This presentation provides latest SEO Trends 2015.

1. SEO Trends
for 2015

2. Content is King
• The Panda algorithmic updates have focused SERP
more on quality of content than keyword density
• Googles is now determining if the content is relevant
to the search term instead of matching up words
• Your content should be more about sentences and
phrases that support the keywords being searched for

3. Social Signals Will Be Even More Important
• The importance of connecting your site and social presence is greater than
it ever has been
• Research is showing that social signals are boosting connected brands SERP
rankings Laddering – when a search is made Google is looking for relevant
content and matching it against a sites social profiles and producing results
for sites with similar content receiving social engagement

4. Online Security Will Become More Important in Rankings
• Because your website deal with sensitive customer information you must
ensure you have the correct security certificate
• Contact your websites administrator and ask them to provide the security
certificate information to you
• Googles algorithm is looking for https on sites that have web forms and is
less likely to show your page in the results if it does not have a security
certificate

5. Mobile-Friendly SEO will
grow
• Mobile internet use has
now taken over the top
rank from desk top
internet use (May 2014)
• Google statisticians say
there may be as many as
50 BILLION LOCAL
searches on mobile
devises in 2015
• Responsive is the term
used for a mobile friendly
site

6. • Responsive may not be the best design for your page or it’s content
• Take the time to view your site on your mobile device
Is it easy to navigate?
Is the content you are promoting prevalent?
How long does it take to load on your mobile device?
• Some developers are using “hybrid” sites (some pages are responsive,
some are not)
• A regular web page layout on a mobile may be better for some sites

7. Increased focus on conversations instead of keywords
• Googles Hummingbird update was the single biggest change in the
algorithm in Googles history
• It effectively changed the way SERP ranking occurred
• The focus of Hummingbird is on conversation, semantics and
determining the intent of the searcher

8. • You can no longer simply think of a keyword or words that someone
may type into Google
• You must now think of the question your best target is asking, and
answer that question with content
• That is not to say don’t use “Long tail Keywords”
• Long tail Keywords – a phrase or sentence describing what your
content is about

9. Link Building Will Focus on Brand
Mentions
• As you have learned in our SEO
Knowledge class, “back links” plays a
roll in SEO and has for a long time
• In the past it was a game of how many
“back links” could you have connected
to the site. The more you had the
better your ranking
• The Panda update added some rules to
that

10. There Will Be More Visual-Based SEO
• In 2014 quality, original content featuring visual media elements like graphics,
images, and video are became high performing assets for the top-ranked web
pages
• That trend is proving to grow and keep growing in 2015
• Rich text with visual elements gets priority in SERPs over web pages with just text
• YouTube video embeds and links back to are leading the way in boosting SERP
rankings

11. Keyword Rankings
• So the focus of our SEO is no longer on how we rank for a specific Keyword
• If we create high quality original content that answers the question our
target audience is asking, the ranking takes care of itself
• In 2015 you need to focus on “How is this content going to convert”

12. • If your top-ranked web page doesn’t generate conversions and sales,
that top ranking doesn’t matter
• Pay attention to how your content engages your audience
• What does your content have to convince people to take your action
step