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Blogging to the top of Google. Understanding importance of SEO, how blogging plays a part. How blogging is the core of any marketing strategy. Also all about editorial calendars
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- 1. September 2017 How to blog to the top of Google Jonny Ross @jrc_agency #thrive17
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- 21. jrc.agency | @jrc_agency /jrc.agency On Site How to create an editorial calendar?
- 22. jrc.agency | @jrc_agency /jrc.agency Editorial Calendar sounds so complex… • People think it needs to be fancy and detailed • Two advantages; planning and accountability • There are lots of ways to create an editorial calendar, but let’s keep it simple Editorial Calendar sounds complex….
- 23. jrc.agency | @jrc_agency /jrc.agency Step 1: Make a list of key dates for the year • Product launches • Events / trade shows • Marketing campaigns • Promotions • Holidays • Sporting events • Key milestones • TV Programmes • National Days / Weeks • Charity Campaigns • National Competitions • This date in history Make a list of key dates
- 24. jrc.agency | @jrc_agency /jrc.agency Step 2: Add these to your Roadmap Add these to your roadmap
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- 41. jrc.agency | @jrc_agency /jrc.agency Thought Leadership Blog “A thought leader is a person who identifies trends, common themes and patterns within a particular industry or functional area of expertise to help others identify new opportunities or solutions for growth.” Glen Lopis, Forbes
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- Three main components of any business. Product this is something you’ve trained for Your familiar with, you have a passion for Similarly finance. You either have it or you don’t. And if you don’t you can seek help from financial institutions. Now when we consider sales, we enter the world of marketing which is huge and worldly. And that’s when our problems really begin. w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
- So how do we go about marketing? Everyone is marketing, we are all trying to do lots of different things We are busy bees trying to Stun Shock Startle Surprise Dumfound Stagger Astonish Flabbergast Astound Amaze w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
- In fact is that not all we create… A Maze There are 1000’s of similar websites Everyone is marketing in the same way trying to amaze and stun people into buying their products/services We’re all at it, trying to compete, trying to be better. But all we are doing is creating A Maze w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
- There is a Critical Element to Marketing success It’s a simple 5 letter word, that word is TRUST. When it comes to the decision process, what ever the sales and marketing process at some point we place trust into the equation w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
- So how do you build trust? The answer is EDUCATION Look at Apple's marketing strategy They are straightforward and honest Apple educate you to understand why the product was created, what the features are and how it will benefit you. educating us, developing a relationship and developing Trust w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
- The complete oppotite to the SEO industry! So as I said in this webinar we are going to focus on blogging, however its really important for those that don’t fully get SEO, to understand it but the key to remember is educating user and gaining trust through out this webinar When you mention word SEO, a lot of people instantly think of this Dark art, most SEO agencies say yes we can get You high in Google, give us a load of money and leave it with us Well what I want to do it make SEO far more transparent I believe good search engine optimisation or SEO techniques are the building blocks of a successful website, i.e. one that has a lot of visitors and a high conversion rate. SEO is all about getting search engines to rank your website highly in search engine results when customers type in search terms that relate to your products or services. w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
- So for me SEO is common sense its nothing more than Create great content Ensure this content is accessible to search engines. Make pages unique and relevant Make the content popular
- For me there are two distinct sides to SEO, onsite and offsite Onsite being your own website and offsite being everything else online that has something to do with you w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
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- We are going to talk about sowing the seeds, This webinar is all about BLOGGING. And for me blogging is the core to any SEO or social media Campaign We will cover: Why blogging is great for SEO and Social Media How to use blogging to boost your sales How to write great blogs to introduce your company and your product range How to create engagement How to add value with blogs How to convert your website visitors into customers How to create a following How to come up with ideas and blog titles
- So just to be clear what is a blog? a blog is the same as news or latest news I suppose it’s not called news because it gives the opportunity not just to write about the latest news, its an opportunity to talk about all the aspects of your products and services, to portray yourselves as thought leaders and to bring personality to your brand. Blog is short for web-log: a post – or log – made online. Blogs are a great way of engaging with customers and sharing information. It’s a way to educate your audience all about your products and services It’s your companies latest news An opportunity to show personality To give away advice to your existing client and customers And to engage with potential clients
- So we have seen some examples , but why should you blog? It forces Creativity It builds a community Adds value to your site It gives you content for your Social Media and Email Campaigns Gets you to the top of Google I believe blogs can increase your sales by helping to Overcome barriers to purchase – Online buyers don’t have the opportunity to inspect or talk about products or services before purchase, so the more information you can offer to dispel any concerns or queries they may have, the better. Blogs can be used to explain product or service features and usage, and to show photos and videos of products from every angle.
