SEO strategy will become content strategy

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is widely known as a tactical discipline focused on optimising for Google and ensuring that at least some of your content gets found.

At recent J. Boye group meetings, I’ve noticed that SEO has become a much more strategic topic and even a driving force when it comes to content strategy. In other words, SEO informs content creation and curation including the decisions on what goes on the website.

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Shell rethinks the content creation process

Do you have too much or too little content on your website?

Most Boye members would lean towards too much, but in private would confess to having way too much content. The examples I’ve heard in the past decade of Boye group meetings are plenty, with websites and digital communication teams drowning in content.

Training, better tools, governance, centralisation of content creation are all different approaches to trying to solve content overload, but maybe there is a better way?

I moderated a recent group meeting in London focused on digital leadership, where social media analyst & emerging platforms advisor John Atkins from Shell shared their fundamentally different approach as shown below.

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How to deal with SEO in multinational organizations

Search engine optimization (SEO) is consistently ranked as one of the most effective digital marketing methods, but if your organization has websites in several countries, how do you prioritize SEO efforts and make sure you get the most value for your brand? Often large organizations with global reach experience new sorts of problems that small organizations don’t see.

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