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In-Depth SEO: Recommendations for B2B Companies Strategies for staying one step ahead of the rest
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Housekeeping Items
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1 Survey the Scene
Understand the current search climate
2 Develop a Winning Content & Marketing Strategy
Follow content best practices to distinguish your voice
3 Measure the Impact
Attribute visitor activity & conversion rates to deals / losses
Webinar Agenda
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1 Survey the Scene
Understand the current search climate
2 Develop a Winning Content & Marketing Strategy
Follow content best practices to distinguish your voice
3 Measure the Impact
Attribute visitor activity & conversion rates to deals / losses
Webinar Agenda
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Source : Webmarketing123 2011 Digital Marketing Survey
Over 500 B2B and B2C marketers indicated that SEO makes the biggest impact in achieving their digital marketing goals
1 What Marketers Are Saying
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Courtesy: SEOmoz
Search engine use is growing rapidly
1 Where Are You Ranking?
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Currently, there are more
than 3 billion
searches/day on Google
Courtesy: SEOmoz
Search engine use is growing rapidly
1 Where Are You Ranking?
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Problem Recognition
Information Search
Evaluation of Alternatives
Purchase Decisions
Purchase
Search marketing aims to broaden and shorten the sales funnel
1 How Search Affects Your Bottom Line
Introducers
Influencers
Closers
A
B
C
- SEO: Broad/generic keyword searches
- Display advertising
- Email marketing
- Social media
- Brand names
- Remarketing
- Search advertising
- Search marketing
- Model numbers
- Branded terms
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1 Create B2B Full Funnel Digital Visibility Understand the sales funnel and how to make it run smoother
Introducer Influencer Influencer Closer
Organic – Non Branded
“CRM Software”
Direct
“Company Name”
Email Marketing Campaign
Direct “Bookmarked”
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1 Why Digital Marketers Need This Full Funnel Digital Visibility
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Insight Tools: Capitalize on terms that drive the most qualified traffic
1 Is Your Site Attracting the Right Audience?
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Evaluate search trends by industry, brand, or demographic
1 Select the Best Keywords with Insights
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Turn to Google’s own data to discover the best keyword opportunities
1 Engage in a Competitive Keyword Analysis
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1 Survey the Scene
Understand the current search climate
2 Develop a Winning Content & Marketing Strategy
Follow content best practices to distinguish your voice
3 Measure the Impact
Attribute visitor activity & conversion rates to deals / losses
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Develop a “mapping” document that targets 3-5 keywords per page
2 Target Keywords To Each Page
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What needs to happen: Google needs to know how your pages fit
together
How to accomplish:
• Carefully structure internal linking
• Create content silos
• Establish crawling pathways through a clear navigation structure
2 Create Content Silos Develop a thematic structure for search engine crawls
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Main Elements Consist of:
a) Page Title
b) Description
c) And sometimes… Keywords
What is it?
2 Use Meta Content
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Main Elements Consist of:
a) Page Title
b) Description
c) And sometimes… Keywords
What is it?
2 Use Meta Content
Facebook Groups: B2B Lead Gen
Keywords in the First or Second Position of the Page Title Have the Highest Impact!
Include descriptive keywords and phrases in page titles
2 Use Meta Content
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• Continue to churn out fresh content for search engine spiders
• Add more content that includes your keyword phrases and is
composed in a natural writing style
• Work to engage your visitors in your products and services:
• Blogs
• Press Releases
• Articles, Whitepapers, and More
2 Reuse Important Content If you have good content, don’t stop refreshing it across your site!
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2 Create Inbound Links Links from other highly relevant websites, back to yours
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Why SEO matters
2 SEO is a Means to an End
Keyword
Rankings
Increased
Traffic
Lead and
Sales
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2
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1 Survey the Scene
Understand the current search climate
2 Develop a Winning Content & Marketing Strategy
Follow content best practices to distinguish your voice
3 Measure the Impact
Attribute visitor activity & conversion rates to deals / losses
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Monitor improvement of your keyword rankings against competitors
3 View Ranking Improvement
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Problem Recognition
Information Search
Evaluation of Alternatives
Purchase Decisions
Purchase
How many visitors do we
get to our site?
What is our ratio of new vs. returning
visitors?
How many people fill out our “Contact
us” form?
What are our most popular webpages?
What is my Average Order Value (AOV)?
What keyword searches led to visitors to
our site?
A few metrics we can track with website analytics programs
3 Use Analytics To Get the Best Reporting
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Filter out “branded” traffic
Measures effectiveness of SEO program
3 Track Organic Traffic
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Set up Goals
• Define conversions for your business goals
• Set your goal values
• Analyze which keywords are leading to more
conversions and work to strengthen them in your
links and content
• Consider removing poor-performing keywords from
your campaign
• Observe where visitors abandon the goal path and
analyze the data to determine why
Ties SEO effectiveness to lead and sales flow
3 Track Goal Conversions
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Measure SEO effectiveness by identifying keywords that drove the best conversions and sales
3 Identify Successful Keywords
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Gauge your ROI by tying analytics & conversion data to closed deals
3 Calculate Your Digital ROI
Allows for 360 tracking from initial keyword search to closed opportunity by uncovering
data from Analytics and CRM into unified view.
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• Identify the specific personality, perceptions, and needs of
your customers through research of online trends and insights.
• Develop a winning content and marketing strategy to
distinguish your business’ presence online against your
competition.
• Measure the impact of your SEO efforts by defining which
keywords drove the most business to your company and your
annual revenue goals.
Key Takeaways
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