Hubspot Enterprise SEO - How to Create an SEO Strategy for 2020 with Chris Burres and Matthew Bertram #493 Part 2

Ep. 49330 min2020-08-10

A good SEO strategy for 2020 centers on pillar content, topic clusters, consistent blogging, link building, image compression, staying current on SEO news, and tracking organic traffic and rankings with tools like SEMrush.

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About this episode

Hubspot Enterprise SEO - How to Create an SEO Strategy for 2020 with Chris Burres and Matt BertramSEO strategy is the process of organizing a website's content by topic, which helps search engines like Google understand a user's intent when searching. By optimizing a web page around topics, then keywords within that topic, you can increase your expertise in the eyes of a search engine and rank well for long-tail…

Questions this episode answers

What are the key steps in an SEO strategy for 2020 according to HubSpot?

The steps include making a list of topics for pillar content, creating long-tail keyword lists for topic clusters, building pages per topic, setting up a blog, blogging consistently, creating a link building plan, compressing media, staying current on SEO news, and measuring content success with tools like SEMrush.

How should you track the success of your SEO content?

Track overall organic traffic, how pages rank for each long-tail keyword, index pages, leads, ROI, inbound links, and actual SERP rankings. SEMrush is recommended as a tool. Reviewing this data can reveal unexpected trends that lead to strong marketing strategies.

How important is updating old content as part of an ongoing SEO strategy?

Devoting time each month to revisit old blog posts, add updated information, fix alt tags, improve meta descriptions, and add editorial value is a core part of the ongoing SEO process. Tracking changing keywords and new search intent during these reviews is also recommended.

In their words

Link building is the process of building one-way hyperlinks or backlinks from a website, the goal of improving search engine visibility. Common link building strategies include content marketing, building useful tools, email outreach, broken backlink building, and public relations.

Chris Burres

before you even start throwing stuff out there, before you even start some process, you should know how you're going to measure it and how you're going to quantify if it was successful or not

Chris Burres
Terms defined in this episode
Pillar Content
Content built around a broad topic list that serves as the foundation for an SEO strategy, with subtopics organized into topic clusters.
Topic Clusters
Groups of related long-tail keyword pages that link back to a pillar content page, helping establish topical authority.
Link Building
The process of attracting inbound links, also called backlinks, to your website from elsewhere on the web, and the primary objective of off-page SEO.
Historically Optimizing Content
A monthly practice of revisiting old blog posts to add updated information, fix alt tags, improve meta descriptions, and reflect changing keyword intent.

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Matthew Bertram, host of The Best SEO Podcast
Matthew Bertram
AI keynote speaker · Owner & CEO, EWR Digital · President, ModalPoint

Matthew Bertram is an AI keynote speaker, creator of DIG™ (Digital Information Governance), and owner and CEO of EWR Digital. He helps energy and industrial leaders win visibility in AI search (GEO and AEO), is President of ModalPoint and CMO of the Oil & Gas Global Network, hosts The Best SEO Podcast, and has authored eight books including LLM Visibility. More about Matthew Bertram.

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