Identifying SEO micro-moments in an era when customer journeys are fragmented by the move to mobile is key. Understand the types of content which rank for different intent. Build the content using Wordpress platform and top plugins without a line of code. Tie it all together with strong SEO signals. Be fast, be safe, be relevant, be there in moments that matter for prospects and win.
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Dawn Anderson
www.seoandlove.it
Dawn Anderson – Relatore di SEO&LOVE 2017
www.seoandlove.it/relatori/dawn-anderson
Digital Marketing Search Lecturer & Strategist, International SEO Consultant
Libro SEO: SEO e SEM Guida Avanzata al Web Marketing 4° Edizione
www.move-it-marketing.co.uk/
Move It Marketing UK and international coverage digital marketing agency specialising in SEO
and content marketing
Dawn AndersonDawn Anderson Pg Dip DigM | LinkedIn
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/msdawnanderson
UK, EU and Northern Digital Search Awards Judge
University Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University on Search and Digital Marketing
Mi sento seo&lover
From Manchester, UK with a dog called Bert
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Continuums Of Behaviour
The Old Customer Decision Journey
Times Have Changed
Source: McKinsey - http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/marketing-and-sales/our-insights/the-
consumer-decision-journey
Linear
Pre-2009
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Zero Moment Of Truth
Understand Predictable Target Audience Behaviour
2011
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/collections/zero-moment-truth.html
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Fragmentation via Mobile
The Zero Moment of Truth Is Now Many Micro-Moments
2014 -> Now
“an intent-driven moment of decision
making” Google (2015)
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’Almost 98% of visits are people
window shopping or browsing online’
Average ecommerce conversion
rates are around 2%
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900 ‘Micro-Moments’ To Buy A Car
900 Chances to Engage
Source: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/consumer-car-buying-process-reveals-auto-marketing-
opportunities.html
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REACH
Exploration - Ideas
http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-strategy/race-a-practical-framework-to-improve-your-digital-
marketing/
They’re not sure
what they need or
want at this stage
Answer the
questions
Suggest the
options for
consideration
Likely just a step toward
users ‘bigger goals’
Low conversion
probability
I want ideas moments
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CONVERT
Intent to Purchase
http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-strategy/race-a-practical-framework-to-improve-your-digital-
marketing/
Sales Pages
Pricing Tables
Delivery
terms, finance
options, ‘shop’
intent
Ready to convert
They know what they want
I want to buy
moments
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ADVOCACY
Paying It Forward
http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-strategy/race-a-practical-framework-to-improve-your-digital-
marketing/
How else can we
help?
Continued
knowledge
growing
Tribe building
It’s often where the
links come from
Recommend you to others
Continuing custom
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Be Safe
Web Security Is Vital
Sucuri analysis
of 8,000 hacked
websites Q3
2016
https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/01/hacked-
website-report-2016q3.html
74% were
Wordpress sites
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Be Safe
Web Security Is Vital
61% of
Wordpress
Applications
were out of date
https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/01/hacked-
website-report-2016q3.html
It’s increasing
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Be Safe
To Do List
1. Update plugins
2. Update themes
3. Update core (particularly when there are security updates)
4. Avoid installing plugins no longer patched
5. Avoid installing plugins no longer actively developed or maintained
6. Check reviews on plugins before installing
7. Deactivate / delete unused plugins
8. Use all round security plugins such as Wordfence
9. Consider moving to HTTPS (minor ranking boost too)
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Be There, Be Safe
Updating URLs from e.g.
HTTP to HTTPS
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value,
'http://www.old-domain.com','https://www.new-domain.com') WHERE option_name = 'home'
OR option_name = 'siteurl';;
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://www.old-domain.com','https://www.new-
domain.com');;
UPDATE wp_posts SET
post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'https://www.new-domain.com');;
UPDATE wp_postmeta SET
meta_value = replace(meta_value, 'http://www.old-domain.com','https://www.new-domain.com’);;
If You Do Switch
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Be There, Be Safe
Switch Internal Links Easily
Alternatively Use This
Plugin When Updating
URLs from e.g. HTTP to
HTTPS
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Short Attention Span
Fighting For Attention
Humans average
attention span has
dropped to 9 seconds
Less than a
goldfish
Expectations are
high. Patience is
low
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Speeding Up Wordpress Sites
To Do List
1. Remove unnecessary plugins and head code
2. Use image compression
3. Enable Gzip compression at .htaccess, plugin
or caching plugin
4. Make things small - Minify CSS and Javascript
5. Use caching
6. Resize images (small) before uploading
7. Don’t treat Plugins like sweeties
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Compression
Compress ALL The Things
https://varvy.com/pagespeed/enable-compression.html
Enable gzip compression via
caching plugins, .htaccess or
via compression plugins
Make things small
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Build A Moments Map
Understand Predictable Target Audience
Behaviour
Be Ready When Needed
Dog or
cat?
