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Integrating SEO into the Wider Marketing Mix James Carson, Head of Digital Marketing, Bauer Media

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Integrating SEO into the Wider Marketing MixJames Carson, Head of Digital Marketing, Bauer Media

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Bauer and [email protected]

@mrjamescarson

facebook.com/jacarson

uk.linkedin.com/in/jacarson85

www.jamescarson.co.uk/socialsearch

Always up for linkage!

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SEO Could Exist in a Silo

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Major Developments

2011

Google Panda

February 2011

Google+June 2011

AuthorshipAugust 2011

2012

Google Penguin

April 2012

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Panda

www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/more-guidance-on-building-high-quality.html

www.pandalized.com

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Google+

www.google.com/insidesearch/features/plus/

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Penguin

SPAM

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Favouring Big Brands?

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Like it or not, SEO has changed and its future relies upon a complex relationship with content marketing, social media, and collaborative technology.searchenginewatch.com/article/2144350/Future-of-SEO-Change-Convergence-Collaboration

@andybetts1searchenginewatch.com/author/1750/andy-betts

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To be an effective social media marketer, you must understand content, analytics and SEO. To be a great SEO, you need social media, content marketing, analytics and CRO skills. The "specialist/generalist marketers" - those who excel at a particular facet but have competence in all of them - are best poised to win in the upcoming decade of marketing.

www.seomoz.org/blog/the-brand-of-seo-and-the-trend-of-inbound-marketing

Inbound Marketing..?

@randfishwww.jamescarson.co.uk/socialsearch/2012/05/08/inbound-marketing-fun

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No Longer Just Rankings...

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RIP

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Content Marketing Model

Content

Outreach

DesignDevelopment

Analytics

www.jamescarson.co.uk/socialsearch/2012/03/01/inbound-model/

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Example…

Content

Outreach

DesignDevelopment

Analytics

www.jamescarson.co.uk/socialsearch/2012/03/01/inbound-model/

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Purchase Path

User Journey

Analytics

Outreach

Content

Development

Direct/Search

User

Website

I haven’t found what I’m looking for

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• Keyword Analysis• Competitor

Analysis• Brand Analysis• Market Research• Website Analysis

Analytics

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Google Analytics (or otherwise)

SEOmoz API

Hyperion / Sales Email / CRM

Social Media APIs

www.jamescarson.co.uk/socialsearch/2011/11/08/data-driving-integrated-marketing-departments

Unify Your Data

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• Information Architecture

• User Experience• URL Structure• HTML5 / CSS3• Content

Management System

• Responsive Design

Design/Development

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www.closeronline.co.ukwww.closerdiets.com

www.fhm.comwww.fhmdates.com

Classic Problem

Consolidate where possible

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• News Articles• Stock Guides• Product Pages• Infographics• Video

Content

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www.thomson.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/infographic/interactive-music-map/index.html

How Music Travels

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• Email• Social Media• Link

Building• PR• Advertising

Outreach

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Brewdog

Tactical Nuclear Penguin 2009 – 32%

The End of History2010 – 55% Never Mind the Anabolics

2012 - 6 Banned Substances!

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Who Does What?

Design/Development

Analytics Content

Outreach

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Which Are You?

www.perthnow.com.au/fun-games/left-brain-vs-right-brain/story-e6frg46u-1111114517613

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Stakeholder Management

journalists, writers, video editors, designers, marketers (or just anyone!)

sales, marketers, PR, brand managers

developers, designers

analysts, marketing research

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Make Yourself (or SEO) Redundant

www.ousbey.com/blog/make-yourself-redundant

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Workshops & Meetings (Lots of Them)

#vomitstockimage

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Social Media Integration

Social Profile

Larger Social Profile

Even Larger Social Profile

Destination Website

Data Capture/Polling

Comps, ads, engagement

Comps, ads, engagement

Referral traffic

Referral siteLinks

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Cross Platform Integration

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[email protected]

@mrjamescarson

facebook.com/jacarson

uk.linkedin.com/in/jacarson85

www.jamescarson.co.uk/socialsearch

Always up for linkage!