Search Engine Marketing - A Business Perspective

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Search Engine Marketing A Business Perspective Hans Riemer Market Vantage LLC North-By-North-Shore Danvers, MA - June 18, 2013

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A management approach to SEO or Search Engine Optimization. When it comes to SEO, there's no shortage of information on what to do and how to do it. Some of it is quite good, while other information is out of date or flat-out wrong. This presentation, delivered at the North-By-North-Shore conference near Boston in June, 2013, focuses on the overall strategy and issues that senior management must address to be successful with Search Marketing.

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Search Engine Marketing

A Business Perspective

Hans RiemerMarket Vantage LLC

North-By-North-ShoreDanvers, MA - June 18, 2013

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Why This Matters:The End of Interruptive Marketing

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“We need to be #1 on Google for ___.”

Quotes From Our Clients

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“What do we need to do to our website to get there?”

Quotes From Our Clients

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“I’ve heard AdWords is like a lead spigot, you can turn it on and off.”

Quotes From Our Clients

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We tried AdWords, didn’t work for us.

Quotes From Our Clients

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“Our search engine rankings have tanked over the past few months. Why? What should we do?”

Quotes From Our Clients

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Some Lessons We’ve Learned

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SEO is just a piece of the puzzle

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SEO Messa

ge

Usability

CTAs

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SEO results are harder to achieve

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Reciprocal linksLink wheelsBlog networksArticle repositoriesBlog commentsAuto-blogsSpun content

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Trending..

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Trending

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Big brands vs specialists

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Trending

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Diversified search results– Websites– Images– Google Maps / Google+– Videos– Blogs– News

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Trending

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Personalized search results– Logged-in– Previous Search behavior– Location– Platform / browser

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…And Speaking of Platforms

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Phones & Tablets represent a growing share of search and browsing platforms– Responsive Website design is a MUST

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Bad or Missing Data

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Bad or Missing Data

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Bad or Missing Data

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Conclusions

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SEO is not longer something you do to your website, or just the links you can build.

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Results are harder to measure

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Diversify Your Strategy

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Marketing

Online Marketing

SEO

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Marketing

Online Marketing

SEOAds

Nurture

Offine Marketing

Social

Blogs

PR

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Nurture – Marketing Automation

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Source:Gartner, Inc.

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Marketing Automation Benefits

Reverse IP / Company Lookup Inferred Leads Lead Segmentation Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Integration with CRM

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PR Agencyo Press Releaseso Recent Coverageo Media, Analysts, Blogger.

Advertisingo Google Adwords

Email Marketingo Newslettero Targeted

Interneto Blogo Twittero Facebooko LinkedIno Youtube

Eventso Speakingo Participatingo Webinar

Communication Plan

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Online Lead Generation Tactics

Blogger outreach– Blog reviews– Guest blogs

LinkedIn connections LinkedIn Advertising AdWords / MS adCenter

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Management Level Guide

Get installments at: www.market-vantage.com/internet-mark

eting-resources/newsletter/

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Questions?

Hans Riemer

Market Vantage LLC

978-482-0130

[email protected]

Blog / Tips / Newsletter at

www.market-vantage.com

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