The global reach of the COVID-19 pandemic is making an impact on every aspect of the digital marketing world, and SEO trends are not exempt from the changes brought on by COVID-19. Digital marketers have seen a shift in SEO trends. These are some of the current SEO trends that could influence digital marketing until the COVID-19 pandemic dies down.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing the emergence of what digital marketing experts are calling the “infodemic”, but with proper SEO practices and a sincere desire to provide your audience with relevant, trustworthy information, your business can remain pertinent to consumers.
The world is currently facing a challenge like never before with the COVID-19 pandemic. Because this virus has permeated every part of our lives, SEO will definitely be influenced by the pandemic. If you’re trying to understand how you can switch gears to rank for the SEO keywords during the pandemic, here’s a list of our top tips.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses across the globe are shifting gears when it comes to email marketing, using this platform to communicate a variety of important messages. If you are unsure of the kind of information you should include in your email marketing efforts, take a look at our guide.
When it comes to improving your pay per click advertising, you’ve probably heard it all. Some marketers advocate for the sole use of content marketing, while others support the exclusive use of pay per click (PPC) to grow your business.
Combined, pay per click advertising can be a powerful tool that allows you to capitalize on your content marketing while waiting for search engines to start delivering search results.
Creating high-quality and relevant content should be your long-term strategy to boost your SEO ranking, improve the quality of your landing page and to build your brand’s standing.
We’ve listed four tips for you to do just this.
Know your audience. Depending on the type of business you do online, some audiences prefer using social media platforms and others prefer the more formal mediums such as e-commerce stores, blogs or online discussion forums.
Once you know which channels to target, you can hone your content to suit your various audiences.
In order to build a successful PPC plan, you need to determine your campaign structure. The next step would be to build and to refine your campaign’s landing pages. In addition, you need to build a keyword strategy and plan based on your research. Once you’ve completed these three steps, go on to create ads. Think it through and take the time to focus on this; most marketers fail at their PPC campaigns, which costs them more for underwhelming lead generation results.
Calls to Action are used in written content, blog posts and Meta descriptions as well as advertisement banners. These are woven into your PPC advertising. When conceptualizing your headings and Metadata, you don’t want to provide all the information or answers in your PPC promoted content – it’s a fine balance. Instead, try to ‘persuade’ your audience to click on your website links.
There’s no point in spending time and money on a perfectly crafted PPC and content campaign if you don’t keep on top of it. Follow up on your PPC advertising. In order to maintain your credibility, ensure that you always provide accurate, up to date, valuable and high-quality content to your audiences.
At WSI New Media, we provide a holistic approach to increasing online sales and leads. We specialize in designing and managing PPC campaigns by assisting our clients to see how this valuable resource will capitalize on your content marketing through improved click-through rates, conversions, and profit.
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There is nothing more frustrating than navigating a website with a poor load speed or inadequate performance. Every aspect of our daily lives is fast paced, and a rapid, effortless user experience is essential to stay ahead in the business world of today.
A website’s load speed is crucial to your online presence, conversion rates and even sales and it has a major impression on SEO rankings. All top website design companies will tell you that slow websites all have low conversion rates, high bounce back rates and unimpressive amounts of visits per page.
For your website to lead your digital presence, you need to avoid this at all costs:
Your website speed is the first impression you will make. It is vital that your customers (or readers) make a positive instant judgement about your business. In your customers’ minds, you are efficient, trustworthy and confident if your website proves to be professional and reliable.
One of the few ways you can set your website apart from others is through your users’ experience. With an efficient website load speed, this can be achieved by giving your visitors what they want and giving it to them quickly.
Google takes website speed into account when ranking websites with a very small ‘signal’. This means that the average website won’t see much change but if your website lags, you will suffer. If your server is slower than two seconds, the chances that Google will pick up your content (or any other relevant changes) are slim and this could be harmful to your ranking.
Google views a slow website’s speed as a poor user experience which in turn, brings down your quality score. When it comes to pay per click advertising (PPC), paying the most affordable rate for your keyword bidding is determined by your quality score. In paid media terms, your quality score is determined on how relevant Google finds your website’s landing page to a search term.
Your quality score determines what your cost per click is and your average position on the Search Engine Results Page. With a slow website speed or quality score, it will be hard for your website to show up in the top positions on the Search Engine Results Page. Your ranking also depends on how competitive the keywords are.
At WSI New Media, we will help you to benchmark your website and to improve it. We will analyze your website’s performance, eliminate all unnecessary elements ‘weighing’ it down and, optimize your website to ensure that you have the best and most efficient website speed to stay ahead of your game.
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We all know we need to select appropriate keywords to make our SEO strategies effective. There’s nothing new about that. However, you may not be using keywords to their fullest potential and, therefore, your website or blog may be lagging behind as a result. The problem with most keywords is that they tend to be generic and broad. Thousands of other websites will be using these short-tail keywords, and this means greater competition. If you rely only on short-tail keywords, you will be just one of many competitors, all fighting for attention from the same readers and possibly getting lost in the process.
The solution to reducing competition in this arena is to get more specific. This involves using long-tail keywords. Long-tail keywords enable you to tailor search items specific to your business, as opposed to those that would be common across your industry.
For example, say you operate a heating and air conditioning business in the Greensboro area, and you specialize in heat pump installations. If you use a keyword like “heating services,” you are unlikely to get the specific search engine hits you need. If you extend it to something like “heat pump installer,” you’re being more specific and, in so doing, narrowing your offering. The result is that your website is more likely to come up in search results. If you go even further and create a keyword like “heat pump installer Greensboro,” you have now created a long-tail keyword that is especially likely to bring your website up near the top of the search results.
