Search Engine Optimisation Guardian Future of Advertising 2009
What are search engines, why are they important?
The School of Information Management and Systems  at the University of California-Berkeley calculates … Five exabytes of new information - roughly five billion gigabytes - was created in 2002 alone. Five exabytes is like half a million libraries as big as the Library of Congress print collections.  Almost 800 MB of recorded information is produced per person, per year: if stored on paper, that would take up about ten metres (30 feet) of books.  http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003
Yahoo! =  20 billion  items in 2005 over 19.2 billion  web documents   1.6 billion  images over 50 million  audio and video files   Source: 2005 http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000172.html
Google =  50,000,000,000  items? and we all expect  instantaneous  results   and growing
 
New website visitors which come from a search engine.   (Forrester) 73%
What search engines do people use?
Search experiences Research/Info  (Google, Yahoo, BING) Commercial (Ebay, Amazon, Rightmove) News (Google News, Technorati, Digg) Entertainment (YouTube) Friends (Facebook, BEBO, LinkedIn)
They did use all of these:
But now they mostly use:
HOW MUCH  MARKET SHARE   (SEARCH REFERRALS)  DO YOU THINK GOOGLE HAS ?
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“ People always make the assumption that we're done with search. That's very far from the case. We're probably only  5  per cent  of the way there. We want to create the ultimate search engine that can understand anything ... some people could call that artificial intelligence.” Larry Page, Google
“ Google's mission is to organize the  world's information  and make it universally accessible and useful.” Cue scary music & dim lights
 
 
 
 
 
 
The web is getting more densely packed 6%   of all web traffic was received by Google Arbor Networks  2009
So as the way we interact with the world and the media has changed, and continues to change, how has advertising kept pace?
Offline Ad Spend Moving Online Internet Usage Still Growing New Content Forms New Devices
Online > National Newspaper Advertising UK online spending at £2.016bn 11.4% of total advertising revenues  IAB 2006
Online > TV Advertising 2009
During the first half of 2009, online accounted for 23.5 %of overall ad spend within the U.K. £1.75 billion TV advertising accounted for 21.9 % in H1 PricewaterhouseCoopers, IAB U.K. World Advertising Research Centre
The Crunch In tough times habits change Bargain hunters  More clicks less conversions Browsing not buying
Bargain hunting through the credit crunch saw a surge in coupon and voucher related traffic
Online Lead Generation (B2C) Report 2009
What is search engine optimisation?
“ Search engine optimization (SEO) is a set of methodologies aimed at improving the visibility of a website in search engine listings.”   wikipedia.org/wiki/SEO
Search engine optimisation is not considered bad by Google… … but some search engine optimisation techniques are.  http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291
Search Engines are evolving Web technology is evolving Search engine optimisation is about considering how the two interact.
That differs from Pay per click  ( PPC ) is an advertising model…where advertisers only pay when a user actually clicks on an advert to visit the advertiser's website.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_per_click
Pay per click advertising is how Google makes its money. It pays for the services provided by Google for free that we may sometimes take for granted.
In case you were in any doubt Organic Pay Per Click Adverts
What and why are people investing in search?
HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK UK BUSINESSES SPEND ON SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING?
11 % of companies surveyed are spending  more than £ 100,000  annually on  search engine optimisation. UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
15 % of companies surveyed are spending  more than £ 500,000  annually on  paid search .  UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
Measuring Success
John (Nelson) Wanamaker  (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was a much respected and admired  United States  merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered the father of modern  advertising . Wanamaker was born in  Philadelphia ,  Pennsylvania .
John (Nelson) Wanamaker   (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was a much respected and admired United States merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered the father of modern advertising. Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"I know I waste half the money I spend on advertising, the problem is,  I don't know which half ."
Digital has been successful because Modern day web analytics allow us to target advertising messages much more precisely than ever, and to gain comprehensive data on the viewers of ads, website visitors and outcomes of our campaigns.
TV needs to go online YouTube Insight Not broadcast – two way dialogue
No one is perfect, but we are getting better The proportion of companies who are tracking paid search ROI effectively has increased from 33% last year to 45% in 2009.  For SEO, there has been an even bigger increase, from 20% to 35%. UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
Tracking ROI from SEO Clicks / visitors  Number of sales  Value of sales  Leads  Position (branding) Page impressions  Profit margin Lifetime value  Telephone calls  No tracking  69% 47% 38% 36% 34% 29% 14% 13% 11% 9% UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
Changes in SEO tracking since 2008 UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
Tracking ROI from Paid Search Clicks / visitors  Number of sales  Value of sales  Leads  Page impressions  Position (branding) Profit margin Lifetime value  Telephone calls  No tracking  61% 53% 43% 37% 22% 19% 21% 19% 14% 13% UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
Changes in paid search tracking since 2008 UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
Mindshare – a better way of measuring brand coverage
Which is good because… UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
How does social it fit into all this?
HOW MANY TYPES OF ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED BY YOUR BUSINESS OR EMPLOYEES WOULD YOU CLASSIFY AS  'SOCIAL‘  ?
It is my belief that…social media is not a fad… the web is inherently SOCIAL!
and always has been. Bulletin Boards (1970s)  Usenet (1979) Internet Relay Chat (IRC)  (1988)
Social Networking Social Bookmarking RSS Blogging Micro Blogging Forums
 
