1. International Search Marketing for Export Success
– incorporating Social Media Marketing
Jan Klin
Jan Klin & Associates
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jan@janklin.com
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3. What we’ll cover…
SEO – Search Engine Optimisation
– Local and international
Pay per Click Advertising
Links, internationlisation and localisation
Website translation options
Social Media Marketing
– Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Blogging
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4. SEO -Still the main method..
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5. SEO– Maximising your position in the hitlist
- Click throughs dissipate as we move down the list
36%
of internet
users perceive a
company in the
top search
engine rankings
to be a major
brand
Source:
iProspect
search engine
branding survey
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6. Search Engine Market Share-International
www.searchenginewatch.com
www.searchenginecolossus.com
http://www.searchenginelinks.co.uk/link-48.html
Google’s not the only show I town…
Baidu – China
Naver – Korea
Yandex – Russia
Are dominant in their respective
countries
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15. Google – ‘Universal Search’ and DAO (Digital Assets
Optimisation)
Content retrieved
from:
Google maps,
news, images,
You Tube, Blogs,
Facebok, Twitter,
LinkedIn
MySpace, video ,etc
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16. Google Places – before
-Address details on optimised (home) page
- Geo info in ‘title’ tag
-Entry in local directories – eg Yell
-Entry in Tripadvisor if you are a hotel
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20. Strategy
and Process
1. Auditing your current performance
2.
Strategic selection of keyphrases
3. Build Content around keyphrases on webpages
– Utilise correct ‘keyword density’
– Check/correct internal linking
4.Optimise metadata for the keyphrases
5. Implementing the changes
– Phase the approach to new pages
6.Build Backlinks to your site
7. Monitor, Measure and Modify
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22. Are you in the Google index?
Site:www.yourdomain.com
Use the ‘Site’ command
with your domain name
at the Google search box
For Example:
Site:www.businesslinkke
nt.com
497 web pages in the
index
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25. Getting the right domain
and hosting
UK company
Targeting the UK
In UK English
Weak on inbound links
.com domain
But - Google thinks it’s NORWEGIAN
– Because that’s where it’s hosted…….
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26. International traffic Issues
Search engines will use the top level
domain (TLD) to assess where you want
traffic from (eg - .co.uk, .de, .it etc)
If you have a .com (or .net, .info etc) they
will use your hosting location to determine
this
Use Google Webmaster central to override
this and tell Google where you want traffic
from
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27. Strategy
and Process
1. Auditing your current performance
2.
Strategic selection of keyphrases
3. Build Content around keyphrases on webpages
– Utilise correct ‘keyword density’
– Check/correct internal linking
4.Optimise metadata for the keyphrases
5. Implementing the changes
– Phase the approach to new pages
6.Build Backlinks to your site
7. Monitor, Measure and Modify
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28. Strategy and Process
The right keywords or
keyphrases are the
starting point for our
strategy
50%
Traffic from a variety
of uncommon phrases?
– Eg ‘marketing training
courses Manchester’
40%
30%
30%
24%
22%
20%
15%
9%
10%
One big win on a major
phrase?
9%
0%
1 word
2
3
4
5
6
words words words words words
– Eg ‘Training courses’
– ‘personal loans’
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29. Keyphrase Selection
It’s a two stage process…
1. Developing the Initial List
2. Refining and shortlisting your choices
See
http://janaklin.blogspot.com/2005/06/lesson-3finding-keyphrases-to
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30. Developing the Initial List
-
Brainstorm with your self and others you work with
- Look at what competitors use (‘view’; ‘source’ then see the meta data and
visible text)
- Any brand names or generic product types which are relevant
- Study your web stats for keyphrases which have driven people to your site
- Take you mates down the pub and ask them what they would type in to find you
- Use web based tools eg Google Keyword Tool:- You could even ask your customers and suppliers
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32. Keyphrase Analysis
Or…run a pay per
click campaign!
– 3 months
This way you’ll find
out what really works
– What converts to
sales or enquiries
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33. What are the main factors to consider when
selecting and prioritising keyphrases?
Search Volume – the number of monthly searches
– The bigger the better?
