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Six Ways Social Media is Changing Trent Blizzard Blizzard Internet Marketing [email protected]

Six Techniques to Use Social Media for Better Google Results

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Learn about using Rich Snippets for Videos, Events and Reviews to get better presence in search engines. Use the Author Tag to get more click-throughs from search. Learn how user signals like dwell time and click-through rates are impacting your search results NOW. Finally, use the Facebook comment feature to increase interactivity with your website and get more Facebook shares. This slidedeck was part of a 30 minute presentation given to the Central Florida (Orlando) HSMAI (Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International)

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Six Ways Social Media is

Changing

Trent BlizzardBlizzard Internet [email protected]

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Rich Snippets

AKA:● Microformats● Structured Data● Schema

Essentially: telling search engines what they are seeing

Benefit: More Traffic Now, Future Bright but Unknown

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#1 Author Tag

Serious SEO: ● Guest Blog Posts are Back! ● Discuss adding "author" tags to your pages.

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#2 Video

Serious SEO: Find Videos on Youtube and Video and embed in website. (and of course proper rich snippet code)

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#3 Events

Serious SEO: Using Google's Data Highlighter Tool to Add events to Google.

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#4 Reviews

Serious SEO: Adding schema coded reviews liberally to entire website

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Rich Snippet Resources

Google Rich Snippet Toolhttp://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Google Webmaster Toolswww.google.com/webmasters/tools/

Schema.orgwww.schema.org

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#5 Dwell Time and Click-Thru-Rates

New Elements in Google

● % of viewers that click on a search result● # seconds visitor stays on website after

clicking. ○ specific to keyword phrase searched

Advanced SEO:● Strategies to increase CTR● Strategies to increase dwell time

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#6 Shares, Likes, Comments,Tweets & Pins

Google and Bing rewarding website that are "mentioned" on social websites.

Serious SEO: ● Adding Facebook "commenting" area to

webpages. example

● Actively grow reviews on review websites.● Understand "FanGate" and Fangating