Influencer Marketing: Using Relationships to Build Killer Links

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Strategies for identifying influencers and building relationships with them to you can develop killer links for your site.

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Influencer Marketing

Who Am I?

Co-author of The Art of SEOPresident of Stone Temple Consulting

25+ person SEO and PPC firmTrainer for Instant E-TrainingFounder of Web Site Publishing Companies

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YOU INFLUENCER

The Influencer Audience Factor

Your Reach Their Reach

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The Influencer Trust Factor

20,000 Connections

20,000 Connections

20 Shares

10 Links

100 Shares

50 Links

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The Synergy We’re Looking For – Step 1

Traffic, Links & New Subscribers

Shared onSocial Networks

Helps DriveNew Followers,Fans, Friends

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The Synergy We Are Looking For – Step 2

(Influencers)

(Your Stuff)

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(Sharing)

Where “it” lives in the organization

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Finding Influencers

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Klout Categories

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Twitter Search for #gps

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Amazon Book Search

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Conference Agendas

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Klout – Influenced By

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Who else writes for the same blog?

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Ways to Verify Influence

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Klout

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Does Your Anchor Text Look Like This?

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12%

11%

23%14%

13%

11%

10%6%

Or, Like This?

Brand Name

Domain

“Looking Natural” – Links You Won’t Get

• Article directories• Low value directories• Blog and forum comments• Link networks• Wordpress themes• Reciprocal links• Sites that do not care about content quality

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Influencer Marketing

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Blog with

Quality Content

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Lots of Guest Posts

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Strong Twitter Presence

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Solid Facebook Presence

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Basic Strategy

• Post great content: 3 to 4 times per week– 2/3 of the posts are from guest authors

• Guest Post on other sites: 3 to 5 times per week

• Always building relationships with influencers• Great content on Twitter and Facebook• Promote posts on Twitter and Facebook

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Top Anchor Text

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Sample Results• http://blog.kissmetrics.com/color-psychology/ • 681 links from unique domains• 7,983 tweets• 4k Likes

• http://blog.kissmetrics.com/science-of-social-timing-1/• 504 links from unique domains• 10,600 tweets• 1k Likes

• The site gets 200,000+ visitors per month

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Thank You!

Eric Engeeenge@stonetemple.com@stonetemple+Eric Enge(508) 485-7751www.stonetemple.com

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