social search optimization (sso)

Social Search Optimization (SSO) !How To Maximize Your Efforts to Achieve Marketing Success!

Power of Digital Series!

Christy Belden, Vice President Media + Marketing!February 23, 2012!

Christy Belden!

Vice President Media + Marketing!

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Experience: 11 years!!The Courier-Journal!!University of Louisville!!SEMPO-Certified!!Google AdWords Individually !Certified!

Christy knows marketing. PPC, SEO, social media, email, mobile, traditional—she’s been there and done that. She continues to build a deep well of experience and is always in touch with the trends and strategies that provide a solid return on clients’ investments.!

LeapFrog Interactive!

Connect with us!!

Twitter: @LFI! ! !#SSO!

Facebook: www.facebook.com/LeapFrogInteractiveAgency!

Google+: LeapFrog Interactive!

Blog: www.leapfroginteractive.com/blog!

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Agenda!

+ Social Media Overview!

+ SEO Overview!

+ SEO + Social Media!

+ Google+!

+ Google Search Plus Your World!

+ Best Practices!

+ Now what?!

+ Questions!

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Social Media Overview!

Social Media!

Social media includes web-based and mobile technologies!

used to turn communication into interactive dialogue…!

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Social Media!

Dialogue is the key. Brands use social media to create the!

conversation between brand and consumer through !

engagement and interaction… !

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Social Media! 8!

Source: http://www.briansolis.com/2008/08/introducing-conversation-prism/

Social Media!

How many people are on Social Media?!

Facebook?!

LinkedIn?!

Twitter?!

Pinterest?!

Google+?!

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Facebook!

Facebook is King!

+ 845 Mil active monthly users by end of Dec 2011!

+ 80% of users are outside of US!

+ 425 Mil active mobile users by end of 2011 !

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Source: newsroom.fb.com and Hubspot-The Social Media Data Stacks

Facebook! 11!

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LinkedIn!

LinkedIn is Professional and Global!

+ As of 2012, largest professional network!

+ Over 150 Mil users in over 200 countries!

+ Only 9 years old!

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Source: Infographic: http://wearesocial.net/blog/2011/03/linkedin-hits-100m-user-milestone/

Twitter!

A Little Birdie Told Me…!

+ Over 100 Mil monthly active users; 50% login everyday!

+ Surpassed 250 mil tweets/day in June of 2011!

+ Link life is 2.5 hrs on Twitter vs. Facebook’s 1 hr link life!

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Source: http://mashable.com/2011/10/17/twitter-costolo-stats/

http://blog.bufferapp.com/twitter-stats

Google +!

That’s a Plus…!

+ 90 Mil Users as of Jan 2012!

+ Tagging and hashtag features!

+ Open for teens (+13)!

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Source: http://mashable.com/2012/02/15/everything-about-google-plus/

Pinterest!

Pin-teresting Facts…!

+ Over 10.4 Mil registered users!

+ 97.7% are Female!

+ Drives more referral traffic than Google+, LinkedIn, and Youtube combined!

+ Users spend more time on site than Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn combined!

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Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/11/pinterest-stats/

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SEO Overview!

SEO!

Search Engine Optimization!

This means…Improving a website or page’s visibility!

organically on a search engine!

by updating “fresh” relevant content…!

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SEO!

How many people know what it actually!

does or how it works?!

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SEO!

Search- “pet shops Louisville”!

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SEO!

Why SEO is important…!

+ Consumers can’t buy what they can’t find!

+ 42% of all searchers click on top-ranked results!

+ 62% click on a page-one result!

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Source: LFI Presentation on Digital Trends 2011

SEO!

How Companies Implement SEO…!

Onsite Activities!+ Keyword rich URLs!+ Meta content!+ Fresh, relevant content – blogs, articles, white papers!

Offsite Activities!+ Link building!+ Forums!+ Social media content!

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SEO!

How Companies Utilize SEO!

+ Help increase over visibility online!

+ Increase Sales!

+ Increase Site Traffic!

+Track Leads!

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Source: http://www.yourseotips.com/

SEO + Social Media!

Social Search Optimization!

What is SSO?!

SSO = Social Search Optimization!

This Means…optimizing content on social properties and other content such as photos, blogs, and page descriptions !

to improve organic search results.!

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Impact!

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Social content will now affect your company’s ranking on search

engines.!

As well as display your social media sites in conjunction with

other hits.!



Meaning, if you want to maximize your search results…!

You NEED to be involved with social media,!

and the more the better.!

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Social Impact!

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Source: Infographic Why Content for SEO?, Brafton!http://www.brafton.com/infographics/why-content-for-seo!

Google +1!

Google +1!

What is Google +1?!

+1 is Google’s share feature which closely resembles !

Facebook’s ‘like’ or Twitters ‘retweet’ button.!

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Google +1! 30!

