The Future of Content

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THE FUTURE OF CONTENT DISCOVERY

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THE FUTURE OF CONTENT DISCOVERY

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Meet my puppy:Otto

Why am I showing you my dog? 2

A blatant attempt to pander to the audience with small, fuzzy animals?

No! Thats not it at all3

A personal reminder that even if I bomb this talk somebody will still love me when I get home.

No! Absolutely not.4

The most concrete example I have of how rapidly search habits are changing.

Bingo. There it is.

There it is. Thats it. Ok, lets go. 6

Raising a puppy is hard.SPOILER ALERT:

Story of how you IOtto and had no idea what I was doing. I knew nothing. I knew I was standing in a shelter and he had big brown eyes.7

They can be so sweet.

Though he could be incredibly sweet8

He also destroyed everything. And ate everything. 9

Actual things I searched for in Ottos first few monthsAre aluminum cans safe for puppies?

Public service announcement: No10

Actual things I searched for in Ottos first few monthsAre plastic bottles safe for puppies?

Nope.11

Actual things I searched for in Ottos first few monthsAre cardboard boxes safe for puppies?

Yes but youll be vacuuming up cardboard rubble for days. 12

Actual things I searched for in Ottos first few monthsNatural remedies for my puppys dry skin

easily the yuppiest thing Ive ever searched for. 13

Alexa, re-order dog food

On a walk.Over dinner.In the moment.Through mobile, and social, & voice.

ANSWERS EVERYWHERE

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CONTENT DISCOVERY

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I grew up in the 80s and 90s

One of the things that makes me proudest about my particular timing in the history of the world is that I get to say grandiose things like:

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When the Internet First Launched

One of the things that makes me proudest about my particular timing in the history of the world is that I get to say grandiose things like:When the internet first launched.

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When the internet first launched the way you found content was through these directories.

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Content had a front door. That front door was the directory.

Then search engines arrived, and they got better.23

As search engines gained adoption, they opened up new doorways.

And a new powerful way to get your business in front of the searcher. 24

SEO

SEO was born25

ORGANIC SEARCH

The brilliance of search engines was there was no longer one front door to your website. Every piece of content was an opportunity to get found. And unlike ads which only drove content the first week they ran that opportunity compounded26

56%of leads from campaigns>1 month ago70% of Our Traffic Comes From Old Content

80% of our traffic comes from content.27

Relevancy andAuthority

In the beginning, SEO was about two things.28

KeywordsandInbound Links

A lot has changed in the world of search

Back then, mobile didnt even factor into website design.

Today, mobile Internet usage exceeds desktopInternet use

Back then, website security was mainly a concern for major corporations and governments.

Back then, waiting for websites to load was the norm.

Today, a slow site leads to a decreased search rank, lower traffic, and fewer conversions.

Back then, doorways still had to be walked through

Todays answers dont even require a click.

SEO is all about change. Theres going to be more change coming.

Matt Cutts, Google.

SECURITYMOBILEPERFORMANCESTRUCTURED RESULTS

So there are all sorts of new things to learn about browser based seo, but really these are just new chapters of the same book. 42

Beginning today,were looking atentirely new playbooks for content discovery.

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Here's a fascinating little tidbit that changes everything...

60%of time spent online is now spent on mobile.

Time spent on mobiletime spent in appsnumber of apps

Break out into different slides?

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86%of time spent on mobileis spent in apps.

Time spent on mobiletime spent in appsnumber of apps

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(Really, in just five apps.)

Time spent on mobiletime spent in appsnumber of apps

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What does that mean for browser-based SEO?

Structured searchApp Search49

Mobile and app search1

SEO was born50

Spotlight search is getting better.

App content is bypassing search all together.

Social Search2

SEO was born53

3.5 billion searches a day

We think of Google as this goliath. It processes billions of searches a day.54

1.5 billion searches a day and gaining

We think of Google as this goliath. It processes billions of searches a day.55

This is an announcement that sits at the very top of a feature that sits at the very top of Facebook. It follows a year of intense, smart, and creative experimentation in this area. This isnt a lark. If youve been paying attention, youve been noticing more and more public content/search/trend features popping up all over Facebook this year. - Blake Ross, Cofounder of MozillaJudge a companys priorities by its pixels.

One other big little thing about social as a channel for content discovery.

Whats really changing here, then, is not the length of the tweet. Its where that link at the bottom takes you when you click on itor, rather, where it doesnt take you.

Will Oremus, senior technology editor at Slate

Voice Search3

SEO was born64

Siri, Alexa, and Cortana

Natural Language

Expanded Search Windows

History and Context

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Projections from comScore suggest that voice will drive 200 billion searches a month by 2020.

Conversational Search4

SEO was born70

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60 BillionNumber of messages that run through messenger and whatsapp every day.

Powered by humans (and robots)

Time to go into messenger apps?

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No one wants to install a new app for every business you interact with.

Mark Zuckerberg

Ok, lets take a breathand absorb all of that

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APP SEARCHSOCIAL SEARCHVOICE SEARCHCONVERSATIONAL SEARCH

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Behavior

StrategyTechnology

You are here.

Ill keep learning tooNatural remedies for my babys dry skin

easily the yuppiest thing Ive ever searched for. 81

Alexa, re-order diapers

Dont PanicGet Interested.

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The future is already here. It just isnt evenly distributed yet.

William Gibson