Business Relevance – how important is this term to my
business
Keyphrase relevance – what is the searcher looking for
when using this phrase
– Single word phrases are not good as its difficult to know the
searchers intent
– Phrases can have different meanings ‘eg ‘cold treatment’
– Mix ‘long tail’ and ‘head phrases’
Competition – how much competition is there for this
phrase
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34. What do you do if there’s no direct
translation?
“City breaks” has no direct
equivalent in:
– French
– German
– Dutch
– Spanish
– Italian
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35. Using Google’s autosuggest
Another input into keyword
analysis
See what gets suggested and
include if relevant
BUT
Be aware of personalisation
skewing
– Results shown will reflect
previous click through
activity
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39. Strategy
and Process
1. Auditing your current performance
2.
Strategic selection of keyphrases
3. Build Content around keyphrases on webpages
– Utilise correct ‘keyword density’
– Check/correct internal linking
4.Optimise metadata for the keyphrases
5. Implementing the changes
– Phase the approach to new pages
6.Build Backlinks to your site
7. Monitor, Measure and Modify
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40. Major Ranking Factors
On Page Factors (‘Entry Ticket’)
– Metadata – title, keyword, description, H1
– Visible (readable) html content
– Internal links
Off Page Factors (‘Competitive Differentiators’)
– Inbound link infrastructure
– Directories, blogs, pr sites, etc, etc..
– Domain trust – age, age of links
Behavioural (less important generally , BUT will
become more important)
– Number of visits, length of stay, social media activity…
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41. Textual content is King
There is no substitute for good
‘keyword rich’ content
– At least 200-250 words
– Content semantically related
to keywords (LSI)
Eg, valentine, love, hearts,
romance
Focus on natural writing of
copy
Add new relevant content as
often as you can
– Use pdf’s, word documents
– New pages with related
content – eg history,
background, instructions
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42. The Keyword Density
Issue for Visible Text
What do you think of this bit of
copywriting!
Our Yellow widgets are the best in the
UK and if you buy our yellow widgets
you will be sure you have bought the
best yellow widgets you can buy and
absolutely envied by the rest of the
yellow widget buying community both
here in the UK and the rest of the
yellow widget buying community
throughout the world. Yes, you really
need to buy our award winning yellow
widgets. Click here to buy yellow
widgets
1%-3% is ideal (keep below 10%)
Check you density with:
– www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html
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43. Google’s ‘Panda’ Update –
Emphasis on Quality Content
-Sites with copied content are
getting penalised
-Emphasis needs to be on original
and interesting content
-Copy writing needs to be a
priority activity of SEO
-’Duplicate content’ is a definite
no – no
-Also ‘fresh’ content favoured
(latest update)
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44. 2nd only to Wikipedia!
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45. Google Hummingbird Update
Even more emphasis on high
quality content
More focus on ‘long tail phrases’
and user intent
– Eg ‘How do I install a combi boiler
in my house’
Maybe less focus on keyword
matching
More detail here…
– http://www.janklin.com/blog/yetanother-major-google-update
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52. In summary
Write (good quality) text as naturally as possible
Check afterwards that the target phrase(s) is included the right
number of times
– 3 repetitions per 100 words is generally enough.
Be aware of Hummingbird
– Include long tail phrases, synonyms, syntactically related
phrases
Be aware of different types of intent – navigational, informational ,
transactional
The phrases can be included in:– The main text
– Header tags (h1, h2 etc), in-text links, navigation links, ‘alt’
tags
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53. Strategy
and Process
1. Auditing your current performance
2.
Strategic selection of keyphrases
3. Build Content around keyphrases on webpages
4.Optimise metadata for the keyphrases
Title tag, description tag, keyword tag,
H1 Tag (see lloyd and Asg)
5. Implementing the changes
– Phase the approach to new pages
6.Build Backlinks to your site
7. Monitor, Measure and Modify
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54. Meta Tags – The Title tag
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55. Meta Tags – The Title tag
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57. IMPORTANCE OF TITLES
Eye Tracking Study
2/3 of the time users initially
looked at a listing for 7/100 of a
second
Predominately looked at titles
Across all Yahoo! searches,
participants focused on the titles
first and foremost, with fewer
reading the fine print of the
listing
Source: Marketing Sherpa Study, August 2005
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60. Optimising your MetadataImportant that the tags show a theme between
each other and the visible content
Title tag
– No more than 10 words, use hyphens, commas pipes (|) as
delimiters
– Main keyphrase at the beginning of the tag
Keyword tag
– No more than 4 words
– All lower case
– Separated by a comma then a space
Eg web marketing, ecommerce training, internet consultancy……
Only include phrases WHICH ARE ON THE PAGE!
