14. GOOGLE ADWORDS PAY PER CLICK (PPC)
Why use Google Adwords?
1. Target people who are already
searching for jobs or have jobs to fill
2. Only pay for it when they click into
your website
2. Spend as little or as much as you
want from £1 to £1000’s per day
3. Local, regional and global targeting;
control where your ad’s are seen
4. Track ROI metrics – see the profit it
can bring to you business
http://www.ph-creative.com/blog/posts/2012/november/using-
google-adwords-for-recruitment.aspx
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18. SEO WHY ITS IMPROTANT TO YOU
c80% of traffic clicks into the ‘organic channel’
• Medium to long term
• Investment in long-term, free traffic
• Target phrases with higher intent to act
• Medium term on broad terms for self qualification
• Build a continual pipeline (hard to fill, high value, volume roles
Employer Brand, visibility and reputation
• Build your online authority and reputation
Graduates for this year and the following years
• Somerfield story
• Build an online estate
Profitability
• Cost per hire
• Time to hire
• Your bottom line
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19. OLD SCHOOL SEO HAVE A ‘JEDI’ COUNCIL
GOOGLE
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23. GOOGLE HAVE A ‘JEDI’ACOUNCIL
GOOGLE HAVE ‘JEDI’ COUNCIL
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24. GOOGLE QUALITY RATERS
We want all improvements for the users
Matt Cutts; Google’s Distinguished Engineer
Q: How do you optimise for the ‘human factor’?
A: From a the mouth of a Google Quality Rater
• Keyword intent = Do, Know, Go
• Is the page vital, relevant, slightly relevant, or off topic/useless
• Spam signals, keyword stuffing, excessive links,
• Does the page help users fulfill their needs?
• Clarity, easy to read, user’s don’t get lost
• Mobile is different to desktop
VISITORS FIRST, CONTENT SECOND
AND FORGET ABOUT GOOGLE
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25. HOW TO KEEP THE PANDA & PENGUIN HAPPY
“You should evaluate all the content on your site
and do your best to improve the overall quality of
the pages on your domain. Removing low quality
pages or moving them to a different domain could
help your rankings for the higher quality content.”
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26. OVER 200 FACTORS INFLUENCE YOUR SEO
Relevancy (on page SEO)
• Focus on your users, give them what they want
• Freshness of content – how often do you change yours?
• Content strategy, evolves, purposeful, hot topics, contagious
• Don’t spam, keyword stuff
Recommendation (off page SEO / Google Penguin)
• Commit to outreach and engage with communities
• Create content your audience will care about
• Will people vote for you with inbound links?
• Social mentions is ‘word of mouth’ marketing and builds links
• Use Google+ and gain ‘authorship’ and your ‘identity’
• Manage you link profile, assess risks and take action
Experience (Google Panda)
• What do users ‘think’ of your pages? Find out.
• Reduce clutter and friction
• Don’t keep people waiting – improve load times
• Do all you can to engage and ‘romance the share’
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27. SEO AND PPC ATTRACT MORE CANDIDATES
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28. HOW CAN YOU CAPITALISE ON SOCIAL MEDIA?
Reduce cost per hire
• Direct hires, reduce agency reliance, profitability
Talent Pooling
• Work with forecasting, MPP, scenario planning, pipelines
• Hard to fill roles, areas
• Passive & active candidates
• Tap into and engage their communities
Reduce time to hire
• Impact on client ops, costs, profitability
Innovation – (lead, not follow)
• Forward thinking, client satisfaction, leaders
• Aid BID pitches for new clients
• New sales opportunities to current clients
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30. HOW RAD CAN ENGAGE
We have tried to make a feature
or event within the site, meaning
that it grabs more attention that
a simple Twitter button.
Therefore they see a higher
conversion rate when compared
to a standard site.
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36. WHY YOU SHOULD USE GOOGLE+
Google Hangouts – its Free
• Chat face to face
• Host virtual meetings
• Screen sharing
• Extended circles, means you
influence your followers and
theirs
Hangouts ‘On Air’
• Live broadcasts – for free
• Stream to you Google + Profile,
YouTube
• And your website
• Save instantly to YouTube
• Shared to the world
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37. WHY YOU SHOULD USE GOOGLE+
How you can search and build
your circles
• Search by keywords
• Search by people, pages,
communities and posts
• Search for IT managers, or
specific companies and their
employees
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38. WHY YOU SHOULD USE GOOGLE+
Get your content read and ranking faster
• Faster indexing of your content – make it
relevant to your candidates
• Extended circles, means you influence your
followers and theirs
Authorship Tag = Identity
• Have you set yours up?
AuthorRank is coming!
• How authoritive and interesting are you to
your audience?
• Share-ability of authors content
• Number of people in your circles and how
many you are in
• Engagement levels of your content
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43. CONTENT MARKETING IS A MUST
Rome wasn’t built in a day
• Commit and invest for ROI
• Remember - why should it be easy?
