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Search, Analytics, and UX Prepared for University of Oregon, School of Journalism February 2012 1

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University of Oregon School of Journalism asked ISITE Design to participate in teaching a class to grad students on search engine optimization, search engine marketing, UX and design. Here's the deck. It doesn't include all the activities that the class did.

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Search, Analytics, and UX

Prepared for University of Oregon, School of JournalismFebruary 2012

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Intro

Goals

Hi!

1. Identify user experience factors influencing the success of an SEO and/or SEM campaign

2. Identify keyword research tools and techniques3. Identify metrics and analytics best practices

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Agenda

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Agenda • How do you get started? Creating and maintaining a campaign

• Designing for effectiveness• How do you know it works? Measuring what matters.

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How do you get started?

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How do you get started?

CX

AnalyticsBrand

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Who is the customer?

Business Goals

Audience Research

Keywords/Analytics

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CX – Business Goals

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CX – Audience Research

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Audience Segmentation

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CX – Keywords & Analytics

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Brand and Competition

Competitor Research

Brand Research

Gap Analysis

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Competitor Research

Online

Real World

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Competitor Research

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Gap Analysis and Brand Research

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Keyword Research

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Keyword Research

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Keyword Research

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Keyword Research• Use research tools to explore

variations– Consider relevancy, search

volume, and competition• Avoid the “black hole”. Stick to

your categories.• Narrow down list to focus on

the most relevant and goal oriented terms

• Perform search queries to confirm search engine results are in-line with company’s content and/or offerings

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Keyword Research – Organic vs. Paid

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Organic vs. Paid Performance

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Analytics

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Keyword Analysis

Campaign Goals

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Align Business Goals & Key Performance Indicators

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Current Analytics – Start High Level

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Current Analytics – Dig Into Details

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Current Analytics – Estimate ROI

Current(Jan 2012)

Target(Month)

Annual Lift (12 mos)

PPC traffic 12,000 12,000 144,000

Conversion rate* 3% 4% 4%

Leads 365 480 1,380

Value per lead $700 $700 $700

Overall value $255,500 $336,000 $966,000

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Activity: Research and Planning

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Designing for Effectiveness

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Designing for effectiveness

• Digital Experience Framework• Planning the campaign• Sketching the story arc• Landing Pages• Design Principles• Stand out in SERPs• Activity

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Digital Experience FrameworkLifecycle Customer Action

DiscoverHear aboutSee an ad forSee a commercial for

ConsiderLearn aboutCompare toAsk a friend aboutThink aboutRead about

DecideConcludeMake up my mindForm an opinion

JoinRegister for/Apply/EnrollBuyVote forVisit

EnjoyUseShareStayRenewRecommend

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What are my Busines

s Objecti

ves?

• What are the needs and goals of my department/company• What are the short term objectives?• What are the on-going initiatives?

A campai

gn is Born

• What type of campaign do I need for this initiative?• Brand Awareness• Lead Generation• Sales

Who can I

reach?

• Who am I targeting with this campaign?• What is the specific target market?• What is the demographic?

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What type

of medi

a?

• What mediums will best engage the target market?• The Internet (Banner Ads or Articles and Paid Search)• Radio• Television• Billboards• Magazines (Ads or Articles)

Which

specific

places?

• Where do I place my Ads or Content that will get the best response?• Facebook• Affiliate Advertisers• Paid Search

What actio

n?

• What is the call-to-action?• What is the story I want to tell that will compel my audience to engage with the ad?

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Where do I send my

audience?

• What web content should my audience see now?• Do they need a customized landing page?• How do I know when they come to the website?

Now what

do they need

to do?

• Once my audience has come to the website, what is the hook?• Sign up for something?• Download something?• Read something?• Search for something?

How did this

campaign do?

• How many people were exposed to the campaign?• How many people engaged with the campaign?• How many people acted on the campaign?• How did my campaign results compare to my goal?

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Sketching the story arc

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What’s a landing page?

… on sale now, at next tag dot com. Now back …

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Why landing pages matter

• First impressions count

• Relationship-building

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Types of landing pages

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Landing page Purpose

Click through Present the offer, but the only action you can take is to go to the main site to complete transaction

Lead capture Gather personal data. Sometimes an offer is available in exchange for the information.

Infomercial Hype and uber-marketing; the Sham Wows of the internet

Viral Build brand awareness. Fun games or funny videos. Requires great content and sharing enablers. Brand/product is subtle.

Microsites Supplementary website, aligned with a specific campaign.

Product detail page Part of the main site, includes many navigation distractions, can be overwhelming.

Home page Serves too many masters, is distracting for a campaign

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User-centered design

• Reducing friction (annoyance, a function of difficulty)

• Reducing anxiety (fear and distrust)

www.MarketingExperiments.com

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Keys to Success

• Increase specificity• Increase continuity• Increase relevance (to the motivation of the

prospect)

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Targeting

• Qualifies the lead• Match message to persona• Types

– Geolocation– Time of day– Persona-based– Images– Copy– Language– Offer

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Design

• Top 3 page objectives

• Controlled eye path• Clarity trumps

persuasion

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Copy

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• Message match• Sell value• Ideal amount of copy varies dependent on value/risk of

the offer (to the prospect)

www.MarketingExperiments.com

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Website Content Strategy

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Keyword Mapping

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Keyword Density

www.SEOMoz.org

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On-Page Optimization

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Stand Out in SERPs

• Include keywords in key places• Include Call-To-Action or Special Offer

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Landing Page Content Strategy

• Content must feature keywords• Focus on 1-2 category terms & 10 keywords

max per page• Think about other content on the site that can

be linked to the page• Remember: You can’t rank for a keyword if

you don’t have content to support it!

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Activity: Design a campaign

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How do you know it worked?

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Evaluating Success

• Return on investment/return on ad spend• Ad Group• Landing Page• Keyword• Campaign• CTRs• Impression Share• Onsite Searches

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Align Key Performance Indicators

• Click Through– How many people see an ad compared to how many people click through to an ad.

• Conversion– How many people visit the landing page compared to how many people complete the

action or goal of the page.

• Bounce Rate– How many people leave the page immediately after landing on it without going to any

other pages in your site

• Revenue– The amount of money that has been brought in from a marketing campaign

• ROI– Revenue compared to how much was spend on the campaign

• Shares, Click-Backs, Newsletter Subscribers, New Visitors– Exposure that your brand received through a campaign

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Compare To Baseline

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Calculating Return

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Activity: Create measurement

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Analysis and Optimization

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Summary

• Increase simplicity, continuity, relevance

• Clarity trumps persuasion• Alignment is critical

– Campaign goal to type of landing page

– Message to audience – KPIs to goals– Design to campaign

• Test, evaluate, refine

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fin

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Thank you

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Amanda Bernard [email protected] @amandabernardBarbara Holmes [email protected] @volleyballbarbRyan Summers [email protected]

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References

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell, 2005

• http://www.meclabs.com/marketing_experiments• Unbounce Blog http://unbounce.com/blog/• Internet Retailer http://www.internetretailer.com/• The UX of Search http://

www.slideshare.net/gaijinstu/the-ux-of-search-1898939• SEO 2.0 The game has changed. Has your strategy?

http://www.zaaz.com/pdf/seo.pdf • Beyond Search. The Gilbane Group

http://gilbane.com/beyond-search.html

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Click Through example

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Lead Gen example

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Infomercial example

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Viral example

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Microsite example

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Product Detail example

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Home Page example

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Good example

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Home page as landing page

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Back

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Example

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Segmenting technique

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