SSOM – Social Search Optimized Marketing. Okay, so the title needs work.... The steps: 1. Technical SEO – Define and resolve technical issues with the site, such as: • Canonical • 4xx and 5xx errors • 3xx codes • Duplicate content • Broken links • Slow site performance • Non-indexation of URLs 2. Key Terms/Competitors Analysis – Analyze and define competitors / relevant key terms 3. On page SEO – Define and resolve on page issues, such as: • Empty page titles/meta tags • Relevance of site content • Quality of site content 4. Content Development – Define targeted, relevant content strategies • Develop quality, targeted, relevant content • Develop company-based content creation guidelines, which include: • How titles will be written (for SERPs and on page) • How meta data will be handled • A set of foundational topics • A set of secondary topics • A set of tertiary topics • How bios will be written • How URLs will be handled. Examples: • Short • Stop words stripped • Hyphens, underscores or pluses, etc. as word separators 5. Digital Asset Guidelines – Define how the company will deal with digital assets, such as: • Set up guidelines/checklist to handle PDFs, such as filling in document properties • Set up guidelines/checklist for other types of documents, such as Excel files • Set up guidelines for optimizing videos for upload and hosting on YouTube or other video sites 6. Link Building Strategies – Define how link building programs will be handled • Develop link building guidelines, including: • Type and quality of potential linking sites (for outreach linking)