What PPC Can Steal from SEO - given at State of Search 2013, through DFWSEM, Dallas, TX. November 18, 2013
Learn some tips and tricks that paid search can borrow from the SEO industry tools.
7. TWITTER ADS, DUH
Promoted Tweets, Profiles & Lead Capture
Social PPC or Paid Social, whatever you call it. It‟s totally becoming a
“thing” you see…
• Compare competitors
• Find new followers or lookalikes to target
• Find out who dumped you
http://www.stateofsearch.com/how-i-use-followerwonk-and-why-i-love-it/
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12. WHEN TO TWEET VS. AD SCHEDULING
Why not match up?
Have a special promotion or deal this holiday season going up?
• Check your top tweet response times against your ad schedule
• Bid modifier adjustment needed?
• Maybe even tie the two together: Offers/Promotions/Hashtags/Usernames
• Persona research
#stateofsearch @ebkendo
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14. BASIC SEO PRACTICES
The same basics for landing page relevance/quality for PPC matter for
SEO
• Title tag (70 characters or less)
• Dashes over bar separators
• H1 tag, H2s and H3s
• Meta description
• Keywords on the page
• Robots.txt
• Keyword map
• Sitemap
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21. HOW TO GET THEM & WHY
This seems like a personal hell for the non-technical
A little bit. BUT…
• What if you could filter by IP an see repeat clickers on PLAs?
(comparison shoppers)
• See how often bots are checking you out
• Check out super detailed info by user on time on site, returning visits,
browser
• Cause nerding out is fun
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33. TIPS
Don‟t tear your hair out just yet:
• UTM tagging is your friend
• Start with 1 or 2 days of logs, not a month
• Stackoverflow.com/Googling it helps
• Set aside at least one interruption-free hour
#stateofsearch @ebkendo
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35. ADSBOT VS. GOOGLEBOT
Interesting observation while combing through log files…
• Google Shopping (google+products)
• Googlebot showed up repeatedly
• No adsbot
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40. SEO BY THE SEA – BILL SLAWSKI
• Patents (explanations and theories around)
• Super unique & niche categories
• Legal & business in search
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41. THE END ...
I”LL SEE YOU AT QUESTIONS TIME
@ebkendo
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Notas do Editor
Came up with this presentation idea over 4months ago and had to wait for the agenda to come out to even remember what I submitted
Landing page “quality” is a QS factor
Problem keyword or page? Have checked out the site speed? We know it’s a factor in QS, just not how large of one
GA, tag manager,adwords conversion code, whatever. Sometimes SEOs redirect pages and don’t tell you and your ads could be going to the old location. You can crawl a feed for missing attributes as well
Chrome plugin
Big brand (who shall remain unnamed) found that when they turned their branded PPC terms off, organic took a 30% hit because of all the other “noise” on the page. If you haven’t done this yet, you should
Find out if "google+products, PLA, shopping, etc;
*.* will do everything in the folder, .log in custom file specification otherwise
Highlight file, Save As- results in plain text
Open Excel - Open TXT file –IMPORT functionDelimited
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Sort by Row J/IP address
Sort by Row J/IP address
Sort by Row J/IP address
Does a site penalized by Penguin have PPC effected? Sort of, PPC picks up the lost clicks