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LILY RAY & INNA ZEYGER | SMX MUNICH | MARCH 2023
IN 2023 & BEYOND
SEO, PPC and AI in 2023 and Beyond
AI entering the SEO discussion in 2023…
KEY POINTS ABOUT
But they will change and enhance the way
people search.
AI chatbots will
not replace search.
“I just want to be very clear:
Bard is not search.”
– Jack Krawczyk,
Bard product lead
AI will not replace SEOs…
but SEOs should
learn how to use AI.
AI tools can create
significant efficiencies for
SEO, but don’t misuse them.
There is more to SEO in
2023 than AI – don’t forget
about the other major
forces at play.
Big Trends Affecting SEO
Big Trends Affecting SEO
Multiple concurrent ranking systems
BERT Crisis Info Deduplication
Freshness Helpful Content
Link Analysis +
PageRank
Local News
MUM Neural Matching
Page Experience Rankbrain
Site Diversity Spam Detection
Exact Match
Domain
Original Content Removal-based
demotion
Passage Ranking Reliable Info
Big Trends Affecting
SEO:
Competition from
Amazon & TikTok
SEARCH
CHATBOTS:
What we know
The
New
Bing
Bard
• Initial release uses LaMDA
• Not released yet and we don’t know when it will be
• Google is focused on AI ethics & responsibility
• Jack Krawczyk, product lead for Bard: “Bard Is not
search.”
• Bard is a “creative companion” to help spark creativity,
explore curiosity
The chatbots have room for improvement…
What does
Google say
about AI?
AI content can be OK if…
01
IT IS original &
high-quality
IT DEMONSTRATES
E-E-A-T
02
IT SATISFIES
the Helpful Content
System
03
IT DOESN’T
propagate misinformation
04
IT ISN’T created with
the primary purpose of
manipulating search results
05
However, there are 3 important caveats
Google recommends
including author names
(for some content)
Google recommends
disclosing use of AI
Google recommends
against listing AI as
the “author” of the
content
If tools like Copyleaks
can instantly detect
ChatGPT content,
Google probably can
too.
AI Content | A Cautionary Tale
• Published brand new niche site
• Scraped relevant People Also Ask
questions & used GPT3 API (not ChatGPT) to
answer across ~10k URLs
• Added a few links from other sites
AI Content | A Cautionary Tale
Big Updates to QRG & E-E-A-T
in December 2022
Expertise
Experience
Expertise
Expertise vs. Experience
Waiting for the next core update:
quality raters are busy
REMEMBER:
we haven’t seen the full manifestation of the
new “Experience” signal
in the algorithms yet
The Product
Reviews Update
From my keynote last year
Coming Soon to
a Country near you
The Product Reviews Update
has arrived in Germany
No evidence of first-hand experience
or thorough testing of products
The Product Reviews Update
The Helpful
Content Update
Launched in August 2022
Updated in December 2022
CREATED A NEW SITE-WIDE SIGNAL
The “unhelpful content” classifier
If the majority of site content is
“unhelpful”,
a site-wide ranking demotion is
applied
…even for “helpful” content.
actually
What
means:
SEO spam
“In search of content with little
value, low-added value, or that
is not particularly helpful”
speak
What the classifier looks for…
The (un)helpful content
classifier:
• Is automated
• Uses machine learning
• Runs continuously
• Is not a manual action
• Can affect a site at any time
• Can be “lifted” after unhelpful content is
removed
Categories Impacted
Lyrics sites
Guitar chords
Adult sites
Travel blogs
Grammar sites Aggregator sites
Product manuals (duplicate content)
Low-quality affiliate sites
Rapid Growth Before Decline
Many affected sites exhibit this pattern…
What makes the content
“unhelpful”?
Sites pretend to be experts on too
many topics
Information is generic without unique or
expert insights
Information lacks detail
or specificity
Content velocity & topic selection
seem to reflect an “SEO-first”
approach
Overwhelming ads & affiliate links
(correlation, not causation)
Using ChatGPT
effectively
for SEO
When used carefully,
ChatGPT & AI content tools can be
tremendously
valuable for SEO
…but they come with risks.
