Interview with Nick Wilsdon

Enterprise SEO & Edge SEO with Nick Wilsdon from Torque.

This episode of the SEO Podcast by #SEOSLY features a special guest – Nick Wilsdon who is the co-founder and CEO of TorquePartnership, a company that provides digital consultancy and search engine optimization advisory programs to enterprise clients.

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Interview with Nick Wilsdon (video)

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Interview with Nick Wilsdon (audio)

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Interview with Nick Wilsdon (notes)

Here are more detailed podcast notes from the interview:

About Nick:

• Has over 23 years of experience in SEO. Started his first SEO agency in 2000 after working in SEO in Russia for 7-8 years
• Helped found some early SEO communities/forums like spin and thread watch for SEOs to connect
• Set up the SEO team for Arena Media under Havas and later ran SEO for the global digital agency iProspect
• Was headhunted by Vodafone to build an internal global SEO program. Ran their program for 7 years, overseeing SEO across all core and partner markets
• Most recently was a consultant for the “world’s largest marketplace” and now runs an SEO consultancy called Talk Partnership with 12 employees

Tips on Edge SEO:

• Content delivery networks like Cloudflare and Fastly now allow compute at the edge, running JavaScript to modify pages
• Can help quickly implement SEO changes like canonical tags when facing roadblocks on site
• Enables testing of enhancements like eliminating unused code or customizing page performance
• Still considered advanced but Cloudflare Workers and Fastly have free developer tiers to start testing
• Needs coordination between SEO and CDN teams; Nick often plays an intermediary role
• Important capability for SEOs to understand as it will impact many sites

Enterprise SEO Insights:

• Requires extensive planning and strategy due to complex requirements, products, systems
• First enterprise SEO job relies heavily on experience; learn by working in-house
• Develop diverse skills but specialize deeply in some areas like JavaScript or Schema
• Politics and relationships across teams crucial to navigate roadblocks
• Global programs standardize capabilities across brands but need local buy-in
• Run small-scale pilot proof of concepts first to demonstrate potential value
• Use leaderboards and gamification to encourage best practices adoption
• Patience critical – changes like CMS migrations take years – but impact is enormous

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Follow & connect with Nick Wilsdon

Here is how you can connect with Nick:

• Follow Nick on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nickwilsdon/
• Follow Nick on Twitter: twitter.com/nickwilsdon
• Nick’s company: torquepartnership.com/

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