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2012 PROCEEDINGS - Public Relations Society of America

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4. Some keywords generate more clicks than others – take note<br />

5. Are your SEO terms aligned with the terms people are actually using?<br />

6. Visit the Google keyword tool (http://bit.ly/W4oPdM). Use it to generate more keyword<br />

ideas.<br />

If you would like a visual representation <strong>of</strong> your search keywords, export the report into a .csv<br />

file (top <strong>of</strong> page), open in a spreadsheet, and copy the keywords to the clipboard. Paste into<br />

http://wordle.net to make a word cloud:<br />

The resulting word cloud can help you clarify the identity <strong>of</strong> the site as its users see it.<br />

2. Visitors from referral sites<br />

Referral visitors come on a link from another site. You might think <strong>of</strong> referral visitors as a digital<br />

cousin <strong>of</strong> placements from media relations. Your job here is to build relationships with other web<br />

sites so they will bring your referral visitors.<br />

You should expect the top referrals to come from search engines. If you‘re running a social<br />

media campaign, you can evaluate your success on this report. And then you‘ll see the websites<br />

that have mentioned you and provided a link. These are not only an important source <strong>of</strong> traffic,<br />

but also a signal that search engines consider when ranking your site.<br />

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