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Sleeping Giant Media managing director, Luke Quilter, was asked to be a guest speaker at the Business Breakfast, part of the East Kent B2B conference in Canterbury. In his presentation, Luke gives an introduction to search engine optimisation (SEO), pay per click (PPC) and social media.
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Presented by: Luke Quilter
Overview of SEO, PPC and Social Media
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Introduction
-What channels are we talking about?
-Strengths, weaknesses, potential uses
-Can they be used in a B2B environment?
-Video presentation is available via our website should you miss anything!
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Some of our clients
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The channels
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The aim of search and social is to get relevant traffic to your site
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The channels
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With the ultimate focus of getting more customers and
growing your business
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The channels
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PPC SEOSocial
Website
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Why I love digital
-All the rules of marketing still apply
-Search
-Active customers
-Real time decision making
-Social - Conversational, bring in your personality
-Creative application wins out
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PPC
-Strengths
-Weaknesses
-B2B applications
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What areas
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PPC
PPC
SEO
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General principle
- Relevancy
- Search Query - Advert - Landing page
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PPC Strengths
- Fast to setup
- Data received almost real time (2 hour lag)
- Easy to learn, difficult to master
- Huge amount of control over the targeting and display settings
- Can be switched on or off when ever you like
- Google rewards relevance
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PPC Weaknesses
- It costs per click and it’s easy to spend a lot of money quickly
-Google doesn’t really help you out in that regard
- Lots to learn, it changes quite regularly
-No real demographic targeting
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Landing pages
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PPC page SEO page
TrafficRelevancy
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Landing pages
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PPC page SEO page
TrafficRelevancy
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Landing pages
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PPC page SEO page
TrafficRelevancy
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Search Query Report
- SQR’s help you find new terms
-What your customers are actually typing in
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Other engines
- Time Vs reward
-Only use them once you are sure you are doing a pretty good job with Google!
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B2B environment
- As ever ask, Who is your customer?
- How can you assess the value of the traffic?
- Phone tracking
- Ask inbounds
- Analytics
- All hours of targeting
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SEO
-Strengths
-Weaknesses
-B2B applications
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What areas
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PPC
PPC
SEO
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How it works
- Lots of specific factors that Google uses to asses relevancy
-On page SEO
- Content, meta
-Off page SEO
- Links back to the site
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Link principle
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Your site
Site ASite C
Site B
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Link principle
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Your site
Site ASite C
Site B
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Link principle
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Your site
Site ASite C
Site B
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Link principle
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Your site
Site ASite C
Site B
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On page
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meta data, content
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SEO - strengths
- Traffic is “free”
- Potentially better ROI
- If done officially positions are sustainable
- Building a long term asset
- Broader reach than PPC potentially
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SEO - weaknesses
- Takes time to build traffic
- Less targeting capabilities compared to PPC
- The rules change - takes time to understand and interpret them
-No one fully understands the rules, not even Google
- Pages are often content heavy
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SEO - Tips for success
- Pick the right terms to target
-DON’T buy links!
-Don’t trust guarantees
- Content updates to the site regularly (blogs)
-Using internal anchor text
- Find a balance
-Use tools to help you 22
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B2B Applications
- Likely to be more technical language than the B2C market
- Blogs are great
- Remember however that not everyone knows the industry terms!
-What questions do your customers always ask you?
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Social Media
-Strengths
-Weaknesses
-Tips for success
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The options
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Social - Strengths
- Building of rapport - trust
- Can reach a huge audience
-Adds value to the brand
- Can reduce costs on other channels
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Social Weaknesses
-Not generally a direct sales channel
-Not intent based generally
- Potential for complaints
- Can do harm if not run well
-Quantifying performance is still a problem, expensive to track
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Google+
- Impact on search results
-Good interface
- B2B and B2C
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Social - Tips for success
- Have a story
- Pick 6 content topics
-Develop a tone of voice
- Plan the activity, delegate roles within your business
- Link back to your site for selling
- Integrate with other channels
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Summary points
- Remember who your customer is?
- Select your keywords and content topics based on what they would look for
- Their use of the channel is likely to increase
- Search is all about relevancy
- Social is a growing area, with impacts that impact search engine ranking
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Where to get more information?
-www.sleepinggiantmedia.co.uk
- Clients section (B2B case studies)
- Blog section (industry related updates and tutorials)
- Youtube - PPC, SEO and Social explained videos
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Thanks for your time-LIVE SEO audits throughout the day
-Expert panel at the end of the day
-Any further questions?
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