Description tag
– No more than 25 words
– Should contain keywords – up to 3 repetitions
– ‘salesy’ to encourage click throughs
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61. Major Ranking Factors
On Page Factors (‘Entry Ticket’)
– Metadata – title, keyword, description, H1
– Visible (readable) html content
– Internal links
Off Page Factors (‘Competitive Differentiators’)
– Inbound link infrastructure
– Directories, blogs, pr sites, etc, etc..
– Domain trust – age, age of links
Behavioural (less important generally , BUT will
become more important – social media)
– Number of visits, length of stay
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62. Strategy
and Process
1. Auditing your current performance
2.
Strategic selection of keyphrases
3. Build Content around keyphrases on webpages
4.Optimise metadata for the keyphrases
Title tag, description tag, keyword tag,
H1 Tag (see lloyd and Asg)
5. Implementing the changes
– Phase the approach to new pages
6.Build Backlinks to your site
7. Monitor, Measure and Modify
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63. Where do links come from?
Directories
– General
– Industry specific
– Some free some paid for
Strategic Partnership links
Reciprocal links
In newsgroups and other forums
Portals
– Geographic
– ecommerce
In Blogs
Banners
Affiliates
Social Media sites
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64. Strategy
and Process
1. Auditing your current performance
2.
Strategic selection of keyphrases
3. Build Content around keyphrases on webpages
4.Optimise metadata for the keyphrases
Title tag, description tag, keyword tag,
H1 Tag (see lloyd and Asg)
5. Implementing the changes
– Phase the approach to new pages
6.Build Backlinks to your site
7. Monitor, Measure and Modify
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65. Google Analytics – free and
comprehensive
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67. More on international SEO
and localisation…
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68. Websites and Localisation –
Why bother with translation? www.cilt.org.uk
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69. An example
www.noisekiller.co.uk
European focus with Italian
distributor
Part of website translated
into Italian
Used Italian web designer
to produce Italian pages
ECR service is useful here
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70. Mistranslation Examples
“Please dial 7 to retrieve your auto
from the garbage”
Mistranslation: Hotel Rome
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71. Mistranslation Examples
“Why go somewhere else to be cheated
when you can come here”
Mistranslation: Indian shop window
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74. Mistranslation Examples
“You are welcome to visit the cemetery where
famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists
and writers are buried daily except Thursdays”
Mistranslation: Moscow hotel lobby
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76. International Sites – B2B
See IBM – Planet wide
– http://www.ibm.com/planetwide/select/selector.html
– See locations which prefer English
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78. www.mantracourt.co.uk
Supplier of advanced
instrumentation
– Strain gauges, wireless
telemetry, signal
converters
– For marine,
automotive,
engineering sectors
Main Objective
– Increase the volume of
worldwide enquiries –
in English and foreign
languages
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79. The solution..
.co.uk site offers limited
worldwide visibility
– Local has high relevance to
search engines
Transfer site to .com
Set geotargeting to
worldwide – otherwise
hosting skewed
Produce foreign language
web pages
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87. What do we need to do?
Decide on approach – landing pages, separate sites, one domain,
a mixture?
Translate pages and website changes
–
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–
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Which languages?
How many pages?
Include metadata
Navigation – flags, maps
Keyword research – ask customers, keyword tool
Search engine necessities
–
–
–
–
Submissions – eg Yandex, Baidu
Settings – geotargeting
Coding issues – hreflang
Site mapping
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88. Webmaster Tools for Geo-targeting
See example at
Google Webmaster
Tools…
http://support.google.com/
webmasters/bin/answer.py?
hl=en&answer=2620865
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89. Webmaster Tools for Geo-targeting
See following posts on International SEO…
– http://www.janklin.com/blog/bid/177990/International-SEO
– http://www.janklin.com/blog/bid/178998/International-SEORefinements-and-Translation-Options
Set up xml sitemaps for each country version of your site…
– Eg
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93. Link Building Strategies or
Content Marketing?
