Online Marketing Program: 3.1 Social Media Authority
What is Social Authority?
One of the key components in successful social media marketing implementation is building “social authority.“
Social authority is developed when an individual or organization establishes themselves as an “expert” in their given field or area, thereby becoming an “influencer” in that field or
area…
Why can that be important to SME business owners?
It is through this process of “building social authority” that social media becomes effective. That is why one of the foundational concepts in social media has become that you cannot completely control your message through social media but rather you can simply begin to participate in the “conversation” in the hopes that you can become a relevant influence in that conversation.
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A Couple of Friday week-ending Things…
Hello all…and yes, I know that I’m more than a bit late for todays week-ending blog piece…but we’ve been pretty busy with all the start-ups, mentoring, coaching and yes, we’ve also begun the Xmas season with last nite’s big party at McMaster Innovation Park with our own Innovation Factory Holiday Soiree!
And I had fun. No two ways about it….I met lots of start-ups that I’ve coached or mentored or who’ve taken our own “Go-To-Market” seminars and chatted with them all!
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Online Marketing Program: 3.0 Social Media Beginnings
Okay, it’s time to move “up” our Online Marketing Success Pyramid, to the next level where weekly tasks abound – your Social Media Program Campaign!
And a reminder, that Social Media tasks can be defined as -
[def. ~ is the set of tasks that must be done on a daily basis that deal with your online reputation, your position of credibility within your channel and your ability to mentor and aid others within that channel. More than that, you are also planning on proving your social authority as a recognized expert in that channel.]
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Online Marketing Program: 2.3 Off-Page Optimization Advanced
Okay, so if you’ve been following along on our Online Marketing Program, you’ll remember that last week we discussed the off-page optimization beginnings….and today we move to the advanced areas to consider…and that’s citations. What are those you will ask….and the answer is that they are pretty easy tools to use to get some serp traction and that’s really important if you think abour it.
First, let’s look at citations – and what is a citation? From David Mihm’s site over at GetListed.org here’s the working definition of what we mean when we use the term citation –
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UnCorkedVentures.com: New SEO Serps!
About 17 months ago or so, it was my pleasure to “bump” into the owners of uncorkedventures.com – an online wine store from California that was a request to do a guest blog on our CanuckSEO site about their own SEO campaign – and I passed on that offer.
Why? Because as I explained it in a blog piece way back then, they were using the tactic of writing articles, and submitting them to various online directories (names not named to protect the innocent, eh!) and that while he’d climbed the serps somewhat via the do-follow links, he had no idea really on the efficacy nor efficiency of that tactic.
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Happy Second Birthday to CanuckSEO.com!
Yup, two years since I began this blog and so far, what I can absolutely swear to – is that writing a blog regularily can be a truly uplifting and fun experience. Well…mostly that is, eh!
That’s not to say at times, it’s not been a real chore…trying to come up with a topic that is both newsworthy on SEO, on local business and SEO, on Canadian wide national SEO and on Google itself…..something that at the least the kind folks up on the mothership have been so kind as to provide same. Monthly, weekly and yup sometimes even daily too!
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Online Marketing Program: 2.3 Off-Page Optimization Beginnings
A large part of any SEO campaign is the ability to discern and develop your own specialized lists of authority sites, trusted sites, forums, search engines for you to list your website with in regards to acquire backlinks. These are truly “incoming” back links (IBLs) and you must remember that this has shown to be only one manner in which to achieve higher rankings without delving into the reciprocal exchanges in non-sector link farms and such items.
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Online Marketing Program: 2.2 On-Page Optimization
You will need to use the original re-phrased keyword set as the base set for use in each website page’s “on-page” SEO. By this term you will need to understand all of the variables that exist on each of your <HTML> pages that will need to be modified – your <head> tags area, the <title> tag, the <body> contents text blocks, your <image> tags and their <alt> modifiers, your <header> and <footer> links, all on-page URLS and all interior navigational links and URLs too.
This is a very detailed job that requires much knowledge of the “best practices” that are most current so that you will entail no search engine penalties for your website.
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Online Marketing Program: 2.1 SEO-Keyword Research
Time to turn to SEO and what it can do for your online marketing program – and for those of you who know this topic somewhat, I’m sure you’d agree, that SEO can do wonders..so let’s begin with Keyword Research!
First, you will need to attempt to define your Keyword phrases for your products or services; discover your competitor’s usage of their own keywords; develop a completely new set of keyword candidates for your own use and then re subscribe to the top 10 search engines.
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Online Marketing Program: 1.4 Conversion Tracking
A/B and/or Multivariate Testing…
The attention span on the Web has been decreasing ever since Google had arrived and changed the rules of the game.
Now with millions of results available on any topic imaginable, the window to grab a visitor’s attention has decreased significantly (in 2002, the BBC reported it is about 9 seconds).
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Online Marketing Program: 1.3 Call To Action – Part 2
Yup, time to move along to Part 2 of our Call to Action area in our Online Marketing Program, and we begin with a look at color – and how it can influence and often determine the difference between an effective call to action and one that languishes in last place!
Here’s what we’ve found, color info wise….compare some of the colors below with what you’re using – and what other successful websites use too! Do a survey….and use A/B testing to determine what works for your site!!!
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Online Marketing Program: 1.3 Call To Actions – Part 1
The term “call to action” means, well, just what it sounds like – it’s instructing someone to do what you want them to do, or calling them to action.
For example, a successful call to action can motivate a customer to click on a link at the end of a blog post, reply to an e-mail, or “like” your post on Facebook. After your readers have finished reading your content, a call to action provides web visitors with the next step, leading them one step closer to converting from a visitor to a customer. Whether it’s completing a sale or downloading an article, a strong call to action is an important part of any marketing strategy – perhaps it’s said the MOST important part of any strategy!
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