Discovering traveler intent
through social and search
Webinar
27 August 2013
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Kevin May
Editor & Moderator
Gene Quinn
CEO & Producer
Your hosts
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Ryan Gibson
VP of Marketing
RKG
Your panelists
Sarah Kennedy Ellis
Director
Sabre Labs
Discovering traveler intent through search and social
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Search & Social
 Organic is not Dead!
 Know Your Audience (And Your Goals)
 Data Insights to Drive Content
 Content For Your Audience
 Search or Social? Search + Social
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…Still Quality Traffic
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Search Cannot Be Overlooked
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No Matter The View
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Understand Your Travelers
Duane Hanson: Traveller
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What do they want to do? How will you help them?
Focus On Your Audience
 Are you even talking with the right people?
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What should your Brand stand for?
What are your goals
 Key goals of your organization?
 Why does your company exist?
 What are you company values?
 What types of user behavior show that audiences are
connecting with your site and finding the content valuable?
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Why Should Your Audience Care?
 What problems are you solving for your
customers?
 How can they differentiate you from your
competitors?
 What is valuable about your online
presence.
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Identify Key Audiences
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Audience Description Engagement/
Conversion
Motivation
Business Traveler
looking to make the
most of her time on
business trips
Wants to obtain
assistance and advice
on options related to
their next meeting in a
remote city
Request information for
specific locations and
venues that best suits
their meeting
The best choices are
made clear
Lots of detail about the
different paths and how
to pick the right one
Busy Working Mom
planning a family
getaway
Has teenage children
who she wants to
please. But she can’t
spend a lot of time in
planning the trip.
Gather trip information
and ideas with relevant
recommendations to
present to her family.
Provides fast, popular
recommendations to
safe and secure
locations. It’s not
expensive and she feels
accomplished choosing
a trip everyone likes.
This is what
your audience
wants.
This is what
you want.
This is how you can
compel your audience
to do what you want
(and make them happy
at the same time).
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Searcher Personas
Develop Customer Personas
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Sally Vacation
Sally is always looking toward
the next time her family can take
a trip. Busy working, she takes
cues and recommendations from
her friends on Facebook as a
catalyst to start looking for her
next vacation….
Most of her research starts on
mobile devices as she’s waiting
in lines or on the train on the way
to work…..
Topic Queries
Family Vacation Spots
within driving distance
“cheap weekend
vacations”, “family vacation
packages”
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Focus is on your audience
Work To Booking
What audiences search
for
Market research,
email open rates,
on-site behavior,
demographic and
psychographic
data…
Search
Page
content
BOOKING
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What Your Audience Wants (UX)
Social
engagement
Who Your Audience Is
What audiences talk about
Where Your
Audience Is
Email, home
page….
What you want
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Search vs. Social?
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Social & Search are intertwined
Search + Social
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Search Social
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Search + Social
Connected by Content
ContentSearch Social
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Content Social
Content Must be Social
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Content
Social
Searchable
Content Must be Searchable
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Content
Social
SearchableScalable
Content Must be Scalable
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Content
Social
Searchable
Scalable
Sincere
Content Must be Sincere
Content Community Digital
Visibility
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By direct referrer
Most Productive Social Platforms
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Photos garner the most interactions
Most Engaging Content
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Airlines Hotels, Resorts
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Search + Social
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G+ Matters
Your audience uses
Google
That makes Google+
important
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G+ Leads Twitter
Personal Images
Personal Results
Personal + Social (G+)
15% - 50%
Increase in CTR
Standing out in the SERPs
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Authorship
10% - 40%
Increase in CTR
Content + Trust + Relationships
Frequent Updates +
Unique Content =
More Digital Visibility
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First, Last & ALWAYS!
Focus on Your Customer
 Understand your customers’ goals
 Understand your business goals
 Let Data Drive Content Development
 Focus on Content Benefiting Your Audience
 Leverage Social Signals in Search to expand your overall
Digital Visibility.
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Replay and presentation from today’s webinar
will be available at www.tnooz.com
Please send your questions to
kevin@tnooz.com

Discovering traveler intent through search and social

Editor's Notes

  • #25 If you look at those 4 S’s; social, searchable, scalable, and sincere and you create content around that, content that people do want to say, “Hey.  Look at what I found,” content that’s tagged appropriately and put in the right places so it can be found or searchable, Not content that’s one-off and that costs a brand a fortune, but content that can be scaled and content that is true to the brand, then you have something powerful.