PubCon Live: SEO 2011 & Major Trends in Search Marketing

Nov 10, 2011 - 4:25 pm 0 by

click for full sizeBelow is live coverage of the SEO 2011 & Major Trends in Search Marketing panel from the PubCon 2011 conference.

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They are loading their presentations...
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I just offered them my USB drive
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Barry Schwartz: 1:40:08 pm
Okay, Daniel Boberg is up and he is looking right at me! Spooky
Barry Schwartz: 1:40:23 pm
He will talk about Major Trends in Search Marketing
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He worked at Microsoft, GoTo.com, OVerture, Yahoo and then Tallwave and SyCara
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1) Massive Company Effect - these guys are big
- Google 195 billion
- Microsoft 224 billion
- Facebook $60B
- Yahoo $20B
- Apple $367 billion market cap
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Apple is a major new change to the marketplace
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Apple vs Google
Barry Schwartz: 1:45:38 pm
(2) Platform Automation:
- Marin software with 1100 customers and $2.7 billion in ad spend
- Kenshoo with $15 billion in sales revenue and 650 million keywords
- Efficient Frontier over $1 billion in ad spend
- Adobe / Omniture is a top 3
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(3) Multi Channel Search:
- Organic
- Paid
- YouTube
- NEws
- Images
- etc
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With all content becoming digital, everything can be searched
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Spend Projection
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(4) Social Signals in Search is the next major trend
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Social networks and blogs count for 1/4th of the total time spent on internet and growing, etc etc
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(5) Content Marketing : It has emerged as a new niche within our space.
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Everyone considers themselves as a publisher
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Some nice stats...
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(6) Local and Mobile is the next trend
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Mobile device adoption is big
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Mobile clicks can reach 20% of the clicks next year
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44% of total searches for holiday gifts can be from mobile the end of this year
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30% of businesses have increased mobile marketing budgets in the past two years by 50%
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(7) Privacy is the next trend
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The European Privacy Law & Cookies went into effect this year
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If this trend continues, it can have a ripple effect across the entire digital marketing industry
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Google SSL change is one of those big changes
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In Summary: Industry is changing, be prepare for those changes
Barry Schwartz: 2:01:28 pm
Q&A for first part and then Greg Boser is up for SEO 2011
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Greg is now ready
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Barry Schwartz: 2:07:40 pm
He actually just put this presentation together while Daniel was talking because it some how got lost
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Greg has been doing this for 15 years
Barry Schwartz: 2:08:13 pm
A year ago, hejoined BlueGlass, so now he is at a larger agency
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Major changes in the year?
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It was the most chaotic year based on the number of changes
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(1) Moving from a Page Quality to Site Quality metric from Google, i.e. Panda
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It was about making as many pages as possible and now that strategy is no longer such a good strategy, people are removing pages to boost value of the more important pages
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Recovering from Panda is really changing your business model
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(2) Human Engagement
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Slide from rand
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FYI, most of these slides so far are from his preso from 2 days ago at http://www.seroundtable.com/seo-hot-topics-and-trends-14273.html
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(3) Brute force SEO is dead
- Automated filtering
- Automated correction
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(4) Extreme Localization
- Google Goes Insane with localization
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But in reality, change is good. So Embrace it and find new areas of opportunities
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Focus For The AGency:
- Learn to say no to people
- Autonomous solutions is important
- New Products/Services to solve common problems
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Focus on The Client:
- You can't do 20% of the stuff you need to do and gain 20%, you need to do 100%
- Don't be afraid to go rogue, it is about reducing departmentalization, bring it together
- Proof of concept is key
- Embrace open graph and individual identities for your employees
Barry Schwartz: 2:30:18 pm
Greg is talking about my face and how much he loves looking at it
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He is talking about authorship rich snippets, example
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That is all - Q&A time
Barry Schwartz: 2:32:55 pm
Next session at 3:15p PDT
 

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