- Running a usual TV Ad in the US would generally cost an advertiser around $350,000 which is not applicable to SEO budgets.
- Fans develop an easy association with the brand as they become highly exposed to its message.
- Celebrity endorsements do not necessarily mean a hike in sales but it do affect an increased stock price.
- Inbound marketing results to marketers earning their way in. It is a strategy where the market initiatively found them.
- Rand builds links with the existence of participating communities while famous sites independently have it.
- A strongly-founded community will initially market you through twitter and other social media sites in a regular manner.
- A report that shows 1 million individual hits on Sept 2011 backs up
the truth about users being able to spread the link twice than you do.
- Your personal search is influenced by the people who connect to you
and how they are associated with you. Google social connections allow
users to view these people.
- Google uses +1 as a social signal which influences the results.
- Social news ranks next when it comes to in demand source of information.
- Blog attracts community growth.
- Communities should be built based on the brand and its benefit-ting fans.
- Write about what you work for and what your communities’ value the most.
- Solicit feedback from new users and fans
- Klout Socializer measures how you influence others to take action, learn how to use it and only display high scores.
- Your community performance starts by commenting and sharing your own posts.
- Building community for the first 100 hours is the most challenging. Never give up.
- Develop a profile that mirrors a satisfied attachment which will enable users to link to it.
- Measure your content based on your own generated metrics, and then enhance it.
- Convince unrewarded people from other community and make them strengthen your own.
- Community is all about positive strategic inbound marketing and how to strengthen your site.
- Do not be hesitant to kick trolls out. They are unnecessary to the community.
- You only get what you give. Promote other brands and they will do the same.
- Always include the name of the authors. This greatly attracts them to hit on the post.
- Use Quora to get an idea on how your content is working.
- Google-searching using links increases Google suggest. Let your community search in this manner.
- Tweets and/or pingbacks are best added on blogs.
- Let users have the option to share your contents by relinking and embedding them.
Tom Critchlow – Big Ideas = Big Business
- Buy-ins are often attracted to big ideas. Small ideas like h1 tags seldom get a chance in big companies.
- Big ideas should encompass budget and scale.
- Work on your big vision by launching a project which result you can use to nail big ones.
- Big companies focus on delivering big projects rather than becoming quick on SEO changes.
- Improve and enhance your pages to increase rankings.
- Distribute work by assigning a chief officer who will monitor the quality of the job.
- Each individual in the company can contribute to the success of your SEO.
- Getting content is easy; making that a content count is hard.
- Get things done by positively altering the process.
- Practice project management.
- Gap analysis will make everyone understand where the company stands and where the company wants to be.
- Present your project in a way that executives can understand. SWOT
analysis is a good strategic planning as it poses the strengths,
weaknesses and even threats that can be resulted in a project while
Gantt charts vividly explains the timeframe involved.
- Use tools like webmaster and broken links to censor content that is below quality.
- Intelligent business development makes up a successful link building.
- Be a people magnet by influencing high-ranking people within the organization to do links on their own profiles. Linkedin is a great source to get link opportunities.
Mat Clayton – Climbing up the ladder of Social Integration
- Social media involves long term planning to effectively work.
- Know how much of the market is involved by integrating codes on your
site which will enable you to see the number of people logged in.
- Consider the relation between your user and the community they are in.
- Users will spread your work if it becomes beneficial to them.
- Meta tags and fb admin tags are helpful when added on your website.
- Open graph contents are added to the ticker whenever an app action is done by the user.
- Never add a dislike button.
- Use tools like Appdata.com to source necessary details and usage of your competitor.
- Always provide a personalized experience. Allowing users to view who
among their friends uses a specific product is an advantage to the
site.
- An action done increases the rate by 200% however, showing who does the action soars completion rate by a whooping 300%.
- Putting faces recommends a facepile to better achieve fans built up and effective usage stats.
- Develop recommendations bar. This enables users to be in the know about the most viewed content.
- Adapt a sign up process which is easy, fast and user-friendly.
- Have your team do the initial comment to set relevant text from
other users. This will avoid pointless and off topic discussions.
- The word of mouth is the best marketing strategy. People will mostly
believe what their friends will say so a positive feedback matters.
