Social Media On A Budget was presented for Media 140 in Perth. We looked at how businesses, not for profit groups and community organisations can create an effective social media presence without spending money.
We also looked at integrating local search into social media along with some basic SEO strategies and tactics to improve the performance of a social media presence.
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Great for driving traffic to your site Remember social media platforms are other peopleâs sites.
Essential to your business, you need to have the right words. SEO is a black art. Donât stress too much and remember itâs a moving feast. Look at competitorâs sites. What are the keywords they are using? Donât assume anything about your customers.
Compete.com is a great tool. While most businesses canât afford the full subscription, the free service offers some useful information. In searching for keywords, enter the web addresses for the industry leaders both here and overseas and have a look at the top search terms for each site. This will give you some ideas on the terms to use.
Look at competitorâs sites. What are the keywords they are using? Look at the meta data. Do a search for the best performing sites on the queries customers might use and the popular products you sell. Have a look at both the text of those leading pages and the underlying metadata.
Register domains with search engines Theyâll eventually find you but you can speed it up Make sure your keywords appear in Googleâs Submit Content page.
Local search is changing the way we do business. Consumers using local as they abandon phone directories and classified ads as the net is a quicker more effective way of searching. These local search results not only appear at the top of the page but they also feed into the popular social media services. All businesses, local or otherwise should be listing on these not just to improve their search results but to also appear on other services and on devices like GPS systems.
Essential to be listed here, regardless of your website Upload ten product images, five best sellers and five high margin Define your areas; it is possible to cover the entire world Use the custom fields to improve your keywords
Plugs into Cumberland press publications Some expensive add-ins Can add pdf and word files which is useful for SEO
Very basic Gives a Yellow Pages print and online listing Still useful but declining Category creep Youâll get a phone call
One of the big ideas is the coupon space High risk Setup your own coupon campaign Reward existing customers as well as old Integrate with newsletters, etc.
Change is happening Itâs a great time of opportunity for nimble businesses Having a professional and easy to modify website allows us to respond to opportunities