Why is link building important?
1. Links from other sites to ours
generate traffic for us
– Eg A reference from a directory
such as Yell.com will lead people
directly to us
– Other ‘content marketing’ will
generate links
2. It is an important factor in our
search engine rankings
– The more links the more important
we are for search engines
–
CHECK YOUR LINKS AT
www.linkpopularity.com
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94. The SEO Process and
Domain Authority (DA)
Do on page SEO work first – then a ranking check to see where you
are positioned
The only remaining variable to improve to increase rankings is your
domain authority
What is domain authority (DA)?
– what is yours?
– What is your competitors?
DA is mainly a function of backlinks into your site ( and domain age
to a certain extent)
The gap between your DA and your competitors DA can be closed
by link building
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97. Natural links are a by-product of
good content marketing…
Attracting links via your blog
Distributing press releases
Article distribution (careful!)
News stories
Social media bookmarking sites
Etc, etc
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99. Link Building Post Penguin
Don’t buy links
Don’t contract with link builders who use link
farms
Don’t get involved in comment spam on blogs
and forums
Don’t build too many multiple links from the
same ownership sites
Don’t use the same ‘anchor’ text over and over
again
Do see…
– http://www.janklin.com/blog/bid/138606/Li
nk-Building-Post-Penguin-Best-Practice
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100. Where do links come from?
www.touchgraph.com for link targets
Directories
– General
– Industry specific
– Some free some paid for
Strategic Partnership links
Reciprocal links
In newsgroups and other forums
Portals
– Geographic
– ecommerce
In Blogs
Banners
Affiliates
Social Media sites
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101. Europages – An Effective European
Business Directory
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105. Where do these links come from?
PR (‘Public Relations’) Sites
PR Directories
Examples
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PRWeb
PR World
Marketwire
Business Wire
PR Newswire
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106. Ensure Press Releases get Anchor text based
links back to website
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107. www.dgcos.org.uk
Using
Logos/accreditations to
get backlinks
Logo gets sent to
accredited members to
afix to their website
Code is included within
the logo with ‘anchor
text’ based link back to
website
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108. Use fusion tables in google docs to
visualise competitor links
http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home/
example
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111. Redesigning an existing website Preserving Page Rank
The inner ‘Page Rank’
equity has to be preserved
5th item down is
www.bodycote.com/?OB=1 –
20
– This page has a Page Rank
value of 5
What will happen to this equity
when a new page is set up?
Search Engine friendly
redirection of each page is
essential
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112. Search Engine friendly
Redirection -301’s
301 redirects tell google bot that one page should
be permanently redirected to another page AND
transfer the Page Rank equity
Use to transfer page rank from old page to a new
one
Jan’s blog – how to do 301’s
– http://janaklin.blogspot.com/2007/08/changing-yourwebsite-and-search-engine.html
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114. SEO and Social Media
Social media sites show up in
search results (Google
Universal Search)
Social Media activity is a signal
to search engines
Social media and content
marketing naturally build links
Google Plus now firmly
integrated with search
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115. Alexa.com – top sites worldwide
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116. See the top visited sites around
the world – 120 countries – top 100 sites
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117. Social Media and International
Marketing
Important in its own right – Facebook, Twitter,
Youtube, Google Plus, etc
Has an increasing impact on Search engine
rankings and search engine listings
Using Social media for English language
engagement – for overseas markets
Issues in using social media for foreign language
engagement – language, culture
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118. Is Social Media relevant to your
international marketing?
Specially relevant to ‘BRIC’ countries …see….
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064597/InternationalSocial-Media-Marketing-Addressing-Cultural-Quirks
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120. What can we use Social Media for?
Brand awareness
Brand advocacy
Generating traffic and sales
Customer service and information
Customer support
Typically not at the ‘selling’ end of the funnel
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121. Sales Funnel and
Inbound Marketing
No interest
Accepts that we want to
communicate with
people at each stage of
the process
Accepts that people
respond to different
media at different stages
Accepts that ‘the more
we give the more we get’
Content Marketing
– Blogging, S Media,
whitepapers, ebooks,
email newsletters…
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123. A typical blog….
