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Web MarketingSearch Engine Marketing (SEM) - Presentation
Paul ClarkInternet Strategist
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Paul Clark – Internet Strategist
“Stand Out in a Crowded Space”
“Introduction”
Paul Clark is an internet strategist. Since 1995, Mr. Clark has beenproviding internet marketing, and information technology solutions to organizations.
Mr. Clarks past experience has included working with government andlaw enforcement agencies, real estate firms, mortgage companies, law firms, internet service providers, engineering firms, public policy research companies, and educational institutions.
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“Stand Out in a Crowded Space”
Benefits of Internet Marketing
Easier to segment and target market
Niche marketing creates high ROI opportunities
Interactive opportunities – higher conversion rates
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Paul Clark – Internet Strategist
“Stand Out in a Crowded Space”
Four Elements of Internet Marketing
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Link Building (LKB) Paid Search Marketing (PPC) Social Media Optimization (SMO)
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What is (SEO) Tactics to get high natural search
rankings for keywords that are important to your business
Significantly increase targeted traffic to your website
Not social media marketing, link building, or paid search marketing
Business process that discovers cost efficient social media marketing strategies
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What is Paid Search Marketing (PPC) Pay Per Click (PPC) is a
search marketing pricing structure, where advertiser pays the publishing site/engine each time a prospect clicks on his ad
Larger Budget = More Traffic Easily Geo-target Visitors
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What is Link Building (LKB) Links pointing to your site from other relevant sites, denotes the
importance of your site to search engines Relevant links drives targeted traffic directly to your site Tactical methods include industry related article distribution,
presentation distribution, social bookmarking, directory submission, posting responses on other blogs, forums, Social Media Press Releases and question and answer portals
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What is Social Media Optimization Communicate with and gain insights from target
customers Social media provides tremendous reach at a
fraction of the cost of traditional marketing methods
Create awareness and buzz around your brand, service, or product
Include, RSS feeds, blogs postings, news forums, social bookmarking, social networking, video creation, optimized press release.
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“Stand Out in a Crowded Space”
What are Natural Rankings
Natural unpaid search engine results.
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Why Are Natural Rankings Important 39% of searchers think that companies with high search engine
rankings are the best in their field People using search engines click on natural results 86% of the
time 70% of searchers only look at the first page of search results 45% of users click on the top search result Only 8% of searches go past the 3rd page of results
-iProspect, (April, 2008)
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5 Critical Factors of High Ranking SEM Campaign (30 days)
1. SEO Planning, and Strategy2. Index inclusion and coverage3. On-page optimization
Social Media Marketing Campaign4. Link-building (internal and external)5. Social Media Marketing
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Factor 1: SEO planning and strategy
Develop a structured plan to evaluate and improve SEO Goal Setting Competitor Benchmarking Keyphrase Analysis
– Keyword discovery– Gap Analysis– Selection
Tracking and improvement process
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“Stand Out in a Crowded Space”
Factor 2: Index Inclusion Site submission – including search engines and directory inclusion Dynamic XML Site Map Generation and Submission Evaluating robot indexing activity - use of Robots.txt Domain strategy – approaches to distribute content including domain
variants, sub-domains, geolocation, and canonicalization Google sandbox effect, content freshness, content duplication and
link velocity Indexing of dynamic content including problems with URL rewriting
and Session ids
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“Stand Out in a Crowded Space”
Factor 3: On-page optimization Keyphrase factors
– Keyphrase factors include keyword density, relevancy, synonyms and position
Page markup factors– Page markup keyphrase factors including syntactical accuracy, HTML/CSS
page code structure, <title> tags, <meta> tags, <a href=> hyperlink tags and <img> alt tags.
Relevancy Searching– The most basic test of relevance is the number of times the search phrase
appears on the page
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Factor 4: Link-building Link Building is the process of creating inbound links to
ones own website. – Link building helps in getting quality traffic from relevant sites
which increases traffic, sales, and brand awareness– Link building helps in creating awareness, visibility and
credibility of your site– The site also obtains wider search engine exposure.– Popular sources include blogs, forums, press releases, user
generated content
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Factor 5: Social Media Marketing (SMM) Social Media Marketing is designed to
help companies create a brand, market their products and services and manage their online reputation through social networks
Tactical methods include, corporate blog management, micro-blogging, social bookmarking, social news, video & photo sharing, online press release, wikis, forums,
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Resources http://www.virante.com/seo-tools/duplicate-content.php
http://www.copyscape.com/
Live HTTP Headers add-on for Firefox to check if site is facing duplicate content issue
SEO Book tools – Crawl Test tool and website health check tool
Check Redirects if they are search friendly http://webconfs.com/redirect-check.php
SEO Moz – Crawl Test Tools
http://website.grader.com
Broken Links - Xenu's Link Sleuth and http://validator.w3.org/checklink/ Keyword Research Tools:
– https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal/– http://righton-nobull.com/free-seo-tools/
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“Stand Out in a Crowded Space”
Thank you!
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