Understanding the Affiliate Marketing Channel; the short guide
Colchester Digital Presentation 2019
1. Forget Algorithms - Think Users
Create Content That Performs
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About Me
- Search Strategist at StrategiQ
- 6 years experience in digital marketing
- Copywriter > Paid Social > Paid Search > SEO
- Brands I’ve worked with include: Ryvita,
Dorchester Collection and Dermalogica
olidigital
oli@strategiq.co
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SEO Myths
Your visibility in search engines is based on:
- Advertising spend
- ‘Black hat’ tricks
- Top secret conversations with Google
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What SEO Really Is
SEO is about fulfilling user intent and meeting and exceeding the value
provided by competitor sites.
In doing so, you make your site the very best result for the users’ queries.
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SEOs don't manipulate Google
John Mueller, Webmaster Trends
Analyst at Google (and world’s most
patient person!)
We manipulate websites.
There's a *lot* of work that makes sense to do on websites,
which makes search engines' jobs easier, and can help to
position a page so that it's relevant to a larger number of
users' needs.
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SEO isn’t a condiment. It’s an
ingredient. Bake it in.
Ryan Jones, SEO Group Director,
Publicis Sapient
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- 1,440 new WordPress posts every minute
- 4,479,000 Google searches every minute
- Over 1.7 billion websites online right now
Breaking through the noise
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Intent is based around these
concepts:
- I want to know
- I want to go
- I want to do
- I want to buy
- I want to feel
Ryan Jones, SEO Group Director,
Publicis Sapient
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SEO Re-Engineering
Review each of the top performing content pieces.
- What’s the similarities/commonalities between them?
- Does the page have any assets that differentiate it?
- Then look at standard on-page elements (heading structure, copy length, internal linking etc).
- Are off-page factors having an influence?
- What extra value are they providing on their pages?
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What We Aspire For
- To dominate your niche
- Provide content for each stage of the buyer journey
- Keep in the consideration set of prospects.
- Achieving Best In Class
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Make Your Content Stand Out
- Offer something unique to attract links back from other
credible sites
- People don’t cover/link to sites that are regurgitating
the same content for the n’teenth time.
- What makes you stand out and get their attention?
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Summary
1. SEO isn’t a condiment or about gaming the algorithm
2. SEO is about creating the best answer to the user’s query (so they don’t need to go elsewhere)
3. Don’t create content for content’s sake - base it on keyword research AND intent
4. Look at the SERPs to see what good content looks like
5. There’s no set word count. Write however much you need to in order to comprehensively answer the
users’ queries
6. Aspire for Best In Class
7. Careful how you frame content!
8. When done well, can be a consistent source of traffic for you