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Seek and You Shall Be Found: Search Engine Optimization

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Today’s Presenters

Ben Spangler

SEO Manager, Starcom

Ben is an SEO manager at Starcom and consults with companies on leveraging organic search to drive qualified leads to their sites. For more

Andy Markowitz

Director, Global Digital Strategy, GE

Andy leads a Global Digital Strategy Group across GE with a focus on driving stakeholder connection and commercial acceleration. The COE will drive first-class digital capabilities in areas including, strategy, lead generation, search, content, social media and customer engagement.

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SEO Syllabus

• SEO 101

– What is SEO – Why SEO – SEO Principals • SEO 201

– How Search Engines Work

– SEO Strategy/Approach/Blueprint • SEO 301

• SEO Principals Breakout • SEO Touchpoints

• SEO 401

– Starcom SEO Process

• Audience Selection & Goal Setting • Strategy Cultivation

• Tactical Approach • Evolve

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S

earch

O

ptimization

E

ngine

• SEO is the

process

of enhancing your site to allow search engines the

ability to crawl and index content efficiently. Using content and technical

optimizations, the goal is to increase search engine rankings.

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• 75% of searchers never go past first page

• 90% of searchers view only the first or second page of results

• The average Google searcher views: – Natural results for 14.7 seconds – Sponsored results at the top of

the page for only .9 seconds – Sponsored results on the right

side of the page for only .16 seconds

• 76% of C-Suite uses Google/Bing for

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Search Engine Results Page (SERPs)

Paid Search

30-40%

Natural

Search

60-70% Attention

Natural Search

2x as likely to interact 60-70% Attention

.8

seconds

.2

seconds

1.3 seconds

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How search engines work

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SEO strategy

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SEO tactical approach on

the 3 key principals

• Flash/Code

• Single URL Address • Canonicalization

• 404 Errors • Redirects • Sitemaps

• Keyword Strategy • Meta Data

• URL Structure • Page Copy

• Internal Linking • Image Optimization • Video Optimization

• Linking • Widgets

Accessibility: Technical Efficacy

Relevancy: Meaningful Content

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SEO touchpoints

1. Wireframes

• Identify space for content

2. Design/concepts

• Technology issues

3. Content Schedule

• Keyword strategy

4. Content review

• Keyword optimization

• Internal linking

5. Navigation

• Assure search engines ability to crawl

• Unique URLs and naming

6. HTML coding

• Ensure proper coding, no black

hat tactics

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4 steps to SEO optimizations

• Audience Selection & Goal Setting

• Strategy Cultivation

• Tactical Approach

• Evolve

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B2B

B2C

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Audience selection & goal setting

Keyphrase Strategy = Marketing Strategy

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Keyword selection

Short-Tail vs. Long-Tail

• Short-Tail

– Higher Volume

• Long-Tail

– Lower Volume

– Educated search, potentially high ROI/conversions

Short-Tail

Long-Tail

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Strategy cultivation

B2B

B2C

• Goals

– Increased QUALIFIED traffic • Focus

– Greater focus on long-tail terms – Optimize all terms to rank on top 3

pages

– All head terms

o Optimize for page 1 – Priority keywords

o Optimize for top few positions

• Goals

– Reach

– Increased traffic

• Focus

– High volume keywords – Segmentation

– Monitoring – Adaptability

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SEO integration & collaboration

with agencies

• How SMG and Agencies collaborate on SEO:

• SMG defines strategic direction and identifies marketplace opportunities during the Kick-Off, Site Audit, and Keyphrase Strategy.

• SMG works closely with the agency content team to apply SEO best practices, as well as directly supply finished metadata and copyediting when requested.

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