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10:02:10 AM Barry Schwartz: Starting soon
10:02:21 AM
Barry Schwartz:
Speakers:
Rhea Drysdale, CEO, Outspoken Media, Inc. (@rhea)
Aaron Friedman, SEO Manager, Spark (@aaronfriedman)
Marty Weintraub, CEO, aimClear (@aimclear)
10:03:58 AM Barry Schwartz: Marty Weintraub, CEO, aimClear (@aimclear) is going to wake us all up
10:04:14 AM Barry Schwartz: He then calls everyone beautiful
10:06:13 AM Barry Schwartz: It is not just about SEO now
10:06:19 AM Barry Schwartz: Social is integrated into Search
10:06:32 AM Barry Schwartz: Offer Strong incentive for existing community to subscribe
10:06:52 AM Barry Schwartz: Be social with people...
10:06:55 AM
Barry Schwartz:
Product Updates, Manuals’ Addendum
Deals, Offers, & Commercial Plays
HR News
Crucial Corporate Announcements
Snow Day City Parking
Breakthrough Cancer Drug Announced
10:07:41 AM Barry Schwartz: It is about feed marketing
10:07:59 AM Barry Schwartz: Marty calls this vanity bait
10:08:14 AM Barry Schwartz: If you get an email saying you are great, you check out the link
10:09:01 AM Barry Schwartz: He noticed if he linked to people, people loved to be linked to
10:10:26 AM Barry Schwartz: Interviews work well
10:11:06 AM Barry Schwartz: It is about internal relations, PR
10:12:10 AM Barry Schwartz: Get to know the media: bloggers, TV, publishers, papers, radio... Circle subscriptions are SEO targets, infleunce the most important influencers.
10:12:35 AM Barry Schwartz: Follow them on Google+
10:12:44 AM Barry Schwartz: Customer Service, the best SEO is a product that doesn't suck
10:12:54 AM Barry Schwartz: @mediatemplate does a good job of it he said
10:13:37 AM Barry Schwartz: Celebrate the community, point out things you own a few times a week.
10:13:49 AM Barry Schwartz: Sync this with your publication calendar
10:13:58 AM Barry Schwartz: This way you know what you need to know
10:14:41 AM Barry Schwartz: He likes AJ Kohn on how he said to optimize Google+
10:14:56 AM Barry Schwartz: Do an "identity feed"
10:16:08 AM Barry Schwartz: Linking the PR people, on Google+, link them on LinkedIn and so forth - know who they are
10:18:28 AM Barry Schwartz: Closing thought: In 2009, he was training a company and told them to do a search for results he ranked well for. So he had like 10 people searching for it and then days after, these people found him ranking for all his content. That is because they clicked on his results. Personalization at its best.
10:19:32 AM Barry Schwartz: That is all from Marty
10:21:22 AM Barry Schwartz: Aaron Friedman, SEO Manager, Spark (@aaronfriedman) next up
10:22:57 AM
Barry Schwartz:
Barriers for Personalization:
(1) How do I reach a larger audience
(2) How do I get my stuff to show up
10:23:25 AM Barry Schwartz: Quantity: For users, this means getting more relevant results. For marketers, this means getting more users to see their results.
10:24:39 AM
Barry Schwartz:
This means buy Facebook ads
10:24:52 AM Barry Schwartz: Google+ and Twitter are harder to run ads on, as effectively at least on Facebook
10:25:25 AM Barry Schwartz: In the end, if it is just a lot of traffic, then that is all it is. You need quality.
10:27:56 AM Barry Schwartz: Step 1, identify queries
10:28:09 AM Barry Schwartz: Step 2: Look at social data with Topsy, SocialMention, etc
10:28:47 AM Barry Schwartz: Step 3: Develop content that is relevant, have a list of user for outreach and grow your network
10:29:02 AM Barry Schwartz: Open Graph Optimization: 300 web page experiment
10:29:19 AM Barry Schwartz: People are not using open graph elements
10:29:38 AM Barry Schwartz: OpenGraph have 95 characters and open graph descriptions have 297 descriptions
10:29:49 AM Barry Schwartz: If you do not use it, then you are leaving it up to FB to figure it out
10:30:09 AM Barry Schwartz: Optimize those open graph tags
10:30:30 AM Barry Schwartz: Tweet what you want code, add it to your page
10:30:59 AM Barry Schwartz: Typically Twitter uses Title tag or header, problem is there might be a more effective title
10:31:20 AM Barry Schwartz: Then change the message the next day.