- For me the Blog is the core of any social media or SEO campaign Blogs provide regular content to share through your other social media sites. The sharable nature of product images is perfect for retail, with sites such as Pinterest seeing huge expansion as consumer demand for visual content has grown rapidly. User-generated content, ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ are now being ranked more highly by search engines, so it pays to invest in social media and blogging. Lets just think for a moment how a blog could be the core of a social media campaign Blogs provide Status updates for Facebook Tweets for Twitter- take a blog with the title “top 5 tips”, well all of a sudden you have created 5 tweets, all with links to the blog, don’t tweet them alll in one go, spread them out over the week/month. Stuck for tweets, go back to blogs from 6 months ago! Updates for Linkedin personal and company profiles Statuss for Google Plus Email campaigns – do you get to start of the month and think, what are we going to put into our email campaing this month? if you have fab blogs, there is your content already written!) They give content for your keywords to be found in Google, search engine optimisatino, you will only be found if you mentino the keyword, and the more times you mentino it the more relevant you are (don’t mention for sake, it must be relevant) A blog should be an integral part of your marketing and comms strategy, but you need to set goals. What are you marketing goals? Need to sell more teenage products, what could we write that would engage with teenagers? Lets give them some information, lets become a resource and during the process, lets build trust with them and let them know what products we have that we could offer them.
- Guest blogging is really key to this too, it’s a free and credible way to spread your brand and build links for SEO back to your site It’s a way to meet new audiences Grow your own community Makes you creatuive and improves your writing Helps develop authority These are just some of the sites I guest blog on, all relevant to my industry and all small to medium business focused.
- So this is all great but how do we come up with content? We need to feed ourselves Subscribe to competitors Subscribe to industry related news and professional bodies Keep notes of questions customers ask you Create Google alerts on niche topics ( this is a great tool simply Google Google alerts and try it out!) Thing about all the products/services you offer Keep a journal/voice recorder Invite Guest blogs from customers Write about your passions? w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
- When blogging, it’s really important to keep in mind who you are talking to,,,, why,, and what both you,, and they,, want to get out of it. Know your audience – Understand who your customer is and what they are interested in. Be clear – are you writing for B2B or B2C? A particular age group? A particular income bracket? What other things are they likely to be interested in? What problems do they have that you can solve? Really get into the mindset of your target customer, and write directly FOR and TO them. Choose your products and themes – Create an Editorial Calendar to plan ahead (we’ll have a look at these next) Tell a story – a good blog should have a clear beginning (introduce your topic, grab the reader’s attention), middle (the meat of the blog – a list of tips, a description of a problem, a funny story etc) and an end (how the problem is solved, what to do next). Call to Action (CTA) – All blogs should have a ‘Call to Action’ – what should the reader do next? Find out more (link to another blog), fill in a form, subscribe to our blog, buy a product, follow us on twitter, like us on Facebook etc. Aim to engage your reader and get them to keep reading, make a purchase or give you some information about themselves to help you connect with them again in future.
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- An editorial calendar will help you to plan ahead, link blogs to seasons and events, and ensure you have a good variety of blog topics to appeal to all your customers and showcase your whole product range. If you have more than one blogger, it also helps you to know who is writing what and to plan submission and posting dates. Make the calendar work for you. Yours might include things like: season; theme; products featured; keywords; target reader segment; date etc. I tend to mention these and people think it needs to be fancy and detailed. There are two main advantages, planning and accountability There are loads of ways of creating one, but lets keep it simple!
