Showing posts with label SEO marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SEO marketing. Show all posts

Monday, 19 June 2017

5 Social Media Engagement Tactics

5 Social Media Engagement Tactics

Nowadays, we all are living into an era of social media. As we all know, social media is one of the most powerful tool which help one to increase its social media presence and gives exposure to your brand. It’s so simple to promote your brand over social media all it take is social media engagement. One can simply tell this to its readers by following simple steps. This blog describes 5 social media engagement tactics for improving and increasing your engagement with your followers.

-          Post Frequently and Consistently

The key to successful social media marketing is to post often. The more you post, the more engagement you will likely have. Most companies around the globe have a social media presence of some type. It is easy to go unnoticed among the crowd if a company doesn’t stay active by posting new and meaningful content both frequently and consistently. If you expect people to engage with you, then you need to maintain your presence by posting frequently. Since posting on social media multiple times a day is a little difficult, why not make it easier for yourself? You can use a tool to help you to post on multiple social media platforms in advance.

-          Create and Join Groups and Forums

The roles of forums and groups in social media have increased dramatically in recent times. Numbers of forums, communities, and groups on social media are increasing at a high rate and are expected to continue to do so. There are over 2 million groups on LinkedIn alone and that number only increases when we include the groups on Facebook and other social networking sites. The key for marketers to succeed in these forums and groups is to join a conversation rather than starting it. Instead of promoting products or creating a large group, which gets difficult to control, it’s important to create a relatively small but active group.

-          Q&A Sessions

The key to making any social media marketing campaign successful is to engage the audience. The more engagement, the more buzz is created which helps a company to keep its name in the forefront of the mind of the customer. Question and answer sessions allow a company to have a conversation with their audience and to identify their audience’s views about its products and services. There are many Q&A websites that a company can use. A company should have its presence on all of these popular websites in order to answer customer’s queries and ask customers questions. For example, Amazon has answered a total of 238 questions on Answers.com. There are many people who have a lot of questions which need answers and having access to Q&A websites can provide the best solution for addressing an issue.

-          Use Social Media Tools

Technology helps to do everything in a better way and social media marketing is no exception. The use of different social media tools not only improves a company’s social media performance but can also help a company analyze their performance. There are various tools which can help a company to automate its social media presence and make its usage more effective. Using these tools ensures that social media strategies and tactics.

-          Conduct Polls and Surveys


Polls and surveys have been important ways to generate information about audiences for years. They allow a company to not only generate meaningful information but also to engage the audience. As a marketer, if you want to attract more audience with less effort, try using a survey.  Pizza Hut India recently rolled out the following simple poll asking the audience to name a pizza. This not only engaged the audience, but also provided them with an opportunity. 

Friday, 9 June 2017

5 Ways to Maintain Your SEO Rankings after Reaching the Top

5 Ways to Maintain Your SEO Rankings after Reaching the Top

If you are going through this blog, you’re probably on the way to your success. Your website has achieved the desired number one spot in the search results for its targeted keyword. Now, when people type in what you want them to type in, the first thing they see is your website. Yes, it must feel really good, but does it mean that your job ends here? Certainly not! Even if you have reached the top, you must maintain your SEO rankings and this still requires a lot of work.
Your rankings will always require attention and this is exactly why we have decided to provide you with 5 useful tips about maintaining them at the top.

-          Google Analytics

Use Google analytics intelligence events to track the visitors on your website. If you have a website and are ranked number one, you surely know about Google Analytics. However, you may have heard of this tool but only the most experienced marketers know everything it offers. Google Analytics has a feature called Intelligence Events. This feature will allow you to monitor the changes that occur in your analytics and will virtually alert you if your traffic has changed. Additionally, Intelligence Events has the ability to let you specify your own alerts. Now you get the chance to configure a program to notify you if your revenue changes.