Put your blog at the epicentre of your
social media and web marketing
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124. Benefits of a Good Blog
Good way to keep in touch with your audience
– Rss, email, bookmarking
Integrated Blog (eg Wordpress) helps with SEO
– Long tail, links
Search engine compliant
– Metatagging automatic
– Textual content
– Adds authority
Your bridge to Social Media Marketing
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126. Social Networking sites
(eg Facebook)
Submit to
article sites
Syndicate content to
other blogs
Microblogging sites
(eg Twitter)
Video sites
(eg YouTube)
Your Blog
-articles
-Press releases
-Lessons
-reviews
-guides
……
PR sites
(eg PRweb.com)
RSS to others
Social Bookmarking sites
(eg delicious.com )
Email to contact
database
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127. A passion for Dinosaurs…
http://blog.everythingdinosaur.com/
Blogs every day
Auto linked with Social
media – FB, YouTube etc
Posts also distributed to
article sites and other
relevant sites (1700+)
Over 50% of web traffic
attributable to blog
Keyphrase list for main
phrases and ‘longtail’ used
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131. Facebook and Marketing
Over 950 million active
users
Adding users at the rate of
250,000 per day
Top Social Search Engine
Largest Social media site
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132. What can I do on Facebook?
Set up a business page
– Build a fan base, get found by search
Advertise directly
Set up a personal page
Engage in discussion groups and networks
Through interaction and engagement
– Create brand awarness, build advocacy, generate traffic
and sales, customer service, research /data
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134. Business Pages- Develop your
visibility
Create an engaging business
page
– Events, videos, discussions,
photos, blog articles
Get found by search
– based on content and number
of ‘fans’
– Get people to ‘like’ you
Build your fan base
– Email your contact database
– Link in your email signature
– Link to your website or blog
– Advertise!
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136. Advertise Directly
Target by gender,age, location,
keywords…
Use ‘pay per click’ or ‘pay per view’
– Low click through rates so PPC best
Use Google Adwords content targeting
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137. Google Plus – Serious Facebook
competition?
350 million users now signed up
Similar functionality to FBook
Google hangouts – video
conference calls
‘circles’ concept is a differentiator
Best of Facebook, Twitter and
LinkedIn?
Intertwined with Google search
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138. Use ‘circles’ to segment your
audience
Eg have a circle for
training course
attendees
people who have
signed up for email
newsletters
People interested in
Social Media
marketing
people interested in
SEO, etc
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139. Cloggs ,Social Media and Brand
Development
Helps with search engines
Started Sept 2009
3 in house members of marketing team
– plus all staff encouraged to tweet
Daily activity on Facebook and Twitter
Encourage people to ‘share’ – ie
post references on their walls
Encourage people to retweet
To date have around 43000 fans, and
10000 followers
Do weekly blogging
Traffic conversions from web visitors slightly higher than search marketing
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140. Cloggs and Social Media
Use quizzes and competitions to engage
fans and fans fans – eg ‘Edgerank’
Encourage people to follow/like them in
return for getting regular offers and
promotions – and advance product
information, discount codes etc
Use social media to enagage and interact
with their customers – offers, problems ,
etc
Use social media also for email database
sign-ups
Only generates less than £30k per month
Need to scale it to 100,000 plus followers
fans for it to be major contributer – and
they plan for this to happen
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141. What determines what I see in my
‘top news’ feed? – Edgerank Algorithm
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142. My last visit to Facebook
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144. Edgerank Algorithm
95% of Facebook users use ‘top news’
– Clearly if you want top visibility for your brand
you need to understand ‘edgerank’
Egderank based on: Affinity, Edge weight, recency (so post
often)
‘Edges’ are every interaction you have on
Facebook
– Eg – uploading a photo, ‘liking’ something etc
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145. Lots of ‘likes’ but how important is that?
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146. Lots of interaction to engage fans,
increase affinity and increase sales
Encourage interaction
Add free downloads of vids and
music
Competitions (eg tickets to
shows) to engage fans and
their friends
Vids and music have high edge
weight
Posting twice a day for recency
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149. Cloggs also use Pinterest….