- So make a list of key dates for the year, think of your Product launches Events / trade shows Marketing campaigns & Promotions Holidays & Major Sporting events Any Key milestones
- Then simply add these to your road map, this is nothing more than an excel sheet with jan – dec along the top and the categories down the side So we can see valentines day in february for exmaple
- My suggestion is to use a Google spreadsheet, especially if there is more than one of you in the business, this helps share who is going to be writing the content, it gives accountability and it lets you have one document you can all refer to and edit at the same time. It’s a live spreadsheet and it should have Who the author is What the title of the blog is going to be Any keywords that need to be used in the blog What will the call to action be? Make it different each time Any notes And most importantly deadlines Once you have this, I suggest doing a 6 month or 12 month calendar, you don’t need to wait until february and think oh no what will I write about, instead if you get a free hour, write the valentines blog now, it will still be valentines day in february! Of course leave space for topical / news worthy blogs, but I would suggest most blogs can be written well in advance.
- I wanted to share some personal blog experiences with you to help you see how this can fit into your business. One of my marketing goals is to appear high in Google, for this I need to build links with relevant websites, this blog was written on a topical subject about big data, everyone in the digital industry is currently talking about it. I took time to really research what it was all about and throughout the research I formed my opinions from my own experiences and wrote a really informative blog
- Danny Brown lives in Burlington, Ontario. He is a multiple award-winning marketer and blogger – his blog is recognized as the #1 marketing blog in the world by HubSpot and voted one of Canada’s Top 50 Marketing Blogs coming in at the number 3 slot. He has delivered results for some of the biggest organizations in technology, digital and consumer, including BlackBerry, British Telecom, Orange, Microsoft Canada, IBM, Ford Canada, FedEX, Scotiabank, Vodafone, Dell and LG Electronics. He has spoken at numerous business conference and events, and is regularly quoted in publications and news media, including Marketing Magazine, Canadian Marketing Association, Toronto Star, Fast Company and City News Toronto on the topics of influence, social business, data-driven business intelligence and digital marketing. So what happens, he comments on my blog!....... If that wasn’t good enough
- He tweets a link to my blog to 35,000 of his followers…
- It got better…. He wrote another blog the next day and referenced my blog and linked back to it! So not only did my blog get tweeted to 35k people from someone who is extremely influential, I got a well deserved link from a page rank 5, top domain authority blogger!
- You can see the effect the tweet had on my traffic that day, nearly double the average traffic for a week day.
- This one is for another one of my goals this was to open more doors with web design agencies, for me this is a perfect avenue for more work, most say they offer SEO and social media, but most outsource it! I wrote about my frustration with web agencies and whether going for their own content management system is really the best way forward, as too many companies get tied it and find it very difficult to move to a differenct agency at a later date. As you can imagine this turned into a debate, this time on linkedin with lots of designers and developers all having their say, but what happened in the process, I built relationships with them, and am currently working with a couple of them!
- When I set up my business I knew that one of my key services would be to offer paid speaking. Ive understood the power of blogging since 2005 and began bloggin myself in 2007. I knew that blogging was always going to form the core marketing of Jonny Ross Consultancy. It’s a weekly blog on all things digital, all related to my products and services I offer. Its non saley and highly informative, and all blogs are NOT written for SEO, but have SEO in mind. I talked about keywords in the last webinar and the need to work on not just 10 or 20 but hundreds. I have a keyword list of around 1800 keywords. And I always try to see if I can use keywords when I am writing blogs, don’t get me wrong if they don’t feel right in a blog I don’t use them, but if I can I will, ultimately you will only be found for a particular keyword or phrase if its present on your website,. I wrote on online vs offline marketing a couple of years ago, I get a phone call out of the blue, its from a company that will remain namless! But lets just say they are a major player in a particular sector in the UK. I’ve never gone online with this story before, its something we must all remember, the moment you say or write something online it is there forever!! Anyway what they didn’t know is that I hadnbt been paid to speak before and more so I had never spoken on social media publically for more than 5 or 10 minnutes. The call came and it went along the lines of…. Hi, we have just googled online vs offline marketing ( back then I was top for this phrase!!) and you came up top of Google. They then, because I was at the top of Google , made some assumptions….. They said, you have obsiously done a massive amount of reasearch on this topic, I said…. Errr yes pretending I had done more than I ad. You obviously speak at many conferences on this topic…. Errm yes Would you consider speaking at our annual conference in a few months time…. Errm it depends on how much you are willing to pay me!! Anyway 4 months later, I spoke in front of hundreds of delegates and got amazing feedback and have not stopped working with many of the delegates and that particular sector since. I think its quite a succes story and it really simply came from 1 blog post.
