Successful SEO At A Productivity Tech Company
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Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast
20 min
2 speakers
7 chapters
transcribed 29 days ago
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What is the overall focus of the SEO discussion with Calendly’s Rachel Burns?
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Hey, what's going on? My name's Tyson from previsible.io. And today I'm joined by Rachel Burns, who's the content marketing manager at Calendly. Calendly is a scheduling software that helps users schedule meetings and appointments efficiently. It streamlines the process by allowing users to share their availability and let others book time slots that work accordingly. Yesterday, Rachel and I talked about Tailoring SEO to bring qualified traffic that converts. Today we're continuing the conversation by discussing what successful SEO looks like at a productivity tech company. With that, here's my conversation with Rachel Burns, content marketing manager at Callendly. Rachel, welcome back.
Thanks again for having me.
So yesterday we were talking about kind of the the human side of content creation, you know, with an SEO purpose, putting the focus more on the user behind like who we're trying to reach. So we're not just bringing traffic to bring traffic, but we're really focusing on like that target consumer. With your current role and with, you know, your time that you spend in content marketing, how like what's your perspective on kind of like understanding intent and kind of like how do you tap into like the intent of the users in some of your content efforts?
Yeah, I think, you know, like we talked about yesterday, one of the biggest things is remembering that it's a human behind the search. And especially with productivity tech, I think we can get a little surface level looking at, okay, this person is looking for specifically a scheduling tool. They're looking for an online calendar, they're looking for meeting software. And I think what's really important, especially as we're trying to stand out from content that is solely created by generative AI or what's showing up in AI overviews, is recognizing the story and the intent behind that search. So yes, this person's looking for a piece of productivity software because they're trying to make a certain process easier for themselves.
How does Calendly identify and target the right user intent behind search queries?
What does that look like for them then if they get that answer that they're looking for? So not just, oh, here's the software that answers your question, but here's the software that answers your question and here's what is going to happen when you implement this software. So For example, if it's a sales team looking for scheduling software, they want their sales reps to be scheduling faster or to stop having prospects slipping through the cracks during the scheduling process, things like that. They want less time spent on admin work and then even further. Another further layer from that is okay, they want that because their team needs to hit their goals. The sales team needs to hit their quota. They need to hit the amount of revenue they're supposed to bring in for the company.
And that's the intent there. The intent is: hey, we're spending too much time scheduling these meetings, or hey, we're losing too many prospects at the demo stage because we can't get demos scheduled efficiently, or we have a bad scheduling. Experience for our prospects. And if we fix that, we're not only fixing the scheduling experience for our prospects, we're not only spending less time on admin work. We're hitting our goals. Our sales team is hitting quota. Our sales leadership is leading a successful team. The business is growing. And so I think we all know this in content marketing. I think that's why you see a lot of website copy places where it's, you know, revolutionary.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the overall focus of the SEO discussion with Calendly’s Rachel Burns?
0:00–3:03
2
How does Calendly identify and target the right user intent behind search queries?
3:03–5:33
3
What strategies does Calendly use to move beyond feature‑focused content and tell a solution story?
5:33–7:56
4
Why is mobile optimization crucial for productivity‑tech SEO and how does Calendly address it?
7:56–11:44
5
How does Calendly incorporate voice search trends into its SEO roadmap?
11:44–15:10
6
What does a successful partnership between content marketing and technical SEO look like at Calendly?
15:10–18:44
7
What practical advice does Rachel give to marketers who feel stuck in the weeds of SEO?
18:44–19:55