Marketing refers to activities undertaken by a company to promote the buying and selling of a product or service (Twin 2020). Digital Marketing (Barone 2020) is the use of the internet, technology, mobile devices, search engines and social media to reach consumers. The field of digital marketing is broad, acclaimed by the industry, digital marketing has become a necessary aspect of business within a world beginning to resemble a pre-template of a cyberpunk or blade runner aesthetically run society.
With applied science evolving faster than it has ever, data science, artificial intelligence and high tech have already been incorporated into various marketing schemes. There are two parties within the parlance of digital marketing. Producers who are referred to as sources and consumers who are referred to as receivers (Sreemoyee 2020). Communication is a huge part of digital marketing. In order to be successful while carrying out campaigns, it is important for practitioners to correlate their IMC endeavors with two things:
The message delivered.
ROI
This is done via the process of serving, encoding, delivering the message, receiving, decoding, responding + feedback. Complimentary to this, a process that follows awareness, alignment, engagement and action (Rose 2010) is necessary in order to carry out effective and real communication.
Marketing is and has always been about reaching and connecting with your audience in the right place and at the right time (Alexander 2020). Today, that means you need to meet them where they are already spending time, which is on the internet. Internet marketing channels include website marketing, pay per click, content, email, social media and affiliate marketing (Barone 2020). Google owns the largest market share of the search engine market, dominating at 92.47% as of January 2021 (statista.com).
In most start up companies, the SEO team is an essential among the few others such as sales, finance, management and PR etc. One thing that all these teams have in common is that they are all focused on helping the company grow as fast as possible, this is done by enabling more data and new opportunities.
Website traffic and online presence is one thing that helps businesses grow. How big the company is influences the ratio of SEO marketing to sales. If the company is small, paid advertising is to be utilised in order to inject keyword searches with information about the company. Therefore, the goal is to use different ways to increase SEO traffic.
Due to algorithms, google can tell a good website from an irrelevant one. Therefore, outreach strategies are important, this is so because reaching out to prospects is more than only creating a connection. One has to continuously work on keeping your prospects engaged and actively nurturing their leads where content will be shared and a link provided. Outreach strategies include automated outreach, link building and keyword search.
With email automation software and tools, sending emails manually, which could prove to be time consuming, is streamlined.
Sending emails and follow ups is an important part of digital marketing. Through automated outreach, twice the number of responses and twice the number of prospects can be reached.
Examples of link building strategies include technical, on page and off page. Keyword research is normally the starting point of any on-page SEO activity. It is useful to find which keywords people are using to find out what they need to search. Keyword research is performed using specialist industry tools which are mostly paid. Some examples of such tools are Google Keyword Planner, SEMrush, SEO monitor, SEO clarity etc. While most industry popular SEO tools are paid, these are free online tools such as Google Trends.
To build natural links, top quality content with a high shareability element is the number one driving force. After this, backlink strategies, in app advertising, paid ads and keyword searches come into play. SEO in digital marketing builds brand identity by maintaining a strong online presence. Below are the steps taken to yield proper returns, responses and traffic via Google driven SEO’s.
Create a simple and well structured URL.
Create consistent and relevant content.
Create attractive SEO titles.
A proper length of SEO title.
Avoid using special characters within the content of the website.
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