in the 1950s, many people have focused on how the brain affects our buying behaviour. In this presentation, Andi will breakdown the research and give you some tips that can improve your conversion rates.
SearchLove London 2019 - Luke Carthy - Finding Powerful CRO and UX Opportunit...Distilled
An SEO crawler is a staple tool in any SEO pro's toolkit, but have you ever considered using such a tool to seek out powerful CRO opportunities? Luke is an out and out ecommerce expert who'll be sharing tips and takeaways on how to leverage custom extraction with an SEO crawler to improve ecommerce conversion rates and enhance UX.
SearchLove London 2019 - Greg Gifford - Doc Brown's Plutonium-powered Local S...Distilled
With the assistance of Doc Brown, Greg's back from the future with a detailed playbook for Local SEO in 2020. If you're working with a business with a physical location or that serves customers in a particular geographic area, this presentation will outline exactly what you need to do if you want more visibility in local searches in 2020. Learn how Local SEO is different, how to write and optimize content, how to build local links, how to make a better first impression with Google My Business, and how to rock your customer reviews. You'll learn everything you need to know to help your business stand out from competitors and attract more customers in 2020.
SearchLove London 2019 - Sarah Gurbach - Using Qualitative Data to Make Human...Distilled
Sarah will be presenting a variety of ways that search marketers can acquire and analyze qualitative data to compliment ever-present quantitative data. These methods include customer interviews, on-site recordings, tools and polls and surveys. She'll be showing you how to process all this data and will provide real-life examples of how this has been used with previous clients.
SearchLove London 2019 - Marie Haynes - Practical Tips for Improving E-A-TDistilled
By now you have likely heard of Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trust and its importance in Google's algorithms. But how do we improve a site's E-A-T? This talk will give real life examples of sites that made changes to their E-A-T and saw traffic increases shortly afterwards. The goal is to send you away with a list of things you can accomplish to help improve in this area.
SearchLove Boston 2019 - Rand Fishkin - Building Influence in 2019Distilled
As web marketing undergoes its biggest shift in a decade, how we impact audiences needs to evolve. In this presentation, Rand shows how web marketers in content, search, social, and advertising (+ influencer marketing) can shift their strategic and tactical investments to align with what the big platforms offer, and how consumer behavior has changed, too.
SearchLove Boston 2019 - Courtney Cox Wakefield - Voice Search and Instant An...Distilled
The introduction of voice answers and featured snippets requires significant time investment for SEO teams that are already struggling to keep up with expanding scope. This session will help digital marketers scale their instant answer research and optimization to get quick results without stretching contributors too thin.The introduction of voice answers and featured snippets requires significant time investment for SEO teams that are already struggling to keep up with expanding scope. This session will help digital marketers scale their instant answer research and optimization to get quick results without stretching contributors too thin.
SearchLove Boston 2019 - Tom Anthony - Search in 2020: Technologies That Will...Distilled
Signed exchanges? ITP? SEO is a constantly updating discipline, and to succeed we have to understand the technologies the web is running on. The current pace of change is high and there are a wealth of changes that are going to impact how we do effective SEO. Signed Exchanges mean Google can serve pages from your domain from their servers. Intelligent Tracking Prevention means that your analytics are about to be transformed. Googlebot updates may increase the pressure to adopt new web technologies to compete. In this session Tom is going to outline some of the important changes, help you understand what they mean for your SEO efforts, and show you how you can prepare.
SearchLove Boston 2019 - Derek Gleason - Benchmarking Success for Client Site...Distilled
There's only one KPI that every client has: more. More traffic, more leads—more of whatever metric you're reporting. Ten percent growth? Why wasn't it fifteen? Six hundred shares? Why wasn't it 1,000?
If we can't set relative, valid benchmarks, we can't set expectations. Reporting becomes a Sisyphean task.
This leads to friction with our direct contact and—critically—weakens the ability of our data to translate throughout an organization.
SearchLove Boston 2019 - Kameron Jenkins - The Modern Search Writer’s ToolkitDistilled
A few minutes in your favorite keyword research tool, a few minutes reading top results in Google, and a few hours drafting... that post will perform, right? Not so fast. The landscape is more saturated and algorithms are more mature than ever before. We need to think bigger. In this talk, Kameron will share what tools are in her “full-stack writer” toolkit along with clear examples of what this looks like put into practice.
SearchLove Boston 2019 - Joy Hawkins - 10 Ways to Get Results with Local SEODistilled
In this session, Joy will be going through various case studies of real clients and highlighting what exactly she did to improve their Local SEO results and what the impact was.
