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Data driven SEO David Sottimano Searchlove 2014
Can a post rank solely by having keywords in the URL?
Yep.
What does meta NOINDEX do?
Removes a page from the index..
But it can lower Googlebot crawl rate too.
Are meta keywords actually useful?
Don’t be silly.
Data driven SEO Using data to win arguments David Sottimano Searchlove 2014
Do this. Because. {Insert Matt Cutts video link}
Caveat, caveat, caveat….
Meaningful, conclusive data is hard to come by.
Algorithms can be specific to queries.
http://searchengineland.com/google-pay-day-loan-algorithm-google-search-algorithm-update-to-target-spammy-queries-162941
Data we need is out of reach.
Actual click through rates? Actual bounces back to search results?
Our “good” isn’t Google’s “good”
Clues are scarce, and often vague.
Source: http://insidesearch.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/search-quality-highlights-50-changes.html
Would you trust the information presented in this article? http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/more-guid...
Presence of author Presence of author information Presence of author image
Presence of logo Presence of contact information Presence of social proof
This is why we need a data driven approach.
Because “best practice” isn’t a good enough answer.
Throwing stuff against the wall doesn’t make us any wiser!
Be curious! Question everything!
More input, less valuable output
Sometimes, simple is best.
How’s this idea guys?
It’s pretty shit. *not actually what they said
How I completely failed* to win arguments before. *pretty much all the time
This could have been avoided.
If I had done this… Keyword If you move off page 1 Money you will lose Keyword 1 -3,000 visits -$10,000 Keyword 2 ...
My first time.
“We’re going International, what do we do with hreflang?”
Get the right people to the right pages in search & Don’t screw up rankings / traffic Hreflang, canonical or both?
Okay, test it.
> 2 Analytics WMT Rank tracking Logs Testing configuration
Did you know Distilled had an Australian office?
Think about all the variants you want to test first
Ask for testing methodology feedback.
Wait. How will I know if it worked or not?
1)Rankings 2)Organic traffic 3) The right pages display in the right countries
Custom reports
Fancy shmancy segmentation
mmm custom dashboards
Share it with clients to follow along.
Set it and move on. Remind yourself!
So, what happened with the hreflang project?
No conclusive ranking improvements Display issues completely corrected
A few tips.
Scenario1: I forgot to track the data.
Historical search results http://www.semrush.com/info/gmail+download+all+attachments+(source)?domain=davidsottimano.com&p...
Historical screenshots http://www.screenshots.com/ https://archive.org/web/
Historical rankings (specific keywords) http://www.spyfu.com/Ranking
Scenario 2: How do I find examples around the web?
Brilliant source code search, by Nerdydata.com http://nerdydata.com/
Peek by Linkrisk. Search by SEO metrics. http://linkrisk.com/peek/
Scenario 3: I can’t open the entire CSV in Excel. No, I don’t know how to code.
No problemo.
Use one of these. http://delimitware.com/ *windows 7 > http://recsveditor.sourceforge.net/csv02.htm *independent
Scenario 4: I need to gather data from webpages. I don’t know how to code.
Scraping is fun, really fun. https://import.io/ http://scrapinghub.com/scrapy-cloud
The (highly experimental) future
Search is becoming too complex.
Why are we trying to analyse vast amounts of machine data? Why not fight fire with fire?
I had goals… Reverse engineer why Distilled blog posts do well in search. And predict how successful new blog posts woul...
I foolishly expected... and failed.
URL Majestic Status URL Majestic CitationFlow URL Majestic TrustFlow URL Majestic Ext Back Links URL Majestic Ref Doma...
I used organic sessions as my objective field, to classify what was good/bad.
Mean Good Bad 0 ~16,000 ~110
< 20% 90% > 80 70 60 50 40 30 Not so interesting
So, longer posts = profit?
I fed garbage in, and got garbage out. Tip! Don’t use metrics that are well correlated with rankings.
There’s so much opportunity here. So what can you do about it?
Get better at defining “great content”.
If it gets links, shares, converts, we usually class it as “good”. But what made it “good” ?
Tutorial Technical > contains code Controversial Breaking news Funny Serious Off topic Controversial List post > t...
Try it. A free version is available. http://goo.gl/NKtXOl
Two little things I want you to remember.
