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Marketing to machines

Marketing to machines

As marketers and advertisers, we spend time and energy crafting our content, ads and messaging. We try to convince people to believe our stories, prefer our brands, click our listings, engage, and convert. But people are only part of our audience. Increasingly, they’re not even the most significant part. Maybe they’re not even the most important part. Because to reach those people – to gain access to an audience and a market – we need to first convince systems, search engines, and social sites that our brands and our content are a good fit. We need to market to machines.

Schema.org gives us access to a rich language for doing that, but barely anybody’s going beyond the basics. They’re chasing rich snippets and fancy search results but missing the bigger picture. You’ll need to level up your structured data game, to access tomorrow’s markets. You’ll need to understand how to visualize connected data, build sophisticated entity graphs, and think like a search engine.

Jono Alderson

April 05, 2023
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  1. @jonoalderson You must describe all of the things (on a

    page), and all of their relationships.
  2. @jonoalderson Mariya Moeva Product Manager Ryan Levering Search advocate/engineering Dan

    Brickley Schema.org (standard) Richard Wallis schema.org (website) Kayla Hanson GSC reports (and docs)? Alex Jansen Shopping / Merchant Center William Leszczuk “Search” Ryan Levering Parsing & rich results Martin Hepp Independent Consultant