Corrie Jones BrightonSEO deck

A guide to using search intent in link building and how to create scalable pieces of content that acquire links naturally over time

Learn how to avoid SEO F*ck ups by setting an SEO Quality framework by educating, validating and monitoring your SEO process activities.

In this talk, Beth will give an introduction of what schema is, where it sits within a structured data framework, and its use cases. Then she’ll move on to the types that can be used or are no longer recognised by search engines. This will be followed by a hands-on discussion of how to audit a website, how to write the relevant code, and ways to implement and test.

The document discusses how to get teams doing user experience (UX) work as part of digital marketing. It addresses common excuses for not doing UX and provides low-cost and quick solutions. The key recommendations are to create an informal UX team with advocates from different disciplines, ensure UX work is reliable by testing with real users, and consider international UX needs as cultures navigate sites differently.

The document discusses how to go viral on a budget using public relations (PR). It recommends tying a product or idea into a current trend, validating the trend, identifying the target audience, crafting a compelling pitch, and developing an effective outreach strategy. Specifically, it outlines how the author launched an unknown brand called "2020 Scent" that generated over £20,000 in revenue with a campaign costing under £10 by tying scented products to viral trends from that year.

Rebecca heads up the Digital PR team at JBH, delivering creative digital PR strategies for lifestyle brands. After working in SEO for more years than she would care to admit, Rebecca's presentation reveals how the SEO industry has fallen out of love with large-scale hero campaigns, and shifted back to fundamentals of earning links using content marketing techniques.

When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all. That’s SEO QA in a nutshell. The key to online life, love and success is: testing. Testing involves product, devs and SEOs. Tests: everyone wants them but time and accountability get in the way. In this talk, Gianna Brachetti-Truskawa and Myriam Jessier go over how to automate, semi-automate and fake it till you make it QA testing methods that do not rely on developers and minimize inter-team frictions. They’ll also show basic tests everyone should carry out to save some anxiety. They’ll also discuss the mysterious mysteries: everything that can go wrong and all of the things NO ONE EVER TELLS YOU.

Traditional PR professionals are doing a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to link building – without even realising it. This presentation reveals some practical tips on how to tweak ‘traditional’ PR practices, that will help supercharge securing those valuable links and show the SEO value of their work.

In this talk, delivered at BrightonSEO in April 2023, Will Critchlow, founder and CEO of SearchPilot covers a method for generating practically-unlimited SEO A/B test ideas. Going on a journey from what SEO has been to what it needs to become, Will covers the mindset and strategy shifts needed, as well as the tactical implementation details. Download resources including detailed guides to SEO testing, and the free tool he uses to generate the ideas (plus explainer video).

This document introduces two statistical packages, Prophet and Causal Impact, that can help SEO recommendations get implemented by proving their value. Prophet uses an additive model to forecast performance based on past seasonal trends. Causal Impact infers the impact of interventions by comparing actual results to a synthetic control. The document provides an example of how these packages could be used to get signoff for an SEO proposal and then prove the value of changes after implementation. They help place SEO in a market context, quantify commercial ROI, and clearly show impact to gain developer buy-in for future work.

The document provides tips for taking care of yourself when researching or writing about difficult topics. It recommends outlining your motivations beforehand, planning breaks, and setting boundaries. During the work, it suggests taking breaks as planned, checking in on yourself, and finding non-work activities. After finishing, it advises celebrating your accomplishments, another self-check-in, and noting lessons learned. The overall message is the importance of self-care when dealing with challenging subject matter.

Veronika Holler discusses how Google's MUM AI will impact SEO and PPC optimization. MUM understands language 1000x better than BERT and supports 75 languages. It has a stronger understanding of the relationships between different content types like images, video, audio and text. This will require optimizing sites to include more multimedia content like creating images and videos about products and services. It also means refining content strategy and structure to focus on navigational, transactional and informational content that tells a complete story for users. Veronika provides examples of how her company CGM Medical optimized their site using these strategies and increased click-through rates for SEO and PPC.