The Coming Together of Search & Social1. www.ProminentPlacement.com
THE COMING TOGETHER OF
SEARCH & SOCIAL
Presented by
Stacy Williams
Digital Atlanta
October 10, 2012
@StacyWms #DigATL @ProminentPlcmnt
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2. WHO AM I?
CEO of Prominent Placement, Inc. (PPI)
President of SEMPO Atlanta
SEO since 1998
Marketing >20 years
Degrees in Business/Marketing and
Communications Management
PPI is a full-service search engine marketing
agency
Nearing our 12th anniversary
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3. AGENDA
Social Media can positively impact SEO
Content
Links
Social Signals (Votes)
Search Queries & Keywords
Search Marketing can influence Social Media
Pay-Per-Click
Keyword Research & Content
Social Media Sites Acting Like Search Engines
Tactics you can take back to your desk
Additional Resources
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4. CONTENT – FOR ALL SEARCHERS
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5. CONTENT – FOR YOUR FRIENDS
Search, plus Your World
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6. CONTENT – FOR YOUR FRIENDS
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7. CONTENT – RICH SNIPPETS
Take up more room in the
SERPs
Catch your eye
Differentiate you & lend
credibility
SEOBodybuilder‟s CTR
increased 38% with
“rel=Author”
See all the possibilities:
http://sem4.me/dars
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8. CONTENT - FRESHNESS
Step 1: Breaking News –
search volume for a particular
query suddenly and drastically
increases.
Step 2: Google turns on the
“QDF” factor in its algorithm
for that query.
Step 3: New, fresh content
(even without links) can This book review
outranked The Golf
Channel‟s site!
outrank older, authoritative
content.
Source: http://searchnewscentral.com/2010102776/Technical/query-deserves-freshness-and-
other-temporal-tales.html
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10. CONTENT – REPUTATION MANAGEMENT
The only non-negative
listings on the first
page of Google
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12. SUMMARY: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA
CONTENT IMPACTS SEO
More web pages (profiles/posts) to take up room in
the SERPs for all searchers.
Even more web pages (profiles/posts) to take up
room in the SERPs for your friends & contacts.
Rich snippets take up room, draw the eye,
differentiate your listing.
Fresh content can outrank old content for hot
topics.
Google+ is feeding Google Maps in SERPs.
Protect your reputation by controlling all the highly-
ranked content for your name.
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13. LINKS: BOOST MAIN SITE‟S RANKINGS
Direct links
Content must be public
“dofollow” vs. “nofollow”
links
Can lead to more links
indirectly
Image source: Reload Media
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16. SUMMARY: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA
LINKS IMPACT SEO
Directly, through links on social media profiles and
posts to main site.
Indirectly, by building awareness and generating
more links on other sites.
Speeding up indexing of new content.
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17. SOCIAL SIGNALS (VOTES)
1998 2012
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18. SOCIAL SIGNALS
(VOTES)
Google+ followers, +1s,
Facebook shares & likes,
tweets & retweets can
impact rankings
Source: http://www.tastyplacement.com/infographic-
testing-social-media-signals-in-search
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19. SOCIAL SIGNALS (VOTES)
More studies: Facebook
Shares seem to be the holy
grail
Source: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-twitters- Source: http://blog.searchmetrics.com/us/2012/06/07/us-
influence-google-search-rankings and-uk-seo-ranking-factors-2012/
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20. MARKETERS BELIEVE GOOGLE+ WILL
BECOME “MASSIVELY INFLUENTIAL”
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21. THAT SAID…
Links Social Signals
>
Per Matt Cutts of Google, July „12
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22. SUMMARY: HOW SOCIAL SIGNALS
IMPACT SEO
Part of the ranking algorithm.
Still not as important as links.
Google+ and Facebook Shares especially impact
Google rankings.
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23. SEARCH QUERIES
“Gangnam Style” launched
on YouTube 7/15/12
360 million views, 3.4 million
likes
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24. SOCIAL DRIVES…
Awareness of problems, solutions…brands
Searches for problems, solutions…brands
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25. KEYWORD RESEARCH
Listen!
Free social media listening/monitoring tools:
http://sem4.me/dalm
Keywords may be different on different social media
platforms and as compared to search engines.
Guide to keyword research for social media site usage:
http://sem4.me/dakr
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26. SUMMARY: HOW SOCIAL IMPACTS
SEARCH QUERIES & KEYWORDS
Increased searches for topics and brands that are
frequently shared.
