Pittsburgh SEO Consultant Illustrates How to Harness the Powers of Social Media Marketing - Presentation Transcript
How to Harness the Powers of Social Media Marketing www.seoapril.com Presented by April Weitzel Michelle Rupert
A Little Bit About April
BFA in Film/Video Production
4+ years in feature film industry
MBA in Marketing
Began SEO work in 2000
1st page rankings for clients in: real estate, non profit, healthcare, education and more.
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A Little Bit About Michelle
Director of Development, Arsenal Family & Children’s Center
Over 15 years of non-profit development, management and marketing experience
Development experience has been within the fields of health care, at-risk youth, child development and parenting
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What You’ll Learn Today
Impact of 1st page search engine rankings
OLD ways to obtain 1st page rankings
Case Study: Arsenal Family & Children’s Center
NEW ways to obtain 1st page rankings
Google’s Universal Search and non-profits
Social Media Marketing
Facebook and Youtube
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1st Page Search Engine Rankings
Page one generates the most traffic
62% of search engine users don’t look past the first page of results
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1st page rankings: OLD way
Create content rich website
Use search engine optimization tactics
Engage in Pay Per Click Advertising
Note: These are still effective
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Case Study
Arsenal Family and Children’s Center
Pittsburgh area private, non-profit preschool and parenting skills center since 1953.
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1st page rankings: OLD ways
Arsenal Optimization sample Google ranking image
Note: These are still effective
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1st page rankings: OLD ways www.seoapril.com
Results of Page 1 Search Rankings
Before:
Arsenal relied on visitors coming from links on other sites such as www.carnegielibrary.org
After:
Arsenal now gets direct visitors from search engines when people search “Pittsburgh Parenting Skills” and “Preschool Pittsburgh”
Visitors to Website increased, calls increased
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1st page rankings: OLD ways
How to TIPS:
Find your Keywords
Put Keywords in Title Tag
Put Keywords in Meta Description Tag
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1st page rankings: NEW ways
Google’s Universal Search
Social Media Marketing
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www.seoapril.com OLD Way NEW Way
Google Universal Search
Launched May 16, 2007
Blends listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines with those it gathers from crawling web pages.
Levels the playing field for non-profits who don’t have large, optimized websites and big online marketing budgets.
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Social Media Marketing
A form of Internet marketing which seeks to achieve branding and marketing communication goals through the participation in various social media networks and applications.
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Social Media Marketing Pieces www.seoapril.com Technologies – Networks – Video – Pictures – Audio – Blogs – Wikis – Collaboration
Universal Search Example www.seoapril.com Images Wikipedia Youtube Twitter Elements of Social Media
Social Media Marketing Spotlight www.seoapril.com
Social Media Marketing Spotlight www.seoapril.com
Top 10 Websites in the U.S
Google
Yahoo!
Facebook
YouTube
MySpace
Windows Live
MSN
Wikipedia
eBay
Craigslist.org
Top 10 Websites in the World
Google
Yahoo!
YouTube
Windows Live
Facebook
MSN
Wikipedia
Blogger
MySpace
Baidu.com
Source: Alexa.com
Stats on Facebook
Launched February 2004 at Harvard
by Mark Zuckerberg
More than 175 million active users
Average user has 120 friends
Doubled users in past 8 months
Currently, 5 th most popular site on Internet
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Facebook Users by Gender www.seoapril.com FACTS: Over 23 million new users in 60 days Growing faster with women than men in nearly all age groups (Aug 2008 to Mar 2009) Source: www.nytimes.com
Facebook Users by Age & Gender www.seoapril.com FACTS: Over half of users are 26 and older 30% are 35 and older
Facebook Users Growth
FACTS:
In last 60 days, users age 35 nearly doubled
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Facebook Users Growth www.seoapril.com As of 3/25/09
www.seoapril.com Flickr Blogs Facebook Elements of Social Media Facebook & Universal Search Example: Pittsburgh Glass Center Local
Combines web
analytics and
demographic
data for
company or
non profit pages
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Profile Benefits
Reach a diverse new, global audience
Drive traffic to your website
Build your e-newsletter lists
Fundraise
Platform for your supporters to interact with and promote your non-profit cause on Facebook
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Stats on Youtube
Launched in Dec. 2005 by three former PayPal
employees
Chad Hurley, IUP Alumni recently donated $1 million
Went from 0 to 4 million monthly visitors in 3 months
2006 Time magazine’s “Invention of the Year” award
Acquired by Google on Oct. 2006 for $1.65 billion
Currently, 3 rd most popular site on Internet
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Why is Youtube so Popular?
Easy to View –
Easy to Embed –
Easy to Find -
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Users by Age www.seoapril.com Source: Hitwise
Users by Gender
Almost Evenly Split
Gender gap narrowing
Source: Nielsen Media
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Users by Education
Educated
Only 8.9% of US population holds post graduate degrees
Source: Nielsen Media
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Users by Income
Wealthy
Only 30% of the US population earns $75K+
46% of YouTube users earn $75+
Source: Nielsen Media
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Find Out Who’s Watching www.seoapril.com Insight
www.seoapril.com OLD Way NEW Way Youtube & Universal Search Example: SEO Consultant Pittsburgh
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Insight - Views www.seoapril.com
Insight - Discovery www.seoapril.com
Insight - Discovery www.seoapril.com
Insight - Demographics www.seoapril.com
Can embed the video on your website
Can obtain first page search results in Google, Yahoo! and MSN
Exposes your organization to a new audience
Time and money spent can be minimal
http://www.youtube.com/nonprofits
Key Benefits of Youtube www.seoapril.com
What Does This Mean for You?
Potential for several first page search engine rankings
New audience exposure
Engaging, interactive vehicles for non-profit messages
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Pittsburgh SEO consultant, April Weitzel, illustrates how to harness the powers of social media marketing for first page rankings in Google. Originally presented at the e-Merging Philanthropy Conference on April 22, 2009. less
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