This document describes The Godjira Method, which uses WordPress-powered websites and content creation to drive marketing through social media platforms. Key points of the method include using blogs and RSS feeds to regularly publish content and capture customer information. This content is distributed through multiple channels to engage customers and drive them back to the website. Regular posting of stories and case studies helps build an online presence and brand while stimulating discussions to generate interest in products and services.

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2. The Godjira Method
A web based marketing strategy for small to medium sized business
Version 1.0.0
20th July 2010
John E Dickens Bsc (Hons)
Table of Contents
1 Abstract................................................................................................................................. 3
2 Introduction........................................................................................................................... 3
3 Why use WordPress?...............................................................................................................3
4 We use WordPress as the engine to power The Godjira Method..................................................5
5 Capturing your customer's information......................................................................................5
5.1 The Fold......................................................................................................................... 6
6 An example campaign............................................................................................................. 7
7 Creating mini landing pages.....................................................................................................7
8 Links back.............................................................................................................................. 8
9 News is the fuel that feeds the Godjira Method..........................................................................8
10 Being Human........................................................................................................................9
11 What to write........................................................................................................................9
12 Case Studies....................................................................................................................... 10
12.1 STARR......................................................................................................................... 10
13 How Godjira can help.......................................................................................................... 12
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3. 1 Abstract
This document describes how Godjira uses WordPress-powered websites as an engine to drive
increased website exposure, using social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.
2 Introduction
Every website needs both an objective – a reason for its existence - and a way of directing the
reader to do what you want them to do when they visit your website. If they haven't got a
purpose it's rather like sticking an advert in your shop window and hoping passers by spot it. You
need to tell your customers or your prospective customers what you want them to do. You need to
guide them and aid them.
For instance, you may wish to direct the customer to the point of sale. The products page on your
website with a “buy now” or “add to cart” button or you may want to use the site to capture their
details so you can carry on talking to them. A trainer would want to let the user instantly see when
the next course was running and let the customer immediately and easily book their place on the
course.
What the Godjira Method does is to use social media, increasing the number of people aware of
you and your products or services through your website and directing them back to the point of
sale or point of capture in a way that seems natural and relaxed, rather than forced and pushy.
3 Why use WordPress?
Google likes websites where things change and
content is fresh, so your site gets scanned more
frequently, resulting in higher ratings.
Google Page Rank, effectively a ranking based on the
“importance” of your page, increases with quality
back-links. Having blog articles means that you are
much more likely to get people linking back to your
site, as blogs include mechanisms for linking back
easily.
That's why we build sites on WordPress, a
“blogging” CMS. WordPress is capable of delivering
next generation websites capable of powering your
Social media.
Google loves WordPress
WordPress loves Google back.
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4. 4 We use WordPress as the engine to power The Godjira Method
Most blogging software and e-commerce sites include an
RSS feed. We use the WordPress blogging software as a
Content Management System to power the majority of the
sites we create. WordPress pumps out RSS feeds and does
Google-friendly things like updating syndication and RSS
update sites to let them know your blog exists. WordPress
categorises its news and content in the same way that
Google does, making life easy for Google and allowing you
to get more relevant key search words on the page
We use WordPress plug-ins to hook up with Google
Analytics and create speciality items that Google likes, like
XML sitemaps. We also use other services like Yahoo Pipes
and Feedburner to further expose the news and blog
articles. We use the MailChimp email mailing list software
to to provide additional value.
5 Capturing your customer's information
Squeeze pages are pages placed on the web, designed to capture a customer's contact details,
usually in return for a free gift like an e-book.
While stand-alone squeeze pages seem crude and obvious, and are often poorly designed the
principle is still good and with good design and careful planning can really work for you.
If you want to get more contact with your potential customers, then you can offer them a free gift
or an e-book, in return for them joining your mailing list.
The offer has to be something of value, something that you have spent time on. In fact,
something like an e-book on an Internet marketing method is ideal. In fact, you are reading just
such a thing now.
