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Advanced SEO for Ecommerce Sites
By Patrick Altoft, Director of Search
@patrickaltoft
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The current
CITATIONS
BUILD
CONVERSATIONS
NEWS
Sentiment
SOCIAL
Authority Relevance
Freshness
is listening to…
DESIGN
CONTENT
BLOG
Engagement
Satisfaction
Structure Quality
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Ecommerce SEO challenges • Content strategy
• Adding value
• User generated content
• Return to search
• Design, usability and making users love you
• Link clean-up & penalties
• Link strategy
• Reporting ROI with 100% of your keyword data “not provided”
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What Google wants “The goal of many of our ranking changes is to help searchers find sites that provide a great user experience and fulfil their information needs. ”
Matt Cutts
Our strategy therefore is to create a better search result for our clients than their competitors.
This can be split into two simple to understand factors:
• Creating more authority and being a better/more reputable company
• Making better landing pages, specifically your primary pages
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Content Audit Document
•Typography
•Readability
•Spelling/grammar
•Shareability
•Keyword use
•Copyscape report on
stolen content
•Social media shares
Shareable Content
•Brainstorming
•Competitor Analysis
•Examples &
screenshots from
competitors
Informative Content
•Research Q&A on
Yahoo Answers,
Quora, Facebook,
•Search for questions
in Analytics data &
keyword tool data
•Gap Analysis of
current content
•Examples &
screenshots from
competitors etc
User Generated Content
•Reviews –
implementation,
incentivisation etc
•Q&A section or Q&A
on product pages etc
•Forums, blog
comments, guest
blog posts, in-depth
content reviews
•Examples &
screenshots from
competitors etc
Site Structure
•Where does content
need to go (blog or
Q&A etc)
•How should the
sections be
structured
•Design & UI
• Interlinking between
sections
•Examples &
screenshots from
competitors
Content Roadmap Document
•Monthly or weekly
content plan
•Special events &
calendar
•Blog calendar
•PR calendar
Content strategy framework
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http://b3.io/TBXFpw
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http://www.copyblogger.com/content-marketing/
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Reviews If you don’t have a user review strategy – why not?
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Questions & Answers Why wouldn’t you do this?
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The Future (& present) of SEO
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Return to Search You have a few seconds to get the visitor’s attention and persuade them that they have arrived at a site that will answer their query.
If they go back to Google, that’s a negative signal.
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Manual Penalties
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Penguin 2.0
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Clean-up is Future-proofing
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Doing real stuff Would you do this if it didn’t help with SEO?
When you release a new page or piece of content would your MD or PR department tweet about it? Would they tweet a link built by your SEO team?
If not then you probably shouldn’t be doing it.
SEO has to be integral to marketing.
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Data Sources Not provided will be 100% soon, attribution modelling becomes largely useless
• Total organic visits to top landing pages
• Total search visits minus brand clicks from WMT data
• Estimated visits per keyword via rankings, CTR & search volumes
• Click share for product categories
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Thank you!
Please email any questions to [email protected] or get in touch on Twitter: @patrickaltoft