What this means is that you’ve reduced your search competition by a pretty respectable order of magnitude. If people in your area want your services, they are not likely to type in a generic search phrase that brings up results from elsewhere in the state or possibly from around the country – depending on which of your colleagues in other towns are putting more into their SEO and PPC strategies. Somebody searching for a heating technician in Greensboro is likely to be specific in their search. So, you’ve given yourself a competitive edge.
What this really comes down to is focusing on your unique selling point (USP). This is an old idea in marketing. The concept of the long-tail keyword takes the USP into the digital realm, enabling you to differentiate yourself from your hordes of competitors. It requires you to think deeper about your business and refine your offerings, an effort that is sure to be rewarded with higher search engine rankings .
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Time for a new website? One thing we can say is that you need to know exactly what you want. The more specific you are with your brief, the better your web design company can build the perfect new website for you. This blog will give you a guide to enable you to draw up the best possible brief to give to your designers. It will help you answer all the questions they are likely to ask before you even make contact for the first time. This will make you more able to explain exactly what you need when the time comes for the briefing.
Company Details
Start with a short but relatively detailed description of the company. Give the designers a full idea of the following:
The designers need to know who they are dealing with and how they can add value. Be sure to include your main contacts and their details, so these can be included in the Contact section of the website.
What Do You Want From the Website?
Explain why you want the new website:
Target Market
Your Current Website
Give your designers as much information as you can about your existing site (if you have one). Include information such as:
The New Website
Explain what your goals are with the new site, for instance:
Also, remember to consider the future:
Content
Design
Deadline and Budget
Tell the designers exactly what you need in terms of deadlines and tell them what budget you have to work with. You both then have a good idea of what can and can’t be done and how much leeway there might be with regard to money and time.
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Instagram is an excellent marketing tool that delivers great results. Yet, some people don’t know exactly how to use it. For those who are unsure, here are 7 top Instagram tips to integrate into your social media marketing plan.
That is… if you haven’t already! Instagram business accounts come with a variety of benefits, including a ‘contact’ button to give your followers direct access to you. You also get access to Instagram’s analytics tools, which allow you to see stats for your content. With a business account, you generally increase the chances of your content coming up in your followers’ news feeds.
Promote your Instagram account and content on your other platforms. Your followers on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other platforms may not have access to your Instagram yet, so invite them to check it out. This simply allows more exposure and helps to improve your brand image.
There are two kinds of hashtags on Instagram:
Be sure to strategize the use of these hashtags carefully.
A good bio makes a huge difference to users. Make sure you present a good face and explain clearly what you do. Remember to include a profile photo, a good, easy to remember and searchable user name, a link to your website, a short description as well as a call to action.
Create content in advance, according to a calendar and your objectives. Map out your marketing objectives first and then plan your content accordingly. Schedule your content and stick to the schedule, making sure that every piece of content is posted at exactly the right time.
Instagram stories work a lot like Snapchat, creating a series of limited-life videos that foster engagement and enable you to connect to a wider audience. The 24-hour life of each video encourages people to watch and share them more than they would with content that they can access at any time. Simply put, all the more people will engage with your brand.
Foster ongoing engagement with your business and your Instagram account by getting to know your audience and engaging with them. Interact with them, ask them questions. Let your audience know that you are not just a business targeting them as customers, but the core of a community in which they have an important stake.
Contact WSI New Media Marketing and let us design a thorough and comprehensive social media marketing plan for your brand.
Time waits for nobody. 2020 is already rushing ahead regardless, and digital media marketing is running with it. Digital marketing moves as quickly as the technology it uses, so all the world’s top social media agencies need to keep up with the latest trends in order to stay on top of their game. Here are four of the top trends in the practice of digital marketing in 2020.
Marketers are using AI to create personalized experiences. Customized content can be delivered to users based on their search history, location, and interests. You can also create product recommendations and content suggestions as well as automate advertising. AIs can also be very effective in automating your email lists. This enables you to hone your targeted emails to a fine edge with mail campaigns that are personalized to the extreme.
Do you want to better understand how customers feel about your products? Social media mentions aren’t always as clear cut as you would want them to be, but now you can analyze their tone with the use of AIs. The AIs analyze posts relating to your brand to understand whether people have positive, negative or neutral feelings about what you do. They can even flag and prioritize negative responses so that you can act on them quicker and take steps to manage your brand’s public image.
Chatbots are nothing new. They have been used for some time already as a way to provide customer support quickly and without putting any strain on your staff. They are getting more and more sophisticated now, however, able to provide ever more involved assistance with increasingly more complex queries. Chatbots also streamline customer service and make it not only quicker but also more effective. They can also be used to gather data from their interactions, putting them in a database, which you can then use for marketing purposes, providing information on your customers. You can then use this to perfect your marketing efforts.
Video content simply attracts more views than any other format. People would rather watch a video than read through even a single paragraph of copy. You can strategize the way you use videos by posting them for limited periods of time – leveraging your audience’s FOMO and prompting a customer to take action. Make use of Instagram Stories for example. You can also add hashtags and get users to engage, thus creating and developing a relationship with your audience and fostering brand loyalty.
If you’re uncertain how to make good use of these trends, you can always hand the work over to a top social media agency that can use all of these methods and technologies to promote your brand. Contact WSI New Media Marketing and let us follow the trends for the good of your brand, through social media marketing, PPC advertising, website design, and mobile marketing among other methods.