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What happens when everybody's website is fixed?

What happens when everybody's website is fixed?

Imagine a world where brands compete not on how big their marketing budgets are, or how many developers they employ, or how clever their website is. A world where brands compete on a level playing field, based on their virtues, and on how good a fit their product is for me, here, now.

Which brands would survive? Which ones fail? How would you stack those odds? What would we do as marketers? As brand owners? As investors? As users?
Well. This may not be as far-fetched a utopia - or dystopia - as you may think. I think we need to start asking these - and other - questions now.

Jono Alderson

April 15, 2022
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  1. @jonoalderson
    What happens when
    everybody's website is fixed?

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  2. @jonoalderson
    The world is changing

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  3. @jonoalderson
    But our businesses
    aren’t changing

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    Today, consumers live in an
    information scarce world

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    So organizations
    build brands

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    Brands become a proxy
    for information trust

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  7. @jonoalderson
    Imagine if you didn’t
    need to rely on trust

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  8. @jonoalderson
    Google’s race towards
    omniscience is changing the web

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    “71% of consumers begin their journeys by
    using a search engine to discover new
    products and services.”
    “74% reported using a search engine for
    consideration and purchasing.”
    Forrester, 2016 [link]

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    Quality is becoming
    quantifiable

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  11. @jonoalderson
    You have to
    be a good fit

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  12. @jonoalderson
    “We’ll just spend
    more on paid ads!”

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  13. @jonoalderson
    Google is becoming
    the platform

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    Rich experiences
    are the future

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    Zero-click
    search results

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    https://ahrefs.com/blog/featured-snippets-study/

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  18. @jonoalderson

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  19. @jonoalderson
    Maybe you’re
    doing it wrong

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    Your website
    is friction

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    07
    04
    05
    01
    02
    03
    Google
    06
    Influences ~70% of purchases

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    But not quite yet...

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    Structured data is
    the next war

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  25. @jonoalderson
    Because of voice search
    personal assistants

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  26. @jonoalderson
    The answer is
    Schema.org

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  27. @jonoalderson
    Can your platform
    feed their platform?

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    Tomorrow gets harder

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    Broad, successful adoption
    requires standardisation

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    For years, we’ve worked with
    individual [websites], one at a time, to
    help them [add schema], and
    never once did we think to ask them
    what CMS they were running


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    Google & WordPress <3

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    Content Experience
    Content Discovery
    John Mu
    CMS / Developer Relations
    Gary Illyes
    Alberto Medina

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    07
    WordPress Unfair platform advantage
    Google
    04
    05
    01
    02
    03
    06
    Influences ~70% of purchases

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    Gutenberg blocks =
    structured content

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    Blocks = structure

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    07
    Unfair platform advantage
    WordPress
    Gutenberg + schema Inherently structured content
    Google Influences ~70% of audience
    04
    05
    01
    02
    03
    06

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    But the web is slow, messy
    and expensive to crawl

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  38. @jonoalderson
    So they’re obsessed
    with speed

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    AMP

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    Your website the web as SaaS

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    07
    AMP Performance & reduced dev cost
    Unfair platform advantage
    WordPress
    Gutenberg + schema Inherently structured content
    Google
    04
    05
    01
    02
    03
    06
    Influences ~70% of purchases

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    PWAs
    workingmouse.com.au/app-development/progressive-web-apps-are-the-next-big-thing
    PWAs

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    07
    PWA App-like & offline capabilities
    AMP Performance & reduced dev cost
    Unfair platform advantage
    WordPress
    Gutenberg + schema Inherently structured content
    Google
    04
    05
    01
    02
    03
    06
    Influences ~70% of purchases

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  45. @jonoalderson
    Site Kit

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    07
    Site Kit Reporting, analytics & insight
    PWA App-like & offline capabilities
    AMP Performance & reduced dev cost
    Unfair platform advantage
    WordPress
    Gutenberg + schema Inherently structured content
    Google
    04
    05
    01
    02
    03
    06
    Influences ~70% of purchases

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    Things have changed.

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    “We’ll just spend
    more on paid ads!”

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    Facebook? Amazon?
    Tumblr? TikTok?

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    Let’s zoom out

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  51. @jonoalderson
    Site Kit Reporting, analytics & insight
    PWA App-like & offline capabilities
    AMP Performance & reduced dev cost
    Unfair platform advantage
    WordPress
    Gutenberg + schema Inherently structured content
    Google
    04
    05
    01
    02
    03
    06
    07
    Influences ~70% of purchases
    Be a good fit for your audience
    Have a perfect platform
    Expose your solutions
    Be instantaneous
    Be everywhere
    Understand

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    Site Kit Reporting, analytics & insight
    PWA App-like & offline capabilities
    AMP Performance & reduced dev cost
    Unfair platform advantage
    WordPress
    Gutenberg + schema Inherently structured content
    Google
    04
    05
    07
    01
    02
    03
    06
    Yoast Integration, optimization
    Influences ~70% of purchases
    Have a perfect platform
    Expose your solutions
    Be instantaneous
    Be everywhere
    Understand
    Win
    Be a good fit for your audience

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  53. @jonoalderson
    Now you can focus
    more on trust and fit

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  54. @jonoalderson
    Is Google evil?

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    Video

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    So, what happens when
    everybody’s website is fixed?

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  57. @jonoalderson
    Maybe everything’s fine
    your business fails

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    Who, and what, is
    your website for?

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    You no longer
    control the narrative

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    You have to
    compete on true fit

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  61. @jonoalderson
    Are you trustworthy?

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  62. @jonoalderson
    Can you embrace
    transparency?

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    And, what
    do we do?

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    Try to bypass Google?

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    Just be a data source?

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  66. @jonoalderson
    Start building a content
    solution strategy?

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    Stop relying
    on traffic?

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    Stop relying
    on tactics?

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  69. @jonoalderson
    Embrace change
    as a strategy?

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    Embrace the new?

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  71. @jonoalderson
    Blame yourselves?

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    Bet on WordPress Google?

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    Join us?

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    Join me?

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    ...Or just spend
    more on paid ads.

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    Thanks!

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