digital dna - travel bloggers - friend or foe
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Travel Bloggers – Friend or Foe
Todays Workshop
1. Why Consider Bloggers
2. Finding Travel Bloggers
3. Metrics To Consider
4. Generating Content Ideas
5. Contacting Travel Bloggers
6. Why It Works
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About Me
• By day The Tomorrow Lab
• By night Pikalily
• Write about food and travel
• Enjoy all sports
• Married
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Why Travel Bloggers?
Reach Your Audience
Seekers
Joiners
Amplifiers
Buyers
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Looking for information
Return to see
new content
Help to promote and
share your content
The group we spend
most time targeting
Finding Travel Bloggers
Finding Travel Bloggers
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Twitter Bios
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Twitter is Your Friend
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Twitter Lists
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Travel Lists on Twitter
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Travel Lists on Twitter
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Travel Lists on Twitter
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Travel Blog Exchange
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TBEX Dublin Attendees
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Twitter Search
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Lists
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Search Smarter
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Search Smarter
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Search Smarter
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Metrics To Consider
Create Your List
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Paste the URL’s
into Excel
Majestic SEO
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Link Profile
Majestic SEO
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Citation & Trust Flow
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Citation Flow :
a number predicting how influential a website might be based on
how many sites link to it
Trust Flow:
a number predicting how trustworthy a page is based on the
number or trustworthy sites that link to it
Majestic Chrome Plugin
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Free Chrome Plugins
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Social Following
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Social Following
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www.twitteraudit.com
Social Shares
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Blog Comments
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Newsletter Signup
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Getting Contact Info
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Getting Contact Info
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Generating Content Ideas
Idea Generation
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Buzzsumo
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100 Ideas 30 Minutes
• 6 People
• 5 Mins
• 4 Ideas
• 30 Minutes
• 100+ ideas
• @staceycav
• http://thetomorrowlab.com/2014/05/create-100-content-ideas-30-minutes/
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Involve Bloggers
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Contacting Bloggers
Making Contact
• Read their blog!!
• Interact on Twitter
• Find a name – make it personal
• Have an idea that will interest them
• Take time to make the contact
• Be memorable
• It’s all about the RELATIONSHIP
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Good Example
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And Another
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Bad Example
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Software?? WTF!
And Another
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Please give me this great piece with a link for you.
You’ve worked so hard drafting this email!
Why It Works
Why It Works
• #ExpediaExplores
• 16 Weeks travelling around NI and ROI
• 30+ towns and cities
• Social media interaction
• UK and Irish travel bloggers
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Best use of social in search campaign.
Why It Works
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Why It Works
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Why It Works
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Why It Works
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And This Year
Sporting Experiences
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Recap
Sporting Experiences
• Your customers interact with bloggers
• Take time to find suitable bloggers
• Get an idea to excite the blogger
• Get to know them and their blog
• Build and maintain relationships
• Promote and share your content
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Thank you!
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