Getting Found – Part II Websites, Search Engines, and Online Advertising
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Big Marketing News of the Week ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾
The Super Bowl, the TVCs and the Brand Bowl Egypt and Social Media – “The Facebook Revolution” The Angry Girlfriend & Google Images Draft Marketing Strategies are due this week
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Company Space ¾ This is the area that is
controlled by the company
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Personal Space ¾ This area is unique to the
individual and beyond the company’s control ¾ We expect to find: –Buyer Remorse –Independent Opinions –Promotional Blog Posts
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What & Where ¾ In the Company space, we
see everything from direct messaging to brand building exercises ¾ In the Personal space, everything relates to the mind or the the heart
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The Middle ¾ The center area represents
the product, service or the company itself. ¾ In the middle, we will find three attributes: – Aesthetics – how something appeals to the senses (subjective) – Function – how well something works (objective) – Meaning – something we ascribe to/have beliefs about (personal)
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The Presentation Ring 1 includes things that are not part of the product, service or company, but do have a direct impact on how we might perceive it ¾ In the Company space, that would include things like product packaging, a sales demo or the retail environment where its bought ¾ In the Personal space, it would include a friend’s recommendation, a product rating or comments on a blog post – any trusted source that informs our purchasing decision ¾
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Communications The outermost layer includes all those things that while not directly associated with the point of interaction, do have an indirect influence on our perceptions ¾ In the Company Space, this includes advertising, direct mail, sponsorships and other activities that are related but removed from direct association ¾ In the Personal Space, this would include the Associated Press, product placement (movies) or parodies. ¾
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Watch Out For Browsers ¾ ¾ ¾
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The biggest problem with website design today is internet browsers Every browser handles website code differently Internet Explorer is the worst of all the browsers – IE doesn’t support standard CSS code and makes designers/developers add numerous “fixes” to make sure that the site is properly viewed in each different version of IE – If you don’t plan for this problem when designing your website, your overall user experience will be ruined because the site will not display properly or functions may not work This is one of the reasons why MozillaFirefox is quickly becoming one of the world’s most downloaded browsers
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Measuring Results ¾
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No matter what kind of website you build, make sure to include an analytics software of some kind There are a variety of different ways to do it: – Online – methods that embed a code into your website pages to track how many visitors are coming to your website – Offline – download the log files from your website and process them with a weblog viewer Either way, you need to know who is coming to your site, what they are viewing and how long they are staying
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Search Engine Optimization – Make Sure You Get Found
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What Is Search Engine Optimization? ¾
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Search engine optimization is the process of improving the visibility of a website or web page in search engines via natural (organic) or unpaid (algorithmic) search results Started in the mid 1990s as the first search engines started to catalog the internet The phrase Search Engine Optimization was first used in 1997
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How Does A Search Engine Work? ¾
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“Back in the old days” – a webmaster would submit the URL of the page to different search engines – The Search Engine would send a spider to crawl the page – Extract links from it – Return information to the Search Engine to be indexed and included “Nowadays” – a webmaster submits the URL or an XML sitemap to different search engines – The Search Engine downloads the pages to their servers where an indexer extracts information about the page • Words it contains and where they are located • Specific weightage for the words • Links that page contains are scheduled to be crawled at a later date
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The Rise of Google ¾
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin, graduate students at Stanford, developed “backrub” – a search engine that relied on a mathematical algorithm to rate the prominence of web pages The quality and strength of inbound links – meaning the likelihood that a given page would be reached by a web user who randomly surfs the web and follows links from one page to another Google was launched in 1998 and this technology is now called Google PageRank
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White Hat SEO ¾
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Techniques that search engines recommend as part of good design Produce results that last a long time Is not about following guidelines, but about ensuring that the content a search engine indexes is the same content that the user will see Best summed up as – creating content for users and making that content easily accessible to the spiders Effective marketing, making efforts to deliver quality content to an audience that has requested the quality content
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Black Hat SEO ¾
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Techniques that search engines do not approve of and attempt to minimize the effect of Anticipate their sites will eventually be banned once the search engine discover what they are doing An example of a Black Hat tactic is adding text to a page that is hidden either as: – Text colored similar to the background – In an invisible div tag – Positioned offscreen Another method gives a different page depending on whether the page has been requested by a search engine or a human – known as cloaking
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What Happens If Caught? ¾
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2005 – Google banned a company called Traffic Power for using deceptive tactics to get sites ranked higher. Since they never told their clients what they were doing, only some of their clients were banned Feb 2006 – Google removed BMW Germany and Ricoh Germany for use of deceptive practices Both companies quickly apologized , removed the offending pages and were restored to Google’s list
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How Do You Make Sure Your Site Gets Found? ¾
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Make sure you submit it to all the search engines from Google , Yahoo and Bing Make sure that all “on page” elements are added – Body copy – Title elements – H1 heading elements – Image ALT Tags – Anchor text – Keywords and keyword relevance
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Getting It Right Make content users desire and will want to share ¾ Build usability and high quality design into your site ¾ Ensure that spiders can parse all content and duplication isn’t an issue ¾ Make it easy to reach deep pages in as few clicks as possible – The “Two Click” rule ¾ Chose keywords that will garner traffic and make sure they are in your content ¾
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