What
breed?
What
cost?
Where to
buy?
Dogs &
cats
together
Dog
friendly
bars
Can I care
for it?
Dog
sitters
Dog
clothes
Breeding
dogs
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Be Helpful In Different Formats
People Learn Differently
4 main learning styles
• Visual
• Auditory
• Reading & Writing
• Kinesthetic
People have different content
consumption preferences
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Be Optimized And Organised
Don’t Be A Jumble Sale Site – Take The Easy First Step
It’s not got 1 million+
installs for nothing
Use Strong Topical
Hub Themes And
‘Help’ ’Hub’ ‘Hero’
Content Frameworks
too
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Be Always Monitoring Everything
Don’t Drop The Ball
Take technical SEO
seriously
Set up scheduled
crawls and
customised reports
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Readability Matters
It’s Not Just About Rankings
Source: https://yoast.com/flesch-reading-ease-score/
Source: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/writing-for-gov-uk
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Write For A 9 Year Old
How People Read
• Use common words
• Use short words over long words
• Understand average reading skills
• Explain the unusual
• Use short sentences
• Capital letters are harder to read
• Not everyone understands ampersands &
Source: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/writing-for-gov-uk
Users have time to read
at most 28% of the words
during an average visit;
20% is more likely
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Link Sideways – Add Context
Linked Custom Menus Help With More Moments
Give clues to search
engines too Home
Hero Hub Help
Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub
Rel Rel Rel Rel Rel Rel Rel Rel Rel Rel Rel Rel
Relevant post titles
make excellent
contextual anchors
Emphasise URL ‘importance’
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Beautiful Auntie and Uncle Internal Linking
Beaver Builder Posts Carousels
Build relevant modules and
row
Help users meet
other ‘micro-
moments’
Build a flurry of
relevance via an internal
anchor text cloud
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Posts Slider Module - Beaver Builder
Cross Modular Internal Linking Is The Dogs
http://kb.wpbeaverbuilder.com/article/67-posts-posts-carousel-and-posts-slider-modules-
overview
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Be There On Mobile
Mobile is now and the future
• Traffic from wireless and mobile
devices will account for two-thirds of
total IP traffic by 2020 (Cisco)
• Searches on mobile now exceeed
desktop
• The mobile first index is in the
pipeline
Source: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/complete-white-
paper-c11-481360.html
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Mobile Search Queries
56% of ‘on the go queries’ have location intent
• Where?
• What?
• When?
But remember… People are also using ‘on the go’
moments to research small things towards bigger
goals
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Some Info On
Visual Content
Images FTW
• With relevant images, readers spend more
time looking at the images than reading the
page text. (Nielsen)
• People do 323% better following directions
with illustration than without illustrations
• Tweets with images get 150% more retweets
than without (Buffer). Facebook posts 2.3x
more with images (Buzzsumo)
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In Search - Inspiration == Images
In social images
get more
engagement
Search
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/visual-content-marketing-strategy#sm.0000vgw3ss32oexdsk51mhh93bjov
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‘It would take an individual more than 5
million years to watch the amount of
video that will cross global IP networks
each month in 2020’ (Cisco)
Growth of Video
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IP video traffic will be
82 percent of all
consumer Internet
traffic by 2020
Video on Wordpress
People spend on
average 2.6x
more time on
pages with video
than without
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‘Are you fast?’
‘Are you safe?’
’Are you helpful?’
‘In a range of formats?’
‘To cater for all learning styles?’
ARE YOU THERE
WHEN NEEDED?