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What Stops You From Growing
It’s not Google, it’s you.
How bad data interpretation, lack of ownership
and missing workflows are blocking your SEO success
Stephan Reiss, VP Marketing Rocket Internet SE
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/reiss/
Index
01 Wrong Data Interpretation
02 Ownership & Workflow
03 Summary
1. Wrong Data Interpretation
4
Market & Competitor Research Using Similarweb
1. Wrong Data Interpretation
5
Using SEO tools to understand visibility
1. Wrong Data Interpretation
5
Using SEO tools to understand visibility
1. Wrong Data Interpretation
5
Using SEO tools to understand visibility
1. Wrong Data Interpretation
6
Google Trends
1. Wrong Data Interpretation
6
Google Trends
1. Wrong Data Interpretation
6
Google Trends
Sources: http://tom.alby.de/5-gruende-warum-du-google-trends-falsch-verstehst/
https://medium.com/@dannypage/stop-using-google-trends-a5014dd32588#.kygpnq7gu
1. Wrong Data Interpretation
7
Build and archive your own data
1. Wrong Data Interpretation
8
Still judging channel performance via last click attribution
1. Wrong Data Interpretation
9
1. Wrong Data Interpretation
9
SEO performance has to justify its „last
click“ results while many touchpoints
exist
1. Wrong Data Interpretation
9
SEO performance has to justify its „last
click“ results while many touchpoints
exist
And many goals/micro conversions can be
utilized to understand value/function of
channel/traffic
2. Ownership & Workflow
10
2. Ownership & Workflow
11
2. Ownership & Workflow
12
2. Ownership & Workflow
13
2. Ownership & Workflow
13
Who influences the SEO Performance?

2. Ownership & Workflow
13
Who influences the SEO Performance?

• You
2. Ownership & Workflow
13
Who influences the SEO Performance?

• You
• Users
2. Ownership & Workflow
13
Who influences the SEO Performance?

• You
• Users
• Competitors (well, the whole internet)
2. Ownership & Workflow
13
Who influences the SEO Performance?

• You
• Users
• Competitors (well, the whole internet)
• Search Engines
2. Ownership & Workflow
13
Who influences the SEO Performance?

• You
• Users
• Competitors (well, the whole internet)
• Search Engines
• Data Provider => Influence How You Perceive Your SEO Performance
2. Ownership & Workflow
14
2. Ownership & Workflow
15
2. Ownership & Workflow
15
2. Ownership & Workflow
15
Sources
https://www.seoreseller.com/blog/organic-traffic-increased-300-percent-in-6-months
https://medium.com/analytics-for-humans/a-beginners-guide-to-cohort-analysis-the-most-actionable-and-underrated-report-on-
google-c0797d826bf4
2. Ownership & Workflow
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2. Ownership & Workflow
16
- Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations)
2. Ownership & Workflow
16
- Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations)
- User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic
2. Ownership & Workflow
16
- Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations)
- User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic
- Identify loss by separating offer types (SEO Landing Pages)
2. Ownership & Workflow
16
- Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations)
- User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic
- Identify loss by separating offer types (SEO Landing Pages)
=> Create Automated Dashboards + Alerts for all Channels<=
2. Ownership & Workflow
16
- Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations)
- User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic
- Identify loss by separating offer types (SEO Landing Pages)
=> Create Automated Dashboards + Alerts for all Channels<=
- Onpage Check=> automate this, too (www.testomato.com)
2. Ownership & Workflow
16
- Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations)
- User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic
- Identify loss by separating offer types (SEO Landing Pages)
=> Create Automated Dashboards + Alerts for all Channels<=
- Onpage Check=> automate this, too (www.testomato.com)
- Check SERPS
2. Ownership & Workflow
16
- Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations)
- User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic
- Identify loss by separating offer types (SEO Landing Pages)
=> Create Automated Dashboards + Alerts for all Channels<=
- Onpage Check=> automate this, too (www.testomato.com)
- Check SERPS
- Check SEO Tools
2. Ownership & Workflow
16
- Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations)
- User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic
- Identify loss by separating offer types (SEO Landing Pages)
=> Create Automated Dashboards + Alerts for all Channels<=
- Onpage Check=> automate this, too (www.testomato.com)
- Check SERPS
- Check SEO Tools
99.99% of the time it is not a Google update so
know when to stop reading these articles.
3. Summary
17
3. Summary
17
- Rely on your own data: Build your own data. Archive the knowledge and make it
available to all relevant parties.
3. Summary
17
- Rely on your own data: Build your own data. Archive the knowledge and make it
available to all relevant parties.
- (Don’t follow new SEO KPIs of the Industry)
3. Summary
17
- Rely on your own data: Build your own data. Archive the knowledge and make it
available to all relevant parties.
- (Don’t follow new SEO KPIs of the Industry)
- Inform departments about success they contributed to
3. Summary
17
- Rely on your own data: Build your own data. Archive the knowledge and make it
available to all relevant parties.
- (Don’t follow new SEO KPIs of the Industry)
- Inform departments about success they contributed to
- Automate: Create automated checks and alerts to be able to move forward
3. Summary
17
- Rely on your own data: Build your own data. Archive the knowledge and make it
available to all relevant parties.
- (Don’t follow new SEO KPIs of the Industry)
- Inform departments about success they contributed to
- Automate: Create automated checks and alerts to be able to move forward
- Execute: Build reliable structures and find dedicated owners
© 2018 Rocket Internet SE. All rights reserved.

