@wilreynolds
Go Where the Users Are.
Building a Holistic SERP
Strategy
WIL REYNOLDS
#theinbounder
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Basic Training
Open your eyes,
Look at the Search Page!
DATA POINTS FOR EACH QUERY
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10 factors
50 searches/mo
10 years
60,000
Data Points
Google is Telling you what people want.
Google is Figuring out what people want
FAST!
What Motivates People?
answerthepublic.com
Not For Volume
For Understanding People
What Motivates People?
What Motivates People?
The Machines are Learning what we want
WHAT!!!!!!
SEARCHER’S MISSION
YOU ARE NOT FULFILLING
LOOKS LIKE A MODEL
DOESN’T!
THIS IS MORE LIKE IT…
Where are you NOT giving people what They
want?
Google knows that!
Expensive
Distance From Philly: 1633.7 KM
Distance From Philly:
155 KM
Distance From Philly:
1932 KM
Organic Search Results are Local
Organic: 85% Results Local
Paid: 20% Results Local
Disconnect!!! PPC is missing intent!
Organic: Algorithmic based on MERIT
Paid: Algorithmic based on $$$
Dumb Money
User Signals vs Domain Strength Signals
EDUCATION INTENT
RESEARCH / BUY
& JOB PROSPECTING
INVESTING & JOBS
IS IT WORTH RANKING?
BASIC
HUMAN
BEHAVIOR
WE’D RATHER LEARN
THAN BE SOLD TO
All education
Education
News
Investment
Just Look at the SERP
Content Strategy
Education Content
Image Strategy
News Strategy
Wikipedia
Dumb Money - Paid
Show cost of those keywords
Expensive
Let’s get started…on what? I don’t even know
what cloud computing is YET!
Hold up!
Vs Organic
We went from 22 to top 5 for one of the most competitive keywords.
Prioritized the USERS desire to learn (indicated by the SERP) over the
marketers desire to Sell.
IF you get a flat tire, what do you want to do with it?
Understand the User
What to do?
Update your content
Local Query
Use Search Modifiers to get max CTR on sitelinks
Dumb Money - Paid
What Does Their Paid Landing Page Say?
SAYS NOTHING.
Organic Landing Page for same
query Ranked #1…
This is what I wanted!!
Winning @ Search
Losing @ People?
#1
Go check OLD content
Inuit example
#2
Look
Closely
At
PPC
Tests
Get Involved in Communities
Lets look back
Stingy?
Use RLSA!
Back to Basic Training
Look at the SERP outside
of your rank tracking tool.
Basic Training
Get Involved In Communities
Use PPC Targeting Pre-Rank
@wilreynolds
Go Where the Users Are.
Building a Holistic SERP
Strategy
WIL REYNOLDS
#theinbounder
Ponencia en inglés - Ponte los

A More Holistic View of Search Pages