This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
This presentation, created by Syed Faiz ul Hassan, explores the profound influence of media on public perception and behavior. It delves into the evolution of media from oral traditions to modern digital and social media platforms. Key topics include the role of media in information propagation, socialization, crisis awareness, globalization, and education. The presentation also examines media influence through agenda setting, propaganda, and manipulative techniques used by advertisers and marketers. Furthermore, it highlights the impact of surveillance enabled by media technologies on personal behavior and preferences. Through this comprehensive overview, the presentation aims to shed light on how media shapes collective consciousness and public opinion.
0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
Acorn Recovery: Restore IT infra within minutesIP ServerOne
Introducing Acorn Recovery as a Service, a simple, fast, and secure managed disaster recovery (DRaaS) by IP ServerOne. A DR solution that helps restore your IT infra within minutes.
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
31. GOOGLEBOT JAVASCRIPT - SECONDS ARE NOT SECONDS
setTimeout(doSomething, 5000)
Browsers will wait 5000 milliseconds (5 seconds).
GoogleBot fast forwards (dates become wrong).
63. CAN SUBMIT NEW SITEMAP FILES VIA THE PING URL
✓ Typically crawled within seconds
✓ No auth - ping sitemaps for any domain
✓ Google follows redirects
64. CAN SUBMIT NEW SITEMAP FILES VIA THE PING URL
✓ Typically crawled within seconds
✓ No auth - ping sitemaps for any domain
✓ Google follows redirects
Interesting…
65. GOOGLE’S CHECKLIST FOR A VALID XML SITEMAP
✓ Sitemap must be correctly formatted
✓ The URLs must exist
✓ Site containing the URLs must be in GSC
✓ Site hosting the sitemap must be in GSC
66. GOOGLE’S CHECKLIST FOR A VALID XML SITEMAP
✓ Sitemap must be correctly formatted
✓ The URLs must exist
✓ Site containing the URLs must be in GSC
✓ Site hosting the sitemap must be in GSC
Interesting…
69. OBSERVATIONS
✓ Google follows redirects
✓ Site hosting sitemap must be in GSC
✓ Will Google follow a x-domain sitemap redirect?
✓ Will they ‘trust' it?
QUESTIONS
71. SIMPLE TEST
1. Hosted a sitemap.xml on blue.com
2. Setup a redirect script on green.com
3. Ping green.com?next=blue.com/sitemap.xml
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?
sitemap=http://green.com/next/blue.com/sitemap.xml
80. WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DO THIS?
jono.com/logout?continue=tom.com/evil.xml
81. WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DO THIS?
jono.com/logout?continue=tom.com/evil.xml
URL on jono.com, but serves XML Sitemap from tom.com.
82. WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DO THIS???
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?
sitemap=http://jono.com/logout?continue=tom.com/evil.xml
83. WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DO THIS???
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?
sitemap=http://jono.com/logout?continue=tom.com/evil.xml
Ping the URL to submit the sitemap.
Will Google think the evil sitemap belongs to jono.com?
84. PINGING SITEMAPS CROSS-DOMAIN
✓ Google follows the redirect, and crawls it.
✓ Google trusts it as canonical to the originating domain.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?
sitemap=http://jono.com/logout?continue=tom.com/evil.xml
85. WE CAN NOW SUBMIT TRUSTED
SITEMAPS FOR OTHER SITES
86. We can now submit hreflang
entries for other sites…
109. EARLIER: CAN’T SUBMIT SITEMAPS IN GSC WHEN NOT PERMITTED
SITEMAP NOT PERMITTED EXAMPLE:
110. NOW: CROSS SUBMITTED THE SITEMAP TO MY GSC, AND IT WAS ALLOWED
SITEMAP NOT PERMITTED EXAMPLE:
SITEMAP FOR "TESCO.COM" URLS WAS ALLOWED IN “TESCOGLOBAL.COM" GSC:
114. DEFENCE
✓ No open redirects
✓ If you have them - block in robots.txt
✓ Have a sitemap, with hreflang & media entries
✓ Hide your sitemaps
✓ Check 302s in logs
115. FINDING OPEN REDIRECTS
✓ Look for redirect parameter (e.g continue= or next=)
✓ Check login & logout URLs
✓ Site searches, e.g site:www.foo.com inurl:=http
✓ Better with specific sections: site:www.foo.com/bar inurl:=http
✓ Check not blocked in robots.txt
✓ Check openbugbounty.org
116. GOOGLE OFFICIAL RESPONSE
✓ I reported it in September 2017
✓ March 2018 - Google award a bug bounty
✓ March 2018 - Google confirm it is fixed.
✓ April 2018 - Google increase the bug bounty ($5000)