Dealing With People – The Hardest Part Of Search: The really hard part about search is not search itself, but de...

Dealing With People - The Hardest Part Of Search

Dealing With People – The Hardest Part Of Search: The really hard part about search is not search itself, but de...

The really hard part about search is not search itself, but dealing with people within your organization who have (or should have) an impact on search. Optimizing H1s is easy. Dealing with people is hard. Really hard. What follows are a series of the most important lessons I’ve (maybe) learned while dealing with MBAs, devs, product managers, designers and my own ego. Don’t Think Everything Through We’ve been trained through years of education, higher education (and for some of people, worse – consulting gigs) to deliver beautifully polished, thoroughly thought-through project plans. We wrap these plans in detailed reports and colored coded timelines and then present them to key stakeholders. Nothing could be less effective. These reports are inevitably met with questions you haven’t thoroughly thought through (or even considered), staffing limitations, technical impossibil...

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