The Essential Tools for Before / After Your Content Goes Live!

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Session given by Mitch Canter at #yallconnect - July 24, 2013.

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Essential Toolsfor Before and After Posting Your Story

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Who Am I?

Mitch Canter@studionashvegas

http://www.studionashvegas.com

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Our Before / After Goals

Before Planning your content

Select / research your target content

Write the content (and tweak it!)

After Measure Success, Find

Failures

Receive feedback / comments on your content

Sharing / “The Long Tail”

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Before The Post

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Planning Content

Editorial Calendar Helps to schedule and keep

track of content.

Free: Google Apps Spreadsheets for Content Calendar for Scheduling Drive for storing /

collaborating / editing content

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Content Research

Google Keyword Tool See search volume on Google.

Can search globally or locally.

The “Sweet Spot”: High Search Volume Low Competition

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Content Research

Google Search Who else has written on your

topic of choice?

What kind of content out there? Video? Text? Audio? Images?

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Content Research

When Should I Share? When are followers online?

Free: Tweriod One Analysis / mo. Can pay for deeper analytics

Paid: SocialBro Ranges from $7 - $150 / mo.

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Writing Content

Use The Spell Checker!

(for the love of God, please.)

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Content Research

WordPress SEO Once you’ve written, will

analyze your content.

Reading level, keyword saturation.

WordPress Plugin (Free!)

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After The Post

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Measure Success, Find Failures

Google Analytics Compare trends, traffic

patterns, and even write call-to-action goals.

See which posts generated traffic and action.

Free (with a Google Account)

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Measure Success, Find Failures

Woopra Live view of website

statistics.

Watch people “walk around” (and leave).

Warning: Time Sink!

Free!

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Measure Success, Find Failures

CrazyEgg Heat Map tracking

See where people are clicking on your site (“Does the content convert better in different locations”)?

Cost: $9 / month (basic)

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Receive Comments / Feedback

Commenting Systems LiveFyre

IntenseDebate

Disqus

Allow integration of social networks / “openID” (login with Twitter, Facebook, etc).

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Receive Comments / Feedback

The Best Way To Get Feedback?

ASK

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Sharing / “The Long Tail”

Social Networks Twitter

Facebook

LinkedIn

Pinterest

Google +

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Sharing / “The Long Tail”

Buffer App Automated, Real Content

Scheduled Ahead of Time Can set a posting

schedule Facebook, Twitter, and

more.

Don’t be a robot!

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Sharing / “The Long Tail”

IFTTT “If This… Then That!”

Allows “hooks” – create a tweet automatically from a blog post, etc.

Can send texts, post to Evernote… and more!

Free!

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Sharing / “The Long Tail”

Tweetily Automatically tweet old

posts

Can set interval, number of tweets to share, and many more options

WordPress Plugin (Free!)