Build a better practice by binning best practice
Prove it. Data or it didn’t happen
Thanks  @dsottimano
SearchLove London | Dave Sottimano, 'Using Data to Win Arguments'
SearchLove London | Dave Sottimano, 'Using Data to Win Arguments'
SearchLove London | Dave Sottimano, 'Using Data to Win Arguments'
SearchLove London | Dave Sottimano, 'Using Data to Win Arguments'
SearchLove London | Dave Sottimano, 'Using Data to Win Arguments'
SearchLove London | Dave Sottimano, 'Using Data to Win Arguments'
SearchLove London | Dave Sottimano, 'Using Data to Win Arguments'
SearchLove London | Dave Sottimano, 'Using Data to Win Arguments'
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SearchLove London | Dave Sottimano, 'Using Data to Win Arguments'

From past experiences with data, Dave knows relying on your gut can be a mistake. Instead, we need to take comfort in the validation of solid data to ensure we’re making profitable decisions. Sharing real client examples, Dave will run through the essential steps: how to decide on a hypothesis, create conditions, and gather data.

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  1. 1. Data driven SEO David Sottimano Searchlove 2014
  2. 2. Can a post rank solely by having keywords in the URL?
  3. 3. Yep.
  4. 4. What does meta NOINDEX do?
  5. 5. Removes a page from the index..
  6. 6. But it can lower Googlebot crawl rate too.
  7. 7. Are meta keywords actually useful?
  8. 8. Don’t be silly.
  9. 9. Data driven SEO Using data to win arguments David Sottimano Searchlove 2014
  10. 10. Do this. Because. {Insert Matt Cutts video link}
  11. 11. Caveat, caveat, caveat….
  12. 12. Meaningful, conclusive data is hard to come by.
  13. 13. Algorithms can be specific to queries.
  14. 14. http://searchengineland.com/google-pay-day-loan-algorithm-google-search-algorithm-update-to-target-spammy-queries-162941
  15. 15. Data we need is out of reach.
  16. 16. Actual click through rates? Actual bounces back to search results?
  17. 17. Our “good” isn’t Google’s “good”
  18. 18. Clues are scarce, and often vague.
  19. 19. Source: http://insidesearch.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/search-quality-highlights-50-changes.html
  20. 20. Would you trust the information presented in this article? http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/more-guidance-on-building-high-quality.html
  21. 21. Presence of author Presence of author information Presence of author image
  22. 22. Presence of logo Presence of contact information Presence of social proof
  23. 23. This is why we need a data driven approach.
  24. 24. Because “best practice” isn’t a good enough answer.
  25. 25. Throwing stuff against the wall doesn’t make us any wiser!
  26. 26. Be curious! Question everything!
  27. 27. More input, less valuable output
  28. 28. Sometimes, simple is best.
  29. 29. How’s this idea guys?
  30. 30. It’s pretty shit. *not actually what they said
  31. 31. How I completely failed* to win arguments before. *pretty much all the time
  32. 32. This could have been avoided.
  33. 33. If I had done this… Keyword If you move off page 1 Money you will lose Keyword 1 -3,000 visits -$10,000 Keyword 2 -2,000 visits -$7,500 -5,000 visits per month -$17,500 per month
  34. 34. My first time.
  35. 35. “We’re going International, what do we do with hreflang?”
  36. 36. Get the right people to the right pages in search & Don’t screw up rankings / traffic Hreflang, canonical or both?
  37. 37. Okay, test it.
  38. 38. > 2 Analytics WMT Rank tracking Logs Testing configuration
  39. 39. Did you know Distilled had an Australian office?
  40. 40. Think about all the variants you want to test first
  41. 41. Ask for testing methodology feedback.
  42. 42. Wait. How will I know if it worked or not?
  43. 43. 1)Rankings 2)Organic traffic 3) The right pages display in the right countries
  44. 44. Custom reports
  45. 45. Fancy shmancy segmentation
  46. 46. mmm custom dashboards
  47. 47. Share it with clients to follow along.
  48. 48. Set it and move on. Remind yourself!
  49. 49. So, what happened with the hreflang project?
  50. 50. No conclusive ranking improvements Display issues completely corrected
  51. 51. A few tips.
