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How to Earn Visibility & Links with Content SES London

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http://www.optimising.com.au/blog/googles-penguin-update-pushes-for-user-friendly-content

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“Content marketing” Growth vs. Penguin updates:Source: http://01100111011001010110010101101011.co.uk/2012/11/google-updates-and-search-behaviour-towards-content-marketing/

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Google hates this kind of link building

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Google has more signals on quality than ever

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Your bounce rates (back to SERPs)

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Referring traffic from links

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Referring traffic from social shares

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Your writers’ authority & influence

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Your brand’s reputation

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Correlation shows social has great data – but don’t give up on links yet!http://www.searchmetrics.com/en/white-paper/google-ranking-factors-uk-2012/

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Re-educating clients on quality vs. quantity is hard!2011 Link Building Monthly Report: 2013 Link Building Report:

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You need quality, method & patience to pay off

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Be remarkable…http://www.ted.com/talks/kid_president_i_think_we_all_need_a_pep_talk.html

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Be insightful…

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Be first…http://www.blueglass.com/blog/google-ad-rules/

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Be creative…www.airbnb.com/annual/

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Be creative…

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Be useful…http://www.vouchercodes.co.uk/most-wanted/

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Be useful…

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Be unique… http://wish.co.uk/

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Be unique…

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Be agile…

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Be quick…

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Be prepared to adapt!

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For best outreach results, you need an audience –social media = likes/shares/retweets, but rarely links

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1) Educate your client/boss to focus on the end result & be prepared to learn along the way

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2) Your publish button is your biggest link building weapon

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Useful outreach metric: average links per post

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3) Send Google brand signals they can’t ignore http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/wp-content/who_owns_what.jpg

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(or just make your brand the market leading keyword!)

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4) Your outreach placements generate natural links & co-citations themselves