Enterprise SEO for Social Publishers

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Enterprise SEO for Social Publishers Acquisition, Conversion, & Retention

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Do you rely on content to acquire users and drive revenue? Learn how get more pages indexed, get restricted content to rank, and use social to drive your search rankings.Experience level: AdvancedTarget audience: Affiliates/Publishers, Merchants/AdvertisersNiche/vertical: Social PublishingCT Moore, Account Strategist, NVI (Twitter @gypsybandito)

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Enterprise SEO for Social Publishers

Acquisition, Conversion, & Retention

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Publishing Goals

Audience / Page Views

Subscribers / Users

Ad Revenues

Leads

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Publishing Challenges

Acquisition

Conversion

Data Mining

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Online Strategies Search Engine Optimization

o Acquisition

o Conversionk

Socialo Acquisition

o Conversion

o Data Mining

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SEO for Publishers

Page Content (Basic)

Duplicate Content (Intermediate)

Restricted Content (Advanced)

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Page Structure Page Titleso <title>Insert 65 Characters</title>

Meta Descriptionso <meta name="description"

content=“Insert 150 characters." />

Meta Keywords (don’t bother)

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Page Titles

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Meta Descriptions

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Title / Descriptions

Index

Articles / Posts

Pages

Categories

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Duplicate Content

Index vs Articles

Categories

Tags

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Duplicate Content

Excerpts on Index Page

Titles & Meta Descriptions

Unique Static Content

NoIndex / NoFollow

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Excerpts

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Static Content

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NoIndex / NoFollow

NoIndex<title>Blog Name</title><meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow," />

NoFollow<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cnn.com" />CNN</a>

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NoIndex / NoFollow

Categories

Tags

Author

Day / Month / Year

Sub Pages (e.g. Privacy Policy)

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NoIndex / NoFollow

Categories

Tags

Author

Day / Month / Year

Sub Pages (e.g. Privacy Policy)

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *

Disallow: /tags/

Disallow: /archives/

Disallow: /author/

Disallow: /etc…/

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Restricted Content

Pro – User Acquisition

Con – SEO

Con – Conversion

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The Walled Garden

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Times & Sunday Times

June 2010: Paywall Erected

Nov 2010: Traffic collapsed by 90%

Uniques drop from 3M to 200K

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Variety.com

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First Click Freek

1. To include highly relevant content in Google's search index.

2. To provide promotion and discovery for pulishers with restricted content.

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First Click Free

Let in Google

Google Indexes Restricted Content

Users get “First Click Free”

Additional access requires registration

Limited to 5 clicks per user per day

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The Public Park

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Case Study: TheHeart.org

WebMD Property

Registration Wall Model

Implemented FCF in July 2009

Registrations > Doubled in 1 Week

Registrations Remained Constant

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Social for Publishers

Social SEO

Social Conversion

Social Intelligence

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Social SEO - Promotion

Social News Siteso Digg, StumbleUpon

o Reddit, Propeller, Mixx, etc…k

Content Strategyo Target Audience

o Custom Content

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Case Study: Sherweb

Hosting Company

Facebook Etiquette Blog Post

> 20,000 Uniques in 48 hours

> 58,000 Uniques over 1 Month

PageRank 3

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Social SEO - Widgets

Content Syndication

Referrals

Brand Awareness

Backlinks

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Case Study: Club Med

Embeddable Widget

4 Styles / 9 Content Categories

Install for Chance to Win Vacation

> 50 Blogs Installed Widget

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Social Conversion Content Syndication

o One-Click Sharing

Engagement o Single Logink

User Data

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Facebook Connect

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Facebook Connect Registration & Login

o Access Real User Data

User Experienceo Like Button, Share This, etc…k

Social Graph

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Facebook Connect

Lollapalooza: 99% morePage Views

Gawker: 45% increase in registrations week

over week

Joost: 30% more videos,15% more

comments, and 38% more friend invites.

-- Source: Facebook

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Facebook Connect

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Facebook Connect

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Social Intelligence

User Data

Content Strategy

Ad Sales

New Revenue

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Questions?

CT Moore

[email protected]

www.nvisolutions.com

@nvi

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