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Blog Biz Summit Metric Stalk
Blog Biz Summit Metric Stalk
Blog Biz Summit Metric Stalk
Look inside the company Needs Wants Other marketing and PR actions
Men: 57% are male Young: 48% are under age 30 Broadband users: 70% have broadband at home Internet veterans: 82% have been online for six years or more Relatively well off financially: 42% live in households earning over $50,000 Well educated: 39% have college or graduate degrees
Build community Give a voice to the company Make the company more accessible Be a thought leader Become an industry news source Media coverage Search visibility Brand lift Web Traffic Leads/Sales
Search engine listings stimulate brand recall by a 3-to-1 margin over banner advertising and other online marketing methods.
The 2001 NPD Group study reported that search listings were better at branding and produced more sales than banner ads. A 2004 IAB study also reported brand lift from SERPs, especially for prominent listings.
August 2004
Problem: Faced with fierce competition in a rapidly expanding market - VoIP No search visibility at all Small budget
Get Search Engine Visibility in the face of the increasing competition Drive traffic to the corporate website Get media coverage
First Blog
Keyword research
Second Blog
Problem: No top 30 visibility on the phrase Business phone systems Solutions: Started a blog with this name
March 2005
#1 #1 #2 #2 #5 #6 #7
Voip vs traditional phone system VoIP solution provider VoIP small business VoIP architecture VoIP phone equipment VoIP benefits VoIP Small Business costs
August 2005
#1 #3 #3 #2 #2 #3 #6
Voip vs traditional phone system VoIP solution provider VoIP small business and #3 VoIP architecture VoIP phone equipment and #4 VoIP benefits VoIP business phone system
Voip small business Voip architecture Voip telephones Voip business phone system Voip benefits Small business voip Voip equipment Voip trends Voip challenges Voip Business communications
CIO Magazine SMB Trends Hispanic Business Magazine CMO Magazine says BTI Dancing with the Elephants
Results
From zero online visibility to over 120 page one results Page one visibility on keywords that others pay over $5 a click for 78% increase in corporate website traffic Leads coming from the Internet for the first time
TimeShare Website
His blog provided news I cant find elsewhere about Hurricane Dennis
Goal:
Position the company as a concerned organization and address the issues of our audience. Build a loyal following Brand Value
Four Blogs
Baby Babble Strong Women Daily News Creating Healthy Kids Bovine Bugle
CEO buy in Small Budget Easily identifiable niche markets in their audience A tradition of guerrilla marketing A company with a point of view an opinion
Results
Strong Women Summits Loyal readership Lots of media attention for the blogs Brand lift due to positive impressions
Challenges
Get acceptance and buy in from the top Have a clear goal for the blog Make sure the execs understands what the blog does and what it doesnt do If lead generation is the goal, make sure you have a way to capture the leads from the traffic to the blog and the website
Resources
Expansion Plus http://www.expansionplus.com Website Content Strategy Blog http://falkow.blogsite.com PRESSfeed http://www.press-feed.com
Blogsite http://www.blogsite.com
Contact Details
Sally Falkow 626 744 5381 626 676 6419 sallyf@expansionplus.com
Key words: your company, your competitors, key words that matter URLs: yours, your competitors Tag searches: yours, your competitors, key words of interest People searches
Google links
Subscription metrics
Bloglines
Must subscribe to feed to see subscription numbers Must run your feed through Feedburner Subscription numbers only available to feed owner In Bloglines, 26,856 subscribers In Feedburner, 1.2 million subscribers to feed Difference: Feedburner shows all subscriptions where as Bloglines shows just those who use Bloglines reader and subscribe
Feedburner
Stonyfield.com/weblog:
67 post links to in Technorati 102 in Blogpulse 70 in Feedster 17 post links in Technorati 11 in Blogpulse 22 in Feedster
Blog.btigroup.com:
Technorati:
Blogpulse:
Finding Influencers
Looks for link #s to those who link to you High numbers are indications of popularity (not authority) Look for key word and tag references to photos, blog posts, urls and to you
In the end
You must read the posts, look at photos, del.icio.us links and tags
If people can find it online, you must be concerned about it, no matter the perceived influence
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