How to Prove the Value of SEO By Erin Everhart

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The struggle is very real, you guys

How To Prove The Value Of SEO

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TITLE OPTION #2 – IMAGE Slide with SMX FOOTER:

This  blank  layout  offers  you  flexibility  to  insert  your  own  standard  slides  above  the  SMX  footer-­‐  either  for  a  title  slide  or  all  others.      YOU  MUST  USE  THIS  FOOTER  AT  MINIMUM  ON  YOUR  TITLE  SLIDE  &    ALMOST  ALL  OF  YOUR  SLIDES.    If  a  screenshot  overlaps  the  footer  on  occasion,  that’s  fine  –  but  do  your  best  to  crop  appropriately.    If  using  explicit  fonts  are  important,  you  may  provide  a  pdf  to  the  event  organizers  to  maintain  look  &  feel  during  live  presentation  and  in  the  version  SMX  will  upload  to  slideshare.            DELETE  THIS  SLIDE  IF  YOU  DO  NOT  USE.    

If you could get me that No. 1 ranking tomorrow,

That’d be great. Thanks.

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Can you just call Google?

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It’s not their fault

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They may recognize SEO as important

via  Pew  Research  Center  

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But their budgets don’t back them up

via  Forrester  

Paid  8%  

Organic  92%  

%  of  Search  Engine  Clicks  

Paid  89%  

Organic  11%  

%  of  Search  Engine  Spend  

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Google doesn’t exactly make it easy

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Headline Text Slide with Solid Blue Banner:

This  blank  layout  offers  you  flexibility  to  insert  your  own  standard  slides  above  the  SMX  footer    YOU  MUST  USE  THIS  FOOTER  AT  MINIMUM  ON  ALMOST  ALL  OF  YOUR  SLIDES.    If  a  screenshot  overlaps  the  footer  on  occasion,  that’s  fine  –  but  do  your  best  to  crop  appropriately.    If  explicit  fonts  are  important,  you  may  provide  a  pdf  to  the  event  organizers  to  maintain  look  &  feel  during  live  presentation  and  in  the  version  smx  will  upload  to  slideshare.      DELETE  THIS  SLIDE  IF  YOU  DO  NOT  USE.    

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Don’t care how. I want it now.

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There’s an incubation period with SEO

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You have a very small window

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Take things one bite at a time

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Show a competitor beating you Show a competitor beating you

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Remember when this was all we needed?

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FOLD  

No.  1   ????  

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And misattribution? Or “ad” blockers?

via  Search  Engine  Land  &  Groupon  

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Now, we’re drowning in data We are drowning in data now

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And leaves people dumbfounded

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You need to be in the weeds. They don’t.

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But geez don’t they love the keyword planner?

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This isn’t helping anyone.

via  Avinash  Kaushki  

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News Flash: This isn’t any better folks

via  Avinash  Kaushki  

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Give them information, not data

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Give them actions, not a laundry list of tactics

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Show impact on overall business, not just SEO

“Not  my  job”  

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Stop reporting only on window shoppers

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Relate visits back to revenue

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Remember: Online metrics don’t live in a bubble

via  Google  Inside  AdWords  

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Ultimately, just show what’s in it for them

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SEE YOU AT THE NEXT #SMX

THANK YOU!

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