Slidedeck from my presentation to the Insurance sector on the 14th November on the 4 pillars for Digital strategy and what they need to do win online. Includes info on Google Hummingbird, SEO, Socials Media, Content Marketing, CRO, Experience
15. OLD SCHOOL SEO
Over optimisation
Unnatural content
Unnatural links
Keyword stuffing
Poor user experience
Leads to the darkside!
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19. OVER 200 FACTORS INFLUENCE SEARCH
Keywords (targeting and acquisition)
• Improved sematic and contextual understanding – meaning, not just
words
• Don’t spam, keyword stuff
• Keywords, long tail, context, location, device, experience
• Schema.org markup – use it
• Get ready for voice search – that’s what Google is doing!
Relevancy (on page SEO – behaviour and conversion)
• Focus on your users, give them what they want, where when
• Freshness of content – how often do you change yours?
• Must be unique and valuable to your user persona’s
• Content strategy, evolves, purposeful, hot topics, contagious, Identify
intent, needs, problems and become the authority in your
business area
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20. OVER 200 FACTORS INFLUENCE SEARCH
Recommendation (off page SEO / Google Penguin)
• Commit to outreach and engage with communities
• Create content your audience will care about
• Will people vote for you with inbound links?
• Social mentions is ‘word of mouth’ marketing and builds links
• Use Google+ and gain ‘authorship’ and your ‘identity’
• Manage you link profile, assess risks and take action
• Content can’t sit in isolation, needs to be shared and engage influencers
– are you focused on them? Do you know who the are!?
Experience (Google Panda – behaviour and conversion)
• Be fit for mobile devices – Google prefer mobile responsive
• What do users ‘think’ of your pages? Find out.
• Reduce clutter and friction
• Don’t keep people waiting – improve load times
• Do all you can to engage and ‘romance the share’
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53. 40% YouTube views in the UK are on a mobile
Phone
20% YouTube views in the UK are on a TV
screen bigger the 32”
41% higher click-through rate than plain test
results in search
Pages with videos 57% average improvement
Conversions
Pages with video are 53% more likely to
appear on page1 of Google
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55. WHO WOULD YOU WANT
BEHIND THE DOOR?
• Your target audience
• Where are they, ‘which pub’?
• Strategic partners
• Your customers
• Influencer networks
• Who influences them?
• Who else and why?
• Who would you, buy a beer?
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56. PROBABLY THE BEST
SOCIAL NETWORKING ADVICE!
•
A good conversationalist, listens most of the time,
that’s how, when you talk, you know what to say
•
# Who are you listening to?
•
Be interested in others, not yourself!
•
Don’t broadcast sales messages
•
Make friends, build trust and help others
•
80 / 20 rule
•
Remember… ‘Givers Gain’
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67. Once you know what they look like
Do your homework and find
your influencers and their
communities
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to receive this free guide
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68. GOOGLE + SOCIAL AND IDENTITY ENGINE
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91. Pages
Content
Landing pages Copy / Message
Traffic
Device
Organic
Desktop
Data Capture
Call to action
PPC
Tablet
Live chat
Promotion
Social media
Smartphone
Sales funnels
Colours
Affiliate
SMART TV
Shopping cart
Social proof
Geography
Google Glass
Template style
Video
W'end v W'day
Voice search
Squeeze pages
Images
New & repeat
Interactive/Flash
Long v's short
Demographics
Dynamic
Buttons
Behavioural
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103. Thanks for listening and keep in touch
@GoogleDave
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tel:
01512275549
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Editor's Notes
Interflora example90 day penanlty
Magic momentsHope street hotel – bar storyWhat happened afterwards?!Give you customers a ‘digital hug’
Ask themListen in the channels – linked groups? Forums – question are like a gift of a brief
Personal recommendationsAmazon – 8 reviews are more, 60% improvement in conversions
Sir Richard…. Would you mind
DSC – Mike DubinMarch 2012Up against the might of Gillette and BicHelping him aquitre funding with a funding 10 million views on YouTube – which 2nd search engine260,000 people on G+100,000 likes on FB30000 on twitter Imagine how many communites the can now tap into, research, reach, amplifications, new business, R&D, Point is a low cost video can have a huge effect if you think differently – it doesn’t have to by Speilberg production – need thoughts and some care
DSC – Mike DubinMarch 2012Up against the might of Gillette and BicHelping him aquitre funding with a funding 10 million views on YouTube – which 2nd search engine260,000 people on G+100,000 likes on FB30000 on twitter Imagine how many communites the can now tap into, research, reach, amplifications, new business, R&D, Point is a low cost video can have a huge effect if you think differently – it doesn’t have to by Speilberg production – need thoughts and some care