Client reporting needs an overhaul. Most dashboards and templates are built for marketers, not stakeholders, leaving clients confused and resistant to important take-aways. In this session, we'll borrow the best ideas from journalism, psychology, data visualization, information design, conversion copywriting and storytelling to ...

Are your organic goals segmented by keyword groups and clusters? How are you measuring growth over time for each category? Harness the flexibility of Google Data Studio by visualizing your content hubs with pre-filtered performance reports. In this session, Jeremy walks through his approach to creating dashboard hubs in Data Stu...

Data's not limited to one field, one discipline or one industry and it's inescapable in Digital Marketing and it's the currency of decision-makers in today's world. If you can't speak it well, your insight/recommendation/pitch will likely fall on deaf ears. In this session, James will share his experiences at Seer as both an ana...

What is Machine Learning and how can we apply it to digital marketing? After this session, you'll understand machine learning basics, what ML can be used for, examples of ML solving SEO tasks and executable programs you start using immediately.

Whether you are e-commerce, local, B2B, B2C, PPC or SEO, this presentation will go over 10 data visualizations that have helped our team change conversations with clients, prioritize workloads, get things done faster and win.

Robin takes a look at the kind of things we're doing the hard way, every day, and explores how we could make our lives easier and our work better with Jupyter notebooks.

If you asked a UX professional whether users prefer one image or two on a blog post, they'd tell you to test it — trying to double guess users is foolish. Yet for many companies, SEO has no testing at all, just endless reams of best practice and hand waving. Last year I changed role and got the chance to treat SEO differently...

Let's be honest, SEOs, when is the last time you tore through a search query report? And PPC folks, when is the last time you sought the impact of rich snippets on CTRs and CPCs? In this presentation, Wil will show 10 ways you can use Power BI to visualise your way to explain to the C-suite how various parts of search integrate ...

Let's face it - being able to track and analyse your top pages, bounce rates, form submissions, and the like is pretty low-level stuff. It's almost 2018, so it's time to increase your Google Tag Manager proficiency to get the most of your Analytics configuration. In this session, Mike will geek out on GTM, show you how to track ...

We have been trained and encouraged to focus on p-values and statistical significance in every aspect of testing. In this talk, Richard is going to challenge your preconceptions, show how scientific accuracy isn't necessarily the same as commercial success, and demonstrate strategies that are better than waiting for your variati...

Under Sundar Pichai, Google is doubling down on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Computer capabilities are improving at a frightening rate, and there are already parts of our jobs that would be better off done by robots. In this talk, Will is going to highlight the areas where humans are falling behind and give you ...

Politics, as usual, is dead. Every election seems more important than the last. How did long-shot candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders raise millions of dollars and become viable national candidates? Jeremy will explore the rise of digital marketing campaigns in reaching desired audiences. He’ll cover how campaigns go...

Under Sundar Pichai, Google is doubling down on machine learning and artificial intelligence, and they're not the only ones. The impact of the robot revolution will not be limited to the ranking of search results, and the impacts on the job market are the subject of endless speculation. Will has been researching the parts of our...

In the SEO industry, we obsess on everything Google says, from John Mueller dropping a hint in a Webmaster Hangout, to the ranking data we spend £1000s to gather. Yet we ignore the data Google throws at us every day, the crawling data. For the longest time, site crawls, traffic data, and rankings have been the pillars of SEO dat...

Are your executives and clients falling asleep during your testing presentations? Chances are your slide design and data visualisations are obscuring your valuable insights. Lea will take you through her four-step proprietary PICA methodology for creating slides and data visualisations that effectively communicate your data stor...

Will is going to discuss the ways that Distilled believes search is fundamentally changing, including compound queries, implicit search signals, user signals as a ranking factor, the move from keywords to intents, and the drive towards data-driven search.

Web marketers have thousands of tactics to choose from, almost all of which can be measured, benchmarked and tracked over time. However, we too often invest in work that doesn't line up to the metrics we care about. We're tasked with work that's supposed to hit numbers, yet lack the connection between that work and those goals. ...

SEOs have historically focussed on tactics rather than strategy, for one important reason: search engines weren’t as sophisticated as they are now, so a tactical approach could be very successful. That's all changed significantly, with machine learning, marketers now face a multitude of new challenges to be successful in search....

It's not enough just to hit ‘send’. How do you optimize your content marketing process to be more effective through data? In this session, Ross Hudgens opens the kimono to reveal some recent data-driven studies his team has undergone to improve its internal content marketing process. Topics include attributes of the most success...

You’re capturing all sorts of data which your team of analysts is constantly sifting through. But too often you wind up with results that are described as “interesting but not actionable”. Tim will explain how marketers and analysts alike often trip each other up by communicating at cross purposes, by digging into the data prema...

Every product decision is an experiment. If we can reframe our thinking from launching campaigns and building features to challenging assumptions and running experiments, then we can increase our productivity and get better results with less effort. Grace will share a structured process for designing effective experiments, and t...

You have more data today than ever before, but creating insights and driving action can still be far from easy. Josh will demonstrate where traditional analytics processes fall down and how to find or create the right data to drive your company towards better insights and outcomes. Get ready to learn about both short-term and st...

The ballooning volume of social data increasingly tells us what people are talking about and gives us tools to know more about who those people are. Mike has been researching keyword level persona data, real-time keyword volumes and how to tie this all together into successful content and link building strategies. Thankfully, he...