Posted by cheryldraper Wow! What a crazy ride MozCon has been this year. In case you missed it, we were able to double the number of attendees and include over 2,800 people. Not only were we able to include them, we were also able to see their families, pets, and home offices. It was an unusual experience for sure, but one we won’t be forgetting any time soon. As always, the speakers served up some flaming hot content (including an actual movie). We can’t wait to share some of these takeaways with you! Britney Muller — Accessible Machine Learning Workflows for SEOsBritney started off by assuring everyone that they absolutely can use machine learning. She knows this because she was able to teach her dad how to use it! Let’s jump right in. Basically, machine learning can be used for a lot of things.
Britney suggests starting with a notebook in Colaboratory for increased accessibility. She showed us to do the basics like upload, import, and download data before jumping into the fun stuff:
Honestly, we were surprised at how easy she made machine learning look. Can’t wait to try it ourselves! Izzi Smith — How to Be Ahead of the (CTR) CurveNot all clicks are created equal! While you may want as many clicks as possible from the SERP, there’s a specific type of click you should be striving for — the almighty long click. “What is a click without the intent to be there?” Google’s patent clearly states that reactions to search results are gauged, and short interactions (clicks) can lower rankings while longer interactions (clicks) can lead to higher rankings.
Are you ready to track your clicks and get to work? Good! Izzi broke it all down for you:
Izzi, you’re a rockstar! We can’t wait to go play with all of our data later. Flavilla Fongang — How to Go Beyond Marketing for Clients: The Value of a Thriving Brand EcosystemFlavilla is a true gem. Instead of focusing on the top of the funnel, she focused on how we can keep customers coming back. She told us that “business is like love”. You don’t want to move too fast. You don’t want to move too slow. You have to add value. You have to keep things exciting.
Flavilla challenged us to find what makes us remarkable:
Really sit down and think about why you started your brand and reflect on it. If you build a brand people come back to, you’ll have far less to worry about. Brian Dean — How to Promote Your Content Like a BossWe finally did it! We got Brian Dean to speak at an SEO conference. If you don’t know him by now, you haven’t been searching hard enough. Brian is a master of content creation and marketing. It wasn’t always that way, though. Brian’s first blog never took off because he spent more time creating content than he did promoting it. Once he realized just how important promotion was, he went all-in and ended up reaping the benefits. This year, he finally shared with us some of his Jedi-like promotion tactics.
He shared multiple tips for each of these strategies, but here is a quick summary:
Just implementing one of these tactics could change the way your content is received by the internet. Who knows what could happen if you implemented all of them? Joy Hawkins — Google My Business: Battling Bad Info & Safeguarding Your Search StrategyNot everyone does local SEO, but if you do (or if it ties into what you do at all) you’re going to want to buckle your seatbelt. Joy showed us some of the insights she was able to pull from a large study she did with her team. They had noticed a major discrepancy in the data between Google My Business and Google Search Console, and wanted to get to the root of it.
Joy shared some major findings:
If you work in local search, Joy wants to challenge you to move away from views and Search Console impressions. Instead, focus on the search data that GMB provides for keywords and on click data in Search Console. Michael King — Runtime: The 3-Ring Circus of Technical SEOIn true Michael King style (with a ton of flare), he showed us just what’s possible at a virtual conference and blew our minds with technical SEO awesomeness.
We watched “Jamie” get through the three rings using slick techniques.
There were so many of these, friends! The thing is, all of this has been out there and accessible, but as Mike says in Runtime, “Doing things the same way everyone else does them is going to get you everyone else's results. Do things your own way." Dana DiTomaso — Red Flags: Use a Discovery Process to Go from Red Flags to Green LightsThe idea of discovery is not a new one, but Dana came ready to shine a new light on an old tactic. Most of us do minimal research before agreeing to do a project — or at least minimal compared to Dana and her team! These are just a few questions from Kick Point’s discovery process:
The discovery process isn’t just about talking to the client, though, it’s about doing your own research to see if you can find the pain points.
As always, Dana shared some true gems that are sure to make our industry better. David Sottimano — Everyday Automation for MarketersDavid brought us automation greatness all the way from Colombia! There were so many practical applications and all of them required little to no coding:
We got to see live demonstrations of David doing each of these things as he explained them. They all seemed super user-friendly and we can’t wait to try some of them.
Oh yeah, David also helped us build and release the Moz API for Sheets! Russ Jones — I Wanna Be Rich: Making Your Consultancy ProfitableMost businesses fail within their first five years, and that failure often comes down to business decisions. Now, Russ doesn’t enjoy all of this decision-making, but he has learned a few things from doing it and then seeing how those decisions affect a business’s bottom line. The number one way to become more profitable is to cut costs. Russ looked at cutting costs by having fewer full-time employees, renting/owning less space, making leadership changes, and cutting lines of service. When it comes to actually bringing in more money though, Russ suggests:
At the end of the day, Russ boiled it down to two things: Don’t be afraid to change, and experiment when you can — not when you must.
Heather Physioc — Competitive Advantage in a Commoditized IndustrySEO is not dead, it’s commoditized. A strong line to start off a presentation! We can always count on Heather to bring forth some real business-minded takeaways. First, she helped us understand what a competitive advantage actually is.
Then, it was time to go through her competitive advantage framework.
As we went through this framework, Heather assigned A LOT of homework:
She mentioned a lot of great tools throughout her presentation. Get a list of those tools and access to her slides here. Wil Reynolds — The CMO Role Has Been Disrupted: Are You Ready for Your New Boss?Have you ever thought about who holds the fate of the CMO in their hands? Wil started out by explaining that the CEO, CFO, and CIO actually have far more power over marketing than we give them credit for. While they all know that data is what will make their businesses successful, they also hold keys to our success: budget, IT teams/implementations, veto authority. The issue we face isn’t that we don’t know what we are doing, but more so that we don’t know how to communicate it.
How can you show up to talk the talk and walk the walk? Use your data, and use it to give the customers a voice at the table (something all executive teams are attempting to achieve).
Wil’s team has done an amazing job simplifying and documenting this process for all of us in search. If you haven’t yet, we highly suggest checking out their blog. That’s a wrapFolks, this was fun. We’re so happy that we could bring people together from all over the world for two days during this crazy time. While there weren’t any Roger hugs or fist pumps, there were still lessons learned and friendships made. It doesn’t get any better than that. We hope you feel the same. If you were able to attend the live conference, we would love to hear your thoughts and takeaways! Be sure to take time to reflect on what you’ve learned and start plans for implementation — we want to see you make a difference with your new knowledge. Until next year, Moz fans! Sign up for The Moz Top 10, a semimonthly mailer updating you on the top ten hottest pieces of SEO news, tips, and rad links uncovered by the Moz team. Think of it as your exclusive digest of stuff you don't have time to hunt down but want to read! from The Moz Blog https://ift.tt/2DJOfeB More on
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