Will Critchlow – The Power of Advanced Toolkit
- People advance their knowledge. Always take time to improve your technical skills.
- A multi-tasking computer system supports the web. Each program should be able to excel in doing a specific task.
- Filter a good data by utilizing grep command and modify files using sed command.
- Use apps like skitch to replicate things when modification or change is required.
- Use Screenr to create web screencasts.
- Utilize trello for more organized and well collaborated projects.
- Use of f9 results to an effective financial reporting in Excel.
- Use tamper data to easily view and make modifications on all https requests.
- Check on code installs with the help of Google analytics debugger.
- Fix issues by simplifying it and then document the work.
- Tools like Phyton and Django are a great guide to better understand tools.
- Learn and understand SQL as it is the standard web language.
- Use HTML 5 to mark HTML web contents.
- Find ranking keywords and other data through Getstat.
Joanna Lord – Social Media and The Competitor
- Develop a strategy to learn how competitor builds the number of fans they have.
- Incorporate social media and its details everywhere.
- Study how your competitor works in building community by observing their web pages.
- Make social buttons present in your videos.
- Measure velocity by focusing on how fast you grow your number of followers.
- Utilize tools like simply measured for easy social measurement.
- Cotweet provides you an idea about your competitor’s and your brand’s stand on twitter.
- Social advertising shows how your brand and the market respond to it.
- Frequent social advertising means serious business.
- A lead capture page designated for a single ad defines strong focus in terms of social media.
- Linkedln is another avenue to familiarize yourself about your competitor.
- Empower people who work for you.
- Track all metrics that are being launched.
- Utilize all the information gathered and take actions based from them.
Joost De Valk – WordPress as one of SEO Businesses
- Ensure a progressing and interactive XTML sitemaps.
- Rel Canonical tag guides user to the page that ranks better.
- Use 301 redirect codes to redirect users to the webpage which you have moved or changed.
- Recognize authors by using rel author markup.
Rob Ousbey – A Good Public Relation is A Positive Outreach
- Outreach means attracting community, getting links, and forming good relationship.
- Find smart people who take actions.
- Learn with people who have failed as their experiences could be your knowledge.
- Know how they overcome problems and use it for your benefits.
- Get yourself familiarize with the things they learned.
- Know your target by building relationship with bloggers through Grouphigh.com
- Choose a content as if it is your own then know and approach the last person who embedded it.
- Tumblr will help you locate blogs associated to your identified niche.
- Build relationship through unfailing and continuous communication.
- Write concise email as an introduction. Lay down the offer in details by sending follow ups.
- You can build introduction by following them on twitter before choosing to send an email.
- Make an organized list of the people you interact with and the things that happened in that interaction.
- Aside from building links, you can ask people to retweet your post.
- Effective public relation results to a good outreach.
- Always approach the direct point of contact.
- Keep communications open.
- Recognize people who have great potential to easily link you.
- List down new linking domains to know how the outreach performs.
Wil Reynolds – A Good Content Creates Successful Link Building
- Huge social shares do not necessarily guarantee better site rank.
- Feed burner does not specifically decide on sites that should appropriately rank.
- Broken links break link value.
- Build relationship in every transaction. Even the site administrator can help.
- Develop a good strategic plan to maximize exposure.
- Know how your competitors acquire links and use it for your advantage.
- Know how to create opportunities. Monitor competitor domains, register and use redirect codes when it expires.
- Google Product Suggest and Google Suggest provide new topic ideas.
- Create a good market research by knowing what contents are widely searched by people.
- Post counter discussion to your competitor’s work and get links through it.
- Topsy.com lets you know who uses your content and how influential they are.
- Identify blogs and know what content will work best for them.
- Turn popular lengthy content into infographics.
- Google image search will help you get links by contacting people who use the same image for infographics.
- For outsourced infographic, google image search will detect duplicated content.
- Source other information through .govs.
- Tools like export.ly help you get reports about your followers.
- Flourish with innovative ideas.
Ciaran Norris – Balancing policy, personalization and market profile.
- If you are not part of the business, then you are one of the markets.
- Google adapts SoloMo. This enables you to design a successful mobile strategy to make your business more accessible.
- Facebook gain market through personal positive feedback.
- Personalization is good and the process of exploring new things for the community to grow is better.