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PAK HOU CHEUNGORGANIC SEARCH STRATEGIST
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UPDATING STRATEGIESWHY TRADITIONAL CONTENT SPAMMING
METHODS NO LONGER WORK
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Source Credit: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=40349
BECAUSE IT SAYS SO
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Source Credit: Google Webmaster Tools
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Links are there to help:
“Drive users to your website”
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LINKS WERE NATURALLY EARNED & HUMANLY CURATED
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WHAT IS GOOGLE PANDA & PENGUIN?
Panda identifies thin/weak content and penalises you for publishing it
Penguin penalises you for thin/weak content which links to you
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HOW CAN I TELL IF I HAVE BEEN
PENALISED?
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GOOGLE WEBMASTER TOOLS
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GOOGLE WEBMASTER TOOLS
Examples of Manual Actions
1. Unnatural links to your site2. Unnatural links from your site3. Hacked site4. Thin content with little or no added value5. Pure spam6. User-generated spam7. Cloaking and/or sneaky redirects8. Hidden text and/or keyword stuffing9. Spammy freehosts
Source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604824?hl=en&ref_topic=2604771
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WHAT DOES APENALISED SITE LOOK LIKE?
Pre Panda & Penguin Organic Traffic
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WHAT DOES APENALISED SITE LOOK LIKE?
Update: 18th September,2012 Panda Rolls Out affecting 0.7% of queries Source: http://searchengineland.com/panda-update-3-92-rolling-out-or-is-it-panda-4-0-time-133607
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WHAT DOES APENALISED SITE LOOK LIKE?
Update: 15th March, 2013 – Panda algorithm updateSource: http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-on-upcoming-penguin-panda-link-networks-updates-151273
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WHAT DOES APENALISED SITE LOOK LIKE?
Update: 22nd May, 2013 – Penguin algorithm update (1.2 – 3rd update)Source: http://searchengineland.com/google-penguin-update-3-135527
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MOZ GOOGLE ALGORITH HISTORY CHANGE
Source: http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change
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PANGUIN TOOL
Source: http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/
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WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW?
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AUDIT FOR PANDA - TECHNICAL
• Redirects ( 301s, 302s)• Crawl Errors (404s, 500s)• Title Tag (Too Long / Short)• Pages Where The Title is Missing or Empty• Duplicate Pages (Title Tags & Content)• Pages That have Long URLs (> 115 characters)• Overly-Dynamic URL Analysis• Pages Containing Too Many On-Page Links• Missing Meta Description Tag Analysis• Robots.txt Analysis• Canonical Tags Analysis• Indexed URLs Analysis• Total URLs Indexed in Search Engines• Clear Site Structure• Page Speed
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AUDIT FOR PANDA - CONTENT
Source: http://www.blueglass.co.uk/blog/content-auditing/
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AUDIT FOR PANDA - CONTENT
Source: http://www.blueglass.co.uk/blog/content-auditing/
Pages that have no:
- Traffic- Links- Comments- Social Interactions
Essentially there to manipulate the Google algorithm
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AUDIT FOR PANDA - CONTENT
Source: http://www.blueglass.co.uk/blog/content-auditing/
Technical Tools to help recover:
• Microsoft IIS SEO Crawler • Screaming Frog SEO Spider • Google Webmaster Tools
Content Tools to help recover:
• Screaming Frog• Google Analytics• Site Liner
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PANDA RECOVERY EXAMPLE
• Title tag revision • Removal of duplicate sub domain site• 301 redirect of duplicate pages• 301 redirect of crawl error pages • Building up on thin content pages • Contextual links from blog• URL friendly re-write• Canonical URLs
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AUDIT FOR PENGUIN – 1) DOWNLOAD ALL YOUR LINKS
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AUDIT FOR PENGUIN – 2) ANALYSE YOUR ANCHOR TEXT DISTRIBUTION %
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AUDIT FOR PENGUIN – 3) ANALYSE TOPICAL RELEVANCY OF LINKS
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AUDIT FOR PENGUIN – 4) COMPARE AGAINST YOUR COMPETITORS!
