SEO: Monitor the Web With Google Reader
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• Catch people talking about your company or products
• Find potential customers
• Find influencers or partners for future outreach
• Find blog ideas• Find things to RT
• An RSS feed reader (we like Google Reader)
• Twitter• Google Alerts• Google Blog Search
• Look for RSS icon on industry sites
• Search for “INDUSTRY blog”
• Search for “top INDUSTRY blogs”
• Find competitors’ blogs
• Try adding /feed to blog’s URL:http://blog.hhcolorlab.com/ http://blog.hhcolorlab.com/feed
In Google Reader, click “Subscribe”
Paste RSS feed URL
Click “Add”
• Click the arrow on a feed and then “New folder…”
• Organize by audience (customers, competition) or by source (Q&A sites, blogs, video)
• Create RSS updates from Google searches:www.google.com/alerts
• Search for keywords, product names, company names
• Real-time notification of new Google search results
• Can also send automatic email as results are found
• Tip: try alerts that will find people asking questions
• Trial and error!• Use “quotes,” or you’ll
get weird stuff • Try OR, AND• Group terms with ( )• Weed out junk with “-”• Use “-
site:example.com” to filter out spammy sites
• Cast a wider net: Pull tweets in too!• Hear from consumers who don’t blog• Look for…
• Tweets that suggest buyer intent• Tweets from related businesses, targeting
your audience
• Twitter removed link to search RSS• Direct link still works:
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=YOURKEYWORDS
• Replace “YOURKEYWORDS” with target terms
• Paste URL into Google Reader
• Monitor tweets from or to any account
• Browser will replace spaces and special characters, giving you this URL:http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:hhcolorlab%20OR%20@hhcolorlab
• Filter tweets by latitude/longitude:http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=wedding+photos&geocode=38.966673,-94.6169012,70km
• Use this to find your latitude and longitude: http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html
• Use hashtags to pull relevant tweets:http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23photog
• In this example, replace “photog” with your hashtag of choice
• Use the following for hashtag research:• http://hashonomy.com/hashtags/trending/• http://hashtags.org/• http://twubs.com/
• Remove retweets with –rt• Remove tweets w/ links with –
filter:link• Example:
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=wedding photos -rt -filter:link
• Leaves you with actual conversations, not just links to blogs
• Remove tweets with any keyword by adding “–keyword”
• If not comfortable modifying URLs directly, try http://topsy.com/• Simpler, but missing some options
• Create an assortment of feeds w/ brands, hashtags, and keywords
• Test something, then modify query• Filter out spammy results• Remove any feed that isn’t useful
• Subscribe to a page’s feed using this URL: https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=rss20&id=57676989295
• Click profile image to see page ID in URL:
• Put ID into above URL and paste it into Google Reader
• No built-in method like Twitter – use Google Alerts:hhcolorlab site:facebook.com -site:facebook.com/hhcolorlab –rt
• The above returns...• Mentions of hhcolorlab on Facebook• Not including their Facebook page• Excluding all Twitter RTs posted to Facebook
walls• Copy that text to Google Alerts to test
• Brainstorm ideas just for video!• Set “Result type” to “Video.”• Create a folder just for video
searches
• Monitor Quora, Yahoo Answers, Wiki Answers, others with a single search:(site:quora.com OR site:answers.yahoo.com OR site:wiki.answers.com) best DSLR camera
• Add queries to Google Alerts!
• Follow blogs in 1 location• Comment on interesting posts• Follow interesting people on Twitter• Respond to brand mentions
• Create a bundle from a folder in Google Reader
• Generate RSS link for entire bundle• Paste URL into
http://thegramanator.appspot.com/
Add ?n=70 to URL to get more results!• Credit for original idea and Gramanator tool: Ian Lurie,
Portent Interactive
• Paste the raw text into www.tagxedo.com or www.wordle.net
• Spot trending topics• Visualize blog and twitter activity• Google blog search trending topics
you’re not familiar with• Plan blog posts around what’s hot• Blog ideas from this example…:
• School senior posing tips• Wedding close-up tips• Photography wall displays• Photography business tips
• A feed with 500+ new posts per hour is not a great feed
• A feed with 3 new posts per day is also no good
• Make sure your queries align with your objectives
• The output will only be as good as the inputs• Find/create at least a dozen quality feeds• Filter out spam and noise• Think like a business – what do they write
about?• Think like a customer – what do they write
about?
• This is merely a tool for listening and monitoring
• Should be used to inform a content strategy
• This fits into step 3 of building a content marketing machine:http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-build-and-operate-a-content-marketing-machine
• We can…• Develop the strategy• Create the content• Measure the results