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MAKING THE
CASEFOR LOCALSEARCH
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We operate 123 stores in 30 states
Such as our Seattle Flagship Store:
222 Yale Ave. NSeattle, WA 98109
Oooooh, a citation!
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Traffic to our store pagesfrom local organic searchis growing at +25% YTD
%
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It wasn’t always this way
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Just 2 years ago, we weren’tgrowing our organic trafficto local store content at all
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Other priorities
Better opportunities
Right idea, Wrong time
Wrong idea, Wrong time
No budget right now
Who willown it?
This is not what we do
This not howwe do this
Someone else’s job
Someone else’s budget
Someone else’s metrics
Someone else’s fault
It will take too long
ROI can’t be measured
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How do we find this?
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By assigning value to indicators of off-line
activities.
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• Store locator use
• Store page views
• Rentals pages
• Local event pages
• Local class pages
• Local volunteer opportunities
• Links, Likes, Tweets for local content
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They’re all worth something. So make an estimate.
Don’t fall into the trap of making your estimate perfect.
Perfection takes up lots of time and stops good work from happening.
Just be reasonable.
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Use these values to estimate the worth of total off-line activities
Voilà! Now you’ve created a simple
business case
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…and a vocabulary that you can teach
to your organization
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But how do you convince the
HiPPOs?
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Bring in the
BIG GUNS
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We engaged David Mihm to audit our local visibility and help us understand the total landscape of opportunity.
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The result:A prioritized series of changes and optimizations, big and small, that we could pursue.
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chose the SMALL onesand that was ENOUGH
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We used our new “value vocabulary” and
business case to win tiny bits of support
from all our partners
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The low-hanging fruit
of local search, if you will
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We optimized a few ofour <title>s here…
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Wrangled a tiny UX improvement there…
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Ran a quick A/B test onour content here…
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We even ran a tinylocal Link campaign
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Mad props if youknow who Link is!
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Our data-intensive reporting and incremental gains caught the imagination of leadership and garnered further support
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Because they had the vision to be able to see
that this isn’t about SEO.
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It’s about the cross-channel
customer experience.
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A cross-channel story is one that everyone in your organization can support …because it’s all about the
customer, not about you.
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Success often breeds success.Little changes lead to big wins.
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Now our mobile app helps you find our
physical stores
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Now we provide local store product inventory
visibility on our site…
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As well as on Google.
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Now we’re working with an agency to manage our local information across Google properties, IYPs, wayfinding services, etc.
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Now we’re running local/social presences all across the country
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Now we’re running local/social presences all across the country
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Now we’ve marked up our local store content with Schema.org microdata
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Now we’ve got local staff engaged in creating local
media… with our members!
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…is just the beginning.
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Our conclusions:
1. Shrink the change by starting off small
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Our conclusions:
1. Shrink the change by starting off small
2. Use data to tell your story
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Our conclusions:
1. Shrink the change by starting off small
2. Use data to tell your story
3. Don’t chase the perfect at the cost of getting things done
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Our conclusions:
1. Shrink the change by starting off small
2. Use data to tell your story
3. Don’t chase the perfect at the cost of getting things done
4. Seek outside counsel and guidance from experts
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Our conclusions:
1. Shrink the change by starting off small
2. Use data to tell your story
3. Don’t chase the perfect at the cost of getting things done
4. Seek outside counsel and guidance from experts
5. Small changes lead to big wins for you and your customers