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AUDIT FOR PENGUIN – 5) FIND OUT WHAT A NUMBER 1 SITE PROFILE LOOKS LIKE
Source: http://www.linkdetective.com/
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AUDIT FOR PENGUIN – 6) WORK ON REMOVAL OF OBVIOUS LINKS
- Site Wide Links- Directory- Social Bookmarks- Articles - Advertorials
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AUDIT FOR PENGUIN – 7) LASTLY USE DISAVOW IF YOU CANNOT REMOVE LINK
Common Problems with Disavow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX5K741AlWg
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GOOGLE INCREASE IN RANKINGS
Example of internal results: Helped client remove - +32k links from 40 domains
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BING DECREASE IN RANKINGS
Example of internal results: Helped client remove - +32k links from 40 domains
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WHERE ARE GOOGLE GOING
NEXT?
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WE KNOW GOOGLE HAS MORE DATA SIGNALS THEN EVER
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Google+ is verification network for authors
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Source: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200807-201309
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STAYING AHEAD OF THE GAME
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GOOGLE ALREADY TOLD US:
- PANDA – PENALISE LOW VALUE CONTENT- PENGUIN – PENALISE MANIPULATIVE LINKS- AGENT RANK – WHO LINKS TO WHO
ESSENTIALLY GOOGLE IS TRYING TO FUTURE PROOF THEIR SEARCH ENGINE FROM SPAMMERS
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WELCOME PAGE METRIC RANK
2013 & BEYOND
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PAGE METRIC RANK:
1) SOCIAL SIGNALS
2) LINK SIGNALS
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SOCIAL METRICS:
• GOOGLE +• FACEBOOK• TWITTER• LINKEDIN• PINTEREST• STUMBLES
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Source Credit: http://mashable.com/2013/09/09/increase-search-traffic/
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Source Credit: http://mashable.com/2013/09/05/yahoo-new-logo-3/
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HOW DO WE BENCHMARKHUMAN INTERACTIONS?
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USE #SOCIALCRAWLYTICS TO BENCHMARK A WEBSITE’S SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
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/2011/01/28/text-messaging-comic/ /2011/11/08/starbucks-ar-app/ /2011/06/03/mi6-hacks-al-qaeda/ /2010/06/29/social-customer-service/0
20000
40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
140000
TOTAL CONTENT SOCIAL SHARES FROM 300 URLS
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/2011/01/28/text-messaging-comic/ /2011/11/08/starbucks-ar-app/ /2011/06/03/mi6-hacks-al-qaeda/ /2010/06/29/social-customer-service/0
20000
40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
140000
TOTAL CONTENT SOCIAL SHARES FROM 300 URLS
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PAGE METRICS:- AUTHOR
- LINK METRICS- PAGE RANK- DOMAIN AUTHORITY- CITATION & TRUST FLOW- LINK RELEVANCE
- REFERRING DOMAINS- CITATION LINKS- CO CITATION LINKS
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Image credit to Jackie Hole (@JackieHole) from March, 2013 - Think Visibility Conference
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Image credit to Jackie Hole (@JackieHole) from March, 2013 - Think Visibility Conference
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Google+ is verification network for authors
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Source Credit to Agent Rank: http://www.seobythesea.com/2011/11/trusted-by-google/
AGENT RANK: WHO LINKS TO YOU IS LIKELY TO BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHERE IT’S FROM
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UNDERSTANDING TOPICAL AUTHORITY & RELEVANCE IS CRUCIAL
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WORK WITH AUTHORS & INFLUENCERS, NOT COPYWRITERS
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DON’T GIVE UP ON LINK METRICS –
USE AUTHORSHIP TO SUPPORT SEO!
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USE LINK METRICS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE:
- PAGERANK- DOMAIN AUTHORITY- CITATION & TRUST FLOW- LINK RELEVANCE- IP ADDRESS - EXTERNAL VS INTERNAL LINKS
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CREATE A SCALABLE CONTENT STRATEGY TO FOCUS ON QUALITY PRODUCTION & OUTREACH
Content types include:
• Infographics• Infograms• In-Depth Articles/Blog Posts• Videos• Kinetic Typography• Interactive Infographics• HTML5 content • Quizzes• Microsites/Communities• Events
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CONTENT OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT
STAYING AHEAD OF THE GAME
PAK HOU CHEUNGORGANIC SEARCH STRATEGIST
BLUEGLASS.COMThinkVisibility - MARCH 2013
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Don’t rush straight intocontent marketing
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Analyse & fix the content and links
you have already
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Then you can execute a content strategy from a
solid platform