SEJ Summit 2015: What You Did Not Plan for in 2015 by Jordan Koene

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Transcript of SEJ Summit 2015: What You Did Not Plan for in 2015 by Jordan Koene

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Chief Evangelist, Searchmetrics Inc.

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3Takeaways

Content Security Dooms Day

Plans

Non-Google

Search

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Content Security

• What is Google indexing?

• Do you have sensitive content indexed?

• Can I protect my customers, employees and

business by blocking content from Google

• Content Audit for Risk

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What should I be looking for?

• Login pages, email reset

• Content which is only for a select group

• Help or instructional content

• Ask yourself, is this necessary in Google?

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Salesforce Help

Whitehouse.gov

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Dooms Day Plan

• More and more brands websites are seeing dramatic SEO

drops

• The number of penalties is growing

• Google changes are targeting niche or categories

• Overlooked technical changes cause dramatic drops

• Recovering from Google issues is slow

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CNN

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Discovery.com

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Patch

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Retailmenot

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Non-Google Search

• 3 Y’s (Yahoo, Youtube, Yandex)

• Social Search (Facebook and Twitter)

• Commerce Search (eBay, Amazon, Alibaba)

• Image Search (Pinterest, Twitter)

• Content Search (Wikipedia, CNN)

• Local Search (Yelp, Maps)

• Job Search (Glassdoor, Indeed)

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eBay Content Search

SF Zoo Job Page

NFL on Twitter

3Takeaways

Content Security Dooms Day

Plans

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@jtkoene

www.linkedin.com/in/jordankoene

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