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Practical
Marketing Education Series
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Practical Marketing | Meet your Presenters
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Tina Stock | Executive Director, Marketing
An entrepreneurial marketing executive with over 10 years experience in
product marketing, social media marketing, content marketing,
communications strategy, display advertising and search engine marketing.
Tina blogs about marketing at tinastock.com , and you can follow her on
Twitter @tinadstock.
Who is YP?
• YP is North America’s largest local search, media and
advertising company.
• Our mission is to help local businesses and communities grow.
• We generate 40 billion annual impressions on the YP Local Ad network
and have 3,000 marketing consultants helping over 600,000 businesses
get, and keep, customers.
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Practical Marketing | Meet your Presenters
Eric Enge | CEO, Stone Temple
Consulting
Lead Co-Author, The Art of SEO
Columnist, Search Engine Land
Columnist Search Engine Watch
Frequently speaks at major industryConferences (Search Marketing Expo, Search Engine Watch, & Pubcon)
Learn more from Eric:• The Renowned Stone Temple Consulting Blog• Eric on Google Plus• Eric on Twitter
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This is session 2 in the series:
Get Customers to Know You & Hear Your Message
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You Need Customers
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Your Customers are Online
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You Need to Get Online
Website plus Search Engine = Web Listing
Business Record plus Directory = Business Listing
Get Found OnlineGet Your Business Online
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Have a Smart Website
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Have a Complete Website9
60% don’t have
phone number
75% don’t have
an email
address
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Its Easy for You to get Online too
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Three Major Components to SEO
• Make sure the search engines
can see your pages
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• Make sure the search engines
can see your pages
Three Major Components to SEO
• Help the search engines learn
what your site is about
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• Make sure the search engines
can see your pages
Three Major Components to SEO
• Help the search engines learn
what your site is about
• Why should your site outrank
other selling the same stuff?
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First Major Component to SEO
• Make sure the search engines
can see your pages
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• Search engines don’t know about pages they can’t
see
• Reasons why they might not see a page?– No links to the page exist
– The publisher instructs the search engine to NOT visit the page
Search Engine Concept - Discovery
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Check With the “Site:” Command
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• If you think you have 100 pages on your site:
– and the response says 20 or less, that’s a big problem
– and the response says 200 or more, that’s a big problem
• Don’t worry about smaller problems
• If you have a big problem, you may need to replace
the tools used to build your site
• Hard news to find out, but better to know it now
• YP sites or Wordpress sites should be fine
OK, I Checked, What Now?
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Second Major Component to SEO
• Help the search engines learn
what your site is about
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Search Engine Concept - Relevance
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Search Engine Results Page (SERP) Landscape
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Two most important:
Meta tags = Search Engine Relevance
• Treat this like the headline
• Describes the page content
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SERP Pulls from Meta
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Meta tags = Search Engine Relevance
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In Wordpress …
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Basic Title Tag Guidelines
<head>
<title>Digital marketing excellence, SEO, Social Media - Stone Temple</title>
</head>
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Poor Title!
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OK Title
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1st Golden Rule for Title Tags
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2nd Golden Rule for Title Tags
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Third Major Component to SEO
• Why should your site outrank
other selling the same stuff?
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On-Page Content = Big Factor in Relevance
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Search Engine Concept - Importance
Why Would You Rank First?
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Why are These the Top Three Results?
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Increasing Importance: Links are Like Votes in an Election
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• DOs (for local businesses):– Ask the local chamber of commerce
– Write articles for the local paper
– Interact with local bloggers
– Obtain links from local business directories (like YP.com!)
– You can trade links with a small number of closely related sites
• DON’Ts– Buy ads just to get links (Google does not like that)
– Swap links with unrelated sites
Getting Links to Your Site (For Local Businesses)
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Take Action - SEO
• Make sure your website is discoverable
– Site: command
• Make sure your website is relevant
– Title Tags
– Meta Tags
• Get links to your website
– DO: local websites, friends, directories
– DON’T: unrelated sites
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Business Listings are your businesses
name / number / address
Common places where business listings
are found are
• Yellow pages directories, local search sites
(YP.com), review sites (Yelp), online
directories (lawyer.com) and map sites
(google map)
Business Listings
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What Customers Looking for You Online Find
Search Engine
Local Search Site
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Put Your Business Online with Business Listings
• Put your businesses listing everywhere
• Make sure they are accurate
• Check for reviews
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Local Customers Love to Review Local Businesses
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Reviews are Your Best Friend
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How to Respond
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Take Action
1. Get your business listing on the Top 5:
Google, Bing, YP.com, Yahoo!, Yelp– Google -
https://www.google.com/business/placesforbusiness/
– YP.com - http://adsolutions.yp.com/free-listing-
benefits
– Yahoo - http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
– Bing - https://www.bingplaces.com/
– Yelp - https://biz.yelp.com/support/unlocking
2. Fill in ALL the spaces on the web form –
especially your web address (remember
the SEO?)
3. Respond to reviews where applicable
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Part 1: The heart of Practical Marketing
Part 2: Get customers to know you and
hear your message
Part 3: Zero in on customers who
matter most to your business
Part 4: Turn your customers into
fans and cheerleaders for
your business
Part 5: Do it again. Learn what
works best to connect you
with your customers
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