My presentation on the interplay between search marketing and social media; originally prepared for a conference in Singapore. Contributions from Tom Voirol and Mark Kelly
9. Paid media have a role too
Pay Per Click advertising
should play a part
• Search PPC enhances
visibility, especially in
competitive search markets
• Target key product terms
• Defend your brand terms
• Social PPC drives
interactions with your content
•Target key behavioural
segments
•Target friends of fans
27. The key factors that influence rank?
Hat tip to Search Engine Land!
28. The key factors that influence rank?
Things that undermine your ranking
• Poor quality content
• Over optimised content
• Duplicate content / URLs
• Spam and paid for links
29. The key factors that influence rank?
Things on your site that
support your ranking
• Good quality content
• Fresh content
• Titles, URLs
• Schemas
• Technical Setup
• Performance
30. The key factors that influence rank?
Things off your site that
support your ranking
• Authoritative links
• Local relevance
• Social mentions
• Shares, +1s and
‘circling’
This is where social
comes in.
31. Don’t get over
excited!
• Social is not a magic
bullet for your SEO
• It drives new links and
social mentions
• It keeps your brand
front of mind
• And increases your
visibility in search
rankings
33. London Business School
Reading Room helped LBS set up a framework for developing rich targeted content and using it to engage students,
alumni, prospects and the wider business community using an integrated set of social media channels.
34. London Business
School
Let’s take London
Business School
• No.1 for their brand
term
• But that’s not all...
35. London Business
School
• Places listing links to
Gmaps
• If logged in then this
goes to Google+ Local
• Reviews attached to
user’s G+ account
36. London Business
School
Social Profiles
• Twitter, Facebook and
Youtube channels
prominently displayed
in search results
37. London Business
School
• Google + posts also
displayed in RHC
• Blog Post’s, videos,
images and slide
presentations also rank
well
42. Image credit:
http://sailingscuttlebutt.blogspot.co.uk
Anticipate your audience’s needs
43. Make your content ‘spreadable’
Be relevant and create value
If I like your content it’s not because I like
your brand it’s because I like my friends.
Henry Jenkins – Spreadable Media
45. Where to start when creating content
• Start with objectives!
• Who are you trying to reach?
• What are you trying to achieve?
• Where does it fit in the journey?
• What format is best?
• What do you want them to do?
• How will your content support this?
http://blog.eloqua.com/the-content-grid-v2/
49. Create Get
content Apply some
mainstream
traditional
worth media
PR
exposure
sharing
Obtain WOM
Share in Get more reviews,
social social media adding to
networks followers SEO and
reputation
Social
rankings Get inbound
increase links Success!
SEO
62. The challenges
How do I assess What are people Social
search saying about my publishing is
performance? brand? hard work!
How do I keep
Which content
track of
works and why?
everything?
63. The tools of the trade
SEO Social media Engagement
analysis monitoring support
Social media Content
analytics aggregation