Have You Been Putting Out The Wrong Signals? Updating Your Authority Marketing Empire

When was the last time you looked at your authority marketing “stuff”. If you are doing a lot of marketing and content creation, you are probably like me! I tend to put a whole bunch out there and then keep on trucking along, not thinking about all the nibbles out there that are no longer correct, but which are still in the search engines waiting to be found. Or in my auto responder emails that get sent automatically, and don’t even start on my social media “about me’s”.

Today let’s talk about updating all the “bits” in your authority marketing empire. I am in the process of doing this so I have a pretty good list of things that need fixing and in what order!

Public About Us

It is widely known that anyone who is looking to hire you or buy a substantial product from you will probably be checking out your “About Us” page on your website. Additionally, it is generally the longest page on that contains bits about you and how you want to present yourself to the world.

Some things that you might want to have are:

• What you do now
• Past experience
• Personal history
• Social Media links
• Pictures

I keep this one updated the best so that I can use this as the place to grab all of my words and descriptions for my other Abouts.

Pro Tips

1. I have my name www.TaraJacobsen.com pointing to the About Us page on my website. It is super easy for me to remember when I want to send someone there, plus it makes me rank really well for my name!
2. Even though it is About You, make sure that the person coming to your site to check you out can see About Them. How what you do for people like them will help! It’s the old What’s In It For Them thing!
3. If you need a hand working through your about us bits, our book, Advanced Sales Strategy: How To Craft Your Unique Selling Proposition is a great resource to get your wheels turning!

Social Profiles

Social profiles vary in length, but oftentimes they will have a “short description” and a “long description”. These are easy to pull out from your regular about us page, making sure that you are hitting the highest points for your potential customer rather than putting what is cute or irrelevant to them.

Some social profiles to look at:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Facebook page
• LinkedIn profile
• Google Plus
• YouTube
• Pinterest
• Amazon
• Good Reads

Pro Tips

1. Your LinkedIn one is the most important to success on that platform. Here is a post about how to optimize your LinkedIn Profile perfectly!

Website Pages

Beyond your About Us page, you need to look at your website pages that rank the most highly. I use Google Analytics to track my traffic. Functionally what you need to do is go to your analytics program and check out the top 10-20 pages that people visit on your website. Then methodically go through and make sure all these bits are in order:

• The content – make sure that what is on that page is congruent with what you are selling today
• Calls to action – if these are your top pages, please make sure you have something for them to do next like sign up for your list or check out your products

Pro Tip:

While it can seem easier to go through all your pages at the same time, that will freak Google the heck out! I don’t really change more than 10% of my site or content per month so that Google doesn’t penalize me for being too different. Remember, these are your best traffic pages, so don’t mess that up by being a bull in a China shop. Be a sniper and pick them off one at a time!

Autoreponders

Called many things like autoresponders, drip campaigns or even marketing automation if you are all fancy, these are the messages you send out when someone signs up for your lists.

Now, when you go and look you might make yourself totally crazy and want to sit and bang your head against the desk. These are generally painful to set up in the first place so oftentimes we spend more time on the mechanics of them and less time on making sure they are amazing and up-to-date.

Start with your most popular autoresponder and work your way back through them, filling in the blanks and making them AMAZING.

Pro Tip

1. If you are prolific with lots of ideas (like I am), then you probably have lots of things out there. It can seem daunting but just start at the beginning and muddle through.
2. It doesn’t matter if you do all of these at once, the autoresponder company will not be upset if you make sweeping changes.

Keeping Your House In Order

It would be awesome to think that you will never have to do this again, that you can spend a huge amount of time and get it absolutely perfect. But that is probably not the case. Most entrepreneurs go through a number of iterations and even if you think you are set in stone, there might be some changes in the future.

Don’t worry about that now, just get in the habit of swinging by all your stuff from to time-to-time to see if it is look spiffy (and right for right now!)