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Selling yourself short: The value you’re
not reporting on from your Digital PR &
Content Marketing
Laura Crimmons @lauracrimmons
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D I S C L A I M E R :
A lot of what I do is working on
strategies to acquire links for
clients, but…
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C L I E N T :
“And how many links will we
get from that?”
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C L I E N T :
“So what does the cost per
link work out as then?”
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C L I E N T :
“Can we make sure all links
are above DA 40?”
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Got me like…
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Why shouldn’t we just focus on links?
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Reason #1
Google’s trying not to
rely on links
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Reason #2
Link metrics are bullshit
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Reason #3
Chasing 00s of links is
unnecessary
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Disavowed
over half of
link profile
Built 20
*good* links
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Digital PR &
Content
Marketing
Links
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Digital PR & Content Marketing =
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So what should we focus on,
and where’s the value?
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Citations and brand
awareness
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Satisfies Google’s Search
Quality Raters now
Should directly impact
rankings in the future
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How can we measure brand awareness?
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How can we measure ‘good reputation’?
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SERP real estate
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Our
campaign
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Appear for long-tail
keywords
Steal space from
competitors
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How do we measure it?
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Positions
0 & 4
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Write content for questions people are asking
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Remarketing
campaign traffic
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Conversions / Sales
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Once a year purchase
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The value from content
comes 6 months down the
line…
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Traffic is good…
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Making direct returns is better…
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But content is about the assisted conversions…
£25k
£190k
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
MONTHLY ASSISTED AND DIRECT REVENUE
FROM CONTENT
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So what’s the value?
1. Improved brand awareness
2. Increased brand affinity/loyalty
3. Valuable citations
4. Demonstration of E.A.T
5. Featured snippets/ extra SERP real estate
6. Traffic ripe for remarketing
7. Direct and assisted conversions – remember the time lag
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Thanks
Laura.Crimmons@branded3.com
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