Supercharging Your SEO Strategy With TrackMaven

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TrackMaven Supercharging Your SEO Strategy With TrackMaven Spark 2016 Adam Monago VP Product Marketing @adammonago

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Spark 2016

Adam Monago VP Product Marketing @adammonago

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Goals of the Session

Understanding of the most important changes in modern SEO: Topics, Quality and Brand

A workflow for SEO-Content-Social team collaboration.

Applying this workflow with TrackMaven.

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Search Matters

‣ Showing up at the top of search results is critical to meet the intent of any buyer or influencer.

‣ Number of search platforms is increasing.

SEO

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Common Workflows

‣ Start with your primary keywords

‣ Put them into Google Keyword Planner for other suggestions

‣ Rate them on difficulty and search volume potential

‣ Hand to your content team to generate content ideas

‣ Measure rankings

‣ Rinse/Repeat

‣ You start by researching the content that you think is most impactful for your audience

‣ You research, write and develop the content

‣ You ask SEO to optimize the content

‣ Wait for SEO recommendations to be applied

‣ Measure rankings

‣ Rinse/Repeat

OR

SEO

Keyword Oriented Content Oriented

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What kind of SEO workflow do you have in your organization?

SEO

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SEO Is Being Transformed by 3 Major Forces

1. Topics over keywords 2.Content quality over links 3.Rising importance of “Brand”

SEO

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Topics Over Keywords

SEO

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Topics Over KeywordsSEO

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10x Content: Quality Over LinksSEO

What is the UX like? How detailed/thorough

is each result?

Do the results provide any

new, unique information?

What is missing from each?

What is the quality of

writing in the articles?

What kind of visuals

are provided?

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10x Content: Quality Over LinksSEO

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The Weight of Your Brand

‣ Social Signals In Addition to Domain

‣ Indexing of social content

‣ Co-Occurrence

‣ How often your brand name and key terms appear together on different domains around the web

‣ Panda patent

‣ Search engines use co-occurrence to generate similar results when, in the future, comparable queries are made without the mention of the brand

SEO

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Putting a Shared Workflow Into Practice

Activity Which Role Owns? Key Outputs

Competitive Analysis Content

‣ Competitive Brand List

‣ Identify key channels

‣ Inventory of the types of content people are reading and responding to

Topic and Keyword Research SEO

‣ Prioritized topics for content strategy

‣ Keyword list

Content Development Content

‣ Prioritized content plan

‣ Content calendar

Distribution and Measurement

Social

‣ Content distribution strategy

‣Ongoing monitoring of topics and competitors for most engaging content

Workflow

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Applying it in TrackMavenApply

Research

Brand List Related Keywords Analyze and Tag Set Saved Views

Set Autotags

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Build and Start Tracking Your Brand List

Your Competitors Industry Influencers 10x Content

Apply

Benchmark Brand

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Build Your Related Keyword List for Your Topic

Apply

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How do you do keyword or topical research?

Apply

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Use the Content Feed to Analyze and Tag Competitors Content for Your Topic

‣ Filter content feed using tags inspired by your topical research

Apply

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Save Views to Support Workflows

‣ Save views to support workflows between the SEO, Content and Social team members.

Apply

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Monitor Ongoing Content

‣ Create an auto-tag rule using your related keywords.

Apply

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Measure

Domain Authority External Links

Brand Mentions

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Regularly Monitor Domain Authority

‣ A metric that does not change frequently, but still a leading indicator that good (or bad) things are happening.

Apply

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Regularly Monitor External Links

‣ Links still matter for ranking. TrackMaven provides you an easy way to monitor changes in this critical metric.

Apply

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Regularly Monitor Brand Mentions

‣ How are our efforts translating into quantitative signals about our brand health?

Apply

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Research

Brand List Related Keywords Analyze and Tag Set Saved Views

Set Autotags

Measure

Domain Authority External Links

Brand Mentions

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LET’S TALK

VP Product Marketing

[email protected]

Adam Monago

+1 973-202-8617

@adammonago

THANK YOU