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Harnessing the Power of Intent Data and Predictive Analytics

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Harnessing the Power of Intent Data and Predictive Analytics
Michael Mire, SweetIQ

Local search is the ultimate indicator of intent.

  • We’re doing it all the time. (4 in 5 consumers use search engines to find local information.)
  • We’re doing it more and more. (Google search interest in “near me” has increased 34x since 2011.)

We’re on our way to online to offline (O2O) direct attribution.

Today, there are lots of moving parts, which makes it look a lot like Swiss Cheese.

You’re only able to track <3% of the market today, so it’s difficult to create a reliable model.

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Build an O2O attribution funnel / model.

  • Impressions – number of times your stores appeared in local search

Search Engine Strategies Conference 2011 – Day 2

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Looking forward to day 2 of SES. On the schedule for today is

  • Social Media Signals in Search
  • Panda vs. Human: Advanced eCommerce & UX
  • Navigating “The Dip”: Planning a Successful Site Relaunch
  • Local + Social: The Future of Promotion
  • Building Brands without Big Brand Budgets
  • SEW White Hat, Black Hat Unconferenced

Search Engine Strategies Conference 2011 – Day 2

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Looking forward to day 2 of SES. On the schedule for today is

  • Social Media Signals in Search
  • Panda vs. Human: Advanced eCommerce & UX
  • Navigating “The Dip”: Planning a Successful Site Relaunch
  • Local + Social: The Future of Promotion
  • Building Brands without Big Brand Budgets
  • SEW White Hat, Black Hat Unconferenced

Strategic Use of User- Generated Content for SEO

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By Michael DeHaven, Group Product Manager, SEO, for Bazaarvoice

Bazaarvoice manages User-Generated Content (UGC) for over 1300 brands.

Compared user reviews from the audience for a chocolate caramel square to the marketing text on the package. Some negative and positive reviews.

User-generated content

80%-90% of UGC on major brand web sites is actually written by users.

Language styles – the words that you typically think of (or marketers think of) are totally different than what actual users write when writing reviews.

7 Principles of User Generated SEO

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  1. Don’t forget the fundamentals of SEO – UGC will not fix a site with poor SEO
  2. Search engines get bored – they want new stuff. By leveraging UGC, you can keep content fresh.
  3. The Primanti Principle – a primanti sandwich has French fries in it. You want to have the right amount of fries. The same applies to search.

Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues

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By Shari Thurow, Funder and SEO Director of Omni Marketing Interactive

What is duplicate content? Search engines don’t see layout, just copy. Exclude our site search via robots.txt and meta robots tag to avoid submitting duplicate content to Google. Duplicate content is not considered spam, but it can be penalized. The biggest issue, however, is usability. IMPORTANT NOTE: Duplicate content is not penalized, it’s filtered out of the SERPs.

How do search engines filter out duplicate content?

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  • Crawl time filters (duplicate URLs)
  • Index-time filters
  • Query-time filters

Index-Time Filters

  • Broilerplate strippings (search engine removes broilerplate elements to determine the content fingerprint)
  • Linkage properties (# of inbound and outbound links)
  • Host name resolution (what domain resides on which ip address?)
  • Shingle Comparison (Andre Broder – Google Scholar and shingles)
    • Every Web document has a unique content signature or “fingerprint”

SES Chicago 2011

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I’m excited to be at SES for the first time and will be blogging throughout the week. I won’t necessarily be live blogging, but I do want to get my thoughts and observations down before they slip away. I’m planning on attending some interesting sessions on different topics that affect me personally for my job and for personal web projects.
Here’s what I have planned for today.

  • Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues
  • Information Architecture for the Modern Website
  • User Generated SEO
  • Conversion Tools of the Master Craftsman