400 followers ,72 boards for brands, 1442 pins
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150. LinkedIn
50 million users in Europe, Business
focussed
Set up a profile
– And get found
Set up connections with other people
Advertise – on a PPC basis
Jobs
– Search for jobs, advertise your cv, advertise
your position via your network
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152. Set up your Linkedin profile
-make it comprehensive so you get found
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153. Set up a business page
-Showcase your products
-Company updates
-announcements
-new services
-communicate directly with your followers
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154. Linkedin Lessons for free!
Learn how to become a LinkedIn marketing expert at
www.janklin.com/blog
Lesson 1:The Foundations – setting up an effective profile
– http://www.janklin.com/blog/becoming-a-linkedin-power-userpart-1
Lesson 2: Understanding the difference between LinkedIn Company
Pages and Facebook Fan Pages
– http://www.janklin.com/blog/understanding-linkedin-companypages
Lesson 3:How to use the latest features in LindeIn to get sales leads
Lesson 4: How LinkenIn can really help your SEO
Lesson 5: How LinkedIn Groups can help you grow your business
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155. Advertise – on a PPC basis
Target By: -
Job Title “Patent Attorney” or
“Sr. Laboratory Technician” or
"Registered Nurse“
Job Function “Sales” or
“Engineering” or "Marketing"
Industry “Banking” or
“Biotechology”
Geography “United States” or
“Netherlands” or “Toronto”
Company Size "1-10" or “5001000" people
Company Name "GE" or or
"FedEx“
Seniority – Age 35-55
Gender "Female" or "Male“
LinkedIn Group "Business
Intelligence Group" or "Corporate
Real Estate"
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156. Twitter - Microblogging
Twitter and
promotion
Twitter and real
time search
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157. Twitter and Promotion
Promotion of your
products, websites,
events…..
140 characters BUT
links back to more
detailed content
Link your Blog to
Twitter to save time
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158. Use Twitter to promote latest
music and games
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159. Use Twitter to promote latest
products and pricing
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162. What not to do?….
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163. Twitter for Business Leads
Searches for tweets
relating to pitch
marking
Responds to
situations requiring
product supply to
generate business
opportunities
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165. Twitter for Business Leads
Searches for tweets
relating to play
equipment
Responds to
situations requiring
product supply to
generate business
opportunities
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166. YouTube and Video
Now the number 2
search engine
Promote your products
via YouTube and other
video upload sites
Include videos within
your own website
Set up you own channel
– you may get invited
to become a partner
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168. www.Blacksheepwools.com
Set up you own channel – you
may get invited to become a
partner
Invite people to subscribe so
they see your videos
automatically as you upload
them
Substantial driver of traffic for
Blacksheep
– 13 videos to date
– Over 100,000 views
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169. Set up your own channel
and optimise your clips…
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171. Video SEO guidelines
-Posted
Ensure video is tagged with relevant keywords
Ensure it is in the most appropriate category
Overdub the video with your domain name
Ensure you include a clickable domain name back to your site
Ensure the title and description include your target
keyphrases (you can use Youtube to see what the most
popular phrases are in your category)
Ideally get a couple of friends to 'rate' your video - ratings
(good or bad) have a strong impact on rankings
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174. Marketing Internationally and the
Web
– Pay per Click Advertising –Module 6
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175. Pay per Click Advertising
(&PPC)
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176. – Search Marketing – Maximising your position in the hitlist
– Click throughs dissipate as we move down the list
33%
of internet
users perceive a
company in the
top search
engine rankings
to be a major
brand
Source:
iProspect
search engine
branding survey
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177. Search in the Travel Business
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178. Search in the Travel Business
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180. What determines your ads position?
Bid price
Advert effectiveness
Landing page quality
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181. WHY USE PAY PER CLICK?