Social Networking Club Penguin Bebo MySpace FaceBook LinkedIN SagaZone
Social Bookmarking Saving, sharing and sometimes voting on things you find interesting.
and then there is
 
 
 
UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
Pause for thought ON AVERAGE WHAT % OF UPSTREAM TRAFFIC TO WEBSITES COMES ON FROM SOCIAL MEDIA?
We asked… Were your organisation's social media campaigns more or less successful than you expected? Almost half of respondents surveyed don’t know how to assess the success of their social media campaigns.
Didn’t know or didn’t care
60,000 websites, 74 Million Impressions
“ Despite predictions that social media will replace search engines as Internet users’ primary method of finding information online, a breakdown of the numbers shows that isn’t the case.”   http://chitika.com/research/2009/social-vs-search/
Social media still generates massive amounts of content http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/05/zoinks-20-hours-of-video-uploaded-every_20.html 20hrs of videos uploaded to YouTube every minute
… and more content
What can you do? Information divulged by  individuals  via social media channels will increasingly influence search engine ranking algorithms. Ironically - Search engines will increasingly be required to organise those channels.
Summary
Summary Search continues to grow as belt tightening demands more transparent media SEO seeing the biggest rise in budgets over the past 12 months Social media can and does support SEO As the internet grows, search engines will get more, not less important. Measurement is a cornerstone of digital advertising.
Response UK Search Marketing Report 2009 Almost 900  respondents Online survey in February and March 2009 436 company search marketers 341 supplier respondents   SMEs and Blue Chips Range of sectors
See Dave in the coffee area or register to download at: www.guava.co.uk/uksem2009
Accreditations Google Adwords Qualified Company Google Enterprise Partners Google Analytics Partners Omniture Partners Guava are members of: Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) (Search Council) SEMPO (UK working group) e-consultancy
www.guava.co.uk

