The Missing Link: Using SEO to Support Brand, PR &
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- Marion Greer
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1 The Missing Link: Using SEO to Support Brand, PR &
2 This year, so far, we ve built 4.7k links
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4 The Mirror The Metro The Sun New York Post Washington Post Daily Mail
5 Greenpeace WWF NASA
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8 TV2 (Denmark) TV3 (Denmark) NBC (US) ITV (UK)
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11 (1) We re becoming ad-blind + The way we re searching is changing (2) Brands need to be storytellers + News media has changed = brand is more important than ever = opportunity to make the news (3) How we do it
12 We ve Become Ad-Blind
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18 word-of-mouth point-of-sale reputation management radio mailshots your brand sponsorship billboards celebrity endorsements posters telemarketing product placement seminars PR TV print ads whitepapers
19 native content display ads remarketing native advertising point-of-sale SEO PPC word-of-mouth reputation management radio retargeting blogging mailshots paid facebook facebook your brand sponsorship billboards celebrity endorsements snapchat posters pinterest twitter paid twitter telemarketing product placement podcasts seminars webinars PR TV print ads whitepapers online video
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21 1,707 Banner ads per month
22 1, % Banner ads per month Average click through rate
23 1, % 50% Banner ads per month Average click through rate of clicks on mobile are accidental
24 millennials are able to filter out advertising and commercial messages on social platform across the board Professor Barnes, University of Massachusetts
25 By 2021, 74% of all ad revenue is predicted to be spent on native advertising
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27 can t recall the sponsor of native content HubShout survey, 2014
28 We ve Become Ad-Blind
29 the way we re searching is changing
30 increasingly our preferences, whether communicated explicitly or implicitly, are key
31 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Rank We saw 3x the CTR for an international brand in a country where it s dominant vs countries where it s not.
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36 How do you become the default choice?
37 (1) We re becoming ad-blind + The way we re searching is changing (2) Brands need to be storytellers + News media has changed = brand is more important than ever = opportunity to make the news (3) How we do it
38 Brands as Storytellers
39 Try to remember the last Samsung advert.
40 Try to remember the last any Samsung advert.
41 Samsung spends $9.9Bn a year trying to create impact with their ads.
42 Now, do you know: What was sent to CNN s office recently? What s wrong with Trump s phone? What did Merkel recently announce?
43 53% now read news online at least once a day
44 news media has changed
45 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ Print Ad Revenue Combined Online & Offline Ad Revenue
46 for every $1 of digital revenue gained $55 of print revenue had been lost
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48 1,200 stories, graphics and videos per day
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50 15 articles a day
51 What has this got to do with link building?
52 People don t invest in things they don t understand
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54 Traditional link building doesn t make sense to non-seos
55 73 websites everything else
56 50% Of Traffic In The UK Goes To These 73 Sites
57 100 websites everything else
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59 Google Penalty Link Building
60 Traditional link building doesn t make sense to non-seos because: 1. You re contacting blogs with little-to-no audience 2. Blogs are inherently risky as they sell links 3. That leads to a cycle of link building and link removal 4. It contributes nothing to other marketing channels
61 Bringing it together
62 (1) We re becoming ad-blind + The way we re searching is changing (2) Brands need to be storytellers + News media has changed = brand is more important than ever = opportunity to make the news
63 SEO s have a tendency to ask how can we appear authoritative When we should be asking how can we become more authoritative
64 Moz popularized the concept of the T-shaped marketer
65 The T-Shaped Campaign Brand PR SEO Social PPC/Display Expertise Authority Trust Relevancy Links Rankings
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68 211 pieces of coverage
69 211 pieces of coverage 6 million views
70 In print On Radio On TV Virgin Radio Canada (7.8k) Yahoo Finance (131k) New York Post (250k) ESPN Radio (59k) Today Show (NBC) (2.5 million) WKRC Radio (79k) E!News (3 million)
71 The T-Shaped Campaign Brand PR SEO Social PPC/Display 211 links Average TF35 Top 10 ranking for casino >50% organic traffic increase
72 The T-Shaped Campaign Brand PR SEO Social PPC/Display talking point 6 million views TV & Radio 211 links 7k shares 510k retargeting list Average TF35 Top 10 ranking for casino >50% organic traffic increase
73 You ll need to get comfortable with unknown unknowns
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84 Behind the Scenes Video for Youtube GIF For Twitter
85 168 Links
86 Account Followers 40.4 million 7.8 million 2.1 million 1.3 million 911k 204k 112k 23.5k 26k
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93 419 links >15k shares
94 Washington Post
95 How we do it
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97 Make the news
98 Target where the attention is
99 Have grit