The Art & Science
of
Building a Great
By Jennifer Sable Lopez
Director of Community at Moz
@jennita
Community.
The Latest
Buzzword?
Why Should I Care
About
Building a
They’re Searching for You

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And Not Just on Google

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They’re Your Customers

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They Review You

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They Share Your Stuff

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http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/chex-muddy-buddies/
Psst… They LINK to You

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http://mz.cm/184s3pi
They Tell Their Friends
About You

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They Stick Around When
You Fail

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They Make Marketing
Easier

COMM
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Ok, Let’s Start
Building!
1. What do you
Want to Achieve?
Start With the
Organization’s Goals

http://moz.com/rand/vision-based-framework/

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Start With the
Organization’s Goals

http://moz.com/rand/vision-based-framework/

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How Can Community
Help Reach The Goal?
Reach an average of 10
comments per post

Increase community
engagement on Google+
by 10%
Create plan for on-site community
engagement
Increase community engagement
on Facebook by 17%.
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Let’s Pick One
Increase community
engagement on Google+
by 10%

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Why is it Important?
Increase community engagement
on Google+ by 10%.

Increased engagement leads to
greater knowledge of inbound
marketing in the greater
community and reaches a
broader marketing audience.

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How Will You Take Action?
How will we increase these numbers?
Post non-Moz content 3x per week
Hang outs!!
Open ended marketing questions
Think about SEO value when publishing G+ posts
Great reference: http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/google-plus-seo

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Talk About These Goals with
Everyone

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2. Make it
Someone’s Job
Internal or External

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Empower Them to Reach
Their Goals

http://socialfresh.com/community-manager-report-2012/

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Give Them the Means to
Take Action

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Make it a *Thing* in Your
Organization

http://mz.cm/1c4MdNp
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3. Find the People
for
Your Community
+ What They Care About
Find what people are
saying about themselves

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Followerwonk

By hovering over a name, you get more info about the person’s engagement, how often they tweet with URLs, as
well as their retweets. This is an excellent way to see if they’re someone who just spits out content, or actually
engages with their followers.

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Followerwonk

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Twitter Search

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Google+ Search

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Google+ Ripples

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Pinterest

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Pinterest – What do specific
people pin?

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Rapportive
Jackpot baby!

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Quora

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What types of questions
do they ask/answer?
Whew.
Now… Engage!
4. Do All The Things
Be a Part of the Community

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Transparency Works Best

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Take it Offline

https://vine.co/v/bP2UI5BJlK0
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You’ll Need to be Consistent

SEOmoz Twitter
May 2009
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Because, Consistency is Key

Moz Twitter
October 2013
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In All Channels

Blog started in 2004.
By August 2005, Rand alone
already had 518 Blog posts.
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Buffer

Schedule tweets +
Review Analytics

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Create a Content Roundup

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Promoting Them =
Promoting You

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Talk About What *They* Care
About

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And What *They* Love

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5. Measure All The
Things
What Are Your KPIs?

Increase community
engagement on Google+
by 10%
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Capture Numbers Weekly

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How Does This Change
Google + Engagement
Month over Month?

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Know How Individual Posts
Do

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TrueSocialMetrics

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What content gets
the
best engagement?
On Facebook – Using
Insights

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In May 2013… We
weren’t paying attention

We were posting
more links…
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But our photos had
better engagement!
How about today?

Well, we post
more photos!
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Plus we started
adding just text posts
And Twitter?

What gets
retweeted?

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Content w/ the
most reach
Well hello, Google+

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Why Care About the
Negatives?
Followerwonk
Spammers or real
people?
Facebook Unlikes?
What happened here?

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Too many posts?

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6. Test All The
Things
Such as…
What’s the best time of

day to
_____?
Send a Tweet?
Tweet #2
Tweet #1

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When are you active?
Tweet #2
Tweet #1

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You can also use Twitter
Analytics

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Post to Facebook?

“The average number of your fans who saw any
posts on Facebook by day of the week.”
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A wee bit more helpful?

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Try PageLever Now
Notice a trend?
Or SimplyMeasured

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Publish a Blog Post?

Publishing time
2-3am Pacific
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Test a Different Time

Publishing time
~Midnight Pacific
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When do you get the
most clicks?

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A Good Place to Start

http://blog.bufferapp.com/best-time-to-tweet-post-tofacebook-send-emails-publish-blogposts
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Set your goals
Make Community a
priority

Know your people
Be human and care
Building
Community
A bit of Science, a
Thank You

Jennifer Sable Lopez
Director of Community at Moz
@jennita
jen@moz.com
Free/Freemium
Bitly https://bitly.com/
Tools Mentioned
Buffer https://bufferapp.com/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/insights/

FollowerWonk
https://followerwonk.com/

Simply Measured
http://simplymeasured.com/
Paid Tools
SocialEngage
Mentioned
http://www.exacttarget.com/products/socialmedia-marketing

SproutSocial
http://sproutsocial.com/

Unified

(aka PageLever)

http://www.unifiedsocial.com/platform/insight

The Art & Science of Building a Great Community - Jen Sable Lopez