  52. 52. Scenario1: I forgot to track the data.
  53. 53. Historical search results http://www.semrush.com/info/gmail+download+all+attachments+(source)?domain=davidsottimano.com&position=4&ts=1413494980
  54. 54. Historical screenshots http://www.screenshots.com/ https://archive.org/web/
  55. 55. Historical rankings (specific keywords) http://www.spyfu.com/Ranking
  56. 56. Scenario 2: How do I find examples around the web?
  57. 57. Brilliant source code search, by Nerdydata.com http://nerdydata.com/
  58. 58. Peek by Linkrisk. Search by SEO metrics. http://linkrisk.com/peek/
  59. 59. Scenario 3: I can’t open the entire CSV in Excel. No, I don’t know how to code.
  60. 60. No problemo.
  61. 61. Use one of these. http://delimitware.com/ *windows 7 > http://recsveditor.sourceforge.net/csv02.htm *independent
  62. 62. Scenario 4: I need to gather data from webpages. I don’t know how to code.
  63. 63. Scraping is fun, really fun. https://import.io/ http://scrapinghub.com/scrapy-cloud
  64. 64. The (highly experimental) future
  65. 65. Search is becoming too complex.
  66. 66. Why are we trying to analyse vast amounts of machine data? Why not fight fire with fire?
  67. 67. I had goals… Reverse engineer why Distilled blog posts do well in search. And predict how successful new blog posts would be (organic traffic)
  68. 68. I foolishly expected... and failed.
  69. 69. URL Majestic Status URL Majestic CitationFlow URL Majestic TrustFlow URL Majestic Ext Back Links URL Majestic Ref Domains URL Mozscape Domain Authority URL Mozscape Page Authority URL Mozscape External Equity Links URL Mozscape MozRank URL Mozscape MozTrust URL Mozscape Subdomain External Links URL Mozscape RootDomain External Links URL Mozscape Juice Passing Links URL Mozscape Subdomains Linking URL Mozscape Root Domains Linking URL Mozscape Links URL Mozscape Subdomain Subdomains Linking URL Mozscape Root Domain Root Domains Linking URL Mozscape Subdomain MozRank URL Mozscape RootDomain MozRank URL Mozscape Subdomain MozTrust URL Mozscape Root Domain MozTrust URL Mozscape External MozRank URL Mozscape Subdomain External Domain Linking Juice URL Mozscape Root Domain External Domain Juice Reading Time Sentiment Sentiment Score Dale-Chall Score Flesch Kincaid Grade Level Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease Score Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease Gunning Fog Score Smog Index Images Images with Alt Images without Alt Videos External Link Count Internal Link Count Total Link Count Author Author URL Robots File Allowed Robots Meta Robots HTTP Header Canonical HTTP Header Canonical Head Date published Year published Alchemy Sentiment score Alchemy top concept Alchemy top keywords HTTP Status Redirected Original HTTP Status Code Original HTTP Status Content Type Content Length URL Google Indexed Hash HTML Length Text Length Text to HTML Ratio Title Title Length Description Description Length Word Count Sentence Count Header Count Paragraph Count Last cached date # likes # shares # tweets # retweets # g+ Theme (custom) Type (custom) Alchemy entity Sessions Bounce rate
  70. 70. I used organic sessions as my objective field, to classify what was good/bad.
  71. 71. Mean Good Bad 0 ~16,000 ~110
  72. 72. < 20% 90% > 80 70 60 50 40 30 Not so interesting
  73. 73. So, longer posts = profit?
  74. 74. I fed garbage in, and got garbage out. Tip! Don’t use metrics that are well correlated with rankings.
  75. 75. There’s so much opportunity here. So what can you do about it?
  76. 76. Get better at defining “great content”.
  77. 77. If it gets links, shares, converts, we usually class it as “good”. But what made it “good” ?
  78. 78. Tutorial Technical > contains code Controversial Breaking news Funny Serious Off topic Controversial List post > top 5,10, checklist Tool review
  79. 79. Try it. A free version is available. http://goo.gl/NKtXOl
  80. 80. Two little things I want you to remember.
  81. 81. Build a better practice by binning best practice
  82. 82. Prove it. Data or it didn’t happen
  83. 83. Thanks  @dsottimano

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