Capture many – 100’s, 1000’s of keyphrases
– No website changes like optimisation
For short term promotions
For new websites
Drive country specific searchers
– Geographic targeting
Keyphrase analysis
– More accurate than the tools
For websites difficult to optimise
– Flash etc
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183. www.villaretreats.com/ru
A series of
Russian
landing pages
for luxury
villas
PPC on
Google and
Yandex
SEO for these
engines also
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184. Capture The Long Tail
Eg’ Health insurance’ versus ‘health insurance for diabetics’, ‘….for over 45 year old men’
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185. Capture the ‘long tail’
-200,000 keyphrases
Targeted
-65,000 alone for boilers
-long tail phrases – ‘worcester
Greenstar 28i junior combi boiler’
-Are cheaper AND convert to
business easier
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187. How pay-per-click works
Title &
Description
Targeting
Search Term
Research &
Targeting
Drives
Quantities
of Leads
Drives
Quality of
Leads
Drives
Conversions
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Landing Page
Targeting
189. Do’s and Dont’s
•Choose titles and
descriptions that are
relevant to the search
•Strong ‘call to action’
•Repeat search terms in
the ad
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190. Do’s and Dont’s
•The ad links directly to the
relevant landing page
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191. Do’s and Dont’s
•Choose titles and descriptions that are
relevant to the search
•Strong ‘call to action’
•Repeat search terms in the ad
•The ad links directly to the
relevant landing page
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192. An Ideal Landing Page…
www.free-employer-advice.co.uk
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193. Landing Pages
Its not just the home
page which needs to
engage your audience
Pages searchers and
browsers land on which
are ‘call to action’ rich
Designed to get visitors
to contact you or buy
from you
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194. An Ideal Landing Page…
www.free-employer-advice.co.uk
-Many ‘calls to action’
-Include words which
reflect what has been
searched for
-eg ‘employment law’
-Build trust
eg customer testimonials
-appropriate images
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195. For a copy of the slides….
Just email – jan@janklin.com
01928 788100
07946 513521
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Editor's Notes
Emphasise the importance of a high listing – pointing out how click throughs degrade as we move down the list
Point out ‘natural’ and ppc listings
The number of monthly searches is obviously an important factor – generally a phrase with high search volume is better to capture than one for which there are not many searches. This is not always the case though if there is high business relevance associated with a particular phrase we may still want to sue it
Because we cant necessarily capture all the phrases we want (we may not have appropriate web pages in our site) some prioritisation is necessary. So, for example, it might be considered more important to give ‘ heat treatment services’ a higher priority than ‘carburising services’ when we do the optimisation. We could always come back to the secondary phrase later. More about this when we discuss implementation in the next module.
Sometimes its difficult to understand a searchers intent when he types in a phrase. For example one word phrases - for example, ‘atmosphere’, ‘oxidising’ and so on – are typically not good phrases to include. This is not always the case as clearly words like ‘carburising’, ‘nitriding’ and so on do have relevance even though they are only single words.
Sometimes phrases can have different or multiple meanings – for example if someone searches for ‘cold treatment’ is he searching for our services or a cure for his medical condition.?
In these case we should rule out the phrase or think how we could make it more specific by changing it
Competition is another factor which is sometimes considered
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Your copy writing in paid search is very important.
Links on other sites will lead visitors to you, hence in its own right it is an important aspect of online marketing leading potential customers directly to your site. Obviously the more links the more different ways leading to your site.
Over and above this it is an important part of search marketing, since the more links you have the more important you are in the eyes of the search engines and the higher up in the rankings you will appear ( we’ll qualify this in more detail as we move through)
There are many different ways to develop external links.
The important point is to have a plan which we can use to develop our ongoing approach to link building. As we move through, particularly the practical exercises later, you will begin to put your own plans for successful link development in place.
In the example here a keyphrase on the site is ‘technical translation’ so ideally the incoming link should include ‘technical translation’ in the hyperlink text. This is optimal for SEO and where we have control (for example when sending details to a reciprocal linking partner) we should ensure this is the case. Of course we do not always have this control – many directories dictate the form of the link.
A good example of a directory for European Businesses – 500,000 businesses in 27 languages.
In the practical exercise you will download the Google toolbar which will allow you to determine the Page Rank of every site you visit. You will also check your own.
This indicator (shown above) is just that, an indicator. Increasingly people are reporting that its accuracy is suspect and that Google may be intentionally giving out inaccurate PRs so its more difficult for people to fathom its algorithm. However it remains an important indicator for most sites but care must be taken not to consider it as absolutely accurate.
There are many PR directories which you will search for in the practical session.
A great way to submit you news stories and at the same time drop your website link (on high Page Rank sites)
Emphasise the importance of a high listing – pointing out how click throughs degrade as we move down the list
Point out ‘natural’ and ppc listings
Emphasise the importance of a high listing – pointing out how click throughs degrade as we move down the list
Point out ‘natural’ and ppc listings