Data Driven Approach
to Scale SEO
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Nitin Manchanda
Founder & Chief SEO Consultant, Botpresso
About Me
📈 Led Global SEO for trivago, Omio, and Flipkart
🌎 International SEO Specialist
📢 SEO Speaker - SMX, BrightonSEO, ISS Barcelona & London
🏢 Proficiency in Enterprise SEO
🤝 Hosting Webinars for Semrush
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💼 Founder & Chief SEO Consultant at Botpresso
Let’s Go!
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How not to SEO?
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How to drive decisions based on data?
Collect Data Find Trends Learn Insights Test Deploy
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How to drive decisions based on data?
Collect Data Find Trends Learn Insights Test Deploy
#BrightonSEO
How to drive decisions based on data?
Collect Data Find Trends Learn Insights Test Deploy
#BrightonSEO
How to drive decisions based on data?
Collect Data Find Trends Learn Insights Test Deploy
#BrightonSEO
How to drive decisions based on data?
Collect Data Find Trends Learn Insights Test Deploy
#BrightonSEO
How to drive decisions based on data?
Collect Data Find Trends Learn Insights Test Deploy
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Growth In Revenue
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771%
Organic Revenue ⬆
Problem Statement
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Due to COVID, travel
industry had taken a huge
setback 📉
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How we used data driven
approach to prepare, and
grew a travel brand “X” 🚀
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How COVID had affected the business
in travel industry?
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“X” had suffered due to lack of
demand
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Time to get ready before the
demand surges ⌛
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The Approach
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Now let’s break it down
Collect Data Find Trends Learn Insights Test Deploy
Keyword planner
Google Trends
Convert the
data into several
buckets
Understand the
gap within the
intent
A/B Test the
build based on
insights
Deploy the
optimized
version globally
#BrightonSEO
Now let’s break it down
Collect Data Find Trends Learn Insights Test Deploy
Keyword planner
Google Trends
Convert the
data into several
buckets
Understand the
gap within the
intent
A/B Test the
build based on
insights
Deploy the
optimized
version globally
#BrightonSEO
Identifying keywords and its trends
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Identifying 20,000 Keywords
that generate
& forecasting the growth based on
historical data
Traffic Revenue
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Now let’s break it down
Collect Data Find Trends Learn Insights Test Deploy
Keyword planner
Google Trends
Convert the
data into several
buckets
Understand the
gap within the
intent
A/B Test the
build based on
insights
Deploy the
optimized
version globally
#BrightonSEO
Forecasting
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Now let’s break it down
Collect Data Find Trends Learn Insights Test Deploy
Keyword planner
Google Trends
Convert the
data into several
buckets
Understand the
gap within the
intent
A/B Test the
build based on
insights
Deploy the
optimized
version globally
#BrightonSEO
As per forecasts we knew there will
be a multifold increase in demand for
Things to do in a {city}
Reasons to visit a {city}
Book tickets for {experiences}
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Drawing insights
Building 3 types of pages
Category Pages Product Pages Blogs
Serve the purpose
of “things to do in a
city”
Serve the purpose
of “buying tickets
for experiences”
Serve the purpose
of educating
potential travellers
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Drawing insights
Building 3 types of pages
Category Pages Product Pages Blogs
Brings in 📈 & 💸 Brings in 💸 Brings in 📈
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Now let’s break it down
Collect Data Find Trends Learn Insights Test Deploy
Keyword planner
Google Trends
Convert the
data into several
buckets
Understand the
gap within the
intent
A/B Test the
build based on
insights
Deploy the
optimized
version globally
#BrightonSEO
Over the months we set the
foundation for organic growth!
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However, we were missing, The
secret sauce!
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Internal links
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Based on the competitor
analysis we figured
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That internal linking was a huge
opportunity that we had
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So how did we merge that data?
Demand
Analysis Data
Supply Data
Business
Importance
Access Logs Crawl Data
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= Win!
Forecasting
Data
So how did we merge that data?
Demand
Analysis Data
Supply Data
Business
Importance
Access Logs Crawl Data
#BrightonSEO
= Win!
Forecasting
Data
So how did we merge that data?
Demand
Analysis Data
Supply Data
Business
Importance
Access Logs Crawl Data
#BrightonSEO
= Win!
Forecasting
Data
So how did we merge that data?
Demand
Analysis Data
Supply Data
Business
Importance
Access Logs Crawl Data
#BrightonSEO
= Win!
Forecasting
Data
So how did we merge that data?
Demand
Analysis Data
Supply Data
Business
Importance
Access Logs Crawl Data
#BrightonSEO
= Win!
Forecasting
Data
So how did we merge that data?
Demand
Analysis Data
Supply Data
Business
Importance
Access Logs Crawl Data
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= Win!
Forecasting
Data
Internal Linking
Algorithm
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Using an algorithm which allows
contextual relationship we found a
way to create links at scale
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There was a correlation between the
importance of a page and internal
linking parameters
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Now let’s break it down
Collect Data Find Trends Learn Insights Test Deploy
Keyword planner
Google Trends
Convert the
data into several
buckets
Understand the
gap within the
intent
A/B Test the
build based on
insights
Deploy the
optimized
version globally
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Internal Linking 2.0 deployed ✔
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The positive trend started to kick
in 🚀
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Crawl Comparison
Before
After
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Crawl Comparison
Before
After
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Crawl Comparison
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After
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Before
After
Crawl Comparison
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And.. the demand
started to come back 🎉
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It was stronger than before!
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How did we perform?
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Growth In Traffic
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Growth In Revenue
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Performance Numbers
84% 239% 237%
255% 771% 239%
1st Page Rank ⬆ Organic Sessions ⬆ Organic Users ⬆
Organic New Users ⬆ Organic Revenue ⬆ Non Branded Clicks ⬆
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To Summarise
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To Summarise
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✔ Setup Data Tracking
✔ Collect Data
✔ Find Trends
✔ Learn Insights
✔ Test and Deploy
✔ Measure and Improvise
Thank you!
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Nitin Manchanda
Founder & Chief SEO Consultant, Botpresso

Data Driven Approach to Scale SEO at BrightonSEO 2023