As 2010 still bringing slow but steady growth, we are on middle of re structure the business model we work under, 3 new divisions will be start working under the Aigcmiddleast brand as separate companies, yet Aigcmiddleast will be the motherhood of it.

We still a head of the game. But the new expand will let us feel much free to run and enjoy new adventures.

April 2010 will be the official launch of the new 3 divisions, Aigc middleast will own 100% share on all the 3 new divisions, as partnership is not an option we could walk with in Middle east.

I will step down from being COO of Aigc Middleast by April , and will be ready to return back to Aigc Northamerica as regional Manager  for south & west of America.

Our new Hiring process will start by mid of march , we are looking for 5 new members to join… So if you are looking to join , keep running by  this blog.

I am sure most SEO specialists faced this, and will face it in future, when you offer a SEO presentation to brands company or mega sites ( 1+ million visit per day ) you will first hear from one of the C level managers: dude we have 1 million unique visitors per day , what you will bring to us ?

Well let me share this case with you, we started working with a local web site from middle east 10 days ago (mega websites in middle east get 1 million visits per month and more ) , we started with internal SEO plan . Can i shut up now and you view screen shot below :

As you saw, we jumped from 27+ k unique visitors per day, to 200+ k unique visitors per day ..That’s more than 700% increase, the decline you see on refer to weekend days , traffic peaked up to an average of 150+ k unique visitors per day on business days .

Of course there were shift from source of traffic from direct to refer , and decline of staying in the website, as most know usually search engine visitor reads the page he clicks on, then may go to homepage or another related story then close.

Now back to our friends of the screen shot, they usually get 1+ million unique visitors per month, by end of January 2010 we estimate the traffic of Jan will be 3+ millions unique visitors.

It was not that big surprise to us, that’s why we told them make sure you have good web hosting plan to handle.

Also we want to share with you , that 15 % of this internal SEO plan, focusing on realtime web .

As first stage ends ,and social media campaigns start for them, we estimate their traffic will reach 5+ million unique visitors per month.

The point ?

Regardless how big you think your brand is, or how much your loyal customers are , SEO plan will bring positive not negative impact .

As fun end for this, the E-marketing manager of this website, after the fast jump call us for a meeting to say this : i brought you here to tell you this line, and you see my face expressions while am saying it :

FUCK YOU ARE SO GOOD.

For most of us ” SEO specialists ” this worth more than money, regardless how offensive that means for some.

This post will be so clear :

Have twitter account for your company and your self.

Have facebook account for your self and page for your company.

Have wordpress blog , create administrator account using Your name, and blog at least 3 times a week.

Once you start to use these tools, assign someone within your company to act as the community manager (if you’re a one-man or one-woman business, this manager will be you!). This person will control your online voice. With all social media sites, you get back from them what you put into them. In other words, it’s critical to start, follow, and take part in ongoing conversations. Finally, track your successes and take small steps to grow your social media presence as required.

For social media to be effective you must:

• Identify your niche and your best target audience.
• Listen. Better understand your prospective clients marketing challenges, obstacles and frustrations.
• Be transparent. The success of your audience must be more important than your own. But it goes without saying if you can help your audience with their success you will be successful.
• Build relationships. People always want to work with people that they know, like and trust. Social media provides these opportunities. It is “networking on steroids.”
• Always lead with benefits rather than company’s capabilities. It’s all about your audience. The moment you try to “sell” your company’s services will be the moment you lose your audience.
• Become positioned as marketing leader rather than a marketing partner. Clients want leadership not partnership.
• Better communicate and articulate what you know. Company are often poor communicators. Don’t believe me? Ask any of them what they do. They can’t succinctly define what they do apart from a prolonged discussion.

These are the things agencies should be doing but most

DON’T.

So busy these days, we never been so booked !

To sum it up perfectly:

“If you are going to get involved you need to do some deep thinking about what are your objectives, the best-practice examples are leveraging social media in an integrated fashion to deepen relationships, personalise their brands and provide customer service”

In the SEO business there are fair number of experts, but in Social media there are so so many social media marketing experts, many of whom are self-proclaimed gurus in their field.

The 10,000 hours line ….

To be good in anything you need to spend 10,000 hours doing it !

