enterprise content optimization - building-in and managing seo, content strategy, and content...
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Learn how to build-in and maintain SEO and Content Marketing into your large enterprise digital presence and workflows. Includes Content Strategy and Marketing checklists, SEO quality gates, and key content and inbound marketing metrics. Presentation from SES San Francisco 2013 by Andrew Delamarter.TRANSCRIPT
San Francisco • September 10–13, 2013 • #SESSF @SESConf
Enterprise Workflow Op0miza0on Maintaining an Indexable and Findable Website Andrew Delamarter Huge Director of Search and Inbound Marke0ng
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Agenda: 1. Background 2. Approach 3. Workflows 4. Case study
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About Huge
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AdAge A-List for 2012 Top ten agencies as ranked by AdAge, across all marketing disciplines.
Third-largest mobile agency According to AdAge for 2012.
Social media agency of the year 2011 and 2012 by OMMA / MediaPost.
Most innovative agency for 2012 by Digiday and One of Five for 2011 by Mashable.
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Approaching Enterprise Content.
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“Build it and they will come.”
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“Plan it, invest in it, build it, op0mize it, syndicate it, distribute it, cross-‐post it, promote it, link to it, report on it, and constantly improve it.”
And they will come.
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Goal: End-‐to-‐end content ecosystem.
Plan
Create
OpKmize
Publish Promote
Build links, authority
Syndicate
Report
• Keyword-‐informed editorial plan • SEO Gates and publishing • Drip-‐feed to properKes
• Syndicate • Build links
• Build social authority • Report and opKmize
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Overall approach: Keywords at the front, metrics at the back.
Target keyphrases
}Search • Keyword referrals, rankings • Mobile search referrals • Desktop keywords • Mobile keywords • Image search • Video search • Inbound linking Social engagement Facebook fans • Pinterest referrals • G+ performance • Twitter followers, retweets Content metrics • Syndication views – paid,
organic • Inbound links • Twitter mentions • Content page views • Time on site per entry page
Search-‐informed editorial calendar
Metrics and repor0ng
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Keywords and Destination URLs
Editorial plan SEM / Paid Media
Social management Communica0ons
Build your master keyword list.
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Keyword research and compeKKve analysis.
Don’t forget Desktop versus Mobile, Local / Geo Keywords, and Variants
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DraV a keyword-‐driven editorial plan & publish, promote, push out.
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OpKmized image search
Keyword-‐driven content
Social Authority
Social Sharing
Topics page & syndicated content
Target every applicable content type.
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• A solid technical Content Strategy underpins enterprise SEO. • Metadata schemas support Topics pages, faceted search,
localizaKon, semanKc markup, personalizaKon. • Value / List pairs facilitate search, discovery.
Create appropriate content structure.
SEO
UX, Design, Coding
Content Strategy
Copy, linking, social, local, mobile
Functionality, navigation, mobile, indexing
Metadata, editorial, taxonomies, personalization
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Topics strategy is acKon.
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Consolidate Search, Social, and Content metrics into a single report:
• Key Content Metrics: Rankings, inbound links, Tweets, Likes, G+s, pages viewed per session, new visitors, Kme on site, organic referrals, syndicaKon performance, citaKons, shares.
Create integrated inbound reporKng
Lindex Content 360 Report
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Workflows
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• Many large enterprises have legacy print-‐first content workflows.
• Print content is re-‐purposed to work online. • Consider transiKoning to an online-‐first flow.
• Less manual work • Faster Kme to publish
• Create in CMS, route for approval / SEO Quality Gates, publish to site, export to InDesign or Quark templates.
The problem with print.
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Example of an online-‐first content workflow.
• Box areas show key inputs into process.
• Editorial calendar is manual process updated and managed at top of flow.
• Outputs are published and opKmized content, content metrics, and informed strategy.
Agency Notified
Content Publishing -Site
-Social -Profiles -Linking
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Add linking support to your publishing workflow.
• Every new piece of content needs inbound links.
• Add inbound linking to your SEO Quality gates.
ExxonMobil Math and Science content gets link support from Phil Mickelson
sponsorship
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• If you want your content to be found it may need to be promoted.
• Media-‐like spend can also drive exposure and SEO.
• Social media is looking more like paid media every day.
• Link building can be done via Zemanta and lunked into the markeKng budget as blogger promoKon.
Current reality is that content must be supported with $.
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Case Study.
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Approaching content nirvana: ASME.org
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Before: Buried content, focus on events, store items.
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Pre-‐opKmized state.
• Print-‐first content workflow from Mechanical Engineering Magazine
• ‘Org-‐chart approach’ to User Experience • Ligle on-‐page SEO, linking • No SEO quality gates in publishing process • No hooks into social media
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OpKmizaKon approach.
• ShiV to online-‐first workflow. • Establish keyword strategy. • Align teams around objecKves. • Create search-‐informed editorial plan. • Create SEO quality gates. • InsKtute ongoing Inbound ReporKng & Content Metrics.
• Train content creators on SEO. • Build social profiles of key players. • Execute on core SEO blocking & tackling.
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1. Blog post / site content is keyword-‐focused and aligned to keyword strategy and editorial calendar.
2. Technical SEO issues are solved (duplicate content, bad URLs). 3. Post includes a well-‐made image/data graphic/infographic/video
with embedded code or social media birdseed. 4. Open graph code is opKmized and tested. 5. Post includes link to rich, authoritaKve G+, LinkedIn profile of
author (if applicable). 6. Post is linked-‐to from other owned properKes using keywords. 7. Post is promoted via Paid Search, AucKon-‐based display media,
YouTube, Twiger, and other social / web 2.0 channels. 8. Content is syndicated in appropriate channels. 9. Content performance is tracked, reported on, and opKmized –
calendar is updated with results.
The content opKmizaKon checklist.
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• Site redesigns or migraKons are great Kmes to do an SEO content refresh:
• New Titles, DescripKons. • Add SemanKc tagging. • Review Copy and markup for keyword focus. • Add internal links, clean up broken links. • Chop images and content in bite-‐sized pieces for social
media. • Cross post to profiles for social authority and authorship • Add image alt text, file names.
Big brands have tons of content lying around!
The SEO ‘Content Refresh’.
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Result: User and Search-‐friendly content site.
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SEO take Kme. And must be sustained.
Work begins Work ends
Organic Search Referrals
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Create something you love.
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