The Guardian - Future of Advertising Summit

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    Search Engine OptimisationGuardian Future of Advertising 2009
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    What are searchengines, why are they important?
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    The School ofInformation Management and Systems at the University of California-Berkeley calculates … Five exabytes of new information - roughly five billion gigabytes - was created in 2002 alone. Five exabytes is like half a million libraries as big as the Library of Congress print collections. Almost 800 MB of recorded information is produced per person, per year: if stored on paper, that would take up about ten metres (30 feet) of books. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003
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    Yahoo! = 20 billion items in 2005 over 19.2 billion web documents 1.6 billion images over 50 million audio and video files Source: 2005 http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000172.html
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    Google = 50,000,000,000 items? and we all expect instantaneous results  and growing
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    New website visitorswhich come from a search engine. (Forrester) 73%
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    What search enginesdo people use?
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    Search experiences Research/Info (Google, Yahoo, BING) Commercial (Ebay, Amazon, Rightmove) News (Google News, Technorati, Digg) Entertainment (YouTube) Friends (Facebook, BEBO, LinkedIn)
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    They did useall of these:
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    But now theymostly use:
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    HOW MUCH MARKET SHARE (SEARCH REFERRALS) DO YOU THINK GOOGLE HAS ?
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    “ People alwaysmake the assumption that we're done with search. That's very far from the case. We're probably only 5 per cent of the way there. We want to create the ultimate search engine that can understand anything ... some people could call that artificial intelligence.” Larry Page, Google
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    “ Google's missionis to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Cue scary music & dim lights
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    The web isgetting more densely packed 6% of all web traffic was received by Google Arbor Networks 2009
  • 23.
    So as theway we interact with the world and the media has changed, and continues to change, how has advertising kept pace?
  • 24.
    Offline Ad SpendMoving Online Internet Usage Still Growing New Content Forms New Devices
  • 25.
    Online > NationalNewspaper Advertising UK online spending at £2.016bn 11.4% of total advertising revenues IAB 2006
  • 26.
    Online > TVAdvertising 2009
  • 27.
    During the firsthalf of 2009, online accounted for 23.5 %of overall ad spend within the U.K. £1.75 billion TV advertising accounted for 21.9 % in H1 PricewaterhouseCoopers, IAB U.K. World Advertising Research Centre
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    The Crunch Intough times habits change Bargain hunters More clicks less conversions Browsing not buying
  • 29.
    Bargain hunting throughthe credit crunch saw a surge in coupon and voucher related traffic
  • 30.
    Online Lead Generation(B2C) Report 2009
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    What is searchengine optimisation?
  • 32.
    “ Search engineoptimization (SEO) is a set of methodologies aimed at improving the visibility of a website in search engine listings.” wikipedia.org/wiki/SEO
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    Search engine optimisationis not considered bad by Google… … but some search engine optimisation techniques are. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291
  • 34.
    Search Engines areevolving Web technology is evolving Search engine optimisation is about considering how the two interact.
  • 35.
    That differs fromPay per click ( PPC ) is an advertising model…where advertisers only pay when a user actually clicks on an advert to visit the advertiser's website. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_per_click
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    Pay per clickadvertising is how Google makes its money. It pays for the services provided by Google for free that we may sometimes take for granted.
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    In case youwere in any doubt Organic Pay Per Click Adverts
  • 38.
    What and whyare people investing in search?
  • 39.
    HOW MUCH DOYOU THINK UK BUSINESSES SPEND ON SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING?
  • 40.
    11 % ofcompanies surveyed are spending more than £ 100,000 annually on search engine optimisation. UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
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    UK Search EngineMarketing Report 2009
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    15 % ofcompanies surveyed are spending more than £ 500,000 annually on paid search . UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
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    UK Search EngineMarketing Report 2009
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    John (Nelson) Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was a much respected and admired United States merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered the father of modern advertising . Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .
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    John (Nelson) Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was a much respected and admired United States merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered the father of modern advertising. Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • 47.
    "I know Iwaste half the money I spend on advertising, the problem is, I don't know which half ."
  • 48.
    Digital has beensuccessful because Modern day web analytics allow us to target advertising messages much more precisely than ever, and to gain comprehensive data on the viewers of ads, website visitors and outcomes of our campaigns.
  • 49.
    TV needs togo online YouTube Insight Not broadcast – two way dialogue
  • 50.
    No one isperfect, but we are getting better The proportion of companies who are tracking paid search ROI effectively has increased from 33% last year to 45% in 2009. For SEO, there has been an even bigger increase, from 20% to 35%. UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
  • 51.
    Tracking ROI fromSEO Clicks / visitors Number of sales Value of sales Leads Position (branding) Page impressions Profit margin Lifetime value Telephone calls No tracking 69% 47% 38% 36% 34% 29% 14% 13% 11% 9% UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
  • 52.
    Changes in SEOtracking since 2008 UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
  • 53.
    Tracking ROI fromPaid Search Clicks / visitors Number of sales Value of sales Leads Page impressions Position (branding) Profit margin Lifetime value Telephone calls No tracking 61% 53% 43% 37% 22% 19% 21% 19% 14% 13% UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
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    Changes in paidsearch tracking since 2008 UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
  • 55.
    Mindshare – abetter way of measuring brand coverage
  • 56.
    Which is goodbecause… UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2009
  • 57.
    How does socialit fit into all this?
  • 58.
    HOW MANY TYPESOF ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED BY YOUR BUSINESS OR EMPLOYEES WOULD YOU CLASSIFY AS 'SOCIAL‘ ?
  • 59.
    It is mybelief that…social media is not a fad… the web is inherently SOCIAL!
  • 60.
    and always hasbeen. Bulletin Boards (1970s) Usenet (1979) Internet Relay Chat (IRC) (1988)
  • 61.
    Social Networking SocialBookmarking RSS Blogging Micro Blogging Forums
  • 62.
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    Social Networking ClubPenguin Bebo MySpace FaceBook LinkedIN SagaZone
  • 64.
    Social Bookmarking Saving,sharing and sometimes voting on things you find interesting.
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    UK Search EngineMarketing Report 2009
  • 70.
    Pause for thoughtON AVERAGE WHAT % OF UPSTREAM TRAFFIC TO WEBSITES COMES ON FROM SOCIAL MEDIA?
  • 71.
    We asked… Wereyour organisation's social media campaigns more or less successful than you expected? Almost half of respondents surveyed don’t know how to assess the success of their social media campaigns.
  • 72.
    Didn’t know ordidn’t care
  • 73.
    60,000 websites, 74Million Impressions
  • 74.
    “ Despite predictionsthat social media will replace search engines as Internet users’ primary method of finding information online, a breakdown of the numbers shows that isn’t the case.” http://chitika.com/research/2009/social-vs-search/
  • 75.
    Social media stillgenerates massive amounts of content http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/05/zoinks-20-hours-of-video-uploaded-every_20.html 20hrs of videos uploaded to YouTube every minute
  • 76.
    … and morecontent
  • 77.
    What can youdo? Information divulged by individuals via social media channels will increasingly influence search engine ranking algorithms. Ironically - Search engines will increasingly be required to organise those channels.
  • 78.
  • 79.
    Summary Search continuesto grow as belt tightening demands more transparent media SEO seeing the biggest rise in budgets over the past 12 months Social media can and does support SEO As the internet grows, search engines will get more, not less important. Measurement is a cornerstone of digital advertising.
  • 80.
    Response UK SearchMarketing Report 2009 Almost 900 respondents Online survey in February and March 2009 436 company search marketers 341 supplier respondents SMEs and Blue Chips Range of sectors
  • 81.
    See Dave inthe coffee area or register to download at: www.guava.co.uk/uksem2009
  • 82.
    Accreditations Google AdwordsQualified Company Google Enterprise Partners Google Analytics Partners Omniture Partners Guava are members of: Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) (Search Council) SEMPO (UK working group) e-consultancy
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