SEO!

How many of you have +1 Content?!

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Google+!

Google+!

What is Google+?!

Google+ is Google’s social media platform!

that allows users to share content to specified!

“circles” or publicly…!

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Google+!

Features…!

+ Can share pictures, videos, links, and posts!

+ Users can own pages ! much like Brand/Company pages!

+ Hang-out feature allows users to interact via video conferencing!

+ Has featured games!

+ Links to gmail accounts!

+ “Plus one” action (similar to Facebook’s ‘like’) used as a ranking system!

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That’s a Plus! 35!

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Google+! 37!

Google+!

How Often are you updating your Google+ page, if at all?!

Daily?!

Weekly?!

Monthly?!

I was supposed to update that thing?!

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Google+!

Fresh content matters…!

Google+ profiles with no posts in the last 72 hours don’t!

show up in the “Related people/pages” or “plus box” in!

Google search results!

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Source: http://searchengineland.com/two-google-seo-guides-you-should-read-111703!

Google+!

But…!

Updating content is not enough. You must laser-target your audience by !

sharing content that will get “+1’s” and shares. The object is to get users!

to your static site from your social page in a deep search manner!

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Source: http://www.stateofsearch.com/googles-search-plus-your-world-getting-over-the-shock/!

Google Search Plus Your World!

Search Plus Your World!

Announcement!

Google announced in January of 2012 that they!

would be integrating their social posts into !

Google.com’s query results.!

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Why this changed the game…!

Now content, brands, people, and companies that are on Google+ !

will be favored in Google searches…when a user is logged into!

Google!

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Personal Search!

+ Opt-in search option that shows personal and public search results!

+ Shows privately shared content from friends and family!

+ Users can switch between personalized and un-personalized searches!

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Source: Via-Seachengineland.com


Old Search- “flowers”!

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Search Plus Your World! 46!

Search-”LeapFrog Interactive”!

+ When logged into Google, Google suggests searches for you!


UnPersonalized!

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Personalized!

Google Search Plus Your World! 48!


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Common Concerns…!

+ Privacy!

+ Google+ favoritism!

+ Not linked with Facebook or !Twitter content!

+ Not much different than Google “suggestions” for certain content!

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How Search Plus Your World Affects SEO!

+ Priority on search list!

+ Social content is the new link building!

+ You want your company to be in circles of! people in your industry to increase chances of ! sharing!

+ Increase Google+ page promotion vs. tradational!

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Source: http://seo-hacker.com/google-search-world-affects-seo/!


Newest Addition…!

+ Just this WEEK Google added its newest feature to the home page to ensure Google+ will succeed!

+ You can now share straight from the Google homepage!

+ Search meets share!

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Source: http://marketingland.com/google-home-page-gets-share-box-6408

Google Search Plus Box!

Plus Box ! 53!

Plus Box!

Factors that affect Plus Box placement…!

+ Circle membership!

+ Number of posts (frequency)!

+ “+1” per post!

+ Re-shares per post!

+ Freshness!

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Plus Box!

Plus Box Research Project!

A case study conducted by Ian Lurie in February of 2012 to help solidify !

what variables affect placement on the “Plus Box” in the new Search !

Plus Your World feature…!

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Source: http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2012/02/google-plus-box-ranking-factors-report.htm!

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Source: http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2012/02/google-plus-box-ranking-factors-report.htm!

Reach…!

+ Circle membership of those who put you in their circles.!

+ Higher reach=more interaction!

Plus Box!

Take Aways….!

+ Only certain searches show the “plus box”!

+ Plus Box results often rotate!

+ Ranking of attributes from most important to least…!

!Reach!!Circle Membership !!!Freshness!!Post Frequency!!Average +1’s per post!!Re-shares and Replies (comments) per posts!

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Bringing it All Together!


What this means for Social Search Optimization…!

Your social content is more important than ever. !

It now becomes a part of your !SEO strategy, not just your over all brand image.!

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Source: http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2012/02/google-plus-box-ranking-factors-report.htm


What this means for SEO…!

Companies now must look at their SEO strategy and analyze them from!

both a owned site and non-owned site perspective. It will require an SEO !

strategy to incorporate social media outlets.!

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Best Practices…!

+ Use keywords in your descriptions!

+ Use the +1 button!

+ Post and share great content!

+ Optimize your posts on all social! properties (Twiter, FB, etc…)!

+ Update all social content frequently!

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http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/google-plus-seo!

Source: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/page-authority

What Can You Do Today?!

What Can You Do Today?!

Take Action…!

+ Look at your bios, about us pages on social media properties and make sure they are using keywords within each section!

+ View your upcoming posts and do they include keywords and links to your website!

+ Is the content you are created optimized for search and are you distributing the content on social media sites!

+ Start a Google+ page!

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Questions?! 64!

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Thank You!!

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