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Selling SEO
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Ned Wells, Cicada
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We want to be #1 on Google. Can you help?
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1. What is it?
2. How do you do it?
3. Who should do it?
The 3 mysteries of SEO
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What is SEO?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178331373/sizes/o/in/photostream/
Making websites:
• Easier to find
• Easier to use
• Easier to measure
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What is SEO?
SEO is an outcome of good digital marketing
http://www.portent.com/blog/seo/wtf-is-seo.htm
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How do you do SEO?
1. Understand the client’s business
2. Do some ‘stuff’
4. Go around again!
3. Measure how effective the ‘stuff’ was
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• Business objectives
• Products / services
• Competitors
• Current marketing activities
• What’s the website for?
• How do you measure it?
• Customer personas
• Target keywords
1. Understand the client’s business
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How do you do SEO?
1. Understand the client’s business
2. Audit the website, identify gaps
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2. Audit and gap analysis
1. Finding the website
2. Using the website
3. Competitor review
4. Social landscape
5. On-page tech audit
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How do you do SEO?
1. Understand the client’s business
2. Audit the website, identify gaps
3. Prioritise
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3. Prioritise
Urgency
Impa
ct H M L
H 1 2 3
M 2 3 4
L 3 4 5
PRIORITY: A FUNCTION OF URGENCY AND IMPACT
Action Effort / cost required
Priority
Build custom 404 page 1 day 4
Set up goal and funnel on checkout
4 hours 1
Basic on-page SEO 30 mins per page 2
Set up Google Authorship 4 hours 2
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How do you do SEO?
1. Understand the client’s business
2. Audit the website, identify gaps
3. Prioritise
4. Implement
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4. Implementation
Priority Date / rev
Instigated by
Area Task name
Task description
In testing Completed
Action web agency
Web agency awaiting response
Action SEO agency Action client
Status:
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How do you do SEO?
1. Understand the client’s business
5. Measure
2. Audit the website, identify gaps
3. Prioritise
4. Implement
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Status Description
Needs immediate attention
Status concerning, but actions are underway
Status is good, no action required
5. Measuring
Hat tip: smartinsights.com
• Reach • Act • Convert • Engage
RED
AMBER
GREEN
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How do you do SEO?
1. Understand the client’s business
5. Measure
6. Go around again!
2. Audit the website, identify gaps
3. Prioritise
4. Implement
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Technical SEO
Who should do SEO?
Planning and managing
Copywriters
PR UX
Strategic marketing
Analytics Social
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SEO needs a team approach
• Client team • Strategist • Functional experts
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Take away…
1. “We want to rank better” = warning signal
2. Turn it around: discuss the client’s business goals
3. Talk the client’s language
4. Give them the ‘wide’ view of SEO
5. Show prospects a process
they can understand, control and measure
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