In-House SEO Turnaround Story As Told by Jessica Bowman

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From SMX East 2013 - Maximizing Enterprise SEO - An In-House SEO Turnaround story by Jessica Bowman - #SMX #31D

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Non-SEO

Teams

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SEO wasn’t their job

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Thought someone else

was handling it

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Didn’t see there was a

SEO Strategy

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Lacked SEO Knowledge

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Or….

Had a bit of knowledge

and…

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Wondered what the SEO

team was doing

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Inconsistent in how they

work with the SEO Team

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Got inconsistent guidance

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Gave what we call

“Passive Pushback”

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Biggest Surprise….

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Management

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Saw that SEO basics were

not be applied

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Did not see the growth

expected

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Naturally….

Began to doubt the SEO

team

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Began prioritizing SEO

changes they thought

should be done

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SEO

Team

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Frustrated

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Some of team deep SEO

knowledge

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Some of team high level

SEO knowledge

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Not involved in enough

projects

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Growing at a lower pace

than other teams

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SEO Team

Shooting

Themselves in the Foot

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Not fighting enough for

SEO

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Not leveraging the data at

their disposal

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Not fighting for analysis

resources

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SEO request queue

too small

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Non-SEO Teams perceived:

Didn’t

give feedback on projects’ results

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Perception is

Reality

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How they were communicating

wasn’t working

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Think this

isn’t

happening at your company?

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Guess again.

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Distributed SEO tasks

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Hired SEO Manager

& Technical SEO

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IntenseSEO vetting and interviews

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We kept moving Forward

DO NOT WAIT to start such a plan until after you hire a SEO

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Moved them into the

“Honeymoon

Phase” of the In-house SEO Life Cycle

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In-house SEO Life Cycle

Co

urt

ship

Ho

ne

ym

oo

n

Reality Synergy

Few

companies

leverage

these

phases

Most companies

operate here

We get you here,

in the shortest

amount of time

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In-house SEO Life Cycle

Co

urt

ship

Ho

ne

ym

oo

n

Reality Synergy

Few

companies

leverage

these

phases

Most companies

operate here

We get you here,

in the shortest

amount of time

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In-house SEO Life Cycle

Co

urt

ship

Ho

ne

ym

oo

n

Reality Synergy

Few

companies

leverage

these

phases

Most companies

operate here

We get you here,

in the shortest

amount of time

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SEO Training for

EVERYONEUS and International Resources

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ProcessAnalysis & Improvements

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Revised & added to

Standards

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Created

SEO Resources

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Created

Education Plan

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Created

Communication Plan

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Let’s do this together. Differently.

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1. Expand SEO beyond the SEO team

2. Train everyone on SEO

3. If you’re hiring, hire differently

4. Sell SEO to the organization, not just your chain of command

5. Analyze your processes for SEO integration

Resources and 10 THINGS YOU CAN DO NOW at

SEOinhouse.com/smxeast