Creating A Content Strategy That Search Engines Love
(and that you love too) 2017 Design Bloggers Conference
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Who am I?
Dylan Sellberg
- Implementation Specialist at HubSpot
- Started first business at age 11
- Managed multi-million dollar marketing campaigns
- Consults with 30+ marketers each week on marketing and sales best practices
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Diving In
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Your Current Content StrategyOh, I have an idea - I’ll post it!
Today’s Search Engines How they work and what is new
Your New Content StrategyThis is a big idea, hang onto your hats
Building a Content Strategy That Search Engines <3 and you do too
My goal is to introduce a content strategy that will help
you and your business
Use #EVENTHASHTAG and I’ll respond to any questions from the Twitter Thread both during
and after this talkQ+ALet’s go DEEP here
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How It All Fits TogetherHow a new content strategy will change your results
What is going on with Search Engines?
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How does the Google Machine Work?
The goal of search has always been the same. Enter a question...you get an answer. But... questions have changed as users have become more sophisticated...
The New Search Engines
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1. Obtain backlinks to your site2. Add keywords in your meta description, and H1 tags3. Add a lot of keywords in the body of your content. The more, the
better.4. Add “hidden” keyword mentions in the HTML of your page.5. Rinse & repeat
The New Search Engines
Before now
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*This system is easily gamed by SEOs, marketers, content writers, everybody
But search has evolved
Inside Google’s Search Algorithm
Inside the machine are various algorithms that take hundreds of factors into account to deliver the most relevant result to the searcher.
Each update is just another piece of the overall Google Search Algorithm.
The New Search Engines
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Mobile
Panda
Rankbrain
Penguin
Hummingbird
3 Most Important Ranking Factors
1. Content2. Links
The New Search Engines
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3. RankBrain
A machine-learning artificial
intelligence system that’s
used in the Google Search
Algorithm to help process
results.
RankBrain is intended to help
primarily understand long-tail
queries and user intent.
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RankBrain is “involved in every query,” and affects the actual rankings “probably not in every query but in a lot of queries.”
Jeff Dean Computer Scientist, Google
(plus it’s the third most important factor affecting search)
Target searchers' intent and concepts, Google will do a good job recognizing content and figuring out the keywords that it maps to
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2015, Content Marketing Institute
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Your current content strategy
Your Current Content Strategy
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A spontaneous idea equals a blog post
1. You have limited bandwidth
2. Have a hard time creating content on a consistent basis
3. Unable to connect content to your goals or mission
Your Current Content Strategy
Roadblocks with this “Strategy”
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The “See What Sticks” Strategy
1. Difficulty generating concrete ideas
2. Difficulty connecting content generated to your business goals and strategies
3. Trying to mesh your pages with keywords conflicts with your writing style
Your Current Content Strategy
Roadblocks with this “Strategy”
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The “Keyword Research” Strategy
You are not alone.
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The majority of marketers don’t have a documented content strategy. In fact, Only 35% of B2B marketers and only 37% of B2C marketers have a documented content strategy.
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2015, Content Marketing Institute
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A Story
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2 years ago, HubSpot launched the our CRM and created an Inbound Sales Framework...
And...we launched a TON of content
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And it was SO keyword optimized...
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And, the results were like...
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Then, it hit us...Write for humans, not for robots
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So we tried a new framework...
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And the results were like...
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So, how can you do this?
Develop a content strategy!
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That search engines love...
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And you do too...
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Introducing...
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The Content Cluster Framework
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Topics Over Keywords
Key
Sub Topic
Core Topic
Hyperlink
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Topics Over Keywords
● Links off to sub-topic / cluster content and resources
● This is the anchor of topical content on your site
● Typically a web page on your main site
Pillar Content | (10x Content)
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● Holistic view of where you stand on a given topic
● Will increase authority on topic to return results no matter the search
● Google takes care of parsing a search query and returning your result
● This can be a blog page, checklist, case study
Topics Over Keywords
Topic Content
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Topics Over Keywords
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Scandinavian Design
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Minimalism at work
Emerging Scandinavian Design Companies
Functionalism at workin office spaces
Which Nordic country produces the best products
Is Scandinavian Design played out?
How to put this into play
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Map out 5-10 of the core problems that your
buyer has
Build out each of the core topic with subtopics using
keyword research
Map out content ideas that align with each core topic with corresponding
subtopics
Validate each idea with industry and competitive
research.
Create, measure, and refine
Group each of the problems into broad
topic areas
Creating A Content Strategy That Search Engines Love (and that you love too)
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3 Most Important Ranking Factors
1. Content2. Links3. RankBrain
Thank you.
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Q+APlease, no softballs
Out of time? [email protected]
1. Matthew Barby (and his blog)https://www.matthewbarby.com/blog/
2. Angela DeFranco3. Joseph Del Bene 4. How to create 10x content (Moz) 5. Anum Hussain Topics over Keywords 6. All About RankBrain (Search Engine Land)
Thank you’s + resources
The Real Pros
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