10:31:54 AM Barry Schwartz: Engines are becoming a lot more social, entities are everywhere
10:32:09 AM Barry Schwartz: They are creating a new database of entities and attributes
10:32:23 AM Barry Schwartz: It is understanding concepts about word
10:32:48 AM Barry Schwartz: These are entities
10:32:53 AM Barry Schwartz: Knowledge Graph also
10:33:27 AM Barry Schwartz: Remember the wonder wheel, he said, they are similar to the Knowledge Graph
10:35:40 AM
Barry Schwartz:
So what do we do with this?
(1) Focus on Rel=Author
(2) Focus on Quality Content
(3) Spend Time Growing your User Base
10:37:05 AM Barry Schwartz: Rhea Drysdale, CEO, Outspoken Media, Inc. (@rhea) is now up
10:37:14 AM Barry Schwartz: Personalization is the future of search (and present)
10:37:22 AM
Barry Schwartz:
Business case for personalization
10:38:45 AM Barry Schwartz: Location, Search History and Social is what makes up Personalization
10:40:19 AM Barry Schwartz: Google tracks your friends via mutual connections on gmail, Google product interactions, profile links, connected accounts, extended circles, and extended sites
10:40:45 AM
Barry Schwartz:
How do they connect it?
(1) Similarities between your Google account name and usernames
(2) Similarities between your connections
10:40:56 AM
Barry Schwartz:
Google tracks what you +1
10:41:54 AM
Barry Schwartz:
How do they track social activity:
- PostRank
-- Conversions
-- Sources
-- Sharing
This is in Google Analytics
10:43:31 AM Barry Schwartz: SMX London 2012, Amit Singhal said search search was the key to personalized results.
10:43:49 AM Barry Schwartz: Google doesn't want to take over Facebook, they want to enhance search with a social graph≥
10:44:28 AM Barry Schwartz: Keyword reports are obsolete when search results are personalization
10:44:42 AM Barry Schwartz: Bing said that when looking at personalization, it is looking at social
10:45:47 AM Barry Schwartz: Bing has a competitive advantage to have Facebook and Twitter data
10:45:57 AM Barry Schwartz: Personalized Search Tactics
10:47:32 AM Barry Schwartz: Markup everything except ands, ifs and buts - good quote
10:48:25 AM Barry Schwartz: If you get into a car accident, what else do you need outside of a lawyer? auto repar, chiropractor, addiction specialist, etc. :)
10:49:49 AM Barry Schwartz: Go to the local search panel tomorrow she said.
10:49:58 AM Barry Schwartz: Search history side she said brand your name, products, company
10:50:37 AM Barry Schwartz: Write great, relevant content - it is basic, but so few people do it.
10:51:00 AM Barry Schwartz: Set up a Wikipedia page
10:51:08 AM Barry Schwartz: Submit your data through Freebase
10:51:25 AM Barry Schwartz: Setup Authorship
10:51:37 AM Barry Schwartz: Brand thought leaders
10:52:21 AM Barry Schwartz: Publish content often...
10:53:29 AM Barry Schwartz: Create a community account login
10:53:49 AM Barry Schwartz: Use gmail for login, it is about getting connection
10:54:02 AM Barry Schwartz: Use events to drive queries
10:54:27 AM Barry Schwartz: Create and post to Google+ page
10:54:48 AM Barry Schwartz: Setup Google+ Direct Connect
10:55:04 AM Barry Schwartz: Increase your Google+ followers
10:55:32 AM Barry Schwartz: Use LinkedIn to identify your network
10:56:22 AM Barry Schwartz: Giveaways, contests, sweepstakes, etc
10:56:30 AM Barry Schwartz: Use Facebook login for comments
10:56:45 AM Barry Schwartz: Create long and short term content
10:57:08 AM Barry Schwartz: Engage your community, SEOmoz does a good job of that
10:57:54 AM Barry Schwartz: That is all --- lunch time soon and then more sessions... http://searchmarketingexpo.com/advanced/agenda