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Enterprise SEO: How to Do SEO When Everything Takes 6 Meetings

Enterprise SEO isn't harder because the SEO is different. It's harder because the politics are different. Here's how to navigate it.

I'm going to say something that might offend enterprise SEO teams.

The actual SEO part of enterprise SEO is the same as any other SEO.

Fix technical issues. Create good content. Build authority. Optimize pages.

The hard part? Getting anything approved and implemented.

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The enterprise SEO trap

At a startup, you think "we should change our title tags" and change them.

At an enterprise company, you think "we should change our title tags" and then:

  • Write a proposal
  • Present it to stakeholders
  • Get feedback from legal
  • Submit a Jira ticket to engineering
  • Wait 3 months
  • Follow up 7 times
  • Finally get it deployed on a staging environment
  • Wait for QA
  • Launch
  • By which point the algorithm has changed twice and you need new title tags.

    Sound familiar?

    How to win at enterprise SEO

    Document everything

    Build an SEO playbook that lives in your company wiki. Not in your head. Not in a Google Doc that only you have access to. Proper SEO documentation is non-negotiable at this scale.

    When you leave, the knowledge stays.

    Build cross-functional relationships

    Your best friends should be:

  • An engineer who "gets it"
  • A product manager who trusts you
  • A content lead who respects data
  • These three allies will 10x your ability to get things implemented.

    Pick your battles

    You can't do everything. So do the things with the highest impact first.

    A prioritized task list is worth its weight in gold in an enterprise environment. Moz's SEO resource center can help train stakeholders on the fundamentals.

    Prove ROI relentlessly

    Enterprise execs speak one language: revenue. Show them how organic search drives pipeline. Every quarter.

    The foundation

    Even enterprise SEO starts with fundamentals. And those fundamentals are the same 113 tasks every business needs to nail.

    SEO Checkup gives you the prioritized framework. Use it as your internal playbook.

    Free. No credit card. 30 seconds.

    Because even if implementation takes 6 meetings, at least your strategy can be ready in 6 seconds.

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