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Practical SEO Strategies – Getting
Results Across Multiple Countries
Nick Wilsdon
Lead SEO, Vodafone Group
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22 Country Markets
40 Partner Markets
$43.2 billion Revenue Per Year
446 million mobile customers
93,000 employees
Source: Vodafone Annual Report 2015
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Team Focused on Performance
Architects
SEO
Analytics
Project Managemen
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Lessons Learned Over 12 months
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Get Organised
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Low-Tech Solutions Work
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Use Tools and Alerts
http://nickwilsdon.com/how-to-set-up-email-sms-alerts-on-robots-txt-changes/
• Set up alerts to keep informed
• Internal communications
• Free tools, such as IFTTT
• Platform alerts from vendors
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The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
• Checklists are a solution to the fallibility of our memory in complex situations
• Checklists are practical tools
• Installs discipline of high performance and aid training
• WHO “Safe Surgery Checklist” reduced complications for surgical patients by 36%, deaths by 47%
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Understand the importance of business cases
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Data and Forcasting is Essential
Checklists are a solution to the fallibility of our memory in complex
situations
Checklists are practical tools
Installs discipline of high performance and aid training
WHO “Safe Surgery Checklist” reduced complications for surgical patients by
36%, deaths by 47%
There is no business case without data
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The Essential of a Good Business Case
• Backed up with data
• Measurable
• Clear timelines
• Material difference to business
• Aligned with common objectives – other teams and C-suite
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Business Cases Can Start Simply
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Reach out to other teams
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Integration is Everything
• Search out relevant teams
• Listen and share knowledge
• Understand their objectives
• Data is currency
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Google Trends Data Easily Available
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Seasonal Keyword Heatmaps
http://nickwilsdon.com/how-to-make-seasonal-keyword-heatmaps/
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Mobile Becoming Primary Internet Access Point
Source: Google https://www.consumerbarometer.com
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Norway
Poland
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Russia
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0%
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50%
More often via smartphone than computer / tablet Equally via smartphone & computer / tablet
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Mobile Only Access Now Reality
Australia
Czech
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6% 4% 6%
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Only Access Internet On Mobile
Source: Google https://www.consumerbarometer.com
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Support your local champions to get action
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No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
• Understand local team objectives
• Celebrate their successes
• SEO advocacy is essential
• Training
• Build community
• Central sharing
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It’s easier to cycle strategy into markets
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Don’t Boil The Ocean
Global Team
Market 1 Market 2
1. Prove strategy within one market
2. Lean on their local objectives (technical, mobile SEO, ROPO, content…)
3. Celebrate their success
4. Rework business case
5. Deliver into next markets
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Build Partners Not Vendors
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The Right Tools for the Job
• Pick your tools carefully
• Organised work-flow
• Training and certification
• Look for innovative partners
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Think strategically both short and long term
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The Greatest Challenge to Enterprise SEO
• Progress is difficult
• Enterprise requires lead-time for most programs streams
• Planning ahead allows budgets to be set
• Innovation feeds into SEO advocacy – excites teams
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Mobile Web vs. App – Whole New Level of Integration
“Sometimes the best answer is on a website, and sometimes it’s in an app.” – Google
App indexing is not new, introduced in 2013 but it can now be used to index content on apps that are not installed on the user’s device
When users click an app result, they will be prompted to open the application or download it.
Available in Bing (MS Store) and with iOS apps
How will we do this? Mobile App Sitemapshttps://developers.google.com/app-indexing/introduction
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Designing Better User Journeys
Mobile Search
Experience
Vodafone App
Experience
Combined Mobile Search & App
Experience
Network
Coverage
Billing & Top
up
Device Suppor
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Personalised FAQs
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