Social media and SEO go hand in hand. This was an 1 1/2 session I gave at the Social Media and A Cappella Conference (#smacc2011) on April 2, 2011. Twitter: @shinng. Email: marketingshindig[at]gmail[dot]com
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Social Media and SEO: The Impact of Social Media Marketing on Search
1. SOCIAL MEDIA AND SEOThe impact of social media on search with Nick Shin @shinng April 2, 2011
2. Please live tweet! Highly encouraged… Use hashtag#smacc2011 Adding my Twitter handle @shinngwill allow me to connect with you easier!
3. What we’ll cover (1) Benefits of social media and SEO (2) Social media strategy framework (3) Best practices and tips in social media optimization What I’ll be blabbing about before the good stuff… Me (just for a couple minutes) A few stats - the “token” slides
4. Blah, blah, blah I love what I do and am constantly learning in this evolving industry.
31. (2) Create a Goal with Measurable Objectives GOAL: -“Through the engagement of social media communities, our goal is to increase brand identity”
32. (2) Create a Goal with Measurable Objectives Be SMART about your OBJECTIVES: -“Increase the ratio of positive mentions to negative mentions by 50% in 6 months” -”Increase referral traffic to website by 25% using social media tactics by the end of the year
33. Create a Goal with Measurable Objectives Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic/relevant Timely SMART
63. Recap Benefits of social media and SEO Implementing a 5 step social media strategy framework Best practices and tips in social media optimization
64. Thank you! Any questions? Nick Shin (@shinng) Online Marketing Strategist (SEO, social media, PPC, web analytics) marketingshindig@gmail.com http://www.marketingshindig.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasshin http://www.slideshare.net search for user ‘shinng’ http://www.twitter.com/shinng
65. Resources SEO resources http://www.mattcutts.com http://www.searchengineland.com Social media resources http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com http://www.mashable.com Stats http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/7027-20-stats-you-might-not-know-about-user-search-behaviour
83%, that’s the percentage of those who use search engines to find specific products or brands according to econsultancy. SEO matters.
According to econsultancy, 80% use search engines before purchasing online while 76% use search engines before purchasing offline. SEO Matters.
According to Twitter, it took 3 years, 2 months and 1 dayfrom the very first Tweet to the billionth Tweet
Now it only takes users 1 weekto send a billion Tweets. The rapid use of Twitter by companies, celebrities, and as a way to communicate across the world is evident now more than ever. Just mind boggling to me…
Last year a new Tweets per second record was set at 456 when Michael Jackson died on 6/25/2009.
A new tweets per second record was set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day 2011 at 6,939.proves how fast social media has been growing for the past year and that social media is and will continue to be a core piece to the majority of companies and industries.
who cares
To put it into a bit of context, roughly 1 million new LinkedIn members signed up each week, which is the equivalent of a rate faster than one member per second. This proves that more and more professionals are joining LinkedIn to be connected. Networking is and always will be the most powerful relationship builder and LinkedIn facilitates this.
According to YouTube, more video is uploaded in 60 days than all 3 major US networks created in 60 years. YouTube is a vital part of those who find the need to participate in social media.
Push=social media; pull=SEO. You want to have a combination of both in your mix.
Branding visiblitytrafficinbound links
Most major social network sites are nofollowed.
More content to optimize beyond your websiteTake up more real estate in SERPsSearch engine reputation management
Search engines do actually follow the links and index the web pages they are referring toSome people think that they also do actually pass along link juiice
More online awareness of your brand leads to more mentions, which leads to more searches for your brand and more visitors to your site. Links on social media sites may help content get indexed by search engines faster
Tactics=social media networks like Twitter, FB, LI, etc
SEO friendly while being catchy=ideal
Extension of headline.
To organize and group keywords within internal search engines on social media networks (not Google, Yahoo, etc). This matters.