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Second screen search: how mobile SEO became the only SEO
The document discusses the evolution and current state of mobile search and usage, highlighting that as of March 2016, 50% of Google searches were conducted on mobile devices. It emphasizes the need for responsive design and mobile-friendly content due to the increasing proportion of digital time spent on smartphones and the growth of mobile traffic. Additionally, it includes statistics on device usage, mobile app installation trends, and factors influencing app downloads.
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- 2. @stekenwright “I want tobe buried with a mobile phone, just in case I’m not dead.” Amanda Holden Tom Dymond/SYCO/THAMES TV/PA Wire
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- 4. @stekenwright Percentage of searchengine users searching on mobile March 2016 Google 50% Bing 26% Source: Ofcom
- 5. @stekenwright 39.3 21.3 13.0 35.2 18.7 11.7 19.5 5.6 2.8 0.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 20.0 25.0 30.0 35.0 40.0 45.0 Google Bing Yahoo! Totalaudience Desktop audience Mobile audience Audience of search engines (millions) March 2016 Source: comScore
- 6. @stekenwright A (brief) historyof Google and mobile Apple launches the iPhone 2007 2010 Responsive Web Design Google launches 1998 Google launches its first Android 2009 2015 Mobile search overtakes desktop Google pays $1bn to be iPhone search default 2014
- 7. @stekenwright The iPhone predatesResponsive Web Design by at least 3 years
- 8. @stekenwright “Get your contentto go anywhere, because it’s going to go everywhere.” Brad Frost Don Clark / Brand New
- 9. @stekenwright Google, Apple, Adobeand Microsoft collaborating on variable fonts FastCo Design / Erik van Blokland
- 10. @stekenwright Use Resizer tosee your content on different screen sizes design.google.com/resizer
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- 12. @stekenwright 90% of usersstart a task on one device and complete it on another Source: Google / LukeW
- 13. @stekenwright Mobile app 50% Mobile browser 7% Tabletapp 9% Tablet browser 2% Desktop 32% Share of total digital time spent July 2016 Source: comScore
- 14. @stekenwright 70.0 61.2 63.2 47.9 40.2 79.0 68.9 60.4 52.2 48.7 0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0 80.0 90.0 18-24 25-34 35-4445-54 55+ Male Female Average time online on a smartphone Hours in March 2016 Source: Ofcom
- 15. @stekenwright 29.3 46.3 44.3 38.0 31.5 25.6 30.4 35.5 34.2 28.4 0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0 80.0 90.0 15-24 25-3435-44 45-54 55+ Male Female Average time online on a laptop/desktop Hours in March 2016 Source: Ofcom
- 16. @stekenwright Proportion of UKadults with a smartphone Q1 2014 61% Q1 2016 71% Source: Ofcom
- 17. @stekenwright Number of 4Gsubscriptions Q4 2013 2.7m Source: Ofcom Q4 2014 23.6m Q4 2015 39.5m
- 18. @stekenwright A (brief) historyof Google and site speed 2010 Page speed becomes desktop ranking factor Google launches 1998 2016-17 Mobile page-speed part of mobile-friendly 5G expected in UK 2020 4G available in UK 2013 PageSpeed Insights 2011 AMP 2016
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- 21. @stekenwright Both at homeand outside 66% Mainly at home 16% Only at home 8% Only out of home 1% Mainly out of home 9% Where do you use the internet on your phone? Source: Ofcom
- 22. @stekenwright At home 68% At work 9% Onthe go 17% In store 2% Other 4% Where are you when you search on your mobile? Source: Think with Google
- 23. @stekenwright 3% 2% 7% 13% 17% 19% 18% 22% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% Midnight - 3am3 - 6am 6 - 9am 9am - Noon Noon - 3pm 3 - 6pm 6 - 8pm 8pm - Midnight When do mobile searches occur? Source: Think with Google
- 24. @stekenwright 36.1% used theirsmartphone while watching TV Source: comScore
- 25. @stekenwright 8.6% research productsor services advertised on TV programme Source: comScore
- 26. @stekenwrightSource: Think withGoogle Still looking for information…not a checkout process.
