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Creating Shareable
Content – Not Noise.


Janet Aronica
Head of Marketing
Shareaholic
Hi! I’m Janet.

  Head of
 Marketing
 Shareaholic
Nights and weekends
               to early growth



               2008 Mozilla Firefox
               Extension Award        1 MILLION
                                       downloads



    February 2008                        June 2009



3
Browser Tools




                2 MILLION
                Browser downloads
publishers
                                 200,000
                                  Publishers




Source: Running to the Kitchen
http://runningtothekitchen.com
2500	
  API	
  calls
                       	
  
    2,500 +
    API developers




6
270,000,000
 People each month
+         +


    That’s more than Germany, France &
        the United Kingdom combined.

8
Shareaholic is the 4th largest
    country in the world.




9
Humble
beginnings?
Strugglefest.


11
27%
     Referral
      Traffic

12
#1

          Take a
          step back.
13
Analytics




14
Friends don’t let
     friends post
     without a plan.

15
Editorial
                              Calendar




     http://bit.ly/SHRedcal
16   	
  
#2
          Kinds of
          Shareable
          Content
17
Leverage
     current events
18
Lists work.




19
MORE content.




20
FML.




21
Guest bloggers
     Freelancers




                   Interns

22
#3
          Shareable
          formats
23
Source: SEOmoz http://mz.cm/y2MX7d
24
Your
     headline is
     your first
     impression.


25
Great
     headlines
       are:

                 •    Urgent
                 •    Useful
                 •    Specific


26
27
Introductions




28
Great
     introductions



                     •    State a problem
                     •    Popular phrase
                     •    METRICS

29
Predictable
        Voice




30
31
Brand your visuals




             Source: He and She Eat
             Clean http://bit.ly/SeLyiT




32
It might not
       be love at
       first sight.




33
Link to old
       content




     Source: How About We
     http://howaboutwe.com




34
Related
      content




     Source: Guilty Kitchen
     http://guiltykitchen.com




35
#3

     Promoting
     your content
36
Page
Featured             Title
Image




           Meta Description



37
Funky page title




                        Not your Twitter
                        account
38
Sweet page title!




                Optimized for Twitter!
39
#4

          Plugins
40
Plugins


           •  WP Touch
           •  Auto Featured
              Image Plugin
           •  Editorial Calendar
           •  All in One SEO Pack
41
Why	
  do	
  people	
  share?	
  
     •  Kony	
  2012,	
  Buzzfeed	
  

              What do you
              share?

42
Thank you!


             •  @JanetAronica
             •  @Shareaholic
             •  Shareaholic.com

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