How To Be More Strategic With Your SEO
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Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast
27 min
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8 chapters
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What are the biggest long‑term SEO traps that professionals should avoid?
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Hey, what's going on? My name's Tyson from Previsible.io, and joining me today is Emily Wassel, who is the head SEO at TMWI. TMWI is dedicated to providing innovative digital marketing solutions that help businesses grow and succeed. With a focus on data-driven strategies and cutting-edge technology, they deliver measurable results for their clients. Today, Emily and I are going to be discussing How to be more strategic with your SEO? With that, here's my conversation with Emily Wassel, head of SEO at TMWI. Emily, welcome to the podcast.
Thanks so much for having me. It's great to be here.
So today in the conversation, we're taking a step back from just like the tactics of SEO, and we're trying to, you know, think a little more strategic and kind of like longer term vision. Maybe to kind of start things off for the listeners, like, what do you feel like some of like the biggest catches or maybe traps are for SEOs when they're trying to think of more of like the long term? strategy of their efforts.
Yeah, it's such an interesting question for SEO because I think as an industry, it's a common problem we run into that we have so much data at our hands, at our fingertips to play with. And we're often very detail-driven people. It's analytical. People are, you know, digging about in all of that information and trying to find all of the possible answers and solutions. And I think sometimes it's easy to get bogged down in all of that information and actually forget what we're trying to achieve as business results. And we end up not talking the language of business leaders, marketing leaders. And I think the biggest frustration I hear from other SEOs in the industry and that I see being talked about is the clients not implementing work.
Um and that comes from it being focused too much on the tactics and the detail and not enough on the big picture. Um, so that's a shift that, you know, I really feel like is valuable for the industry and should be a focus um for anybody wanting to progress their career. It's just taking that step back and saying, beyond all of the, you know, findings from a technical order or all of the things we could do. what are we trying to get to with the website? Because when we have that goal really clear, then we can work out the steps together.
I couldn't agree more on that. It's like
How can SEOs start speaking the language of business leaders and marketers?
There's a bunch of different I think components to that. But you're right that it's like speaking the language first of others and not getting kind of trapped in the SEO jargon. But then also it's like tapping into that interest of those other stakeholders and parties. And if you're driving into, hey, this is where the business is going, this is how as a channel we're supporting Puts. Things tend to get a little bit easier and smoother. Within that vein though, I feel like Another area that SEOs tend to feel a little more uncomfortable is in like the business forecasting, where it's like, I think, yes, it's uncomfortable. There's elements that we can't fully control, but it's like kind of every s channel still has to make some of those assumptions.
And yeah, maybe we have to go out on a limb a little bit more. But would you have any recommendations for SEOs that are Trying to like Build those business cases that align to like the business goals and elements like that.
Yeah, sure. I I completely get that it's um uncomfortable and It's so hard to put your name to something when Google could roll out an algorithm update and change, you know, the the playing field.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the biggest long‑term SEO traps that professionals should avoid?
0:00–2:57
2
How can SEOs start speaking the language of business leaders and marketers?
2:57–5:50
3
Why is building a clear business case essential for SEO success?
5:50–9:37
4
How should SEOs approach forecasting and creating projection scenarios?
9:37–13:39
5
What’s the difference between SEO strategy and SEO tactics, and how can you separate them?
13:39–16:47
6
How can junior SEOs shift from tactical work to a strategic, leadership mindset?
16:47–19:52
7
What practical steps help agencies get buy‑in from clients and internal stakeholders?
19:52–22:41
8
How can SEOs keep their strategies flexible and know when to pivot?
22:41–26:43