using pr to boost seo rankings and conversions
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Presentation on how using PR and Social Media can drive better search rankings and conversions. Presented at PR + Social Media Summit UW WhitewaterTRANSCRIPT
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The Importance of SEO and Conversion
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Co-Founder: Lightburn
• Interactive Agency focused on helping client
drive revenue via the web
www.lightburndesigns.com
Founder: Cooper Safety Supply
• Online ecommerce company that sells safety equipment
• Started in late 2006 as an experiment within Lightburn to sharpen our skills in
ecommerce, search marketing and search optimization
• Multi-million dollar business
www.coopersafety.com
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The Importance of SEO and Conversion
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What is SEO
&
Why is it important?
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What is it?
SEO refers to the techniques and strategies that help your website rank
higher within the search engines.
Why is it important?
Higher rankings = more site traffic = more potential to sell your products
or services
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A few facts and figures:
• Americans conducted 13.6 BILLION searches in July 2009
Google - 8.9 Billion
Yahoo! - 2.6 Billion
Bing - 1.2 Billion
• Google Index is estimated at 1.5 TRILLION pages
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What are people searching for?
• Knowledge and Solutions (Answers)
• Products and Services
• Entertainment
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SEO Demystified
What are people clicking?
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Understanding the factors used for rankings
On Page Factors (35%):
• Content & Meta Data
• Friendly URLs
• Linking Structure
• Freshness of Content
• Broken Links & Redirects
Off Page Factors (65%):
• Links
Off Page Factors65%
On Page Factors35%
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Links are the biggest off page factor in achieving high ranking search results
Site
Links
LinksLinks
Links
Links
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What does it this have to do with PR?
• Search Optimization and PR should to be
treated as a team
• PR helps drive SEO Results
• SEO helps drive more PR opportunity
SEO
PR
SEO
PR
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PR
Awarenes
s
Conversation
Links
SEO
Rankings
PR / SEO Lifecycle
Bloggers, Journalist, Site Owners
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Content Driving PR and SEO Opportunity
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PR Driving Awareness and SEO Opportunity
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Negative Tweet displayed on Mint’s Blog Home Page
Provides opportunity to communicate with the community
Content Driving PR and SEO Opportunity
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What is Conversion Optimization
&
Why is it important?
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What is it?
It’s getting more ACTIONS from the same amount of traffic.
Why is it important?
More actions = more revenue
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Examples of Conversions
• Buying Something
• Signing up for a trial and/or offer
• Subscribing to an email list or RSS feed
• Reading multiple blog posts
• Getting someone to Tweet your content
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Invitation to subscribe to RSS feed
Digg
Popular Article ListSocial Network Sharing
Mint.com Sign-up Offer
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What does Conversion Optimization have to do with PR?
Conversions provide the fuel to further expand PR and Marketing
efforts and grow.
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“I highly recommend keyword analysis, looking at server logs to figure
out new content to add, thinking of new hooks to make your site
attract more word-of-mouth buzz, pondering how to improve
conversion once visitors land on your site, etc”
Matt Cutts (Google Engineer)
www.mattcutts.com/blog