Excel formulas
Robots.txt directives
Regex commands
JSON
CSV
HTML
Markdown
Tables
Generate:
Using ChatGPT effectively for SEO
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Robots.txt directives
Regex commands
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CSV
HTML
Markdown
Tables
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Summaries
FAQs
Grammar/spelling review
Translation
Key takeaways
Opportunities for improvement
Fact checking
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FAQs
Grammar/spelling review
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Summaries
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Key takeaways
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Fact Checking
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Using ChatGPT effectively for SEO
What not to do…
• Copy-paste ChatGPT content
• Especially on Your Money, Your Life
(YMYL) topics!
What not to do…
Assume ChatGPT actually knows
what it’s talking about
Takeaways
• Use AItoincrease efficiency, butbecareful
misusing AIcontent
• Helpful contentrequires effort
• Takingshortcutscancatchuptoyou
• Insteadoffocusing on scale, focus oncontent
qualityandE-E-A-T
• Stayinyour lane
• Investinyourauthors’online reputation&build
outtheirKnowledge Graphs
PAID SEARCH
SEO, PPC and AI in 2023 and Beyond
The sobering reality of
uncertainty
Me finally making
enough money to
make a living
Inflation
Inflation Rates & Recession Fears
Shifting consumer behavior
• Trading down
• Reticence to invest in high-ticket items or
services
• Investing in products and services for
longevity
In a world gone mad…
Major layoffs
Thanks
ChatGPT!
Zoom = crime
against
humanity
Cookies
go away
Robots
take over
RECESSION!
UK does
something...
again
Big news from
Antarctica
Elon buys
Google
Lily in NYC
> 2 weeks
At the beginning of the pandemic, how
many of you had to reduce media spend?
In the last 6 months,
how many of you or your clients have pulled back
on media investment?
Continue to invest in
search advertising
Don’t Stop Advertising.
Pull back if necessary, but please don’t stop.
Outcomes
Results from many
companies who did
not pull back spend &
increased investment
How long it took
companies that
pulled spend by 50%
to return to pre-
recession sales
revenue
How long it took
companies that
pulled all media
spend to return to
pre-recession sales
revenue
Optimize with a scalpel, not a
sledgehammer
You don’t have to outspend your
competition,
…you have to
outsmart them.
Get a Better Conversion
Rate
• Better Qualify Your Traffic
• Optimize to Deeper KPI’s
• Consider Lead Quality
Diversify your search
portfolio
“Nearly 40% of Gen Z prefers
using TikTok
& Instagram for search over
Google.”
– Prabhakar Raghavan,
SVP, Google
In late 2022,
TikTok launched an
UK ad campaign
positioning it as a Google
replacement
•Access to Gen Z & Millennials
•Competitive pricing, possibly better ROI
•Expansive reach and unparalleled
engagement
•Clunky UI
•Rollout?
TikTok Search Ads – The Future?
Automation & AI
Google, Microsoft, Facebook
& most platforms have already embraced…
Core marketing
principals
& process
Enabled
Technologies for AI
& ML
Skilled People
Manu-Automation
Strategic Marketers + Machine learning = Results
Intelligent Delivery
This powerful combination
maximizes digital spend for the
highest ROI.
Invest in Landing Page Experiences
• Personalize the user experience
• Ensure landing page fulfills the
promise of the ad
• Prioritize by conversion potential
/ volume
Takeaways
• Don’tstop investing insearch
• Get abetterconversion throughoffline conversion
trackingandintegration
• Algorithmic biddingis your friend,aslong as you
havequalitydata
• Optimizewithascalpel, not asledgehammer
How SEO &
Paid
Work
Together
Visualizing SEO & PPC Data
GSC keyword data for paid search keyword expansion / remarketing
Sharing is Caring
Organic & paid overlap & expansion
opportunities
• Multi language keyword
expansion
• Identify and prioritize
keywords too expensive for
paid search but able to rank
organically
Organic & paid overlap & expansion
opportunities
• Sharing top performing search
ads and top titles &
descriptions
• GMB listings
Top content / organic landing
pages
•Remarketing to top
content/SEO ranking pages
with specific ad copy related
to content
•Drive them to more
conversion friendly landing
pages
We're working with the same search demand…
Measure & Analyze
•If both align, it's likely a marketplace / demand challenge
•If one or the other is markedly different, paid media challenge
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