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Real-Time Content Marketing in a Connected World of Search and Social
January 17, 2013
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Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing
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Opening
Without content, search engines and social
networks do not exist
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Overview
• Unsung pioneers in real-time, search and social
• The basics of real-time content marketing
• How search and social are becoming one
• Why social signals are important to search
• Why search is a strategic component of social
• A list of social signals, and what signals engine pick up on
• Google+: Author and Publisher Markup
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Key thinkers in network theory, real time marketing,
search, and social
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Dr. Manuel Castells and the Space of Flows
1995: “Networks transcend communications traditionally ruled by the space of places…which enables real-time communication across global boundaries…”
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How Regis McKenna Defined “Real-Time Marketing” in 1995 for Harvard Bus. Review
• “To build customer loyalty...companies need to keep their customers engaged in a continuous dialogue.”
• “Companies must keep the dialogue flowing and also maintain conversations with suppliers, distributors, and others in the marketplace.”
• “[Real-time marketing must replace] the broadcast mentality.”
• “[Real-time marketing must focus] on real-time customer satisfaction, providing the support, help, guidance, and information necessary to win customers’ loyalty.”
• “Real-time marketing requires...being willing to learn how information technology is changing both customer behavior in marketing and to think in new ways about marketing within the organization.”
• “[Real-time interaction] allows the customer and the producer to learn from each other and to respond to each other.”
• “The customer still does all the work, hunting and pecking for information. But a real-time marketer would bring the information to the customer.”
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It begs the question…
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Is Regis McKenna one of the unsung pioneers of what we now call “social media marketing”?
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee
“there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches.”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee; May 14, 1992. www.w3.org/History/19921103hypertext/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/KeepingTrack.html
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Dr. Manuel Castells
1995: “We are becoming a networked society”
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2010-2013: The era of pervasive interactivity
In other words, the expectations of your audience and customers have changed. They are “always addressable,” and they expect you to address them in real-time.
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Real-time implications on content publishing
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Fact: If you have a web site or any web presence, then you are a publisher
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New Reality: To meet the expectations of the always addressable consumer, social marketers
must become real-time content marketers
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Being a real-time content marketer means being always present with useful and engaging
content for the always addressable consumer
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Elements of Real-Time Content Marketing
• Organizational shifts from passive to real-time engagement
• A redefining of audience
• A redefining of brand to include the audience
• In some cases, a redefinition of business practices
• A greater commitment to sincerity
• A reworking of the definition of social media to become more inclusive of search principles
• A deep understanding and executional capability in search and findability issues
• A deep understanding of building out earned attention in social networks
• A redefinition of the word publishing
• A commitment to being a “marketer as media publisher”
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Real-time content marketing is not complete without a deep strategic,
tactical, and logistical understanding of search and social together
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How Search and Social are Becoming One
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Natural Language
• Language reflects the words, voice, tone, and tastes of audience
• Used to find and connect with your audience through content and conversation
• Language is a living concept, and SMMs are on the forefront of real-time audience linguistics
• Enables of the spirit of your audience into brand of business conversation
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SOCIAL
SEO
BOTH
Increased Opportunity: Social-only vs. SEO-only vs. Both
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Choice: 2nd Tier SERP Visibility
Why are Social Signals Important to Search?
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Shift in Linking Measurement: Social impact on SEO
• Links are the cornerstones of natural search algorithms, and now social is a cornerstone as well
• But influence of links has shifted greatly from webmasters and technical influencers, to the average Internet user
• As a result, the social graph has taken a massive bite out of the link graph
• Examples of this include:• Tweeting (not a direct link)• Publishing via blog CMS such as
WordPress or Blogger• Rating, commenting, posting• +1s, Likes, various types of shares• Bookmarking• Etc.
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Social Signals Reveal High Velocity Content and Interests
Content Distribution: Passive
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Content Distribution: Active
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Why is Search a Strategic Component of Social?
Search engines perform deep network analysis
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Search data provides market research and show your audience’s tastes
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Search metrics reflect content performance
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Social networks have become algorithmic
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Selected list of social signals and synergies
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Key social signals in Bing and Google
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Additional Considerations for Social Media Marketers
Keywords are connections to people
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Live participation is optimization
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Recency is the new relevancy
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Increased network reach is an SEO tactic
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Real-time user experience is real
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“Optimization” is an external usability issue for both search and social networks, and not “gaming” the system
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People who use search engines also use social networks, and vice versa
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Google+ Authorship and Publishing Markup
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One thing you need to know about Google+:
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Google+ is not a destination – it’s a platform
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The Author Graph
• Measures influence, authority, and theme, just the way Google measures other digital assets
• Your influence is reflected by the quality and theme of the publications you write for, and by the relative social signals for those properties
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Publishers: Get a Google BadgeRemember: If you have a website, then you are a publisher
• Google Badge is a way to connect your website directly to your Google profile
• Google “strongly recommends” that webmasters and publishers make this connection.
• Google also refers to it as an “enhanced version of the +1 button”
• In effect, it creates a sort of handshake between your main web asset and your Google+ presence and verifies your web presence with Google as a publisher
• Read more about Google Badges at https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/badge/config.
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A few last thoughts
• Knowing the interdependencies of search & social is the difference between being a good social media marketer, and a great one
• Social media marketing now requires understanding of algorithmic optimization
• With the proper understanding of SEO, social media marketers can take credit for some SEO visibility
• Real-time expectations from your audience begets real-time content marketing strategies
• Search engines and social networks do not exist without content
• Be socially relevant
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