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IS THIS RELATIONSHIP RIGHT FOR YOU?

Tools and Methods for Evaluating Relationships

Glenn Walker@walkergv

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WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY

• Partner @ Local Digital Marketing Agency

• A Developer and Web Designer (Wordpress - Yeah!)

• My specialties are Paid Online Marketing and Analysis

• Fond of Number Crunching

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HOOUSEKEEPING &FORMALITIES

• Not very Wordpressy• No Live Coding• http://tikodigital.com/

blog

• Philosophy

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HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS REQUIRES GIVE

AND TAKE.

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YOU ARE A GIVER A CARING NURTURER

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RELATIONSHIPS WITH READERS

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GIVE LOVE TO RECEIVE LOVE

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WHAT RELATIONSHIP DO YOU WANT?

100 Friends

80 Followers

3 Followers

7 Followers

Small Niche Blogger

67 Thousand Followers

INFLUENCER!

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I’M A GIVER, A CARING NURTURER

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WAYS TO ANALYZE CONTENT SUCCESS

• COUNT SOCIAL SHARES (GOOD)• QUALITY OF SOCIAL SHARES (BETTER)– Large Engaged Audience– Gets Retweets

• NUMBER OF BACKLINKS ( MORE LATER )• COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHERS• FACEBOOK IS SOCIAL (BIG BUT CLOSED)• TWITTER IS MEDIA AND OPEN ( FOR

NOW )

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TOPSY.COM – QUICK WAY TO EVALUATE TWITTER SHARES

BIG FOLLOWER COUNTS Following More than they are followed.

ME! – 136 Followers (yeah me!)

OWNER OF PPC ASSOCIATES Respected Well Known Guy & Good Audience

MY FRIEND TODD – Works at PPC AssociatesDoes have 5000K Followers – Highly engaged

REAL PERSON – 100 Followers

REAL PERSON – 36 Followers

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HONEST SELF EXAMINATION

• ENGAGED FEW PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE COMPANY (PPC ASSOCIATES)

• NO RETWEETS, FEW TWEETS FROM INFLUENCERS*

• LOOKED LIKE I GOT SOME LOVE BUT NOT MUCH

• CONTENT WAS NOT THAT SUCCESSFUL

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WE ALL WANT MORE LOVE

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Y U GET SO MUCH LOVE?

THERESA BAIOCCO51 TWEETS30 LIKES27 PLUSSESSSES…10 INSHARES

TWEETED BY@Bryan Eisenberg (24K)World Leader in CRO

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WHATS SHE GOT ANYWAY?

• BETTER HEADLINE • POPULAR INDUSTRY TERM – Conversion Rate

Optimization• TOP 10 STYLE – 3 Things That

• LOTS OF ATTRACTIVE VISUALS• YOUTUBE VIDEO• SCREEN SHOTS

• CONVERSATIONAL TONE IN WRITING“Next, configure those goals in analytics so you can measure the completion rate. Most people who have installed analytics have not configured their goals. Have you?- If not, do that now.- I’ll wait.”

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TERESA, Y U SO SMART?

RIGHT FROM HER ARTICLE, ARGHHH

• DEFINE KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

• FIGURE OUT WHAT’S PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM DOING (X) ON YOUR SITE

• TEST FOR IMPROVEMENT

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WHY TWITTER IS AWESOME

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ENVY ISN’T ALWAYS BAD

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BOOK RECOMMENDATION

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TAKE ANOTHER KICK AT THE CAT

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DON’T BE INSANE. CHANGE AND ADJUST

• BETTER HEADLINE • POPULAR INDUSTRY TERM – PPC (Pay Per Click)• TOP 10 STYLE – (Steal Like an Artist)

• ATTRACTIVE VISUALS• Friendly Shot of My Dog (Lilly is so cute!)• Charts and Graphs

• CONVERSATIONAL WRITING TONE• “Say you owned a small pet store, and you wanted to expand into pet grooming.

You found out from a reliable friend in the pet-grooming business the next town over that she advertises using local pay-per-click ads. It just so happens that a groomer friend is looking for a weekend job to pay some bills, and you wouldn’t mind making a few extra bucks, especially since your store is already open from 8am-4pm on weekends.”

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MORE SHARES (GOOD)POST 1

POST 2

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BACK TO TOPSY.COM – MORE ENGAGEMENT (Better!)

Blue train (7.2K Followers)

ME! – 136 Followers (yeah me!)

TODD – (6K Followers)

Owner of PPC Associates (5K Followers)

Lyena Solomon– (2.3K Followers)

David Szetela– (62.1K Followers)

Image Minded – 3K Followers

Kent Lewis – (36.6K Followers)

Real Person

Real Person

Real Person

Real Person

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HONEST SELF EXAMINATION

• 4X MORE FB LIKES and INSHARES

• TWEETS FROM INFLUENCERS OUTSIDE COMPANY

• COMPLIMENTS FROM FRIENDS (EGO STROKE!)

• CONTENT WAS INCREMENTALLY BETTER ENGAGED

• TERESA, I AM COMING FOR YOU! (IN A NICE WAY)

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RELATIONSHIPS ARE

HARD WORK

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JUDGEMENT IS EASY!

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GOOD ANALYSIS

• DEFINE YOUR GOAL (I WANT MORE PROPLE TO ENGAGE MY CONTENT)

• FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU WANT?(I WANT TO SHARE MY IDEAS ON WEB DESIGN)

• FIND OTHERS WHO DO IT WELL(PICK A MARK AND STEAL)

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THE MARK

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NOTE: DON’T PUT A BULLSEYE ON ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE. I’M OLD SCHOOL LIKE THAT

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WHY PAPER LEAF?

