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SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA. Matt Cutts – Google Search. “There's no point in doing textbook (SEO) stuff unless you have enough great content and the reputation within your community to be a challenger." Interview with Mike Grehan: The future of search and outdated SEO methods.
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Matt Cutts – Google Search “There's no point in doing textbook (SEO) stuff unless you have enough great content and the reputation within your community to be a challenger." Interview with Mike Grehan: The future of search and outdated SEO methods.
When asked what was the biggest threat to the dominance of the top search engines, I responded by saying that the threat would come from an unlikely place, social networking Bill Tancer Hitwise SES New York 2006
Bill’s prediction holds true myspace.com was the #1 upstream provider of traffic to Google, supplying an astonishing 8.2% of all traffic
1 in 20 web visits are to Social Media Sites MySpace 82% 2.4 percent of MySpace traffic goes to online shopping and classified ad sites 83 percent increase since March, 2006
Where is the audience? • Audiences for nightly network, local TV news and radio news have all slipped • Newspapers, which also have seen their audience decline significantly, are now stemming further losses with the help of their online editions Source: Pew Research Center: The Maturing Internet News Audience
MySpace is feeding other industries too • Banks • Financial institutions • Telecommunications companies • Online travel sites
Target Other New Media Sites • Del.icio.us • Newsvine • Reddit • Digg • Moreover
Social Media in Google • Wikipedia • Del.icio.us
Case Study Keywords: dry skin, skin careUsing news search to create a new search term: shielding lotion
News Search and RSS • Created an RSS feed of articles about shielding lotion • Informed journalists/editors at the selected online magazines know about the feed
Keyword SearchesFor Shielding Lotion Jan 2006 5 Feb 12 March 25 April 32 May 50 June 71 July 114
Search ranking in Google Shielding Lotion 5 Dry skin 21 Dry skin care 17 Dry skin treatment 15 Dry skin solution 18 Dry skin lotion 9
Traffic Increase • Traffic is up 600% in one year • Hard launch occurred in October • Sales rising steadily
Hand me your business card: Case Study 6-part series: RSS and Content Syndication Social Media Opportunities in Internet Marketing
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