You can power your mailing list directly from your RSS feed, as well as create more staged and
elaborate HTML email send-outs using MailChimp. Again, using the RSS feed means you have
written the content only once and are using it to power multiple outputs.
You can put together more elaborate newsletters if you have the time. For some businesses
elaborate newsletters prove a useful part of their marketing strategy, as it helps present a
professional and coherent corporate image; but we live in a busy age and experienced Internet
Users have had to learn how to filter out the things that are not of interest or of use to them in
email and applications like Twitter and Facebook.
We have found that some of our most successful mail-shots have been one-liners delivered in plain
text with a personalised greeting. They don't look like selling, they aren't pushy and stand a lot
more chance of making it through mail spam filters and the recipients' own filter criteria.
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5. Something like:
5.1 The Fold
The Fold: A mythical Internet design concept that says that all useful information must be above
a certain point on the page so that it can be viewed by all readers without scrolling.
The fold is largely outdated hokum, as 90% of users will scroll down a website and for that
reason, modern websites use a principle of “striping,” which presents information on one page in
easily readable bands. With so many users with laptops or wide screens--so that screen
resolutions vary so widely-- the fold becomes not just a moveable feast but also literally impossible
to define. Mac users rarely maximise their windows anyway, so designing just with the fold in mind
is demonstrably a big waste of time.
However, in an email you don't scroll down much, as everything below the signature is usually
some sort of privacy statement or a conversation you have already read. Placing the unsubscribe
stuff below the fold isn't actually cheating--more sort of stretching the spirit of the game--but it
does make the email look more personal .
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6. 6 An example campaign
Let's say you have a new product launch.
You create a page for your product
You write a new article/press release for your product
You use the RSS feed to power multiple other channels:
Twitter
Product page
LinkedIn
News Article Facebook
Email
You follow up on all the interest.
You've only written the copy once, yet you've fed multiple channels
You need to follow this up and build up brand appreciation.
7 Creating mini landing pages
Blogging also does useful things for your Search Engine performance. Traditional SEO (“Search
Engine Optimization”) has been about keyword stuffing your pages and directory stuffing to get
links back to improve your Page Rank.
Frankly, without a lot of effort or paying for Google Adwords, most businesses are not going to be
able to compete for the real top level searches. You can however perform very well within a
geographical area, with just a bit of SEO tweaking; but going national or global is going to cost
time and effort.
What blogging can do is create mini-landing pages for the secondary level or corollary searches
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7. that are normally not targeted in traditional SEO.
Writing about what you do and where you do it would automatically and naturally place keywords
on to a page in a way that you would not be able to plan.
I was approached by the BBC to do an interview because my site performed very well for Twitter
Expert Wiltshire. This was due to two separate blog articles about Twitter and an “Ask the
Expert” webinar session I did. Put the two together with my geographical location and I got a hit--
and an interview.
Users are much smarter about their searching these days , they don't want a plumber in Newbury
when they searched for one in Melksham. They might even search for a female plumber in
Melksham, or one that specialises in household plumbing, or one that's Corgi registered or even
one that works evenings. You can't cover all the bases with a static site. And you really can't
second-guess the searches. Regularly pumping out news will significantly increase your search
engine performance.
8 Links back
Google page rank is the measure of how important Google thinks your site is and it is an essential
part of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). The higher your page rank, the higher up the list you
appear in Google search results. Google Page rank is heavily influenced by the number and quality
of links back to your site from other important sites, those with a high page rank.
Traditional SEO stuffs your site with keywords for indexing and then stuffs directory listings with
links back to your site.
However, Google say they are a bit fed up with directory stuffing. They seem to be taking more
interest in the blogosphere and social media. Using the Godjira Method will mean that your news
article will be linked back by some real high-value sites. Google and Bing are now indexing Twitter
and Facebook, links back from those sites are of real value and are a great way of directing more
visitors to your site.
Making comments on other people's blog posts creates another link back. If you can talk with
authority about a subject and show yourself as an expert, then other readers will follow the link
back to your site. Many of the blogging sites out there will also do things like repeat a link to the
last blog post you made on your site, too.