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  • 1. What Stops You From Growing It’s not Google, it’s you. How bad data interpretation, lack of ownership and missing workflows are blocking your SEO success Stephan Reiss, VP Marketing Rocket Internet SE
  • 3. Index 01 Wrong Data Interpretation 02 Ownership & Workflow 03 Summary
  • 4. 1. Wrong Data Interpretation 4 Market & Competitor Research Using Similarweb
  • 5. 1. Wrong Data Interpretation 5 Using SEO tools to understand visibility
  • 6. 1. Wrong Data Interpretation 5 Using SEO tools to understand visibility
  • 7. 1. Wrong Data Interpretation 5 Using SEO tools to understand visibility
  • 8. 1. Wrong Data Interpretation 6 Google Trends
  • 9. 1. Wrong Data Interpretation 6 Google Trends
  • 10. 1. Wrong Data Interpretation 6 Google Trends Sources: http://tom.alby.de/5-gruende-warum-du-google-trends-falsch-verstehst/ https://medium.com/@dannypage/stop-using-google-trends-a5014dd32588#.kygpnq7gu
  • 11. 1. Wrong Data Interpretation 7 Build and archive your own data
  • 12. 1. Wrong Data Interpretation 8 Still judging channel performance via last click attribution
  • 13. 1. Wrong Data Interpretation 9
  • 14. 1. Wrong Data Interpretation 9 SEO performance has to justify its „last click“ results while many touchpoints exist
  • 15. 1. Wrong Data Interpretation 9 SEO performance has to justify its „last click“ results while many touchpoints exist And many goals/micro conversions can be utilized to understand value/function of channel/traffic
  • 16. 2. Ownership & Workflow 10
  • 17. 2. Ownership & Workflow 11
  • 18. 2. Ownership & Workflow 12
  • 19. 2. Ownership & Workflow 13
  • 20. 2. Ownership & Workflow 13 Who influences the SEO Performance?

  • 21. 2. Ownership & Workflow 13 Who influences the SEO Performance?
 • You
  • 22. 2. Ownership & Workflow 13 Who influences the SEO Performance?
 • You • Users
  • 23. 2. Ownership & Workflow 13 Who influences the SEO Performance?
 • You • Users • Competitors (well, the whole internet)
  • 24. 2. Ownership & Workflow 13 Who influences the SEO Performance?
 • You • Users • Competitors (well, the whole internet) • Search Engines
  • 25. 2. Ownership & Workflow 13 Who influences the SEO Performance?
 • You • Users • Competitors (well, the whole internet) • Search Engines • Data Provider => Influence How You Perceive Your SEO Performance
  • 26. 2. Ownership & Workflow 14
  • 27. 2. Ownership & Workflow 15
  • 28. 2. Ownership & Workflow 15
  • 29. 2. Ownership & Workflow 15 Sources https://www.seoreseller.com/blog/organic-traffic-increased-300-percent-in-6-months https://medium.com/analytics-for-humans/a-beginners-guide-to-cohort-analysis-the-most-actionable-and-underrated-report-on- google-c0797d826bf4
  • 30. 2. Ownership & Workflow 16
  • 31. 2. Ownership & Workflow 16 - Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations)
  • 32. 2. Ownership & Workflow 16 - Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations) - User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic
  • 33. 2. Ownership & Workflow 16 - Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations) - User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic - Identify loss by separating offer types (SEO Landing Pages)
  • 34. 2. Ownership & Workflow 16 - Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations) - User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic - Identify loss by separating offer types (SEO Landing Pages) => Create Automated Dashboards + Alerts for all Channels<=
  • 35. 2. Ownership & Workflow 16 - Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations) - User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic - Identify loss by separating offer types (SEO Landing Pages) => Create Automated Dashboards + Alerts for all Channels<= - Onpage Check=> automate this, too (www.testomato.com)
  • 36. 2. Ownership & Workflow 16 - Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations) - User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic - Identify loss by separating offer types (SEO Landing Pages) => Create Automated Dashboards + Alerts for all Channels<= - Onpage Check=> automate this, too (www.testomato.com) - Check SERPS
  • 37. 2. Ownership & Workflow 16 - Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations) - User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic - Identify loss by separating offer types (SEO Landing Pages) => Create Automated Dashboards + Alerts for all Channels<= - Onpage Check=> automate this, too (www.testomato.com) - Check SERPS - Check SEO Tools
  • 38. 2. Ownership & Workflow 16 - Own tracking: Communicated and provide context (Google Analytics Annotations) - User behavior: Check year over year, direct, and adwords traffic - Identify loss by separating offer types (SEO Landing Pages) => Create Automated Dashboards + Alerts for all Channels<= - Onpage Check=> automate this, too (www.testomato.com) - Check SERPS - Check SEO Tools 99.99% of the time it is not a Google update so know when to stop reading these articles.
  • 40. 3. Summary 17 - Rely on your own data: Build your own data. Archive the knowledge and make it available to all relevant parties.
  • 41. 3. Summary 17 - Rely on your own data: Build your own data. Archive the knowledge and make it available to all relevant parties. - (Don’t follow new SEO KPIs of the Industry)
  • 42. 3. Summary 17 - Rely on your own data: Build your own data. Archive the knowledge and make it available to all relevant parties. - (Don’t follow new SEO KPIs of the Industry) - Inform departments about success they contributed to
  • 43. 3. Summary 17 - Rely on your own data: Build your own data. Archive the knowledge and make it available to all relevant parties. - (Don’t follow new SEO KPIs of the Industry) - Inform departments about success they contributed to - Automate: Create automated checks and alerts to be able to move forward
  • 44. 3. Summary 17 - Rely on your own data: Build your own data. Archive the knowledge and make it available to all relevant parties. - (Don’t follow new SEO KPIs of the Industry) - Inform departments about success they contributed to - Automate: Create automated checks and alerts to be able to move forward - Execute: Build reliable structures and find dedicated owners
  • 45. © 2018 Rocket Internet SE. All rights reserved.