How well developed is your SEOInstinct?

How good is your SEO instinct? Have a go at guess­ing how much search traf­fic a domain wins in 10 sec­onds or less, and see how well that com­pares to friends!

Bas van den Beld By Bas van den Beld from State of Digital. Join the discussion » 0 comments

Sum­mer 2015. A sum­mer like many oth­ers in the UK. Some­times it rains, and some­times the sun shines. On this spe­cif­ic day it was rain­ing. And what do those work­ing in dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing and SEO do when it rains? They go to the pub.

To cut a long sto­ry short… Kirsty, Jono, and Bas walk out of the Linkdex offices and see… rain. Need­less to say the near­est pub was found quick­ly.

As we often do when it rains, we start­ed rem­i­nisc­ing. And being SEOs, we rem­i­nisced specif­i­cal­ly about the SEO indus­try.

How things have changed! The char­ac­ter of the indus­try has changed, because SEO has changed. But how much real­ly? Sure, Google is dif­fer­ent and there are com­pe­ti­tion is much greater. But what’s real­ly dif­fer­ent?

Well, for one thing, the data is.

We” as SEO’s used to be able to eas­i­ly see what changes were need­ed, what sites were good or bad. The ‘data’ was in our heads. Can we still do that? Some SEO’s will claim they can still ‘see’ it. That they have an ‘instinct’. Jono saw this as a chal­lenge and start­ed build­ing.

instinct2As luck would have it, Linkdex has tons of data we can use. We can actu­al­ly check! So Kirsty dove into the sys­tem and dug up some data. Data on actu­al traf­fic com­ing from search.

Data that Jono then used to build some­thing that would show guess­work is nice, instinct is nice, but data will prob­a­bly show it is not as straight for­ward as you might think.

Here’s what Jono made: a chal­lenge for you. Jono chal­lenges you to show if your instinct is as good you would think (or want? ;-) ).

How does it work?
It’s sim­ple, you will see 10 dif­fer­ent sets of pages. With­in 10 sec­onds, guess which of the two pages gets most search traf­fic. In the end we’ll give you your answer to how well your SEO instinct is devel­oped!

Have fun (we did)!

Bas van den Beld

Written by Bas van den Beld

Digital Marketing Strategist, State of Digital

Bas van den Beld is an award winning Digital Marketing consultant, trainer and speaker. He is the founder of State of Digital and helps companies develop solid marketing strategies.

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