1. Maximizing Your Online
Presence:
A Comprehensive Guide to
Internet Marketing
Greg Guenther, WebpageFX
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2. Greg Guenther
Web Strategist, WebpageFX
Industry Professional:
4 years as internet marketer
8 years in web industry
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2013 Technology Company of the Year
2012 Business of the Year
#1 SEO (Heardable.com)
50 Fastest Growing Company
Inc. 5000 Representative
3. PRELIM INARY GOALS
3 MONTHS:
• 20% lead increase
• 10% cost increase
6 MONTHS:
• Redesigned and optimized
• Double email recipients
1 YEAR:
• 60% lead increase
• Strong blog & social
2 YEARS:
• Generate 25% more
leads/sales than next
competitor
• Mind presence for industry
4 YEARS:
• 2 year barrier on leadership
sales/leads
• Control 250 web properties
4. CURRENT STRENGTHS
& WEAKNESSES
Industry Strengths
Industry Weaknesses
• Age of website
• Social media laggard
• Number of links
• No blog
• # of pages of content
• Low website conversion rate
• Email distribution list
• No usability assessment control
• Web analytics history
• HiPPO web design decision
• Leadership buy-in
• Leads not stored in CRM
10. ORGANIC SEARCH:
Site/Server Cleanup
Other issues:
Duplicate Content
Multiple websites
Internal error pages
When optimized, can
result in 25% to 35%
increase in search
traffic
13. Local Search:
Google+ Business Page
Results:
50% increases in
organic search
traffic year over
year
A restaurant’s
reservations went
up 92.5% in 30
days after
implementation
17. TACTIC: PAID SEARCH
Google Shop, Remarketing, and Dynamic Remarketing
Google Shop
Feed
Remarketing
Dyanmic
Remarketing
18. Paid Search:
A / B Testing
What to test:
•Headlines
•Body Text
•Links
•Keywords
Best practices:
•Test ad variations simultaneously
•Test one thing at a time
•Test early and often
•Pay attention to the data you collect
•Test your campaigns long enough for accurate
results
19. TACTIC: SOCIAL M EDIA
Establish a social presence through
top social media channels including
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube,
Google+, Flickr and much more
Actively engage with social media
users to foster new relationships that
compel them to purchase and move
them to recommend your site to others
To Download:
http://www.cmo.com/articles/2011/3/10/the-2
20. TACTIC: SOCIAL M EDIA
Advantages
Disadvantages
• Customer
communication
• Lead generation
• Brand exposure
• Time hog without
strategy
• Targeting
Note: Every social site is different.
Tools: socialmention.com & hootsuite.com
22. Social Media:
Case Study
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65% increase in user engagement
on Facebook timeline and over
500% fan growth year to year (on
average Facebook advertising
provides 1 new Fan for every
dollar spent)
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Google+ affects your search
engine rankings
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Call to action pin button sees
80% increase in user
engagement
Pins related to trending topics see
an average of 94% increase in
click throughs
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Shoppers referred by Pinterest are
10% more likely to buy
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24. TACTIC: EM AIL M ARKETING
Advantages
Disadvantages
• Versatility
• ROI negative on small or
overused list
• Quality list, quality ROI
• Low distribution cost
• Lists can take years
Services: icontact.com & myemailfx.com
25. TACTIC: EM AIL M ARKETING
Graphic by bluefountainmedia.com
28. CRO:
Case Study
Old site: 64
forms/year
Optimized: 50
forms/month
Results:
100% increase (doubled conversions)
29. TACTIC: IM PROVED WEBSITE
“People evaluate TV news and politicians
in the same way: presentation matters
more than substance. Why should we
expect the web to be any different?”
- B.J. Fogg, Ph.D., who led the Stanford study
30. TACTIC: IM PROVED WEBSITE
Old
New
Can result in a ~20% increase in search traffic and a ~20%
decrease in bounce rate