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Winning SGE with User-Generated Content

Winning SGE with User-Generated Content

Find Tory's deck from her latest Clearscope Webinar about the connection between SGE, AI and UGC.

Watch the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlYulpC7wzk&list=PLD7lCUw0SFlNX4jYwEkcqQktJwElAfy1B&index=17

Tory Gray

April 25, 2024
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  1. What we’ll cover The AI & SGE landscape Why &

    how UGC can help How to launch It What to make
  2. Ask yourself… • Who’s the target audience? • What sorts

    of content do they engage with today? • Can you identify any existing, perhaps under-served user demand? • How effectively does that tie to your user’s journey? • Can UGC fulfill this demand effectively (fully or partially)... • …or, does existing UGC create SEO problems you need to solve?
  3. Think through… Separating Brand-Content from User-Content Ensure users can quickly

    & easily differentiate the things that your brand created, vs. your user base.
  4. Think through… Brand perception Where • Image use • URL

    setting • Header & page copy setting What • The usual suspects - profanity, nudity, politics, general hatred How • Policies & permissions • Automated checking & filtering • User-driven enforcement • Manual review • Visual design
  5. Think through… Permissions • Confirm and explicitly get permission to

    publish, promote, or share the content for marketing purposes. • Set guidelines for tagging, accreditation, and republishing permissions. • Ask users to confirm that they own the content they share.
  6. Think through… Spam & scams • Opportunity ◦ Will you

    allow links? ◦ Can they contact your users? • Developer-led ◦ User verification: Emails, 2FA ◦ Akismet (Captcha!) ◦ Planning & research: patterns to block/isolate ◦ Monitoring & response • User–led ◦ Moderators ◦ Reporting mechanisms
  7. Think through… Prompting quality submissions • Define & enable compelling/helpful/insightful

    forms and fields • Consider character limitations, minimums, and required fields • Give examples, show value, and consider incentives
  8. Think through… Content groupings • If your UGC program will

    scale, how will you organize it into helpful … ◦ Landing pages? ◦ Facets & filters? ◦ Categorization? • How can you optimize them?
  9. Think through… Indexing • Avoid thin, duplicate content • Automate:

    ◦ Robots Meta ◦ Canonical ◦ Robots.txt • Consider things like: ◦ Required minimums in required fields ◦ Submittor popularity ◦ Item like/engagement • Include manual overrides