- The last story I have was regarding a heated debated on linkedin, the debate was about should you trust the number 1 slot on Google to be the best result and how people cheat Google by buying exact match domains, and multiple domains known as doorway pages. The debate was focussed on SEO companies in Leeds, England where I live, there is a fight for SEO companies to appear top of their home town for some reason and I decided to demonstrate how easy this would be and therefore how meaningless it would be to appear high up for it. Anyway this blog post is one of my most visited blog posts! It probably brings me 25% of my work I took myself from position 84 in Google for SEO leeds to position 3, without doing anything but writing a blog post! It was written over a year and a half ago and still gets comments, the last one being 5 days ago! I firmly believe blogs build relationships, communities, audiences and give you and your brand the opportunity to be one step ahead and reach out to your audience.
- So enough about my stories, I just hope they help make some sense of all of this! Blacks solicitors is a lawyers in leeds, they are amazing on social media, tweeting all the time. The have some fabulous blog writers and amazing content, but one of the issues they had was they couldn’t get engagement with the blog. I was very kindly asked to come and do a blogging workshop for some of the senior partners and lawyers and this was one of the slides I used for the workshop. I am no expert in photoshop but for me this slide helps show some key elements that are required in a blog
- Instantly you can see the entire blog feels more inviting. I guess you are drawn to the images and the sharing, but also the sub heading and bullet points, Let me remind you of the last slide -------- As I said this helped me come up with some key elements for them
- How should the blog look? Beauty is everything Ensure you use images to break up your content Use headings and sub headings Use bullet points Look at how newspapers and magazines present content For SEO, a good blog should be: 650-850 words long 1-2% keyword density Video blogs – 2 minutes or using things like Vine just a few seconds A catchy title – I will come on to this! w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
- Use social proof to make sure we think like sheep Using plugins like Digg Digg we can show how many other people have shared and engaged with the content Use call to actions to get us to do something at the end of the blog If you liked this subscribe for more Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Contact us for more information w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
- Make users feel welcome Facilitate engagement by Asking questions Talk to the reader directly using words like you and yours Encourage comments asking readers to comment below Have an image of your self including your name to allow the user to connect with you personally w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
- Ensure the foundations of the blog and website are sound, going back to my 1st webinar we need to ensure we Optimise meta tags Use Alt Tags for images Add breadcrumbs for users to find their way around Link out to resourceful content Link to your best content w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
- Blog titles are key, your title needs to be inviting, engaging, grabbing and truthful Use the tried and tested formulas Use a number (7 Secrets to success) Teach me (How To Do..) Ask a question (Are you king of twitter?) Talk to me (use you and your) Just say no (Don’t buy this) Use celebs/brands and popular trends (Pizza Express is the winner – Email Marketing) Be controversial Make an unusual association (How Lemons help your HR) w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21
- So how can we be good authors? We should write thought leadership blogs. Glen Lopis from Forbes says “A thought leader is a person who identifies trends, common themes and patterns within a particular industry or functional area of expertise to help others identify new opportunities or solutions for growth.” Showcase product and industry trends to become a respected source of industry information and spark interest in buyers to increase chance of converting them keep customers up to date on the latest trends show how to use different products together tips and tricks on how best to use products problem solving and trouble shooting spark debate with controversial blogs In webinar three, we will pick up the discussions on interactivity and discuss how to use social media to build deep engagement and long term loyal customers/brand ambassadors! w: JonnyRoss.com e:jonny.ross@jonnyross.com tw: @jrconsultancy t: 0113 320 21 21