• Earn links for SEO, enhance reputation, build trust from customers
If Carlsberg did networking
• Influencers and their influencers – aligning the planets
• Don’t just target you audience, involve and build relationships
• Givers, gain
Content is a ‘king maker’ in different disguises
• Written
• Surveys, news, roundtables, interviews
• Infographics, 404 pages
• Slidedecks
• Education resources, downloads
• Photo’s, video
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44. CONTENT MARKETING IS A MUST
You content needs to be
• Findable – SEO, PPC, Social Channels
• Engaging – compelling, convincing and converting
• And…’romancing the share’ – contagious content
Winning Formula
• Thought and brand leadership - focused on your audience
• Customer empathy and understanding
• Storytelling, analogies… and be creative
• Involve, encourage and engage your audience and influencer networks
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45. We have tried to make a feature
or event within the site, meaning
that it grabs more attention that
a simple Twitter button.
Therefore they see a higher
conversion rate when compared
to a standard site.
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53. DON’T GIVE IN TO THE DARKSIDE!
Be a Mogwai, not a gremlin (IMAGE)
• Black hat, white hat
• Make like a hedgehog not a fox (Jim Collins – Good to great)
• ‘high quality’
• Opportunities to improve low occupancy periods
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Google is investing in thisLocal places (Google Maps) is now Google+ Local
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Huge value in position one on the high street? Tesco analogy – Tesco invest huge amounts / land, align shops around central to cityThe Google as the highstreetIf you or your clients want to benefit – why should it be easy – no business has a divine rightIf you owned a shop on the high street, you’d fight and work hard to promote what you do Same online
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Tell story3bn per day18% Searches never been done beforeLike any other business – want to improve their service and experience to you, it’s customer – a continual evolutionTaking steps every day to improve what they do Keep it’s customers, protect and grow their businessLocal search,Advertising…. Make it smarter and more intelligent
Tell story3bn per day18% Searches never been done beforeLike any other business – want to improve their service and experience to you, it’s customer – a continual evolutionTaking steps every day to improve what they do Keep it’s customers, protect and grow their businessLocal search,Advertising…. Make it smarter and more intelligent
Tell story3bn per day18% Searches never been done beforeLike any other business – want to improve their service and experience to you, it’s customer – a continual evolutionTaking steps every day to improve what they do Keep it’s customers, protect and grow their businessLocal search,Advertising…. Make it smarter and more intelligent
Tell story3bn per day18% Searches never been done beforeLike any other business – want to improve their service and experience to you, it’s customer – a continual evolutionTaking steps every day to improve what they do Keep it’s customers, protect and grow their businessLocal search,Advertising…. Make it smarter and more intelligent
Discuss where it came from – Naveed Panda – machine learningQuality raters – what questions as a QR do they ask?Use analogy of Tesco stores, layout, planagram, customer serviceGallup surveys, customer experienceWhat happened when they set Panda free? – Give examplesPanda updates (Screen of panda’s marching) – means that you have to keep striving to improve your pages on your website
Tell story3bn per day18% Searches never been done beforeLike any other business – want to improve their service and experience to you, it’s customer – a continual evolutionTaking steps every day to improve what they do Keep it’s customers, protect and grow their businessLocal search,Advertising…. Make it smarter and more intelligent
Tell story3bn per day18% Searches never been done beforeLike any other business – want to improve their service and experience to you, it’s customer – a continual evolutionTaking steps every day to improve what they do Keep it’s customers, protect and grow their businessLocal search,Advertising…. Make it smarter and more intelligent
Discuss where it came from – Naveed Panda – machine learningQuality raters – what questions as a QR do they ask?Use analogy of Tesco stores, layout, planagram, customer serviceGallup surveys, customer experienceWhat happened when they set Panda free? – Give examplesPanda updates (Screen of panda’s marching) – means that you have to keep striving to improve your pages on your website
Quality raters – what questions as a QR do they ask?Use analogy of Tesco stores, layout, planagram, customer serviceGallup surveys, customer experienceWhat happened when they set Panda free? – Give examplesPanda updates (Screen of panda’s marching) – means that you have to keep striving to improve your pages on your website
Tell story3bn per day18% Searches never been done beforeLike any other business – want to improve their service and experience to you, it’s customer – a continual evolutionTaking steps every day to improve what they do Keep it’s customers, protect and grow their businessLocal search,Advertising…. Make it smarter and more intelligent
Tell story3bn per day18% Searches never been done beforeLike any other business – want to improve their service and experience to you, it’s customer – a continual evolutionTaking steps every day to improve what they do Keep it’s customers, protect and grow their businessLocal search,Advertising…. Make it smarter and more intelligent
Love hearts from Twitter bird?
Recruitment version – Search for ‘IT Directors’
As an example: here’s a comparison of ‘HSBC careers’ and ‘Barclays Roles’We can see the followers of each, who follows both, and the ‘influence’ each profile commands
Google+ - search and replace screenshot –’IT jobs’ manager (Searching in Google+) – recruitment relevant
Google is investing in thisLocal places (Google Maps) is now Google+ Local
The real value of your social activity in generating hires?
Google is investing in thisLocal places (Google Maps) is now Google+ Local