Seo And Trending Topics How You Can Use Trending Topics To Get More Visitors

SEO and the World Cup 2010 Better rankings by adapting to trending topics by Björn Ühss @faiM @faiMbcn @dailySEOhint http://seo.uehss.de WebBar #5 05/07/2010 www.webbar.es bjoern@webbar.es @WebBarBCN

Trending Topic: Vuvuzela

Key Message “ The trend is your friend”

What is a trend? - general direction in which something tends to move - (possible) future - “Buzz” of tomorrow - the next hype - evolving topic = an opportunity for SEOs to push their websites up in the search engines, get free backlinks and new traffic „ World Cup 2010“ „ World Cup News“

Expected vs. unforseeable events
Expectable & repeating events
Summer/Winter Olympics
Eurovision
Elections
Euro Cup – World Cup
Google, Apple, Celebrities
Local events (e.g. San Juan)
Watch the news!
Unforseeable & one-time events
Catastrophies (e.g. Icelandic Vulcan, Oil spill)
Celebrities
News
Viral campaigns & trending videos
Local events & news
Watch twitter, facebook or youtube!

Adapt! Survival of the fittest Short term: - PPC wording - Direct Marketing Strategy Middle term: - SEO Keywords & Content - Online Mkt Campaign Long term: - Product portfolio - Company structure (in order to be able to react fast)

What people will do during an hype .. 1. People speak about it 2. People getting curious 3. People search for it 3. People share it Trending topics = an opportunity for generating more traffic to your website

.. and what your SEOs should do. What Search Engine Optimisers should do: 1. People speak about it = SEOs have to listen to their (key)words (“watch world cup online”) = SEOs should join the conversation via Twitter & SM ( real time search ) = SEOs would create trust - allow discussions on your site, forum, blog (User generated content) = SEOs may create authority by making them speak about your website (backlinks) 2. People getting curious = SEOs understand even the unclear questions, typos and give answers = SEOs can give more – e.g. value added free content (e.g. Football glossary, match plan) = SEOs use all available channels to give answers (blogs, news, videos, photos) ( universal search ) 3. People search for it = SEOs don´t understimate the rapid increase in search volume. = SEOs know that Googles “Query deserves freshness” factor will push your kws to top SERPs = SEOs create content for these search queries (e.g. articles about player, matches..) 4. People share it = SEOs find creative ways of using the hype for Linkbaiting to get new links = SEOs actively use Social Media to spread content and generate new traffic

10 free tools to identify current trends
Google Trends
Google Insights for Search
Twitter trending topics
Monitter (via Twitter Tweets)
Alexa.org
YouTube
Facebook
Your Blogs/RSS Feeds
Watch the news
Listen around

Google Trends (1/5) google.com/trends

Google Insights for Search (2/5) www. google.com/insights /search/

Twitter – Trending topics (3/5) http://search.twitter.com/

Now you know the tools Time to take action – and adapt! (YouTube & Disney already doing it)

Free backlinks with the Vuz-Buzz 7 eye-opening linkbait ideas Name URL Backlinks PR Complexity (*****) other Blow me link 9314 4 ** 600.000 visits Vuvuzelas for BP link 321 n/a ** $4,108 donating Vuvuzela time – browse the web like you´re at the South African World Cup link 10432 n/a ** 700.000 visits/day 4521 RT 45K FB Fancorso.de/com link 33 n/a *** - 10 Videos improved with a Vuvuzela Horn (Blog article) link 344 n/a * 39 FB 9 RT Vuvuzela (iPhone App) link 190 1 **** I hate it when I'm at a vuvuzela concert and people start playing football! (Facebook Page) link n/a n/a * 148.885 Fans

How can you use this for your business?
Find 3 trending topics
a) 1 common expectable event in the future (Christmas?)
b) 1 local topic from your industry that´s hot or will be (iPhone 4?) c) listen every day to what´s “hot” in the news and your environment
Find a way to use this trend
a) be creative! Or just have a look again at the list of things SEOs should do some slides before. Create something funny, try new things. You need (back)links!
b) Involve all Marketing departments (SEO, PPC; Direct Marketing, Offline Campaigns)
c) Know your numbers, track your success, monitor activities
Approve time and resources for it, act fast and just do it!

...Need a creative Linkbait idea? Björn Ühss http://seo.uehss.de [email_address] twitter.com/faiMbcn Co-Founder & Organiser of the monthly WebBar mini-conferences of the Web Marketing Group Barcelona Encuentro de Marketing www.WebBar.es twitter.com/WebBarBCN

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