82. #1: Data as Content Marketing
Tons of great examples via Kelly Ford’s blog post:
http://kellynford.com/2011/09/27/marketing-your-startup-with-a-steady-
83. #1: Data as Content Marketing
While Kelly shows lots of good ways to use your growth/financial/metrics
data, I also love using user/habit/trend data like
84. #2: Video Content + SERP Visuals
For a brief time, SEOmoz held the top 3 spots for “learn seo,” and the video
result in position #3 actually earned more traffic/clicks than the top 2
85. #2: Video Content + SERP Visuals
Getting a video snippet simply requires embedding a video on the page (though standard YOUTube
embeds don’t work) and submitting a video XML sitemap file. We use http://wistia.com which is
awesome for this.
86. #3: Thought Leadership +
Rel=Author
Who needs to rank #1 when you can earn better traffic than the top ranking sites w/
a photo?!
87. #4: Social Networks for Personalized
Rankings
Last year, Google used Facebook, Friendfeed, Twitter, Quora and several other social networks
to show connected content. Today, it’s nearly impossible to find something socially annotated
that’s not through Google+
88. #4: Social Networks for Personalized
Rankings
More on this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/social-annotations-in-search-now-your-
social-network-rankings You can see your socially connected data via
89. #4: Social Networks for Personalized
Rankings
Create Share-Worthy
Content
Win the Internet Share Socially
More Searchers Biased Earn Rankings
to Seeing Your Stuff Boost
Network Amplification Get Natural Links
Grows Reach through Visibility
Earn More
Social Followers
Growing your social network and sharing socially creates a virtuous cycle of
marketing/influence.
90. #5: Link Building w/ Your Social
Followers
Tactic via Wil Reynolds of SEER Interactive:
http:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html
http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/using-twitter-and-backlinks-to-
91. #5: Link Building w/ Your Social
Followers
You can use Klout or Followerwonk scores (or just follower counts) to
order the results
92. #5: Link Building w/ Your Social
Followers
Use vLookup in Excel
with the Linkscape API
to see if they’re linking
to you yet
How to: http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/getting-started-with-the-
93. #5: Link Building w/ Your Social
Followers
Engage w/ or reach out to
sites you want links from
This tactic can also be applied to blog commenters, email list subscribers and any
social network where you can export a list of your friends/followers
94. #6: Long Tail SEO via Gamification
http://quora.com has been highly effective with this, as have
http://stackexchange.com, http://dribbble.com, and even Moz’s own
95. #7: PR through Social Outreach
Starting a relationship over social media is easy and it leads to great press coverage
surprisingly fast. Recent example from Moz: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/postit-wars-
part-space-invaders-attack-pine-street
96. #8: Viral-Worthy Content via Q+A Research
Places like http://answers.yahoo.com, http://quora.com, http://answers.com,
virtually any web forum (http://boardreader.com is a good way to find them) and
97. #9: Influence Search Suggest through
Branding
You can see the original experiment here:
https://plus.google.com/111294201325870406922/posts/BJJyt6rZ5Ku
98. #10: Leverage Thought Leaders to Build
Content
Via http://blog.folyo.me/post/10723370923/how-much-does-a-website-cost The
concept is simple; identify leading influencers in your space, recruit them to
contrbute something small, perhaps just a few survey answers, then aggregate and