June 2012 - Web Trends for Marketing Professionals

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The web moves so fast that it often seems almost impossible to keep up. So let us do it for you. Miriam Schwab gives a 1-hour lecture packed with the most important updates on the web so you can maximize your web presence.

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Web Trends for Marketing Professionals

June 25, 2012, JerusalemBy: Miriam Schwab

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Who am I?

• Friendly CEO of illuminea, one of Israel’s leading WordPress development agencies.

• Providing SEO and social media marketing services

• Speaker at dozens of conferences, including Affilicon, Megaconn, Sphinncon, and SMX

• Serves on Steering Board of Digital Eve Israel, one of Israel’s largest communities of professional women.

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Women influence men online• Women sent fb friends a notification

that they had used an app• Men 1.5 times more likely to act on

the info than women• Men 49% more influential in general

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Twitter Cards

• Like facebook Open Graph info• Gives control over how content is

displayed with tweet

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Twitter Cards (cont)

• Three card types– Summary - title, description, thumbnail

image, and Twitter account attribution– Photo - A Tweet sized photo card– Player - A Tweet sized

video/audio/media player card

• Add HTML to HEAD:<meta name="twitter:card“ content="summary">

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Twitter Cards WP plugin

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YouTube threatens MP3 download sites• Lawyers representing Google recently

sent a threatening letter to youtube-mp3.org and music-clips.net

• Google says they violate terms of service

• Google blocked their access to YouTube

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HOWTO: Prevent fb facial recognition

• Facebook will try to find pics of you, encourage friends to tag you.

• Can’t prevent fb from using facial recognition on your pics. Can do this:

1. Go to your privacy settings.2. Go to Timeline and Tagging. Click

Edit Settings.

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HOWTO: Prevent facial recognition (cont)

3. Go to the last option:

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HOWTO: Prevent facial recognition (cont)

4. Make sure No One is selected. (The other option is Friends.) Note how you have to opt-out, not opt-in

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Facebook makes your fb email default in timeline (for some)

• Facebook changed profile email settings without your knowledge

• Made you username@facebook.com email address your default email

• You can change it back…

HOWTO: Change your fb default email

1. Go to your profile page. Click About in top corner:

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HOWTO: Change your fb default email (cont)

2. Scroll down to contact info. Click Edit:

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HOWTO: Change your fb default email (cont)

3. Add/remove emails, choose who can see the email address, whether it will appear on timeline or not:

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FB adds ability to Export events

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Pinterest adds attribution for more sites

• Etsy, 500px, Kickstarter, Slideshare and SoundCloud.

• Attribution can’t be removed or changed

• Pinterest will go back to add attribution to past pins

LinkedIn Targeted Status Updates rolls out to all• Philips saw a 106% increase in

engagement by followers after running Targeted Status Updates

• New followers insights page – demographics, growth, engagement

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LinkedIn Targeted Status Updates rolls out to

all (cont)• Why do people follow companies?– 67% to gain industry insights– 61% for company news– 49% are attracted by the peer

community

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WP launches 3.4! Features

• Easily embed tweets• Photo captions can be custom links• New theme customizer

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WP 3.4: LTR button in WYSIWYG

• Little known feature: in RTL installations, there is now a LTR button for adding LTR text easily. It toggles on/off:

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WP 3.4: LTR button in WYSIWYG (cont)

• Here’s how the HTML looks:

Via Yoav Farhi

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SEO: Careful with long title tags!

Google saw long title, so tried to find a “better” title. Lesson: make sure <title> is short, even if blog title is long. Here’s how…

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HOWTO: Control post <title> length with WordPress SEO

plugin• Blog post title:

• Appears on front-end:

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HOWTO: Control post <title> length with WordPress SEO plugin

(cont)• Post <title> - this is what Google

cares about:

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HOWTO: Control post <title> length with WordPress SEO plugin

(cont)• How the title looks on front-end:

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Snazzy new comment login with Jetpack plugin for WP

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Duplicate WP posts

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Users prefer mobile web to apps

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TOOLS

Fanzy – reward fb fans – free!

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NEWS

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Sex offenders have to update fb status

• Louisiana has enacted a new law requiring sex offenders and child predators to disclose their criminal status on their Facebook and other social networking profiles.

• Sex offenders must include the crime for which they were convicted, the jurisdiction of their conviction, a description of their physical characteristics and a residential address within their profile.

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YouTube to make $3.6b this year• YouTube’s traffic growing at 20% per

quarter• Steadily placing more ads inside

videos.• Google will keep $2.4 billion of the

$3.6 billion, per YouTube’s revenue-sharing agreement with partners.

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THANKS!

illumineahttp://illuminea.com ▪ http://wpgarage.com@miriamschwab ▪ http://facebook.com/miriamschwabSlides available at http://illum.in/ourpresentations

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