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- 28. @stekenwright Mobile 48% Desktop 44% Tablet 8% Device split fora spread betting site
- 29. @stekenwright Conversion rate Lead genwebsite Mobile 6.79% Desktop 4.30% Tablet 4.57%
- 30. @stekenwright 24.46% 21.55% 11.49% 7.80% 6.27% 3.29% 2.63% 2.42% 1.49% 1.08% 0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00% 30.00% 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Mobile click through rate Industry average: September 2016
- 31. @stekenwright 1 2 34 5 6 7 8 9 10 Average 24.46% 21.55% 11.49% 7.80% 6.27% 3.29% 2.63% 2.42% 1.49% 1.08% Finance 20.32% 18.56% 8.86% 6.59% 4.91% 2.21% 1.92% 1.48% 1.33% 0.94% 0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00% 30.00% Mobile click through rate in finance vs. average mobile CTR
- 32. @stekenwright 1 2 34 5 6 7 8 9 10 Average 24.46% 21.55% 11.49% 7.80% 6.27% 3.29% 2.63% 2.42% 1.49% 1.08% iGaming 21.44% 7.48% 6.74% 4.03% 3.72% 2.52% 1.69% 1.70% 1.05% 1.13% 0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00% 30.00% Mobile click through rate in iGaming vs. average mobile CTR
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- 34. @stekenwright 1 2 34 5 6 7 8 9 10 Average 24.46% 21.55% 11.49% 7.80% 6.27% 3.29% 2.63% 2.42% 1.49% 1.08% Travel 21.13% 13.45% 10.30% 5.62% 4.36% 3.19% 2.03% 1.59% 1.56% 1.46% 0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00% 30.00% Mobile click through rate in travel vs. average mobile CTR
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- 36. @stekenwright 1 2 34 5 6 7 8 9 10 September 24.46% 21.55% 11.49% 7.80% 6.27% 3.29% 2.63% 2.42% 1.49% 1.08% April 30.40% 20.03% 11.81% 9.25% 5.37% 3.86% 3.03% 1.74% 1.47% 1.08% 0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00% 30.00% 35.00% Mobile click through rate Before/after May 2016 mobile-friendly update: September vs. April 2016
- 37. @stekenwrightSource: Merkle Traffic from4th text ad June/July 2016
- 38. @stekenwright 85% of allpages in the mobile search results meet mobile-friendly criteria Source: Google
- 39. @stekenwright Mobile-friendly 63% Not mobile- friendly 37% April 17th2015 Percentage of mobile-friendly URLs in top 10 results Mobile-friendly 64% Not mobile- friendly 36% May 18th 2015 source: Stone Temple
- 40. @stekenwright Traffic trends Client example DesktopMobile Tablet Linear (Desktop) Linear (Mobile) Linear (Tablet)
- 41. @stekenwright Mobile rate ofgrowth Client example 0.0% 2.0% 4.0% 6.0% 8.0% 10.0% 12.0% 14.0% 16.0% 18.0% 20.0% Feb-13 Mar-13 Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13 Jan-14 Feb-14 Mar-14 Apr-14 May-14 Jun-14 Jul-14 Aug-14 Sep-14 Oct-14 Nov-14 Dec-14 Jan-15 Feb-15 Mar-15 Apr-15 May-15 Jun-15 Jul-15 Aug-15 Sep-15 Oct-15 Nov-15 Dec-15 Jan-16 Feb-16 Mar-16 Apr-16 May-16 Jun-16 Jul-16 Aug-16 Percent of mobile traffic from Google organic Percentage of mobile traffic excluding Google organic
- 42. @stekenwright Mobile 40% Tablet 23% Desktop 37% Search volume bydevice Search volume vs. actual traffic Client example Mobile 14% Tablet 36% Desktop 50% Organic data sources
- 43. @stekenwright Ranking position Client example:mobile vs. desktop -9000 -8000 -7000 -6000 -5000 -4000 -3000 -2000 -1000 0 1000
- 44. @stekenwright Mobile vs. desktopvisibility Compare using SISTRIX
- 45. @stekenwright 20% of iOSmobile web traffic over the past two years came from in-app browsers. Source: LukeW
- 46. @stekenwright 0.00% 10.00% 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00% Friends, family andcolleagues Browse the app store Search engines Company website TV Sources of awareness of smartphone apps Source: Think with Google 2015
- 47. @stekenwright 38.00% 40.00% 42.00% 44.00% 46.00% 48.00% 50.00% 52.00% Search ads Socialads Banner/graphical ads in apps Banner/graphical ads in websites Video ads Types of ads driving app downloads Source: Think with Google 2015
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- 50. @stekenwright Spend on appinstall ads 2015 Total ad spend $3b Spend on Facebook $1.7bn+ Source: Recode / Emarketer
- 51. @stekenwright 0.00% 10.00% 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00% 70.00% 80.00% 90.00% Price Description ReviewsRatings Free trial Important factors when deciding to download an app Source: Think with Google 2015 Mostly app store factors – ads alone are not enough.
- 52. @stekenwright App store rankingfactors Ranking Factors Android iOS Title Short Description Long Description Keywords Images Publisher Updates
- 53. @stekenwright Under 50 characters 89% Over50 characters 11% Length of app names Source: blog.appfigures.com Apple is removing apps with 50 character+ names
- 54. @stekenwright Use AppLaunchpad tobuild screenshots for free theapplaunchpad.com
- 55. @stekenwright Turn your responsivesite into a mobile app “PhoneGap is the original and most popular distribution of Apache Cordova. Turn your HTML, CSS and JavaScript into an app on your device in minutes using our simple desktop and developer apps.” PhoneGap → phonegap.com More distributions → cordova.apache.org
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- 57. @stekenwright 1 in 4installed smartphone apps are never used Source: Think with Google 2015
- 58. @stekenwright “Money spent developinga pretty but limited iPhone app only benefits […] the few, but money spent on the website UI would have benefitted everyone.” Gary Marshall Credit: Anna Dahlström / clement127
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Editor's Notes
- #4 TV…not PC
- #5 Yahoo! and Bing used by 78% as many people as Google
- #7 Yahoo! and Bing used by 78% as many people as Google
- #8 Mobile phones couldn’t use the web *at all* until a year after Google launched. Apple products are half of Google’s mobile revenue
- #17 UK population 64.1m
- #18 77% of mobile searches are conducted in a place where there’s probably a computer
- #23 77% of mobile searches are conducted in a place where there’s probably a computer
- #24 36% use their smartphone while watching TV, 8.6% researched products advertised on TV
- #27 Mobile: 114,050 Desktop: 104,595 Tablet: 19,702
- #28 20k conversions over the last year
- #36 Top 10 results for 15,235 search queries
- #37 Although mobile traffic appears to be increasing for all traffic sources, this is not the case with Google organic only traffic. This is increasing at a much slower rate. Desktop traffic in Google organic is remaining relatively level compared to all other sources where desktop is declining.
- #39 1,000 search terms 40% (496,000) mobile Desktop (455,000)
- #42 24% of over 55s only use desktop 13% of 18-24s don’t use desktop
- #43 24% of over 55s only use desktop 13% of 18-24s don’t use desktop