• THEY SEEM TO DO IT WELL

• TALK ABOUT MANY OF THE THINGS I WANT TO TALK ABOUT (DESIGN WEB & OTHERWISE)

• PASS THE SNIFF TEST (HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE)

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GATHER INFORMATION (LOTS OF IT)

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YOU COULD BROWSE EVERY PAGE, OBSERVE AND TAKE NOTES.

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USEFUL FACT: COMPUTERS ARE REALLY GOOD AT

GATHERING AND PROCESSING DATA.

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FREE TOOLS FOR SPIDERING

SCREAMING FROG SEO SPIDER (FREE & PRO VERSIONS)(WIN, MAC AND LINUX – JAVA)XENU LINK SLEUTH (FREE BUT LESS FRIENDLY)

INTEGRITY FOR MAC(DUNNO – NOT MY BAG)

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WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?

A LIST OF 262 PAPER LEAF’S BLOG POSTS

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COLLECT ALL THE LITTLE BITS

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WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER

MICROSOFT EXCEL SEO TOOLS FOR EXCEL (FREE ADD-IN)

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COLLECT SOCIAL SHARES

BUILT IN FUNCTIONS - FTW=FacebookLikes([URL])=TwitterCount([URL])=GooglePlusCount([URL])

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SORRY

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ADVANCED SCRAPING

USE XPATH TO PLUCK INFORMATION RIGHT OFF

THE PAGES. USE JSONPATH TO PARSE RESPONSES FROM

APIS

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XPATH – WTF!!!

• A QUERY LANGUAGE FOR SELECTING THE NODES OF AN XML DOCUMENT

• IT WORKS ON (X)HTML – LIKE WEB PAGES!

• SEO TOOLS FUNCTION =XPathOnUrl( [URL], XPATH)

• YOU CAN ASK FOR CONTENT OFF A WEB PAGE• COMMENTS• POSTING DATES

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PAGE HTML XPATH

<div class=“date”>September 24, 2012

</div>//div[@class='date']

<h2 id="comments">3 Responses

</h2>//*[@id="comments"]

IT’S PRETTY LOGICAL

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JSONPATH TO PARSE THE API RESPONSE – HUH?

• APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API)

• ALLOWS COMPUTERS TO TALK TO EACH OTHER IN A STANDARD WAY.

• MANY DIFFERENT SPECS SOME VERY COMPLEX

• WE ARE USING REALLY SIMPLE ONE!

• CALL A URL GET TEXT DOCUMENT FORMATTED A PARTICULAR WAY (JSON)

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SIMPLE ONE

• SEO TOOLS FUNCTION IN EXCEL=JSONPathOnUrl( [URL], JSONPTH)

• The JSON PATH WE USED WAS - $.count• RESULT WAS 27

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OWNS ALL THE LITTLE BITS

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WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?

• A LIST OF 262 PAPER LEAF’S BLOG POSTS

• WE HAVE THE SOCIAL OUTCOMES OF POSTS FOR OVER 3 YEARS! (3 YEARS OF B, S and T)

• WHAT WORKED FOR PAPER LEAF

• WHAT WE WILL STEAL… LIKE AN ARTIST

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YOU COULD DO THIS FOR SEVERAL SITES YOU ADMIRE

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CHISEL AWAY THE STONE

SO THE SCULPTURE WITHIN THE

ROCK IS REVEALED

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LOOK AT THE DATA A NEW WAY

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FILTER TO FIND MOREJUST TWEETS

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MOST POPULAR POSTS ON TWITTER

• Color Theory Quick Reference Poster• How to Kern Properly: Essential Tips

& Resources• Elements of Design Quick Reference

Sheet• The Designer’s Most Important Skill

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LOOK TO THE BRIGHT SPOTS

Fb Likes Google+ Tweets Comments External Links630 14 246 64 843

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FIND OUT WHY IT’S POPULAR

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FIND OUT WHO TWEETED - TOPSY

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COMMENTS & POSTBACKS

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HOW TO FIND OUT WHO LINKED TO YOUR CONTENT

• GOOGLE QUERY (link:www.paper-leaf.com) - Sample

• GOOGLE WEBMASTER TOOLS• BING WEBMASTER TOOLS

(SHOCKINGLY GOOD)• GOOGLE ANALYTICS (referral traffic)• COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS• AHREFS.COM (MY FAVORITE)• MAJESTIC SEO• SEOMOZ – OPEN SITE EXPLORER

(FREE - 30 day Trial!)

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WHY WAS CT POSTER POPULAR?

• TIME, TALENT AND CAPITAL• PICKED UP BY SEVERAL HIGH PROFILE

BLOGS• webdesignledger.com• speckyboy.com

• TWEETED BY SEVERAL INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE - LIKE

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MAKE AND SHARE YOUR OWN BRIGHT SPOTS

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DO WHAT WORKS

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SEE... IT WORKS

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FACT: REAL PEOPLE SHARE CONTENT AND YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE

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IDEA: TELL THEM ABOUT IT

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@paweltkaczyk YOU LIKED MY LAST POST THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE MY NEW ONE http://paper-leaf.com/awesome-poster

HELP WHAT WORKS

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DEAR WEB DESIGN LEDGER,

YOU LIKED MY LAST POSTER THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE MY NEWEST POSTER ON DESIGN. http://paper-leaf.com/awesome-poster

THANKSJeff

HELP WHAT WORKS

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TAKE AWAYS

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“Early to bed, early to rise. Work like hell and advertise!”

- Ted Turner

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