Concepts

 

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Social Network Marketing

Overview

  • What is SEM?
  • Is SEM right for your business?
  • The SEM networks
  • How is social network marketing different?
  • Research & Tools

Google AdSense

  • Creating and targeting your campaign
  • Researching & selecting keywords
  • Writing ads
  • Picking the right type of ad
  • Joining a content networks
  • + more!

Facebook Ads

  • Creating & targeting a campaign
  • Writing ads & A/B Testing
  • Demographics
  • Evaluating, Analytics & Optimizing
  • + more!

Yahoo Search Engine Marketing & Bing

  • Researching & selecting keywords
  • Writing ads
  • Assigning destination URLs
  • Evaluating & Optimizing (A/B)
  • + more!

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Overview

  • What is SEO?
  • SEO vs. SEM
  • Why SEO is mandatory in the longer term
  • How it works
  • How will it benefit my business / goals

Tools

  • Creating a Webmaster account
  • Creating a Site Explorer account
  • Understanding the key terms of SEO (Tags, Meta Data etc)
  • + more!

Your site, Their Services

  • Reviewing code and content
  • Generating SEO friendly content
  • Inbound links
  • SEO experts
  • Valuable tools: SEOMoz, Autoposters
  • + more!

Linking Programs

  • Setting parameters
  • Choosing good sites
  • The blogging network
  • Effectively using offsite content
  • The power of directories
  • Services
  • + more!

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Analytics (Google)

Overview

  • Why analytics are critical for your web business and decision making
  • Analytic packages
  • Basic terminology:
    • Bounce rate
    • Visitors
    • Time on site
    • Pages / Visit

Creating and Installing

  • Installing analytics
  • Testing the installation / results
  • Visitors
  • Traffic Sources
  • Content
  • Setting up a custom Dashboard
  • + more!

Conversion Points & Funnels

  • What are goals?
  • Conversion points
  • Setting up a conversion point
  • Setting up funnels
  • Measuring success across marketing channels
  • + more!

Incorporating Other Activities

  • Evaluating SEM campaigns
  • Integrate other online marketing activities
  • Misleading results: when failure looks like success
  • + more!

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Cloud Computing

Overview

  • What is Cloud computing?
  • How is cloud computing the great equalizer?
  • Leaders in cloud computing technology
  • + more!

Creating your first EC2 instance

  • Elasticfox
  • Using a public AMI
  • SSH
  • Setting up
  • Installing Apache
  • + more!

Creating a database server

  • Installation
  • Security
  • SSH Tunneling with Navicat
  • Creating a database
  • Using Elastic Block Storage
  • Automatic backups to S3
  • + more!

Setting up your domain name

  • Elastic IPs
  • Domain control panel
  • everydns.net free DNS
  • Virtual hosts in apache
  • load balancing
  • + more!

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Facebook

Overview

  • The Power of Facebook
  • Are my customers on here?
  • Types of Pages
  • Facebook advertising
  • Facebook Apps & Connect
  • + more!

What Page Type is for You

  • Review of page types (Personal, Fan, Group)
  • Recent changes
  • Generating a following
  • Connecting other online materials
  • + more!

Setting up a Fan Page

  • Setting up
  • Generating a following
  • Maintaining & Building presence
  • Integrating applications
  • Measuring results
  • + more!

Facebook Connect & Applications

  • What are apps?
  • How to connect your Facebook app to your website
  • Leveraging the power of friends with Connect
  • Facebook Connect limitations
  • + more!

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Managing your online brand

Overview

  • What is your brand
  • Understanding how actions shape your brand
  • Personal vs. Professional online presence
  • 'Un-Googling' yourself
  • Privacy settings
  • + more!

Managing your brand basics

  • Googling yourself
  • Alternate profiles (Pseudo names)
  • Screen names
  • Friends impact on your brand
  • Blog writing / Comment posting
  • Creating profiles
  • + more!

Dealing with Negative Publicity

  • Why not to fight negative PR
  • Hiring companies to manage your brand
  • How do you get off Google?
  • Taking over page 1
  • + more!

Proactively Owning Your Brand

  • Pushing top results for yourself
  • Creating accounts on the main directories
  • Setting up on high profile networks
  • + more!

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