the season of our discontent marketing
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Michael King Director of Inbound Marketing @iPullRank
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Then I found this quote. It matched my feeling and almost my typography…
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This talk isn’t about google…
THIS TALK IS ABOUT PEOPLE. The people that are consuming the “content” that we are pumping out on a daily basis. The people being inundated with guest post requests. The people of the web
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CONTENT MARKETING IS THE TROJAN HORSE OF MARKETING
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BUT IN SEO, CONTENT MARKETING IS JUST A EUPHEMISM FOR LINK BUILDING
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YOU USED TO BUILD LINKS…
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now you do “content marketing”
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YET THE SEO INDUSTRY SHOWCASES THE WORK OF AD AGENCIES…
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Dollar shave club. BBH showcased this at Cannes.
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Coca cola 2020. Good grief, It’s Coca Cola
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Old spice. Wieden+Kennedy did this.
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BUT SEO GOES AND DOES MORE OF THIS…
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SEO IS ACTUALLY VERY CAPABLE OF COOL STUFF
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Interactive white papers Check out this awesome Interactive Data Viz from @copypress on the State of Content Marketing 2013 - http://iacq.co/Yg6LNu tp://iacq.co/Yg6LNu
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Interactive data viz @krisroadruck and the SearchFanatics team made this awesome horizontal scrolling data visualization for Trucker Classifieds - http://iacq.co/XtpT7G
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USER-GENERATED CONTENT @devin_concannon at free people built a way to turn selfies into marketing collateral with olapic.com - http://iacq.co/WXIN8o
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Htc phones are in color c/o an seo On a panel with @HamidSaify from Deutsch he discussed that they used insights from Search to convince HTC to offer HTC phones in colors other than black, white and silver.
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BUT CONTENT MARKETING IS A LONG TERM PLAY
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But if we keep making mediocre content we will never get there
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Because people will treat content like they treat commercials.
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OH, RIGHT…
LET’S TALK ABOUT GUEST POSTING.
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GUEST POSTING CAN MAKE YOU A TON OF MONEY
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Here’s an example I realized there was a knowledge gap around how to keep your social shares after a 301. I wrote a post on SEW, someone saw it and it ultimately generated $240K of new business for us.
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SOMEHOW GUEST POSTING IS ALIVE AND WELL…
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Guest posting =diminishing returns If you’re using guest posting as your main link building tactic, then it will continue to show diminishing returns. Limit your guest posting to your best content that fulfills a need and satisfies an audience.
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BECAUSE THE WEB IS ON TO US! We can’t keep doing this, people know what’s going on and hate it!
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AND WHILE THAT SHOWS SOLID DELIVERY FOR LINKS…
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You are late to the party These are the budgets of respondents in the Copypress study. Most people are spending the same on content marketing in 2013, some are increasing their budget and most people want to guest post…
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DIVERSIFY YOUR LINK BUILDING TACTICS!
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LET’S TALK ABOUT INFOGRAPHICS
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WE’RE DOING AN INFOGRAPHIC STUDY We’re looking at hundreds of infographics from 2012. as many as we can get our hands on and measuring the links built, social shares and a variety of other features to determine what makes an infographic perform well.
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BAD OR POOR INFOGRAPHICS GOT 3X LINKS Based on our 1-5 rating scale the infographics with that rated a 1 or 2 (bad or poor) garnered 3 times more links than infographics that scored a 4 or 5.
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INFOGRAPHICS ARE NOT A SILVER BULLET That leads me to believe Seo companies are largely behind the unnatural spread of infographics
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YOUR CONTENT MARKETING NEEDS TO BE BIGGER THAN GUEST POSTS AND INFOGRAPHICS.
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YOUR CONTENT MARKETING must BE ABOUT STORIES AND EXPERIENCES.
13 THINGS YOU SHOULD DO These are the tactics behind a context marketing strategy
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1. Start from content strategy
Content marketing does not inherently include content strategy, but yours should.
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2. Tell a compelling story and make it an unforgettable experience
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3. Make quality a primary kpi.
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4. Ask yourself “will anybody care?” Figure out who those people
are and then put your content in front of them.
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5. Get an awesome developer. This is @iamchrisle. He is an awesome developer. Get you
one. Chris just released a ton of
tools for google docs. Get those too: http://iacq.co/15AP6Ue
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6. Use Data viz libraries
http://selection.datavisualization.ch/
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7. Invest in quality research
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8. Invest in stellar creative.
MEDIOCRITY has diminishing returns and ultimately does
not scale.
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9. Focus on the roi
See my mozcon Deck: http://iacq.co/YHXlZa
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10. Diversify content types
PRESS
BLOGS VIDEO
UGC
COMICS
PRODUCTS
PHYSICAL SPACE
ADS
PHOTOS
INFOGRAPHICS
SERVICES
EVENTS
UI ELEMENTS
PDFS TOOLS
APIS
ANIMATIONS
COMMENTS
DATA
PLATFORMS
PRINT MATERIAL SLIDE DECKS
PLUGINS
TWEETS
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11. Develop your authors People don’t know what rel-author is and that Google is looking to rank content based on the people connected to it. Be ahead of that curve.
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12. guest post by audience not pagerank.
Use socialcrawlytics.com to see if people are sharing and topsy to find out who they
are
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13. kickstart distribution w/ paid media Place content in front of the right audiences with
contextual ads http://iacq.co/12Vwzm2
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11. Leverage social metadata
Metadata is about having content make the best first
impression. http://iacq.co/Wf38UK
13. MAKE CONTENT YOU’RE NOT AFRAID TO SHARE.
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Let us Help you
With That
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then the web will be a better place
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Thank you Michael King Director of Inbound Marketing @iPullRank