Crispin Sheridan

Crispin Sheridan

Senior Director, Global Search

SAP

Crispin Sheridan is the Senior Director, Global Search at SAP. As part of the digital team, he established and leads the search and testing practices at SAP. Crispin is responsible for paid, natural, and mobile search and all online testing. Search and testing at SAP are fully centralized and globally funded and run under a hybrid in-house and agency model.

Crispin has proven that search learnings and keyword insights work hand in hand with social media marketing and together can effectively drive B2B lead generation. Furthermore, the development of the SAP.com Test Lab has contributed significant success to SAP's digital marketing efforts.

A frequent guest speaker at conferences, including SES New York, San Francisco, Toronto, London, Delhi, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Crispin was appointed to the SES Advisory Board in December 2009. He has also been a guest speaker at the e-Metrics Summit and ad:Tech, and is a member of Google's B2B Technology Council. You can follow him on Twitter at @crispinsheridan and read his monthly SEO column on ClickZ.

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RECENT ARTICLES BY CRISPIN SHERIDAN

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Website Analytics for SEO: Introduction for Beginners

Oct 4, 2013 - Marketers new to analytics for SEO must understand which signals and metrics may have the greatest impact on their business. Comments

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The Value of Internal Site Search: Looking for Alternative Data

Aug 21, 2013 - If it feels like there's a need to tap new sources of data, then harness the power of internal site search as an additional search intelligence resource... Comments

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When ccTLDs Can Make a Difference in the Overall SEO Campaign

Jul 24, 2013 - For organizations with international interests, utilizing ccTLDs and optimizing them fully is the strongest long-term solution for optimal SEO benefit... Comments

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The Easiest and Fastest Way to Increase High-Quality Links

Jun 26, 2013 - There are opportunities to quickly increase the number of quality links pointing to your site with minimal effort, and it's completely white hat…encouraged... Comments

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3 International SEO Considerations

May 29, 2013 - With proper tools available, the question is no longer should I put efforts toward building a global presence, but instead what are the considerations... Comments

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Post-Penguin Link Building Strategies - Pruning Your Links

May 1, 2013 - The core principles of trust, relevance, authority, and commitment all play a role in this link "pruning" process. Part one in a two-part series. Comments

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8 Tips on How to Utilize YouTube and the New 'YouTube One' for Your Business

Apr 3, 2013 - Your brand has the opportunity to broadcast to the 800 million monthly viewers, and a powerful video has an opportunity to get you ranked in universal... Comments

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Why Companies Should Use Pinterest for B2B With 4 Key Tips

Mar 6, 2013 - Here are four ways businesses can optimize their brand on Pinterest, using infographics, video, and fans. Comments

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3 Pitfalls of Enterprise SEO and How to Avoid Them

Feb 6, 2013 - You must create an environment where SEO is a company-wide adoption where everyone understands its goals and how their individual roles directly influence... Comments

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5 Reasons to Leverage Google+ Communities to Influence SEO

Jan 9, 2013 - The power of social networking is being able to bring brands closer to their customers and potential customers in a faster, easier way than ever before... Comments

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Make the Most of Your Brand's YouTube Presence With External Annotations

Dec 12, 2012 - If your brand has good video content but only a mediocre YouTube following, this can maximize your brand's social outreach across YouTube. Comments

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3 Quick Tips for Building a Solid SEO Foundation With Google Webmaster Tools Data

Nov 14, 2012 - Five sets of data for quick SEO wins for small, medium, and enterprise-sized sites alike. Comments

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Just How Important Is the No. 1 Search Result?

Oct 17, 2012 - Being ranked number one in the SERPs is the ultimate influence among your audience and should consistently be the goal of all SEO campaigns. Comments

The 6 Top Mobile SEO Must-Knows

Sep 19, 2012 - Offer a mobile site with the same or similar content as the desktop site to satisfy those who use mobile devices for some, most, or all of their web... Comments

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Enterprise SEO Link Building - Shifting Focus From Links to Relationships

Aug 23, 2012 - Three initial strategies to consider when building links based on existing relationships you may not be exploiting, and developing new relationships... Comments

What Does Semantic Search Mean for SEO?

Jul 25, 2012 - Both Bing and Google are trying to keep users on the search sites while answering search queries with semantic results. Comments

SEO Solutions for Multi-Country Sites: Multi-Lingual XML Sitemaps

Jun 27, 2012 - Google has begun offering new functionality for XML sitemaps to remedy issues pertaining to search engines viewing country-specific pages as duplicate... Comments

Where Have All the Keywords Gone?

May 30, 2012 - How can anyone outside of Google effectively optimize a company's web presence by only analyzing a portion of the overall data? Comments

4 Ways Authorship Markup Enhances SEO

May 2, 2012 - A tool makes search more social. Here's how. Comments

Fostering Enterprise-Wide Adoption of SEO

Apr 4, 2012 - In order to receive buy-in, build momentum, and show positive growth that the SEOs know is possible, we must educate the masses, develop the bigger... Comments

5 Best Practices for Global SEO

Mar 7, 2012 - Five techniques to ensure your website is optimized from a global SEO perspective and allows for increased visibility to drive traffic and conversions... Comments

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