-          Internal Linking 

When you lead your website to the top, you must have spent a lot of time on internal linking. Now you probably have a post or two that are ranked extremely high for some particular keyword and this is why you have to link to your content yourself. When doing this, make sure that you don’t overdo it. Google tends to see overabundance of links as an unnatural thing and may penalize you for it. The best strategy to use is the one that seems most natural. This is why you should use every chance to link back to the post in the number one position when producing new content but remember to mix the anchor text in order to not use the same word or the same phrase when linking back.

-          Maintain Speed

Always maintain the speed of rankings it inversely depends on site speed (Check your site speed here) and you already know it. A part of the reasons why you are so high in the SEO list is undeniably the speed of your site. But, as you get on a higher level, your site is growing too and more and more plug-in, content and widgets are added to it. Do not lose the top spot by overwhelming your website and slowing it down. Make sure that the technology you are using is caching in order to prevent reloads and help speed up site load times. Also, your images have to be optimized for websites. Use Photoshop to save images that are optimized. If you want to get information about the speed of your site, use Google Analytics and the Google page speed tool. This can also provide you with some advice on how to speed up your site.


-          Optimize  Title and Description

When on the top, make sure that no one brings you down. Make sure that your link is more clickable than those of your competition and do this by analyzing your click-through-rate. There is a tool to help you do this and its name is Google Webmasters. If you notice that the CTR for a certain keyword is dropping, there is a chance that your rank will drop too. This is why you optimize your title and the meta description.


-          Focus on Generated Content

Focus on user-generated content User-generated content is the content that appears in the forms of reviews and feedback. Try to encourage this because it builds loyalty to your site and people tend to re-visit a site they started a discussion on.

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

5 Essential Social Media Marketing Tools



5 Essential Social Media Marketing Tools

Social Media is very much welcoming for everyone. Especially when you’re running an advertising agency or managing social media accounts. Managing too many social media accounts at one time can create bit problem for people sometimes but technology has gifted us with the best in the face social media marketing tools. Social media marketing tools are specially designed to manage the things and posts for social media websites.
The tools we will be mention below are slightly different from each other but work in the same manner. Choose the one that are best for you our fit in your needs.  

1.       Hootsuite 

Hootsuite is an enterprise level social media management tool used by over 10 million professionals. They can help you schedule and analyze your social media marketing campaigns. Hootsuite is competing in a marketplace for social media dashboard tools or platforms, where marketers are focused on social media management for their clients' web engagement activities.

2.       Agora Pulse 

The Agorapulse dashboard is very straightforward. Switching through all your accounts is easy, as they are all clearly listed on the left-hand side of the dashboard. All of its features, such as the social media inbox, monitoring and publishing, are all at the top of the dashboard and easily accessible.

3.       Post Planner 

Postplanner used to be the tool for scheduling Facebook updates. Now, this is a much more widespread feature, so Postplanner has evolved quite a lot to include more cool features. Its main focus is now on helping marketers increase their engagement on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

4.       EveryPost 

EveryPost lets you curate visual content, schedule customised posts, and share content to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Tumblr. This is useful for posting from your Android and iPhone devices.

5.       Crowd Booster 

Crowd Booster is a social media analytics tool to help you optimise your social media marketing decisions. Instead of doing the analytics manually, get it automatically updated on a consistent basis. You can even create custom reports that can be useful for clients. Finally, use the reporting information to schedule Tweets for optimal times.


Tuesday, 27 December 2016

4 Do’s of Social Media Marketing



4 Do’s of Social Media Marketing 

We all are human beings and making mistakes is a part of our life. We all make mistakes at every stage of life even as marketers and it’s important that we not only learn from those mistakes but share with others so that they can avoid them.  In my last blog I’ve shared with you that what not to do for social media marketing and now I’m sharing what one should do for social media marketing. I hope that by the end of 2016 you guys will follow it and try to improve. Here I’m mentioning few tips for all of you I hope that it will entertain you well.

