3. SEO AND OPTIMIZATION
Optimizing blogs is similar to optimizing websites
In order to go about optimizing however, there are certain
factors that must be acknowledged
4. KEY WORDS
Use your primary keyword in your blog domain
Use your primary key phrase in your blog header tags and
the title of your posts
Use your secondary keywords in the body of your post
5. LINKS AND SPIDER SEARCH (SPIDER SENSE?)
Use your keywords in the anchor text of links
Make sure search engines can spider your blog easily
Get backlinks from other blogs or websites
11. THOUGHT LEADERSHIP IN BLOGGING IS
ABOUT THE “HOW”
Customers used to be told “what” companies were doing, but now
that blogs are around, they want the “how”
Who are you and what do you stand for?
What is your defined circle of influence?
12. TAKE A RISK WITH THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
People want to hear your two cents about what goes on in your
industry!
14. THIS IS WHERE SOCIAL MEDIA COMES IN
Discuss new posts on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
Respond, Respond, Respond!
Unless you are Seth Godin…
15. JUST LIKE THE GROUNDSWELL SAYS…
Make executives buy in to your plan
(in this case, make them the thought leaders)
Feedback (not sales) are what make a blog
17. TO IMPLEMENT A RELATIONSHIP IN BLOGGING:
Be clear
Find out what your customers want
Be Authentic
Get rid of the Spiel
***Be Available***
18. CASE-IN-POINT OF AVOIDING THE HARD SELL
“A few weeks went by, and I went to NYC for my Blogworld
speech. When I got back I ran into Joe at his bar and when we
sat down to talk he asked me if I’d be interested in helping him
with social media.
It’s funny because I used to joke with friends that an ideal job
would be to work on social media strategy for a surf travel
company. But what’s interesting about this is that our
conversations didn’t start with the intention of doing
business together. They started because of an interest in
his story and his blog.”
Srini Rao, The Skool of Life
19. CAN YOU USE ANALYTICS TO CREATE
RELATIONSHIPS?
You can use analytics through the use of:
-Inbound marketing management tools
Which can help data mining and create:
-Targeted offers
21. THERE IS MORE TO A BLOG THAN CONTENT
Design arrangement of posts
Lead images (borders + shadowing)
Buttons, Widgets, and Icons
Display encourages someone to read your post
23. WHAT ARE TAGS?
Yong-Mi Kim of the School of Information, University of Michigan
wrote, states:
“Tags are descriptive terms people attach to online
content, either their own or other people…”
24. THE IRONIC CHALLENGE OF TAGGING FOR
IWM MARKETERS
“…the irony is that the more useful and relevant your
site becomes, the worse it may actually perform.”
25. WHERE DO TAGS SHINE FOR IWM
MARKETERS?
1. Key words in title tags
2. Action words*** (this is where marketers can shine)
3. Secondary key words
4. Brand logo, URL, or Your name
26. SO …
To recap, an effective blog works in IWM by:
SEO and Optimization
Expressing Thought Leadership
Having Connectivity With Other Media
Demonstrating Appealing Blog Design and Layout
Formatting/Structuring/Pushing Content through Online Tags
27. CASE STUDY COMPETITION
The Details:
Class is split in to two halves
5 minutes to judge whether or not blog achieved 5 key
components outlined
1 presenter from each team to explain reasoning for why, or
why not, the blog case study was a failure, and what
improvements could be made.
The better explanation wins!
Lutrov Interactive
http://lutrov.com/blog
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