Raising the Visibility of Your Brand
Integrating Search
Marketing and Social Media
Is your digital marketing
 working hard enough?
Don’t bury your head in the sand
• Things have moved on
• Social Media and Search
  Marketing should no longer
  be treated as separate
  activities.
Digital channels work harder when
         they work together
“The website is dead: Long live the
 multi-channel digital eco-system”
Content
 is the
 key to
success
Together they
make your brand
 more visible in
    search
Paid media have a role too
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
Encourage positive social
feedback and drive sales
Its important to respond helpfully to
negative feedback too
Positive     Enhanced
perceptions   findability




 Customer       Better
 advocacy     conversion
The evolution of
social search
Search engines have come
  a long way since 1998
It used to be about spiders
And clever SEO Ninjas
But the internet filled up with junk
Social
  media
 changed
everything
Google Panda was born....
Then there was Penguin!
Search got social
Or is that
  so.cl
It got local too.
People matter more than ever
mobile search is increasingly
  important for brands...
How social fits into
search

In simple terms...
The key factors that influence rank?




           Hat tip to Search Engine Land!
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
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
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.
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
An example...
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.
London Business
     School
Let’s take London
Business School
• No.1 for their brand
  term
• But that’s not all...
London Business
     School
• Places listing links to
  Gmaps
• If logged in then this
  goes to Google+ Local
• Reviews attached to
  user’s G+ account
London Business
     School
Social Profiles
• Twitter, Facebook and
  Youtube channels
  prominently displayed
  in search results
London Business
     School
• Google + posts also
  displayed in RHC

• Blog Post’s, videos,
  images and slide
  presentations also rank
  well
So how can all this
work for your brand?
Listen first,
speak later!
Develop your marketing
                                   infrastructure




http://mashable.com/2011/08/31/social-media-crisis/
Start thinking
like a publisher!
Image credit:
                        http://sailingscuttlebutt.blogspot.co.uk



Anticipate your audience’s needs
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
Talk about the subjects you want
        to be found for.
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?




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Keep it fresh
And don’t forget it is a two way
        conversation
The social cycle
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
So who’s done it?
Meet Dollar Shave Club
Razor blades sent to your
  home for $1 a month
Create content
worth sharing
Share in social
  networks
Social rankings
increase SEO
Get inbound links
Get more social
media followers
Apply some
traditional PR
Get mainstream
media exposure
Obtain WOM
reviews adding to
     SEO and
    reputation
Success!
Tools
Making the most of social & search
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?
The tools of the trade

  SEO        Social media   Engagement
 analysis     monitoring      support


      Social media     Content
       analytics     aggregation
SEO
analysis
http://opensiteexplorer.org
http://seomoz.org
Social media
 monitoring
http://visibletechnologies.com
http://socialmention.com
http://google.com/alerts
http://twentyfeet.com
Engagement
  support
http://namechk.com
http://knowem.com
http://friendorfollow.com
http://tweriod.com
http://bufferapp.com
http://disqus.com
http://blogdash.com
http://sproutsocial.com
http://vitrue.com
Social media
 analytics
http://tweetreach.com
http://crowdbooster.com
http://socialbakers.com
http://klout.com
http://kred.com
Content
aggregation
http://hootsuite.com
http://google.com/reader
Thanks
Any questions?
Integrating search marketing and social media

Integrating search marketing and social media

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