SES Advisory Board Articles & Expert Advice

Content Marketing Optimization

November 17, 2011 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

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Solo presentation by:
Lee Odden, SES Advisory Board & CEO, TopRank Online Marketing

Every 2 days we create as much information as from the dawn of time to 2003.

How findable is your content? Where does content come from? It’s not just marketing. There are audiences for content from HR, finance, IT, etc.

Content generation is one of the most effective SEO tactics, but also one of the most difficult.

If you already have content, set it free!

There are all types of content that can be optimized, from PDF files to news to corporate info to video and office docs. Embed links in all of your externally available files and documents.

CMO & SMO framework

research customer segments
keywords, topics, messages
content & promo plan
optimize, socialize and promote

customer segments & personas

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Filed Under: SEO

Enterprise Level SEO

November 17, 2011 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

Moderator
Mike Grehan, Global VP Content, SES, Search Engine Watch, ClickZ
Speakers:
Bill Hunt, SES Advisory Board & President, Back Azimuth Consulting
Russ Mann, Founder & CEO, Covario

Russ
SEO is more than tips and tricks, it’s a group effort. You can’t do it all yourself. The more successful approach for enterprise SEO is to be the team captain who manages the many contributors to the cause. The ultimate goal is to become the general (c-level) who promotes the greater cause.

SEO function requires many skill sets, but enterprise SEO requires so much more because of strategic and management responsibilities. You have to work with strategy, structure and systems.

No single technology is a silver bullet.

mastering your enterprise strategy
you should make sure that your SEO strategy is in line with the corporate strategy. Have a press alway available to show c-levels how your current SEO strategies are helping the corporate goals

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Filed Under: SEO

Local + Social: the Future of Promotion

November 16, 2011 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

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Moderator:
Anne F. Kennedy, SES Advisory Board, International Search Strategist, Beyond Ink USA
Speakers:
Benu Aggarwal, Founder & President, Milestone Internet Marketing
Gregg Stewart, President, 15miles

local + social
Gregg Stewart

importance of local search
Online retail only represents 7% of all spending. Most research is done online, but purchases still occur offline for the most part.

Consumers are increasingly using more sources to find local information. 1/3 of Facebook users use Facebook on a mobile device. Social networkers are frequently finding local business information through recommendations from connections and consumer reviews.

Consumers are looking for businesses in a variety of places and expect the information to be easily available and accurate. 49% of social network searchers are looking for address/location and other basic business data.

Best Practices for local search.

business names do not:

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include marketing tag lines in your business name

Filed Under: Web Development

Moderator:
Matthew Bailey, SES Advisory Board & President, Site Logic Marketing

Speakers:
Jonathan Allen, Director, SearchEngineWatch
Andrew Goodman, SES Advisory Board & President, Page Zero Media
Kevin Lee, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Didit.com

Kevin Lee

The good news is that if you follow the rules, you can pull off all sorts of site architecture pandemonium. They had a scenario where they had to simultaneously change subdomain and 301 redirect 16 million URLs and were able to pull it off successfully.

Google’s algorithm is tweaked almost daily. Once or twice a year the changes are significant and get a name, like “Panda”.

Panda was a zero-sum game. For each site that lost rank and free organic position, another site took its place. The business directory site that is a Didit subsidiary doubled in traffic, then dropped and came back. Be patient and take all also changes with a grain of salt. Changes can occur from day to day.

Read the rest of Navigating “The Dip”: Planning a Successful Site Re-launch

Conversion Tools of the Master Craftsman

November 15, 2011 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

By Bryan Eisenberg, SES Advisory Board and NYTimes Bestselling Author, bryaneisenberg.com

I will be updating this page and editing it throughout the week.

How Not to Improve Your Conversion Rates

Don’t do slice & dice optimization – don’t try too many variables at once

one of the most important things to test is marketing message or unique value proposition

Every single keyword you’re targeting, either by SEO or SEM, needs its own landing page. The conversion rate goes up exponentially. You need to create dedicated landing pages for every channel. Use form analytics if use Omniture to see how users are interacting with forms.

Call tracking needs to track what keywords are generating calls. 43% of all conversions happen over the phone.

Tools

You have to have a quick loading site. MUST LOAD IN UNDER 2 SECONDS!!! Pagespeed, loads.in, websiteoptimization.com (look at 56k download speed)

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Filed Under: Web Development

Guilty Marketers

November 15, 2011 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

Guilty Marketers – Wasted & Wishful Multi-Channel Marketing Spend
Opening Keynote for Search Engine Strategies Conference, Chicago, November 15-17, 2011
By Mikel Chertrudi, SES Advisory Board & Senior Director of Marketing for Adobe

This will be updated and edited at a later date, but I wanted to get my notes online ASAP.

By 2020, there will be 50,000,000 connected devices.

As marketing professionals, what should we be doing better in our profession? We need to change the conversation in marketing.

Changing the Marketing Conversation

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” – John Wanamaker (Father of Modern Advertising)

Up to 40% of digital marketing is still wasted. We aren’t investing our marketing dollars in optimal channels, so money is still wasted. We’re leaving money on the table. If you can regain that money, you will succeed in marketing.

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Filed Under: Web Development