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Making Overtures 2010

Digital Marketing:

Getting FoundGetting CutomersKeeping in Touch

Twitter: susanhallam

Web: www.hallam.biz

Blog: www.hallam.biz/blog

LinkedIn: susanhallam

Email: [email protected]

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Making Overtures 2010

A copy of this presentation

www.hallam.biz

Client Area

Making Overtures

Password: music

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Making Overtures 2010

Who are your customers?

● Who is the decision maker?● End user● Promoters● Agents● Funders

● What do they need to know?● How might they discover you?

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Getting Found in Google

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Google Search Results

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Your Online Reputation

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How do search engines work?

A search engine is made of three basic components:

A Spider or Robot

An automated browser, it searches the web for new websites, or changes to websites, and then strips out the text content

A Storage System

or Database

A record of all the pages viewed by the Spider

A Matching Process or Relevancy Algorithm

The rules that tell the search engine how to determine what would be relevant to your search

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Jazz Quartet Dublin

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Jazz Quartet Dublin

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Title Tag

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Improving Title Tags

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Title Summary

● Google indexes every page individually● Every page can have it’s own specific title● First words most important (left to right)● Consider whether company names needs optimising

or not● Avoid stop words, dead words (Welcome, Home, the,

of..)● Keyword density

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Keyword Rich Content

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It’s not just your website...

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Text in YouTube

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Inbound Linking

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In a nutshell

●Build a site that’s easy for the search engines to find and process

●Write words that customers will use to find your site

●Get important websites in similar topical communities to link to you

●Search Engine Friendly

●Keyword Rich

●Inbound Linkage Strategy

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Web Design

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What’s wrong with this site?(Keeping in mind it ranks 2nd in Google for Jazz Vocalist!)

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Design: Print vs Web

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Mystery Navigation

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Call to Action

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I don’t know you...yetAm I ready to buy from you?

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What do you do?

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www.websiteoptimization.com

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Assess your content

● 25 word statement: what do you do● Clear Call to Action: most desired response● Benefits led copy● Quality of your copywriting: KISS● Recent content & up to date● Easy to contact● Comprehensive information● Legal compliance● Testimonials / Location Map

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Your Visitor Data

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Digital Marketing:

Getting FoundGetting CutomersKeeping in Touch

Twitter: susanhallam

Web: www.hallam.biz

Blog: www.hallam.biz/blog

LinkedIn: susanhallam

Email: [email protected]