Social Media & Search Engines Presentation by Xavier Buck 17.03.2011.

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Transcript of Social Media & Search Engines Presentation by Xavier Buck 17.03.2011.

How did/do Search Engines influence my businesses and how do I influence them.

Today we will cover

• Social Media– Stats & Trends– Key Players– Benefits, Risks & How to

• Drive Traffic to your Website– Search engines, PPC Ads, Organic Indexation

• SEO abc, Domain, Backlinks, – Affiliate– Social Media

The big three

Twitter (max 140 characters messages)

Like Button on website

Business Benefits

• Cost effective web updates

• Greater control of your web content

• Boosted organic Google listings

• Cost reduction on printed materials

• Strengthens networked connections

• Collaborative knowledge sharing

What can it do?

• Greater access marketing materials

• Greater reach marketing materials

• Facilitates word of mouth sharing

• Enables viral sharing

• Increases repeat business

Should you & what are the Risks

• Not enough followers / friends harm your brand• Globalisation of information moving faster than

you can.• Uncontrolled and inappropriate pro-active posts

(Chose your advocates carefully)• Inefficient reactive posts• Inability to identify and react to key stakeholders

Where to start?

Listen- Google Alerts- Tweetdeck- RSS

- Create a process

- Follow through

Drive Traffic to your site…

Traffic

Paid Search “PPC” Top and Right

Pay Per Click the fastest, most measurable way to drive traffic to your website

Paid Search “PPC” focus on

conversions

Search Engine

Optimization “SEO”

72% of People prefer to click on the ‘free’ or ‘natural’ search results

The ABC’s of SEO

A = ArchitectureClean code,

internal links, add a ‘site map’

B = Backlinks60,352 Links TO the site

Ron Jackson

Lists = great ‘Link Bait’ a reason for people to link to

your site

C = Content Keyword ResearchGoogle, Word Tracker or Keyword Discovery

Search Engine Optimize pages on your site. Add Keyword Phrases toFirst Paragraph, Middle and End

Add Meta Tags: Title, Description, H1, Alt Tag (‘view source’ reveals code)

SEMRush.com Measures Search SuccessTerms listed on the first 2 pages of Google

SEO

“Affiliate Marketing”affiliates send traffic

to your site as a virtual sales force

Amazon ‘affiliate’

code

“Affiliate” MarketingSolutions

SEO Banner

Advertising and eMail

Banner Advertising

(Test this through Google

AdSense)

eMail Marketing

Groupon.com is a huge success

SEO

Social Media

Facebook ‘Fan Pages’ business profiles. Also come up in Google

search results.

Protect your Facebook ‘Domains’ Dolphin Encounters fan page is at

www.Facebook.com/DolphinEncounters

Facebook Advertising

It is simple to set up Facebook Advertising

Target by demographics and ‘likes’. Go from 500 Million to precise target

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Test different ads

Twitter.com/DellOutlet has sold millions of dollars of

refurbished computer goods

YouTube is the #3 Website and #2 Search Engine!

Blendtec has had 100 Million video views!

AskTheBuilder.com’s Tim Carter has used YouTube

search results to drive traffic!

• Build it , by thinking in Keyword•Domain Name• Content• Backlinks• Drive traffic (Search, Affiliate, Social)• Create a ‘relationship’• RSS, Social Media, Facebook Likes

Conclusion on How to Benefit from Search Engines and Social Media

Tip: Domain Name & BacklinksKeyword Domain Name (analyze what people search for and get the domain)Backlink Structure (use your industry keywords in Backlinks)

Tip: ToolsFind out how people search!https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternalhttp://SEMRUSH.com

See if domain available (primary or secondary market)http://Domaintools.comhttp://sedo.com

Check your international Google ranking via http://SEMRUSH.com

Tip: BooksRework (author: Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)Marketing in the Age of Google (Vanessa Fox)

“ Don't add technology to the way you do things; Change the way you do things when you see what the technology can do. ”

Thank you

Presentation available under: http://bit.ly/xbuck17

Xavier Buck [email protected] xavierbuck.com