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Can you Replace SEO with Social Content ?. The Changing Face of Digital Content Marketing Bill Pena, Chief Architect, IMN . New Google Ranking Factors The Role of Social Media in SEO The Secret to Going Viral. Agenda. New Google Ranking Factors.
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Can you Replace SEO with Social Content? The Changing Face of Digital Content Marketing Bill Pena, Chief Architect, IMN
New Google Ranking Factors • The Role of Social Media in SEO • The Secret to Going Viral Agenda
New Google Ranking Factors • “How do I present the most relevant, useful search results?” • Google Panda • Penalties for thin content, high ads-to-article ratio, little content before you have to scroll • Google Penguin • Penalties for link spam, link farms, content farms
“Panda” and “Penguin”, why care? “The bottom line is that all external SEO efforts are counterfeit other than one: Writing, designing, recording, or videoing real and relevant content that benefits those who search.” Smithsonian “If you generate content and place it all over the web promoting and linking to your specific content, it is obviously fake. (And that is basically a big part of the history of the SEO industry, both black & white.)” Flixya The Death Of SEO: The Rise of Social, PR, and Real Content Ken Krogue, Forbes.com
How many likes/followers? • How authoritative are followers? • Are followers growing? How fast? 3D Ranking Factor
The Goal of Social for Business • Drive Awareness • Drive Interest • Drive Decisions • Drive Action • Drive Viral Sharing
Can you replace SEO with Social? • Keywords in content still important • Replace your external SEO efforts with a focus on content that propagates through social media
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Can you replace SEO with Social? • Keywords within content is still important • But, replace your external SEO effort with a focus on quality content that propagates through social media
Thank You! • Bill Pena, Chief Architect, IMN • bpena@imninc.com • www.imninc.com • blog.imninc.com • Booth #715 ?