What exactly does it take to become a search engine optimization expert or a social media marketing expert? In both of these aspects of search engine marketing, you begin by learning.  As the ideal marketer, you gets your hands on every single search engine optimization and social media marketing book or blog you can possibly find, and then you absorb the information presented within like a sponge. You begin following the experts (you know, the real ones) online. After awhile, you’ll be book smart. You’ll know what to do and what not to do. Hopefully, if you’ve followed the right books, blogs, and people, you’ll be armed with pretty decent case studies and pretty decent material to embark on your own journey.

Learning is the easy part. Applying the knowledge is the hard part. When it relates to SEO, the ability to apply that knowledge is easy since you can either create or buy a website that lets you begin applying the skills you need to become an expert. When it comes to social media marketing, you need to build up a presence by obtaining clients of some sort. And you’ll soon learn that it’s not that easy to find them.

Finally we are done with our SCSM 2010, it was so organize this year, to be honest i had fun during it, despite the fact that i had to go to deadsea, then back to amman, then  back to deadsea 5 times, during the 3 days of SCSM 2o1o.

The main focus during it was solutions we will not offer, due to lack of time, and low income from these solutions, for this :

we will no longer offer:

1. Website Design.

2.Coding for website.

3.Unique CMS.

4.Shopping unique solution.

5.Any hosting solutions.

6.Training.

This came after long discussion specially for AIGC MD team.

What we can share :

Yes we are moving fast to realtime web, and semantic solution by mid of 2010.

Happy 2010 from aigcmiddleast team, we are so blessed and thankful for 2009 fun and people we had chance to met and worked with.

When we started selling social media package with SEO package, most were like why ? does it effect my SEO  results ? keep it short this is compare between Google Caffeine and Google Index :

• Rankings are unlikely to fluctuate. Taken across all of the keywords for a client there should be a tiny percentage change in ranking.
• Websites that do lose rankings are likely to be relying on older, archived content that’s not been updated in years. Keeping your site fresh to be crawled by Caffeine will be important.
• There have been no changes to give one sector any new advantage over another.
• Generic terms against long tail terms in Caffeine show a greater priority for News, Information and Social Media – which fits with generic terms being less clear in terms of the searcher’s intent.
• Only 5% of urls contain exact matches for the searched keyword, 6% of the total point score is made up by exact match urls.

Morning Jordan, ( 6:37 am ..been up from 2  hours, ask Omar Shobaki from imagine )

When we started business in Jordan that was Nov 2008, in that time when we started calling to know the interest in SEO or social media , %95 of  companies we call were like hearing Chinese talking to them !

Feb 2009, when we established the company ( official papers ), 1 from 25 companies, somehow got what we were offering, and these end to be our partners, which we until now do business with.

August 2009, we start hearing some companies, trying to get money from their clients by offering what we call SIMPLE SEO PLANS.

But as usual if you are not good in building sites ! or lets say it: you are web1.o company how the hell you will sell SEO !

Fast track to This day ! the le web shipping of companies , we know will not come in good !

Guess what ? the headache didn’t come from these companies ! it was from abroad INDIANS ! YEP Because we didn’t have enough of them in Europe or America ! they are landing in JORDAN .

BRING IT ON LOSERS ! IT’S SOMETHING YOU CAN’T BEAT US ON ..BECAUSE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE LACK OF IMAGINATION

So a new client on the door, the client is so exicted about having social media campaign, but :

1. He is not planning to tweet as much as you have in mind.

2. He is not into facebook applications .

3.The idea of blogging once per week sounds like heavy load.

4.The team he is hiring to help you worse than him ….

WHAT YOU CAN DO ?

Social Media Effort

Going beyond the business and closing deals , this weekend we had the chance and thanks to @jordantimes to be part of Amman 350   ,it was so perfect, it was amazing , we as social company tweeted about, joined the effort and what we believe in as services do double the results when it comes to down to earth news, close to people, support without asking for returns …

1. JORDANTMES: got 3000 uv googling about copenhagen & middle east.

2. JORDANTIMES:new 250 twitter followers.

3. another partners got 500 uv on their blog.

4. twit pics we shared got 1200 views

maram amous aka me !

The amazing final and official photo

 You can read pr : Amman 350

View the whole photos on flickr : Amman 350

We want to let you know about an amazing event will be held in Amman Friday Dec 11th:

Amman 350 JOINS THOUSANDS OF CANDLELIGHT VIGILS TO DEMAND A REAL DEAL AT THE COPENHAGEN CLIMATE TALKS

Vigil Poster - Amman

We knew about this by @jordantimes & future friend @Nadine looking to meet you in person friday

SAY HELLO TO REAL TIME FROM GOOGLE :

This will be so awesome ….