9 News is the fuel that feeds the Godjira Method
The objective with using Social Media is to lay lines back to your point of sale or point of capture
If Networking is Farming and Sales is Hunting, the Godjira Method is more like Fishing,
but it's fishing where you are trying to charm the fish all the way back to the net at which point it
loves you so much it jumps in.
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8. The news, blogs, tweets and updates are all ground-bait designed to generate interest in your
products or services. You need to stimulate a conversation amongst your fans, friends and
followers that raises that interest above and beyond the broadcast mechanism. You need to
engage with your fans, friend and followers in order to prove that you are a human that
represents your company. Just “broadcasting” is not enough.
What you ideally want is to stimulate a conversation in the social media about a blog post that you
have posted, so that those who are not directly following you can pick up on that and follow the
trail back from the Tweets to your blog post and then to your point of sale and capture. Getting re-
tweeted or talked about will mean you are hitting not just your followers, but your followers'
followers as well. This is the ripple growth that we want to achieve in order to make contact with
people who will be interested in what you have to offer.
You can replicate these methods in Facebook and LinkedIn as well. Facebook allows your fans or
“likers” to make comments about your posts and blog items. LinkedIn lets you join wider groups
and start forum discussions that can fuel the conversation.
Just chattering isn't enough; you need some substance or subject matter to talk about, and it
needs to be something that links back to your point of sale.
10 Being Human
Every business is different, and every business needs to present the right image. I would say that
a solicitor or banker needs to present themselves with more dignity and reserve than a website
guy does. But the important thing is that your online persona must present some of your character
and must be likeable. People do business with people they like. Being helpful, friendly and
approachable helps people to like you. So, answering questions and showing how you add value
in your services goes a long way toward getting people to do business with you.
If you behave like a noisy machine and just broadcast and post links, you will be treated like a
noisy machine; that is, ignored, complained about and eventually switched off.
11 What to write
Write about what you know.
Write about what is interesting.
The advent of Facebook has changed the way in which people use the Internet; they are now
more interested in People and stories.
As a result, you absolutely must have biographies and photos on your “about us” page, your
readers are looking for that. You need to include something about your interests and hobbies so
your customers can engage with you. They are probably more interested in your hobbies than
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9. your actual business, but that is still a topic you can talk about with them and yet another reason
for them to like you.
If something is interesting or useful then it will be re-tweeted or repeated. Marketeers call this
“viral growth” or the “ripple effect”.
If you have 600 followers on twitter and you get ten re-tweets, you can end up getting 6000 extra
page impressions.
12 Case Studies
Writing about what you have done is easier than writing
about what you do. It's also more engaging.
Everything is news and everything is sales.
A new product, a special offer, a new customer or a new
installation are all stories you can tell. The copy doesn't
need to be huge on the web and you don't need to agonise
over it. We use a Case Study writing method called
STARR.
12.1 STARR
STARR stands for:
Situation What was there before you started
Task What the customer wanted you to do
Action What you did and how you added value
Result What the customer got and what they thought of it
Reference Get a quote from the customer
STARR makes it easy to write a case study, by following the formula you can write interesting
stories that tell people much more about what you do by demonstrating how you do it and how
you add value. Remember: what people are looking for on the Internet are people and stories.
Far too often people slap up testimonials on their websites that are out of context and mean very
little. Putting them in context with what you actually did makes much more sense and tells a story.
It's also easier to get a one or two line testimonial.
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10. 13 How Godjira can help
As well as being experts in building sites using WordPress, Godjira offer a range of packages
design to support the Godjira Method.
We offer a £100/month blog package, called The Blogulator which includes two news articles per
month written by our copywriters. Our copywriters phone you for the subject and create neatly
crafted blog articles that can then be fed out to the media channels like Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn and your mailing list
We can also offer:
• Our Twitter Turbostart package
• Twitter Mentoring and support.
• Facebook Business Page
• Link-up all your Social Media to your blog feed.
• MailChimp Mailing lists
• Ongoing support packages to help.
For more information, call Godjira now on 01225 436109 or go to our website at
http://www.godjira.co.uk
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