(GOOD) • QUALITY OF SOCIAL SHARES (BETTER) – Large Engaged Audience – Gets Retweets • NUMBER OF BACKLINKS ( MORE LATER ) • COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHERS • FACEBOOK IS SOCIAL (BIG BUT CLOSED) • TWITTER IS MEDIA AND OPEN ( FOR NOW )
FOLLOWER COUNTS Following More than they are followed. ME! – 136 Followers (yeah me!) OWNER OF PPC ASSOCIATES Respected Well Known Guy & Good Audience MY FRIEND TODD – Works at PPC Associates Does have 5000K Followers – Highly engaged REAL PERSON – 100 Followers REAL PERSON – 36 Followers
INDUSTRY TERM – Conversion Rate Optimization • TOP 10 STYLE – 3 Things That • LOTS OF ATTRACTIVE VISUALS • YOUTUBE VIDEO • SCREEN SHOTS • CONVERSATIONAL TONE IN WRITING “Next, configure those goals in analytics so you can measure the completion rate. Most people who have installed analytics have not configured their goals. Have you?- If not, do that now.- I’ll wait.”
• POPULAR INDUSTRY TERM – PPC (Pay Per Click) • TOP 10 STYLE – (Steal Like an Artist) • ATTRACTIVE VISUALS • Friendly Shot of My Dog (Lilly is so cute!) • Charts and Graphs • CONVERSATIONAL WRITING TONE • “Say you owned a small pet store, and you wanted to expand into pet grooming. You found out from a reliable friend in the pet-grooming business the next town over that she advertises using local pay-per- click ads. It just so happens that a groomer friend is looking for a weekend job to pay some bills, and you wouldn’t mind making a few extra bucks, especially since your store is already open from 8am- 4pm on weekends.”
(7.2K Followers) ME! – 136 Followers (yeah me!) TODD – (6K Followers) Owner of PPC Associates (5K Followers) Lyena Solomon– (2.3K Followers) David Szetela– (62.1K Followers) Image Minded – 3K Followers Kent Lewis – (36.6K Followers) Real Person Real Person Real Person Real Person
INSHARES • TWEETS FROM INFLUENCERS OUTSIDE COMPANY • COMPLIMENTS FROM FRIENDS (EGO STROKE!) • CONTENT WAS INCREMENTALLY BETTER ENGAGED • TERESA, I AM COMING FOR YOU! (IN A NICE WAY)
THE NODES OF AN XML DOCUMENT • IT WORKS ON (X)HTML – LIKE WEB PAGES! • SEO TOOLS FUNCTION =XPathOnUrl( [URL], XPATH) • YOU CAN ASK FOR CONTENT OFF A WEB PAGE • COMMENTS • POSTING DATES
APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) • ALLOWS COMPUTERS TO TALK TO EACH OTHER IN A STANDARD WAY. • MANY DIFFERENT SPECS SOME VERY COMPLEX • WE ARE USING REALLY SIMPLE ONE! • CALL A URL AND GET TEXT DOCUMENT FORMATTED A PARTICULAR WAY (JSON)
262 PAPER LEAF’S BLOG POSTS • WE HAVE THE SOCIAL OUTCOMES OF POSTS FOR OVER 3 YEARS! (3 YEARS OF B, S and T) • WHAT WORKED FOR PAPER LEAF • WHAT WE WILL STEAL… LIKE AN ARTIST
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Quick Reference Poster • How to Kern Properly: Essential Tips & Resources • Elements of Design Quick Reference Sheet • The Designer’s Most Important Skill
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