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Multi-Channel Coordination Within Inbound Marketing

By: Aaron Friedman

Director of SEO at Kahena Digital Marketing

KahenaCon 2013

I AM IN ISRAEL……and talking about

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I Am Aaron FriedmanWho Am I?

Director of SEO at Kahena Digital Marketing

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Blog: http://digitalhighrise.com

Made Aliyah: May 22

2013

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Traveled The Furthest To Get Here

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SRSLY was Insane-o

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But Here We Are

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I have Done SEO For Some Big Companies

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You came today because,

You Have a Website…

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AND YOU

WANT SEO

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AND YOU

WANT FACBOOK

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AND YOU

WANT TWITTER

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AND YOU

WANT ALL THE THINGS

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WHY?

Really… I have no idea what is happening here??

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Bing On Google????

Is it to show up higher than the

competition?

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To “Increase Followers” or “Engage in Conversations” with Customers?

@aaronfriedmanThese are NOT Good Reasons

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Are You Prepared For This?

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How About All This?

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This is you

This is Google

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What About The Team???

Lets have a look at them…

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This Is The Company Org Chart

And You Think You Are In Charge

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They Ignore EVERYTHING … It Totally Sucks!

NOBODY LISTENS!

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• “Our queue is 3 months long”

• “We have no bandwidth”

• “We are already doing SEO”

• “Sure thing” (blatantly ignored)

IT Pushback

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• “We need legal review”

(2 months later)

• “We can’t say that”

• “We can say that, except change all the words”

Legal Pushback

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• “We make bicycle stabilization and traction surfaces, not tires”.

• “Sorry, that keyword doesn’t work with the messaging”

Branding Teams Pushback

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• “Too much content to keep track of”

• “Content is useless”

• “Not enough content being generated”

General Content Confusion

http://im.myincredible.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/1-content-is-king.jpg

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SEOs, SOMETIMES…

VS.

• Improve Revenue• Drive Relevant Traffic• Own the Internet

Things are so messed up within your organization and people are so not aligned doing what they are supposed to be doing which is driving success andhelping your organization grow andonly looking out for themselves that they interfere with the bottom line androyally EFF things up </rant>

Expectations vs. Reality

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I GIVE UP!

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NOT SO FAST!

Business owners need to realize that

this is not magic

Your Department Can’t Rule The Organization

Alone

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WHY DO YOU NEED SOCIAL?

WHY DO YOU NEED SEO?

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WHY DO YOU NEED SOCIAL?

YOU DON’T!

WHY DO YOU NEED SEO?

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WHAT

YOU

NEED

IS

To…

Build Another Lead Generation Channel

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Increase Brand Awareness & Reputation

WHAT

YOU

NEED

IS

To…

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Strengthen Specific Marketing Campaigns

WHAT

YOU

NEED

IS

To…

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YOU

ALSO

NEED

TO…

Shorten Your Sales Cycle

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Increase Overall Customer Satisfaction

YOU

ALSO

NEED

TO…

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Which CAN Be SEO & Social

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But SHOULD Also Be

SEOs Are Just

Positioned Well

For This

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The Same Stuff Doesn’t Work

Search Engines Have Evolved

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OLD SCHOOL SEO

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• Keywords

• Alt Attributes

• H tags

• More Keywords

• Links

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WHAT USER IS

LOOKING FOR

WHAT THE

PAGE DELIVERS

This is Where

YOUWIN

This is Inbound

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REMEMBER OUR

FRIENDS IN IT

LEGALBRANDING

and CONTENT?

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How Do We Get There?

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How Do YouInterface With

Them?

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Think Collaboration

*this happened for real about 2 days into the job while I was still

learning Trello

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Google Docs / sheets

• Fast iterations• Commenting system• For everyone to see

Transparency at its finest!

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And About Transparency

• Flexibly - Rigid

• Agile to impact Change

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Speaking of Agile

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Have You Ever Seen Anything Implemented Without Your

Knowledge That Affected Your Work?

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Cross Organization Collaboration

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They Email Now

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With One Caveat

Make Sure You Are Playing On The Same Team

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Start To Win Them Over One By One

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How Do You Make People Love You?

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How About Coffee?

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Connect with them.

Find Common Ground

Geek About Their things…

…Not just SEO

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What’s impending this from working?

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Build SEO Into Your

Content Strategy

Let Me HELP You

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Ask Them...

• How Do You Use The Web?

• What Keywords are important to you?

• What Areas Do You Need Help In?

• Where Do You See Competitors Beating You?

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So you came today because,

You Have a Website…

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And,

You Want

All Those Things?

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You Want This???

Non Branded Search Lift after months of coordination after a

migration with IT, Social, etc.

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Lets Create an Integrated Marketing StrategyTogether

Marketing

Creative

Copywriters

DevelopersPR & Media Partnerships

Marketing Strategy

• Designers: Ensure that creative and usability are inline with user queries.

• Copywriters: Optimize content and recommend new, trending opportunities

• Developers: Optimize code. Inform Meta Data.

• PR and Media: SEO friendly press releases, social media, and other forms of outreach

• Marketing Strategy: Support messaging, especially in digital space

SEO

SEOSEO

SEO

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Because The Return

Is Well Worth It

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Aaron FriedmanDirector of SEO at

www.digitalhighrise.com

aaron@kahenadigital.com

@aaronfriedman

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