1. Gil Reich (@GilR)
Managing Greatness
GODZILLA, SNUFFLEUPAGUS, AND
THE FUTURE OF SEARCH SUCCESS
PLUS, PANDA & BEYOND
2. Most Radical Transformation
Ever (?)
Google can make major changes tomorrow. But their general direction seems clear.
Gil Reich, Managing Greatness. @GilR
13. Not Your Mother’s SERPs
What people once called search and SEO are dead. Search will increasingly
involve social, local, personalization, video, etc.
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14. Quality & Spam
The people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups.
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15. The Thin Content Problem
Amit: We got a lot of good fresh content, and
some not so good.
Matt: It was like, “What’s the bare minimum
that I can do that’s not spam?” It sort of fell
between our respective groups.
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16. The Hole in Google’s Defense
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17. Google’s Blind Spot (BP)
Pages:
Mass produced
Highly targeted
Not spam
Sites:
Trusted
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18. Google’s Response
Panda Publisher Pollution Penalty
Starts using signals previously considered too
spammable:
User behavior
Social profile
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19. Penalty and Ranking Factor
Site-wide (like a Penalty)
Ranking Factor (like incoming links …)
Updated Infrequently (like PageRank)
It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping! ~Chevy Chase
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22. Document Classifier
IRS
Scrapers
Wikipedia
Thin Content
New York Times
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23. Pogo-Sticking
… the number of times that other
search results are selected after a
particular search result is
selected … may be used to
improve search result ranking …
--Yahoo! Patent
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25. It’s too hard now to fake a natural footprint well enough to fool Google ~@GregBoser
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26. Don’t Rank Where You Can’t
Deliver
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27. Fix or Kill Your Worst Pages
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28. Link Out
Better the user find the right site from you than by asking Google again.
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29. Get Social
In May 2010 I said that we weren’t using Social Signals. Now we are. ~@MattCutts
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30. SEO = Web Strategy
The job of SEO has been upgraded from
SEO to web strategist. Virtually
everything you do on the Internet with
your website can impact SEO today.
That is especially true following Panda.
-- Rand Fishkin
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31. Google’s Timeless Problem
"Junk results" often wash out any results that a
user is interested in …
the number of documents … has been
increasing by many orders of magnitude.
People are still only willing to look at the first
few tens of results.
-- Larry Page, 1998
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33. Panda …
Google corrected a key blind spot
Penalties can be subtle & sitewide, and are
not just for spam
Users hating some pages can now hurt your
whole site
Google now considers all signals that it can
measure
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34. Plus …
Build your social profiles
Build relationships
Engage others
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35. … and Beyond
Harder to fake natural than to be natural
Harder to spam in the age of social
Focus on relationships and reputation
SEO inseparable from web strategy
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36. If You Missed Anything …
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