Keyword research through what‟s being discussed
in social media.
You may want to target different keywords on
different social media platforms.
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27. AGENDA
Social Media can positively impact SEO
Content
Links
Social Signals (Votes)
Search Queries & Keywords
Search Marketing can influence Social Media
Pay-Per-Click
Keyword Research & Content
Social Media Sites Acting Like Search Engines
Tactics you can take back to your desk
Additional Resources
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28. PAY-PER-CLICK ON
SOCIAL MEDIA SITES
Interests
Education
Connections
Age & Birthday
Location
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29. FACEBOOK PPC CAN BE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE
Conversion Rate of Online Form
Submission to Qualified Loan
50%
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Google AdWords
Facebook
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32. SEM KEYWORD RESEARCH CAN DRIVE
SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT
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33. SOCIAL MEDIA SITES ARE INCREASINGLY
ACTING LIKE SEARCH ENGINES
#hashtags ARE keywords
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34. FACEBOOK SEARCH
Article musing on how to
rank high in Facebook
search:
http://sem4.me/dafs
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36. HOW MANY SEARCHES ARE THERE ON
EACH SITE?
Searches/Day (Estimated)
3,000,000,000
S
2,500,000,000 E
2,000,000,000
S
1,500,000,000 M S
1,000,000,000 M
S S S S
500,000,000 M E E M
-
Google YouTube Twitter Facebook Bing Yahoo LinkedIn
Take this data with a huge grain of salt! (Don‟t tweet it)
It‟s pulled from various sources, including Comscore, TechCrunch, StatisticBrain, Search
Engine Land & Search Engine Watch.
The YouTube figure is estimated based on the oft-cited “second largest search engine after
Google” – data about the actual number of searches has not been published.
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37. THE WISDOM OF CROWDS VS.
THE WISDOM OF FRIENDS
Photo by Brynn Evans/Flickr/CC
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38. SUMMARY: HOW SEARCH MARKETING
IMPACTS SOCIAL MEDIA
Pay-per-click advertising on social media sites is a
complement to PPC on search engines
PPC on search engines: target by intent/need/keyword
PPC on social media: target by demographics/interest
Keyword research for search marketing can drive
content created on social media
and make it more findable on search engines
More people are searching on social media sites
#hashtags are keywords
Who will win the war to be the platform on which we
search data from the web and our friends?
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39. TACTICS YOU CAN TAKE BACK TO YOUR
DESK & IMPLEMENT THIS AFTERNOON
Know which keywords you should be targeting.
Build out profiles on major social media platforms.
Share fresh, unique content on the sites most likely
to impact your rankings (Google+, Facebook) & add
“share” buttons to it.
Work targeted keywords into social media profiles
and posts.
Work links pointing to website into social media
profiles and posts (with keywords in anchor text
where appropriate).
Implement rich snippets (including rel=author)
where appropriate.
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40. TACTICS YOU CAN TAKE BACK TO YOUR
DESK & IMPLEMENT THIS AFTERNOON
Flesh out both your Google+ and Google Places
profiles for visibility in Google Maps results.
Promote the URLs for new content on Google+ for
faster indexing.
Watch traffic from branded search queries rise.
Test PPC on social media sites.
Writer‟s block? Look to top keywords for content
ideas.
Use search & social together synergistically – you
need both!
Continue to watch this space for more changes.
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41. GOOD ARTICLES ON HOW TO OPTIMIZE THESE
SOCIAL MEDIA SITES (FOR SEARCH ENGINES)
And, again…
http://sem4.me/dabl
More about Rich
http://sem4.me/dafb Snippets:
http://sem4.me/datw http://sem4.me/dars
http://sem4.me/dali Social media listening/
monitoring tools:
http://sem4.me/dagp http://sem4.me/dalm
http://sem4.me/dayt Keyword research for
http://sem4.me/dapi each social media
platform:
http://sem4.me/datb http://sem4.me/dakr
How to rank high in
Facebook search
(maybe):
http://sem4.me/dafs
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Notes de l'éditeur Digital Shelf strategy Digital Shelf strategy In the last 6 weeks, Facebook business pages with 5000+ likes will be able to target their posts based on demographics (gender, education, age, location). In the last six weeks, Twitter announced the launch of interest-based targeting for advertisers using Promoted Tweets & Promoted Accounts. There are over 350 interest categories available, ranging from “law, government & politics” to “life stages” to “movies and television”.