SEO Outcomes: How to Identify and Make an Impact — Craig Harkins // CoStar
- Part 1Sprint Planning for SEO Success — Craig Harkins // CoStar
- Part 2Product Management partnerships in SEO– Craig Harkins // CoStar
- Part 3 SEO Outcomes: How to Identify and Make an Impact — Craig Harkins // CoStar
Show Notes
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·02:23 - Communicating SEO outcomes There is often a disco ect between desired SEO outcomes and the actual results for the business and users. It is crucial to effectively communicate and explain the business impact behind SEO outcomes to dev teams, UX partners, and QA testers to ensure alignment. ·04:09 - Co ecting SEO outcomes with business impacts By exploring the impact of SEO outcomes on the brand, users, and their interactions, a more comprehensive understanding of the user journey can be developed. This enables effective communication and alignment with stakeholders around achieving those outcomes. ·06:42 - Co ecting user benefits to SEO outcomes Incorporating the user journey into the process of title tag optimization enables you to co ect the SEO outcome to the user impact. This approach highlights the updates benefits beyond SEO and helps to get all team members involved on the same page. ·10:55 - Framing SEO optimizations for Google around user satisfaction While some optimizations like preloading your LCP image initially seem focused on meeting Google's requirements, they aim to improve user satisfaction metrics. By framing these in terms of user needs, the co ection between SEO efforts and user satisfaction becomes clear. ·13:19 - Understanding Google's guidance and prioritizing user satisfaction in SEO Its crucial to listen carefully to the specific questions and situations addressed by search liaisons rather than generalizing their responses as broad mandates. Instead, focus on aligning SEO with user satisfaction metrics and Googles ranking of your website will follow. ·16:35 - Prioritizing and tracking SEO outcomes for business impact SEO efforts should be prioritized based on their potential impact on the business and tracked to report their impact to the dev team involved. By establishing a feedback loop and sharing the impacts achieved, the team becomes motivated and excited to tackle future SEO projects. ·19:51 - Integrating SEO work into the product cycle Demonstrating the impact of SEO work on user experience and product goals is crucial during sprint demos with sales and marketing. Ultimately, SEO becomes an integral part of the product team's efforts to enhance user journey and refine search experiences. ·21:09 - Prioritizing SEO goals for the second half of the year Conduct an inventory of your SEO commitments, assess the progress, and adjust the roadmap accordingly for Q3 and Q4. Communicate this progress and any adjustments to the organization to ensure everyone is aligned to achieve the end-of-year objectives.
Episode Summary
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·"We want faster web pages, or the perceived improvement in speed so that users are happier when they land on the page. They bounce less, consume more content, and convert more down the road." -Craig Harkins, Director of SEO & Content, CoStar ·"When you're listening to the questions that get asked of the different search liaisons, it's very important to listen to what the specifics of the question are and the situation." -Craig Harkins, Director of SEO & Content, CoStar ·"Right now, we're over 50% through the year. So, if I go back to my begi ing of the year goals, I should be more than halfway through all of them." -Craig Harkins, Director of SEO & Content, CoStar ·"It's a good time to go back through, inventory everything, and say, am I really on track with what I committed to at the begi ing of the year?" -Craig Harkins, Director of SEO & Content, CoStar ·"For enterprise SEO, communication is critical. If you committed to stuff at the begi ing of the year, it's going to come back up because you made a commitment at some point." -Craig Harkins, Director of SEO & Content, CoStar
- Part 1Sprint Planning for SEO Success — Craig Harkins // CoStar
- Part 2Product Management partnerships in SEO– Craig Harkins // CoStar
- Part 3 SEO Outcomes: How to Identify and Make an Impact — Craig Harkins // CoStar
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