Omni-channel assets that educate Google — Erin Sparks // Site Strategics

Erin Sparks, host of EDGE of the Web podcast and President of Site Strategics, talks about podcasting SEO and content marketing. We’re seeing the beginning of Google making radical changes to the SERP and an increase in the ways brands and entities can dominate the SERP. Rather than going directly into your sales funnel, consumers are looking for information about your brand on different websites, and the SERP is changing to accommodate these shifts in content consumption patterns. Today, Erin discusses omnichannel assets that educate Google.
About the speaker

Erin Sparks

Site Strategics

 is a little camera shy

Erin is host of EDGE of the Web podcast and President of Site Strategics

Show Notes

  • 02:32
    What is considered an omnichannel asset
    Omnichannel refers to multi-channel content distribution. Essentially, youre placing your content on various channels in order to have Google assign value and credibility to your brand.
  • 05:29
    How you can educate Google using omnichannel assets
    Ideally, the job of marketers is not to meet the consumer at the transaction-level, its about providing education to consumers. If were able to convince Google of being contextually relevant, itll more frequently position us in front of consumers at the top of the funnel.
  • 09:40
    Helping Google to understand all the idiosyncrasies of your brand or entity
    Marketers have the opportunity to validate their brands to Google rich content within images, rich content within audio, etc. Ultimately, its about creating references for the brand through relevant content and information to increase Googles trust.
  • 11:24
    Companies using omnichannel assets for SERP domination
    Kalicubes Jason Barnard has been able to control every element of his media on his brand SERP. Hes done so by moving content into assets trusted by Google like IMDB and Crunchbase.
  • 16:30
    Google MUM and user consumption preferences
    Google MUM is going to be changing the SERP in order to meet user consumption preferences. So, content production will need to cater to trusted data repositories Google relies on, as well as different channels to satisfy different consumption patterns.

Quotes

  • "Omnichannel is a mosaic of information we're moving in front of Google itself. We're painting a picture on all the spaces where the search engine is listening and trying to understand a thing." -Erin Sparks, President, Site Strategics

  • "Omnichannel is reaching your destination audience or whoever is consuming your communication in the method of their preferences to consume it." -Erin Sparks, President, Site Strategics

  • "There are thousands of data points in one image. And, Google is creating its neural pathways to understand and categorize all of those different data points at exponential speed." -Erin Sparks, President, Site Strategics

  • "Our job as marketers is not to meet that consumer at the transaction level. Its to persuade Google how valuable and contextually relevant our information is in terms of the service were offering." -Erin Sparks, President, Site Strategics

  • "We have to start thinking about educating consumers and Google in a space that has no bearing on the actual sales funnel itself." -Erin Sparks, President, Site Strategics

  • "Jason Barnard of Kalicube controls every element of his media to inform Google on the depth of who he is and what he's been able to execute over his life. And, he dominates the entire SERP." -Erin Sparks, President, Site Strategics

  • "Jason Barnards brand SERP is the epitome of how you can manipulate, educate, and disambiguate your information from others in the pack." -Erin Sparks, President, Site Strategics

  • "The SERP is going to change radically, and it's going to be omnichannel. All of the different pieces that make up its knowledge of an entity are going to be pushed to you based on your intent." -Erin Sparks, President, Site Strategics

About the speaker

Erin Sparks

Site Strategics

 is a little camera shy

Erin is host of EDGE of the Web podcast and President of Site Strategics

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