b3 seminar: delivering truly future-proof seo campaigns - patrick altoft

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With SEO becoming harder every year, delivering long-term success is the only way agencies can generate positive ROI for clients. This session will look at how SEO has changed recently and how brands need to adapt and future proof their SEO campaigns with a view to delivering 5+ year sustainability.

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Being

SEO Tactic Lifecycle

Spammers Early adopters Hit it hard Been & gone LOL

Affiliates Early adopters Winning Profit Fast Moving

Agencies Small Scaling Hammering it Trying to Stop

In-house No awareness Awareness Awaiting Signoff Awaiting Resource

How did we get in this mess?

Do it the easy way

Clients

Has budget, needs

results fast

Has budget & is happy to wait for

results

No budget, happy to wait

for results

No budget, needs

results fast

SEO’s need links, so we use a tool to buy them in bulk

Matt Cutts gets upset about paid links

SEO’s ignore him and continue to adopt paid links as a strategy for the next 9 years

Syndication

Social media allows SEO’s to build more natural links Rather than working on great content, we form an underground voting group & use it to control all the social sites

SEO’s created platforms to make it really easy to buy as many paid blog posts as we could afford

Maybe Google is onto something here…

4 years after Matt Cutts warned us about paid links, the SEO industry starts to realise they are too risky, so we decide to build free links instead. Of course, we automate this using link networks & tools

SEO’s notice that guest blogging is a more natural way of building links

We create a community where people too lazy to write content themselves can find SEO’s willing to post terrible content onto equally terrible blogs.

No money changes hands, what could go wrong?

“Content is king”

Bill Gates, CEO, Microsoft

Most people were thankful that they didn’t get this message and carried on with building natural links with guest blog posts

Being

"For example, if you're to look at sites that are popular, for example porn sites are very popular, but people tend not to link to porn sites.

On the other hand, if you take something like the Wisconsin real estate board, probably not a ton of people go there, but quite a few people do link to government websites."

Thank you!

Get in touch: patrick@branded3.com @patrickaltoft

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