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Moderator: Jacques Hart Panelists: Simon Heseltine Gustavo Saientz Sze Liu
Nov 7, 2013
Web Congress Miami Organic Strategies for Web, Mobile & Social
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@simonheseltine Miami Nov 7th
• I did not host the Daily Show this summer
• I was not a voice actor in any Smurf movies
Who am I?
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The changing landscape
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The changing landscape - Search • Looks at content quality
• Design • Trustworthiness • Speed • Depth of content
• Historically has run on top of the algorithm
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The changing landscape - Search • Looks at site link profiles • Looks for quality of links • Looks at diversity of link anchor text
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The changing landscape - Search
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The changing landscape - Search
…they did say that this was the biggest overhaul to their engine since the 2009 “Caffeine” overhaul (which focused on speed and integrating social network results into search) and that it affects “around 90% of searches”, there wasn’t much offered in terms of technical details. The main focus, and something that went repeated many a time, was that the new algorithm allows Google to more quickly parse full questions (as opposed to parsing searches word-by-word), and to identify and rank answers to those questions from the content they’ve indexed.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/google-recently-made-a-silent-shift-to-a-new-search-algorithm-hummingbird/
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The changing landscape - Mobile
1. Faulty redirects
2. Smartphone only errors
3. App download interstitials
4. Irrelevant cross linking
5. Page speed
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The changing landscape - Social
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@simonheseltine Miami Nov 7th
Follow best practices
What’s a site to do?
Don’t go to the dark side
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What’s a site to do?
Follow best practices
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@simonheseltine Miami Nov 7th
What’s a site to do?
Follow best practices
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What’s a site to do?
Webmaster Tools
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What’s a site to do?
Analytics
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What’s a site to do?
Analytics
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What’s a site to do?
Keep on top of changes
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Moderator: Jacques Hart Panelists: Simon Heseltine Gustavo Saientz Sze Liu Nov 7, 2013
Web Congress Miami Organic Strategies for Web, Mobile & Social
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