1.       Save Time, Re-purpose Content

People always say that work smartly as there’s a difference between hard work and smart work. While people waste their time on working hard and end up with zero results. For social media marketing, you need smart work to trace your followers. It’s a great tactic to re-use your old content but make sure to change the elements of your content before making it live. Simply spitting out the same information over and over again will not work.

2.       Interaction 

True interaction via social media can be a tough tactic for many marketers to master.  Finding the correct balance of self-promotion and intriguing content that inspires action can be very instrumental in using social media appropriately.  Take some time to comment or interact with your current clients and prospective clients to show that you’re there, and you care about what they are saying.  A simple tactic is to ask questions that inspire a response
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3.       Go for Multiple Media

Social media users are interested in fresh new ways of presenting content and ways that they can share it with their networks.  In fact, certain forms of media such as info graphics or videos have a tendency to be much more shareable and appealing.  Try to incorporate some new media types into your social media content plan for the year.

4.       Go with the Flow

If you’re like us you have multiple audience members to provide information to online.  This could be different verticals or even different departments within a single organization.  Do your homework, what sites do your different audience members participate in and what topics are of importance to them.

Friday, 14 October 2016

Master Your Skills



We live in the digital era, and being in the digital generation, we cannot deny the effect it has on our personal and professional life. Every coin has two sides, similarly, if heads help us to connect around the globe, so tails help the business to grow multifold by using digital marketing. Marketing in this age, is not restricted to the field only. It has increased its arena, which we call Digital Marketing.  Digital Marketer has to have the special skills to get the best outcome.  There are four skills which need to be mastered.
Digital Marketing is itself vast and needs to be implemented in a planned manner with proper execution to achieve the desired outcome.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) 

In layman language, it is an unpaid practice which helps in getting more traffic to a website using some important keywords in a web search engine result like Google, Yahoo, and Bing etc.  It is a set of techniques, tactics and strategies which results in getting high rank in the result of web search. It also refers to as natural or earned results.  The more high ranking a website have in the search page, the more number of visitors it would have. SEO helps a website to be easily accessed by the search engine and thus, it leads to more number of chances to be found by the search engine. SEO is applicable for all kind of searches be it image search, video search etc.
SEO follows two practices to increase the visibility of a website i.e. white hat and black hat.  In which white hat gives the stable and lasting growth in terms of ranking.  White hat uses quality content development, Optimization and restricting Of Website HTML. It follows the guidelines of a search engine in comparison to Black hat Practice.

Pay-per-click (PPC)

Pay-per-click also known as Cost per click. It is a way to direct traffic or to increase the visitors to a site by paid means. It is an internet advertising process in which website place their company ads in the search engine and pays only for the number of times the ad is clicked. It is referred to as buying the visits to your site rather than getting the traffic organically. It is mostly associated with the top search Engines like Google Ads and Microsoft Bing Ad words. In comparison to the SEO where the emphasis was on key words, here the content sites charges a fixed amount from the advertiser per click. The Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter are also following the Pay per click method.
Websites can also offer PPC ads. Websites advertisements use a Keyword which matches from the advertiser’s keyword list.  These advertisements are also known as Sponsored ads.

Content Managers 

Digital Marketing is nothing without good Content. A website has to be updated with the relevant information. A web content Management is designed to manage the content of the website which is also known as CMSes.  Text, Photos, videos, graphics, maps and codes comes under the web content.
Content on the website should be updated and relevant.  Content plays a pivotal role in Marketing as it fetches results from SEO. Content helps in driving the traffic to the site as the mediums have changed. A large population use tablets and smartphones and search the data.

UX designer and Developer 

UX Designer plays a very important role in building the website. It influences the decision making power by the Information, content, architecture and usability of the website.  UX Designer has the keys to your website. They create the website in such a manner that it meets the needs of both user and business which is known as sweet spot. Sweet spot let the user get what they want and let the business achieve its goals. Designer creates the website by keeping the thinking and behavior of the user in mind.