{"id":97,"date":"2006-07-30T23:48:49","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T04:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2006\/07\/30\/making-search-even-more-efficient-increasing-your-search-ranking-via-pr-and-search-as-a-branding-mechanism\/"},"modified":"2012-11-23T23:16:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T04:16:24","slug":"making-search-even-more-efficient-increasing-your-search-ranking-via-pr-and-search-as-a-branding-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2006\/07\/30\/making-search-even-more-efficient-increasing-your-search-ranking-via-pr-and-search-as-a-branding-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Search Even More Efficient! Increasing Your Search Ranking Via PR and Search as a Branding Mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick Marckini, iProspect<\/p>\n<p>You tube is a search engine you can search using keywords.<\/p>\n<p>Estimates Youtube is getting more reach than Myspace, estimated to be worth $600 Million<\/p>\n<p>How we search where we click. There is no paid or natural.<\/p>\n<p>Tabs are pre-empting search. You need to be in all of the tabs. 4x the reach with number one ranking. What is the number one ranking now though?<\/p>\n<p>72% organic and 28% ads Google<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo 40% organic 60%<\/p>\n<p>All search is meta search. Invisible tabs \u2013 content pre-empts search results.<\/p>\n<p>4x improvement from 2-9 to #1 in Google.<\/p>\n<p>Tactics: pay-per-call, 92% of people conversion activity occurs offline -survey customers offline to find ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Offline affects conversion rates and lowers CPA.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo! And Google News tabs are important. They can show up either in the news tab or in search results forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keyword research \u2013 different audiences use different vocabulary \u201dSwirl marks\u201d \u2013 paint \u201cLending\u201d &#8211;\u00a0 GPS vs global conversation<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrior learning\u201d \u2013 educational learning \u2013 \u201cget into the language of your customer\u201d longer the query \u2013 the higher the conversion rate. \u2013 but 88% comes with 1 or 2 words.<\/p>\n<p>Search Funnel is a myth. There is no funnel. Broad search, then destination retailer.<\/p>\n<p>Header term, General Term, Specific (branded), Destination\/Retailer Search<\/p>\n<p>How to spot an SEO savvy web site. Web site must have text and links to be found. Keyword prominence, frequency, placement, link quantity, link quality, link context, title tag is now your meta tag, domain name, use text, don\u2019t use pictures for text.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Kane, Atlas Search \u2013<br \/>\nEvery advertisement should be thought of as a contribution, to the complex symbol leading to changes in brand image.<\/p>\n<p>Brand Location \u2013 Are you easy to find? 40% of brand keyword and URL search clicks are first time visitors. 60% are repeat purchasers. Make sure you are first in natural search results.\u00a0 Measure your brand terms separately.<\/p>\n<p>Brand Building \u2013 When they are between brands, building the brand. Lexus and performance. Search is not full of branders, there are more people with a direct marketing background. Where is search leading your clients to?<\/p>\n<p>Brand Experience \u2013 Do you use search to deliver positive brand experience. What about existing customers, should I be thinking about them? Example \u2013 \u201cNordstrom returns\u201d search. Very few brands are utilizing customer experience keywords.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBranding online comes from experience not the exposure\u201d \u2013 Jakob Nielsen<\/p>\n<p>Greg Jarboe \u2013 SEO-PR<br \/>\n(crowd gets extremely attentive for Greg\u2019s speech)<br \/>\n75% of journalists search the Internet for previous stories on their subject.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo News is number two in online news. New York Times is number nine.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cConsumer\u201d magazine \u201creports\u201d Press releases can often outrank the news stories.<\/p>\n<p>Knowledge workers are increasingly turning to press releases due to lack of others.<\/p>\n<p>Superpages.com &#8211; Replaced sex for gender.\u00a0 Save your client for being found for the wrong term.<\/p>\n<p>Romantic dining got ranked number 2 in Yahoo News and number 5 in Google News.<\/p>\n<p>Morningstar.com is running press releases.<\/p>\n<p>Tivo for search. Tracking links.<\/p>\n<p>3,229 visits generated 2,715 clickthroughs &#8211; a 84% conversion rate!!!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the press release. Track the publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Can a press release increase your branding? Yes!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Where to submit \u2013 used to use PR Web &#8211; has become your own link farm. All Wire Services are not equal. Conduct tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick Marckini, iProspect You tube is a search engine you can search using keywords. Estimates Youtube is getting more reach than Myspace, estimated to be worth $600 Million How we search where we click. There is no paid or natural. Tabs are pre-empting search. 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