10. SMO = Social Media Optimization The distribution of social media posting and their ability to rise to the top of any related search query.
11. SEO SEO SEO Dominating your brand and having control of each posting is the true SEO + SMO = Amplified Rankings SEO SMO SMO SMO I dominate and control my “Personal brand”….that is easy, as there are only 3 “Hillary Bressler’s in the USA.
12. Search results with video thumbnails have a 41 % higher CTR than plain text results. RankAbove 2010
13. Consumers Have Choices We are NOT part of those Decisions Where We Are NOT Present - Brian Solis
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15. SEO + SMO = Amplified Rankings in the traditional and social web
17. SMO Opportunities for Rankings • The pictures in Flickr • Videos on YouTube • Events in Upcoming or Plancast • Updates in Facebook • Bookmarks in Delicious • Votes in Digg • FourSquare check-ins • The docs in Scribd • Reviews in Yelp • Subject matter in Ning • Thoughts shared in a blog or blog comment
18. Is SMO like SEO? Yes…….. Tags, Descriptions, and keywords collectively contribute to the discoverability of social content.
19. SMO specifically is defined by the elements ingrained in each social Network. This is referred to as Metadata
27. KEYWORDS Keywords are the terms that people use to find information in traditional, social and real-time search. The keywords used by customers and influencers are not necessarily what we think…
28. You can use extensive research with many analytic tools
29. You can use simple tools like Google Keyword Tool
30. Keywords/ Tags also improve the categorization and grouping/association of keywords in Twitter search…it’s called the #hashtag ( see #nowplaying)
31. Twitter Tip: The first 24 characters is what is picked up in the search engines…make them count!
32. LINKS As in SEO, links help fuel traffic and weight of social media postings. Links are measured in views, ratings, retweets, likes and favorites.
52. Thank You! Discover Your Inner Strength Co-Authored By Ken Blanchard Brian Tracy and Stephan Covey and Hillary Bressler Presented By: Hillary Bressler CEO/Founder .Com Marketing 407-774-4606 ext. 203 bressler@commarekting.com