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Freia Muehlenbein, Head of Content & Online PR at Search Laboratory spoke at IRX14 demystifying SEO and Content Marketing for Retailers.

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Page 1: SEO is Dead - Or is it? Content Marketing & SEO Demystified - Internet Retailing Expo 2014

© Search Laboratory Ltd 2014. All rights reserved.

Leeds T: +44 113 212 1211

London T: +44 207 147 9980

SEO & Content Marketing for Retail DemystifiedPresented by: Freia Muehlenbein, Head of Content & Online PR at Search Laboratory Ltd

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Some of our Retail Clients

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Holistic Approach

Technical SEO (on page SEO)

Content & Online PR (off page SEO)

Great user experience

Great visibility

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The Online Ecosystem

Journalists

Magazines

Lifestyle BloggersSocial

Celebs

Tech Bloggers

Trends/news

Best Practice

Search EngineAlgorithm Updates

Influencers

New Sites

News SitesPRs

USER

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Protecting The Online Ecosystem

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Protecting The Online Ecosystem

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Protecting The Ecosystem

DO IT FOR THE USER

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Understanding Needs

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Understanding Needs

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Understanding Needs

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Understanding Needs

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Understanding Needs

Content Marketing can help these people

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Effects of Content & Online PR

Securing your rightful place in the Ecosystem

Exploiting your strengths

Knowing your limits

Not upsetting the ecosystem

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How to Create Great Content

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What is Great Content?

Entertainment

Information Emotion

KITTENS Entertainment Information

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Public Awareness Days

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The Results

Exposure to 60,000 people

Coverage in national news

High quality links

Improved rankings for key terms

DA increased from 45 to 47

Spike in traffic

More than 40% more chat requests

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Media Opportunities

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Internal Opportunities

The Results

Positive brand exposure

Links from local news sites

Positive impact on SEO

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Data

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The Results

Coverage online and print

Spike in traffic/referrals after launch

High quality links

Long term effect on SEO

Can be repeated

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Events

The ResultsRelationships with key fashion bloggers

11 relevant links

Social interaction

Brand/product exposure

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Random?

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Summary

Know the news and trends

Know people’s needs

Know opportunities in your business

Maximise what’s already there

Get creative – step away from ‘the obvious connection’

Always get your website right – User experience

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Follow up

[email protected]

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Web: www.searchlaboratory.com

Twitter: @searchlabs

Contact details

Freia Muehlenbein

[email protected]

0113 2121211