How a combination of unique, authoritative content and wise use of community building via social media, along with some understanding of SEO, can help build your personal brand online.

1. Mark Traphagen - Director of Digital Outreach, Virante Inc
Online Brand Building
Power of Personal Authority

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Ain’t About Fame

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Authority

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Trust

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www.zeromomentoftruth.com

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People Trust
Perceived Authority

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Do You Know This Man?

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14. Understanding
Social
SEO

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So What About

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Profiles Have PageRank

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Pages Have PageRank

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Communities Have PageRank

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Google+ Internal PR

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Google+ External PR

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Google+ Fitness &
Nutrition Community
4 Posts on High PR
Blogs
Went from pg. 8 to
pg. 1 for
"fitness & nutrition”
for 3 months!

36. 1 - My Google+ post
2 - Google+ page post
3 - Another Google+
post by me
4 - Share of Google+
post by friend
5 - Home page of site
6 - Inside page of site
7 - Another page of site
8 - Another page of site
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39. Google Authorship
Google+ Authorship Community:
bit.ly/AuthorshipCommunity
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http://bit.ly/AuthorshipCTR

41. Permission
Marketing

42. Permission Marketing
● Communicates with prospects w/o selling
when they aren’t (yet) ready to buy
● Useful instead of annoying (YOUtility)
● Establishes
○ Expertise
○ Authority
○ Trust

43. Why Content Marketing?

44. Banner Blindness

45. How do you stand out…
when everyone is doing the same thing?

46. Thought
Leadership

47. You don’t
need to be the
CEO to be a
leading voice.

48. Meet Lisa Barone

49. Lisa Barone
● Multiple blogs on AdAge’s Power
150
● Featured in New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Inc.
Magazine, Reuters, Intuit, Forbes,
PBS, FOX News
● Contributor and Social Media
Editor for SmallBizTrends.

50. Marcus Sheridan - Sales Lion

51. Awesome doesn’t have to
ask permission.

52. INTERRUPTION!

53. Nobody picks up when they
see this caller.

54. Pre-checking the box is weak

55. Don’t sell until you’ve
EARNED the right to sell

56. You have to be better
Everyone on the web has stuff. Your
stuff needs to be better and more
focused to garner any attention at all.
Generating content because it’s your job
isn’t good enough anymore.

57. Are you paying attention?
● Have you checked your email since this
started?
● How long do you wait before you look at
your phone after it vibrates during a
meeting?
● Are you live tweeting or Facebooking?

58. How do you plan on getting
this family’s attention?

59. Attention is the new currency
You are competing with every other fragment
of life that is demanding your reader’s
attention.

60. Nobody reads the whole page

61. You have 8 seconds
An Associated Press survey conducted in January of 2012 found that the
percentage of page views that last less than 4 seconds was 17%, while
views over 10 minutes was 4%.

63. The Google algorithm and SEO

64. It’s harder to game the system

65. Why it’s harder to game the system
Panda
February 2011

66. Why it’s harder to game the system
Penguin
April 24, 2012

67. So What Works?

68. So What Works?
● Authoritative content
● Natural links
● Active social
engagement

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70. Google Authorship

71. Where is your
eye drawn?

72. More important than ranking

73. Authorship Rich Snippet Result
The byline link shows all of
YOUR content!

74. Authorship
shows all your
content spread
across the web.

75. Author Stats

76. Inbound.org = Free Education!

77. Thank You
Mark Traphagen
Director of Digital Outreach
Virante.org
@marktraphagen