7. Google Webmaster Tools
5. Free Monitor for Google
http://www.cleverstat.com/en/google-monitor-query.htm
- Pay-per-click programs
- Google AdWords – pay for attracting visitors
- Google AdSense – gat paid for showing ads
- Microsoft adCenter
- Yahoo Search Marketing
- Link exchange programs
- Mobile pay-per-click programs
- Google Mobile Ads, Microsoft Mobile Banner
Online Reputation Management
- Monitoring the Internet reputation of a person / product / brand / business
Two activities:
- Monitoring – done by ORM monitoring tools
- Mitigation – mitigating SERPs (search engine result pages) or mentions in online media
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Social Media Optimization
Basic
Goals of SEO
Evolution
Social media optimization (SMO, social SEO)
- Attracting visitors from the social networks
Typical social SEO activities
- Share content in the social networks, social integrate comments, likes , "+1" in your site
- Post your media in the social sites (images, video, presentations, etc.)
- Maintain pages / groups / lists / … of your site
- Post articles / comments / messages about your site in blogs, forums, groups, social networks, …
- The Web site / page increases its visitors (customers) and increases its sales
- Achieve better branding and reputation for a product / service
- Target the audience better
SEO-the process of improving the visibility of a Web site or a Web page in the search engines
SEM – search engine marketing means marketing of a Web site (SEO + paid ads)
Internet marketing (Web marketing, e-marketing)
Marketing a product or service through Internet
Includes SEO, SEM, SMM (campaigns in the social networks), paid ads, e-mail marketing,
On-site SEO / SEO-friendly site
SEO Assessment & Metrics
Copywriting
SEO step by step
Define SEO goals
Popular SEO metrics for a Web site:
- The quality of your site content, structure, internal links, etc. is very important for SEO!
- E.g. if your keywords are missing on your Web site, Google considers it irrelevant
- Be sure to insert your keywords and phrases on the page titles, subtitles, sidebars, footers, etc.
- Carefully prepare your content and internal links anchors, measure keywords density
- Use tags and categories for content annotation
- Copywriting is the process of authoring high-quality marketing text or other content
- Link building is the process of building high-quality unidirectional backlinks to your site
- To promote a site / product / service / idea / etc.
- Articles, blog posts, Facebook posts, etc.
- High-quality links means:
- SEO-friendly out-of-the-box + lots of SEO plugins
- Support SEO-friendly URLs, tags, categories, internal linking, canonical URLs, etc.
E.g. double my site visitors / subscribers / sales
E.g. enter in the top search results in Google for certain keywords / phrases
- Identify your keywords / phrases for SEO
What phrases do you need to optimize?
Who are they? Why they are well ranked?
- Clarifying the SEO goals
- SEO assessment & metrics
- On-site SEO
- Copywriting
- Link building
- Social SEO
- Local search SEO
- Google Page Rank / Alexa Rank / mozRank / Complete Rank
- of visitors per day (average traffic)
- of external links to your site (backlinks)
- of root domains linking to your site
- of Twitter / Facebook / Google+ followers
- of indexed pages in Google / Yahoo / Bing
- Conversion rate (visitors , subscribers , trial users , paid users)
Links from popular, highly ranked web sites
- Sites from the same business domain
- Sites, blogs and directories on similar topics
- Social networks and groups on similar topics
Organic, natural links, not spam!
- With high density of the target keywords
- With one or more backlinks to your Web site
- With specific anchor text in the links
- That targets general or specific audience
- Build your own SEO platform
- Costs too much resources, for experts only
- Copywriting for SEO means to write an article
- Only "DoFollow" links matter