We are excited to be a part of this special event featuring the area’s most successful people in business and technology, including our very own Mike Duncan. The expo, held at the new Wilmington Convention Center will include keynote speakers, seminars, and over 100 exhibitors. The event will help connect employees with new customers and will include an all start line up of educational internet marketing seminars.
Mike is scheduled to speak on the 14th from 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. His seminar “Strengthening Your Web Site’s Presence through an Integrated Marketing Plan” will teach business owners the tactics behind growing an online brand.
BizTech - Strengthening Your Web Site’s Presence through an Integrated Marketing Plan
1. Strengthening Your Web Site’s
Presence through an Integrated
Marketing Plan
Mike Dunca n
mdunc an @Sa ge Is land.com
facebook.com/MikeADuncan
twitter.com/MikeADuncan
Sage Island CEO
2. Amazon.com Conversion Experts
• 2009 Sales of $24.51B (+28%)
• 275M visitors/mo (56.5m unique)
• Converts 9.6%
• Avg. Sale $170
Traffic Comes from:
• Search Engines (32%)
• New Shoppers (30%)
• Return Shoppers (70%)
8. Keyword Research
Have a Strategy, Careful keyword selection is the heart of any campaign!
Create a robust keyword portfolio of relevant keyword phrases that are
searched on by potential customers.
www.keyworddiscovery.com
www.wordtracker.com
Google Adwords Keyword Tool
www.seobook.com
www.seomoz.org
13. SEO On-Page Optimization
• Use keyword research to determine how customers search
• Inject keywords into body copy, titles, and images
• User friendly and search engine friendly site.
Ranking factors:
www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/internet/google-ranking-factors.htm
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15. Meta Data
<TITLE>Skateboards - Warehouse Skateboards offers Complete Skateboards,
Skateboard Decks, Trucks, Wheels & Much More!</TITLE>
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Biggest selection of skateboards,
skateboard decks, complete skateboards, skateboard wheels, skateboard trucks,
skateboards delivered right to your door!">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="skateboards,skateboard,complete
skateboards,skateboard decks,skateboard wheels,skateboard trucks,skate
decks,warehouse skateboards">
Mike Duncan’s Best Practices
h"p://www.sageisland.com/SEO-‐best.pdf
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17. Sitemap Submission
Google WebMaster Tools - www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Bing (MSN) WebMaster Tools - www.bing.com/webmasters
Yahoo! Site Explorer - http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
Create a Sitemap
www.gsitecrawler.com
Do you have a Robots.txt file?
www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /my-dirty-photos
Sitemap: http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml
69. Questions?
slidesha re .net/sa geisla nd
Search Engine Optimization – Kristopher Jones
Get to the top on Google – David Viney
Landing Page Optimization – Tim Ash
Building Findable Websites – Aarron Walter
Mike Dunca n
mdunc an @Sa ge Is land.com
facebook.com/MikeADuncan
twitter.com/MikeADuncan