panda 4.0: what marketers need to know
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1 What is Panda 4.0? Inside Google’s Latest Search Algorithm Update
2 Why Should Marketers Care? The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
3 What Should Marketers Do Now? How to Recover & Future-Proof Search Rankings
4 How is Your SEO Holding Up? Get a Live Site Analysis to Find Out
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Say hello to Panda 4.0. / What is Panda 4.0
4.0 eats weak content for breakfast.
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What makes 4.0 different?
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/ What is Panda 4.0
Matt Cutts announced 4.0. 1
An announced update is a hint at major shifts to come.
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/ What is Panda 4.0
This Panda is GIANT. 2
4.0 affects 7.5% of English queries compared to 1-2% from previous Pandas.
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/ What is Panda 4.0
It’s a blueprint for future updates. 3
4.0 lays the ground work for future iteration.
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1 What is Panda 4.0? Inside Google’s Latest Search Algorithm Update
2 Why Should Marketers Care? The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
3 What Should Marketers Do Now? How to Recover & Future-Proof Search Rankings
4 How is Your SEO Holding Up? Get a Live Site Analysis to Find Out
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/ Why Should Marketers Care
The Good 1
Rule Book: 1. Create fresh, unique, quality content.
4.0 rewards marketers that play by the rules.
2. Build a modern, user-friendly website.
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The Bad 2
/ Why Should Marketers Care
4.0 has no patience for low-quality content.
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The Bad 2
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4.0 delivers a black hat penalty to sites that try to game search.
The Black Hat List: 1. Dynamically created pages for the sole
purpose of search rankings. 2. Sites relying on thin or scraped content. 3. Unintentional : Using shared CDN’s
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The Ugly 3
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Source: Moz, “Panda 4.0, Payday 2.0, and eBay’s Very Bad Day”
Ecommerce took a hard hit.
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The Ugly 3
/ Why Should Marketers Care
Source: SearchEngineLand, “Did Google Panda 4.0 Go After Press Release Sites?”
PR sites took a tumble, as well.
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1 What is Panda 4.0? Inside Google’s Latest Search Algorithm Update
2 Why Should Marketers Care? The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
3 What Should Marketers Do Now? How to Recover & Future-Proof Search Rankings
4 How is Your SEO Holding Up? Get a Live Site Analysis to Find Out
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So, you’ve been hit by a Google Penalty.
Don’t panic & don’t rush!
/ What Should Marketers Do Now
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First, identify the penalty.
Or, manual? Is it an algorithm? þ Message from Google in
Webmaster Tools account. þ Does drop in organic traffic
coincide with algorithm updates?
þ Moz’s Google Algorithm
Change History is a great resource.
Source: Search Engine Watch; Google Unnatural Links Manual Penalty: A Recovery Guide
/ What Should Marketers Do Now
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Run a site-wide content quality check.
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Cleanse your site of poor quality content signals.
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Run a site-wide content quality check.
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# of Buyer Personas
# of Funnel Stages
Covered Topics
Possible Topics [ ] ( )
Pieces of content you need to cover your bases.
Calculate your search content gap.
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Run a site-wide content quality check.
/ What Should Marketers Do Now
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Frequency matters.
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Run a site-wide content quality check.
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High cost & competition
Low CVR
Low cost & competition
High CVR
One word phrases
Two word phrases
Long-tail, descriptive phrases
Keep your keyword strategy fresh. That means evergreen content, too.
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Run a site-wide content quality check.
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Mobile
Enterprise
SMB
Other Relevant Internal Pages
Mobile SMB Enterprise
Ace keyword mapping and internal linking structure.
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You only have 7 seconds to answer these 2 critical questions:
1 Where am I?
2 What can I do here?
Why should I do it? 3
Optimize for the best UX possible.
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The rest of the page should answer this question.
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Optimize for the best UX possible.
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Test your site across devices!
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Optimize for the best UX possible.
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Source: SmashingMagazine, “SEO for Responsive Websites”
Check load time with Google’s PageSpeed Insights.
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Or, launch your manual penalty plan.
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Get a list of your inbound links from Google Webmaster Tools.
Ask the link source to remove the link.
Use the Google disavow tool on all bad links.
Conduct a link profile audit to identify bad links.
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Resubmit your site for Google reconsideration. 5
/ What Should Marketers Do Now
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1 What is Panda 4.0? Inside Google’s Latest Search Algorithm Update
2 Why Should Marketers Care? The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
3 What Should Marketers Do Now? How to Recover & Future-Proof Search Rankings
4 How is Your SEO Holding Up? Get a Live Site Analysis to Find Out
On the Agenda
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