SEO moneyball — Will Critchlow // SearchPilot
Show Notes
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02:28What SEO moneyball isSimilar to the rise of the three-point shot and the decline of the midrange in the NBA, SEOs should be taking more risks and using data to make better decisions. This involves creating new content, site sections, testing them, and building the strategy from there.
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07:02Determining whether you should develop new contentThis is dependent on your strategy and your current position in the market. So, you have to look at the opportunities, costs, and benefits, and once something is measurable, its ROI can be measured as a standalone program.
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09:43Getting organizations into the culture of SEO testingMany digitally native companies already have testing-driven cultures but are unable to apply that to SEO testing. SearchPilot helps companies that are unable to build a business case for SEO with testing and deploying changes quickly.
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12:06Using SEO testing to get executive buySEO testing enables SEO managers to prove the value of their work and directors are able to connect their work to revenue and get budget for initiatives. It also enables SEO to function more like a paid channel where executives can look at dollars and in dollars out.
Quotes
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"If you are a massive, successful website, like Zillow, you are unlikely to create a new site section that performs anywhere near as well as the site sections you have." -Will Critchlow, CEO, SearchPilot
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"In terms of pure SEO opportunity, have we addressed the main bit of the market that we're going after? That will guide your development of new content." -Will Critchlow, CEO, SearchPilot
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"Your SEO activity may go up to do more testing, but youll discover bad ideas and save the engineering and product resource from having to make those changes." -Will Critchlow, CEO, SearchPilot
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"As soon as you make something measurable, as you do with onsite testing, you can measure its ROI as a standalone program." -Will Critchlow, CEO, SearchPilot
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