If you aren’t SEO testing, you need to start now - with Emily Potter from SearchPilot

In this episode David and Ashley discuss the importance of learning from what's currently ranking, but offer something different with your content.Discussion points include:How do you learn what you should be ranking for?How do you learn what’s currently ranking?How do you offer something different with your content?How do you know that search engines will prefer your content?What type of content tends to be more effective nowadays?How often should you update your content?

If you’re looking for a new weapon to add to your arsenal, Sara Taher from Assembly Global says that video is the way to go. She believes that this is where users and search engines are turning their attention.Sara says: “Integrate video content into your SEO strategy, be it long-form, short-form, vertical, horizontal, or square videos.”"You want to leverage video on the SERPs themselves and also on other platforms as well – like YouTube and TikTok. You basically want to create video content that you can also post on your website. For each of those, there are values that they are going to bring to your business."

Navah Hopkins believes that SEOs need to know about Performance Max ads.Discussion points include:What are Performance Max ads?What will iOS17 do for tracking and attribution of your marketing campaigns?What creative works best? Ad or landing page perspective or both?Why are they different?What does adapting content to visual first placements mean?Why are they better?Is there any downside?Why are they important for SEO?How should paid and SEO work together?

Crystal Carter believes that you should be using multimedia to slice across your marketing channels.Discussion points include:What do you mean by slicing?Does multimedia work for every type of content?What stage in the customer journey does multimedia content work for?Does multimedia replace content?Do you mean multimedia off site?What does the ideal content production process look like?How is AI changing multimedia content?

Izzy Wisniewska believes that you should befriend other marketeers and go holistic in 2024.Talking points include:What does holistic actually mean in practice?How do you unite as a marketing department in a large organisation?How does a content team, PR team, video team join forces with sEO to deliver a more effective customer experience?What other teams impact areas like:EEAT, technical performance, user experience, speed, user intent, content qualityWhat does this mean for channel team members - do they need to train themselves on other channels?How do you measure success?Who gets credit for a customer purchase?

In this episode, David and Sukhjinder discuss the importance of knowing your audience, meet their search intent & ensure your content is “Helpful”.Discussion points include:Why is knowing your audience and meeting their search intent even more important in the age of SGE?How do you know your audience?How do you meet their intent?How do you ensure that your content is helpful for both users and search engines?What does having E.E.A.T.-worthy content actually mean?How is this changing in 2024 and beyond?

Luke Carthy believes that 2024 is the year of the yearning for original, creative and well-written human content.Discussion points include:What can humans do that AI can’t do?What’s the difference between well-written human content and AI content?What should humans stop doing and hand over to AI?How long will this be the case for?How is TikTok a competing ecosystem to Shopify and Google?What should SEOs do about this?Is it an SEO’s job to optimize for every platform?

Nikki Halliwell shares that creating actionable audits that your client understands, and can be used by stakeholders at all levels and being able to follow them through and get fixes implemented by working closely with dev teams and speaking their language for faster implementation.Discussion points include:What is an actionable audit?Is there any type of audit that you see SEOs doing that don’t provide much value?What stakeholders should be using this audit?What language should you be using in your audit reports to assist you in engaging with various stakeholders?How do you get dev teams on board to implement fixes more quickly?What software do you use for your audits?How often should you do these audits?

Andor Palau shares the importance of investing in additional tools and external testing when doing a migration.Talking points include:What are some examples of some of the preventable errors that can occur with migrations?What tools do you use?How do you end up paying with missing revenue?What different perspective or different data layers might you end up missing?How should you plan for a migration?Who should you involve in a planned migration?Is there anything that you need to keep checking post-migration?

As many contributors to this project have alluded to, the long-reaching arms of AI are reaching into many aspects of digital life, which is why Emma Russell from Oxford Comma Digital says that you need to be a more discerning gatekeeper, and that you should Limit crawlability to your content.