Podcasts Business Onward Nation Episode 964: The new complexities of search engine optimization, with Fernando Angulo

Episode 964: The new complexities of search engine optimization, with Fernando Angulo

Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 8 a.m.

Fernando Angulo is Head of Communications at SEMrush. He has been with SEMrush since the beginning of the company\u2019s marketing efforts and has built its all-star marketing team. Being one of the most recognized faces of the brand, Fernando is speaking at 50+ top conferences worldwide each year. Fernando specializes in B2B search marketing, e-commerce, influencer marketing, and trained marketing teams of companies such as Expedia, T-mobile, Prestashop, and Bing.

What you will learn from this episode:

  • How Fernando started out at SEMrush when the team was small, and how the company has now grown to over a thousand people in multiple countries
  • How SEMrush expanded beyond their two main tools (keyword search and analytics) as search engine optimization (SEO) has grown more complex
  • How SEMrush has recently achieved the new milestone of six million users from just 100,000 users
  • How the SEMrush platform grew and expanded to meet the increasingly diverse needs of the company\u2019s growing customer base
  • How SEO has become more complicated to achieve as internet user expectations have changed, and how SEMrush addresses this complexity by focusing on the user
  • How 20% of your time should be devoted to creating helpful content and then the remaining 80% of your time should be spent featuring and promoting that content
  • How there are three main types of featured snippets in Google search results: paragraph, list and table featured snippets, and how to correctly structure each type
  • Fernando breaks down important key words that users often use and shares how these words indicate how you should structure your results
  • How to tailor your snippet search results for voice search, and how to position your site to land the coveted featured snippet position
  • Why building a well-equipped marketing team requires equipping that team with the best technology and tools

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