Enterprise SEO
Articles and resources about best practice governance and tools for Enterprise SEO
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Enterprise SEO
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Enabling success in large scale search programs, presentation by Bll Hunt, 2010. Takes you through the challenge of enterprise SEO, steps to effectively deliver search at scale, how to manage the process, technology, links, priorities and performance.
- Why So Many Companies Fail At Enterprise SEO
- by Marshall Simmonds. Search Engine Land, March 5, 2012. "A well-defined brand no longer guarantees search placement. It is only through enterprise-level cultural changes, informed by a close monitoring of search evolution, that sustained SEO success can occur....
But it is essential for any in-house marketer/SEO/embedded strategist to push past the corporate ego and bureaucracy to assess and identify changing technical / editorial barriers while protecting the protocol vital to traffic success..."
- The Challenge Of Justifying Enterprise SEO
- by Ian Lurie. Search Engine Land, February 13, 2012. "It all comes down to money.
Face it: You can talk about executive buy-in, cultural shift and managing expectations. But if the C-Suite doesn't see a return on investment, SEO is dead within the enterprise.
So you need a way to measure and justify SEO activities.
To do that, you must deal with two challenges:
- Attribution: SEO generates organic clicks. Visits that start with organic clicks often end with exits. Especially on big sites that aren’t always retail-driven. Somehow you have to close the attribution loop.
- Illustration: Whatever data you deliver has to speak to the reader in 5 seconds. If it doesn’t, you’ll fail..."
- The Ultimate Guide To Enterprise SEO: 25 Things To Know Before You Take The Plunge
- by Brian Provost. Search Engine Land, January 31, 2012. "Enterprise Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not rocket science. In fact, it is not even as faceted as many other sectors of SEO in which practitioners have to perform many more nuanced SEO tasks (and often by themselves).
So why is Enterprise SEO so underserved and why do so few large organizations embrace it properly?
Because Enterprise SEO is much more like Supply Chain Management than it is Marketing.
As an executive considering investing in an Enterprise SEO initiative, hopefully you can learn from this primer and my experiences over the last decade leading large institutions into SEO..."
- Large-Scale Content Optimization Tactics For Enterprise Sites
- by Adam Sherk. Search Engine Land, January 9, 2012. "For large organizations, keeping a close watch on keyword targeting and on-page optimization across an entire site or network of sites is not an easy task.
At the enterprise level, a single site can have millions or tens of millions of pages, and larger organizations such as news publishers may have 20-30 different sites or more.
So, how do you effectively manage all those pages?..."
- Get These Three Things Right In Enterprise SEO
- by David Roth. Search Engine Land, August 1, 2011. "The other day in URLs café at Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, I had a great conversation with our head of SEO. He was telling me about significant recent success SEO has been enjoying at Yahoo!
At many large companies, SEO is an uphill battle, so any victory should be fully celebrated. I asked what happened that enabled him to be so wildly successful in this case, and he told me there were three things that caused an SEO tipping point: Executive Support; SEO involvement early in the project; SEO ownership of standards..."
- Enterprise SEO: 5 Tips To Create A Governance System
- by Chad Godfrey. Search Engine Land, January 19, 2011. "The SEO landscape is competitive enough for B2B organizations. The last thing they need is internal competition from other business units. But many marketers face this hurdle when implementing an effective enterprise search solution. But to be successful, enterprise level SEO needs to be supported by a governance system based on effective communication..."
- Enterprise SEO Tools, Part 2: The Cloud
- by Adam Audette. Search Engine Land, July 16, 2010. "The focus on this series is to outline a selection of tools I feel are most useful for enterprise-level SEOs working on large, complex websites. However, my aim is not to create an exhaustive list of tools—that has been done many times before. Instead, I’ve tried to cull a selection of the most useful SEO tools for enterprise-level work.
The first article focused on SEO browser tools, so take a look at that if you haven’t already. Next step in our series on SEO tools are the web-based (or cloud hosted) tool sets, such as Majestic, Linkscape, SEO Book, SEO Browser, and others. There are a multitude of these tools and it makes most sense to organize them by type. We’ll stick to link research tools, SEO diagnostic tools, and competitive research tools..."
- Enterprise SEO Tools, Part 1: The Browser
- by Adam Audette. Search Engine Land, May 17, 2010. "... This article will outline a selection of tools I feel are most useful for enterprise-level SEOs working on large, complex websites. These are the tools we use every day, and the tools we recommend to our clients. This is not an exhaustive list; I’ve tried to include a selection of the most useful tools for enterprise-level search work, but there are many more. Today we'll focus on SEO tools for the browser. In follow-up articles we'll cover web-based tools and client-side applications, respectively..."
- Enterprise SEO
- By Crispin Sheridan, ClickZ, April 7, 2010. "... So how is SEO different for large companies, large sites, and those businesses using multiple languages in different countries vs. smaller companies or sites? If this is what you struggle with each day, read on! The key issues we face include..."
- Selling The Benefits Of SEO In A Large Enterprise
- by Eric Enge. Search Engine Land, March 1, 2010. "This is the first of a two part series on selling SEO in a large enterprise. Part 2 will be published as my next Industrial Strength column. In Part 1, the focus will be on why getting search traffic is important to an organization. Part 2 will explore some of the consequences of that realization..."
- Enterprise Search: Focus On The Business Goals
- by Damien Bianchi. Search Engine Land, July 23, 2009. "Implementing a successful search program at the Enterprise level has some unique challenges. Often, web marketing staff and content creators become very concerned with making everything 'SEO Friendly'. There is almost a sense of paranoia when creating web content, that every web page must be found in Google, which tends to be a major concern for large marketing programs..."
This category last updated: 7 March 2012