How to write the right engaging content?

Those days are gone when bloggers used article spinners to make their content. All that has changed and now there is more emphasis on quality content. Google is focused on playing fair and give preference to the quality material published on internet. This made the content writing industry shift their gears towards quality rather than quantity. Moreover, writing quality content is also important due to the follow reasons:

·         Increased readers base – Content written with quality is easy to read and understand and can be a great tool for social media channels. As people spend most of their time on social media channels, quality of the content encourages them to share it with their social connections as well. Once people know the quality of material you provide. They look forward for more quality content from your end. In Addition to that search engines give preference to your content as you provided quality to your readers.

·         Less penalties – Search engines like Google awards such content by higher rankings. Search engines look for fresh content which is written with quality, without spelling or grammatical errors. So making the content work towards your brand’s success was never so easy, use it wisely.

There is lot of buzz about how to write quality content to increase engagement. We dig into the subject and came with 4 tips to write engaging content.

1.       Get inspiration and assistance – Learn from the masters of the industry, connect with the leading writers on social channels. Let them see your content and comment on it. Engage on regular basis, become a student, ask questions and listen carefully.

2.       Dedicate a little more time – Learn the trends of your previous posts and find out what your readers like to read the most. Spend some time to think and research on how to write interesting yet useful articles.

3.       Framing your format – Writing for internet channels is quite different from writing for print formats. Plan your write-ups accordingly and then write. Try to be short and precise to your point. Make the content interesting, beautify it with bullet lists and small paragraphs.

4.       Make it talk – “Images are worth a thousand words” use this rule for your content. Make your articles talk to the audience. Use images relevant to the content, examples with infographics or even videos, if needed. All these interesting methods help you increase engagement with your readers.

Following the above mentioned tips will eventually help your search engine optimization team as well. Both SEO and SMO teams can work hand in hand to achieve similar business goals. 

3 Tips business owners should learn in 2014 for best SEO results.

Year of 2013 brought a lot of changes in digital marketing world and “SEO is dead” was the talk of town till the end of 2013. Google released few updates last year and that changed a lot the way businesses operate in 2014. Let’s find out what strategies businesses can adopt in order to get the best ROI on their SEO investments.   

1. In-depth knowledge of SEO is a must in 2014. -  6th Feb 2014 was the day when Google launched its latest algorithm update called “Top Heavy 3” which doesn’t seem to impact much. However, the results seem promising for Google. For any SEO program, links, content and social media are the three core elements. So in order to make your SEO campaign work, you need to maintain a balanced equation between its core components more rigorously.

2. Understand your content marketing standard and improve it – Providing fresh and relevant content is the key to your success in online marketing. In the last few years we have clearly seen the impact of effective content marketing on global businesses. With time this industry is also reaching digital maturity. As content marketing domain grows at an immensely faster rate, the ROI on this is also expected to increase.

3. Let your business GO Mobile!  – Google’s Hummingbird updates came to existence last year and changed the way we search online. There are nearly 7 billion mobile users in the world today and most of them search on their mobile devices. With the Hummingbird update it has become more challenging to rank well on Google search. Businesses now need to work on their responsive web design and mobile content more efficiently to run their SEO program effectively. Responsive web design (RWD) helps your online presence reach to numbers of mobile devices, hence, optimization of your website as per RWD methodology is a must.

‘Top Heavy 3’ is the latest news in digital marketing industry. So far Google has not released any official data about the changes this update has brought. SEO community is eagerly waiting for the latest information from Google about its newest update.

Impact of Social Media over SEO

Over last few years, social media has grown very quickly, with over millions of users on the social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Reports show that one million links are shared in Facebook in every 20 minutes. With much of the content being shared on such social media platforms, it can benefit the search engines in finding out the best possible result desired by the users.

Google and other search engines are growing day by day, not just with the social media presence, but also in terms of social media that affects the search results. Therefore, setting up certain standards for the content that is being shared is necessary to be seen on the top page of search results. While creating content, one should maintain certain standards to be viewed on the SERPs:

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Most Important Deliverables To Consider During Website Development

There are many web development and SEO companies that strive hard to deliver results but it is important to understand and recognize the companies that offer the best in terms of design and quality. All web design projects should begin by aiming at some core deliverables that are required to build the website and to make it a success.

Let's have a look at the top important deliverables that every website design company should offer to their web designing clients.

1. Initial Site Architecture

This is an important aspect to be considered before deciding the color theme, image sliders or even the layout of the website in consideration. The Initial site architecture will lead to deciding the internal linking structure and the site navigation map. This aspect will show you the outline of the website pages and a brief about the content that will go in each page. This structure s later materialized into what is known as sitemap. This is an essential step to be taken while developing a website.

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Boosting Social Engagement in 2014

Social media platform is one of the most effective platforms that have been adopted by most of the marketers to promote a business. Social media campaigns should be carried out smartly, to make sure that the campaign turns out to be as effective one. Below are the four social media strategies that every marketer could implement to carry out a successful social media campaign.

1.      Making social presence on Multiple Channels

Engagement with Facebook and Twitter is not enough, audiences are present on such social networking sites in a wide range, but at the same time audiences are also present on other social networks too, therefore, social presence of business on those social networking sites is equally important. Use the content sharing on different channels according to its functions and audiences and implement the social tactics that manage one streamlined campaign.

2.      Quality content that encourages consumers to get engaged

It is necessary to analyse and understand what the customers want, what are they looking for. Creating content that interests the fans is important, as it helps grabbing the attention and this way, people know about a business or a brand that is being promoted. Encouraging the social audiences to create content themselves and are likely to share it further will result in a strong reach to more audiences.

3.      Creating Community Platform

Marketers can make use of community platforms to reach more audiences. Creating a community strategy may turn out to be an effective strategy which gives consumers to have a bigger voice and be a part of broader community. Engaging the audiences by asking various questions and polls will be a good strategy. A friendly forum is always good to have a conversation about various topics and elevate brand’s social credibility.

4.      Enhancing personality of Fan Page

The look and layout of the fan page must sooth one’s eye so that one must stick to the fan page and keep checking for the updates. Using media such as different photographs, videos also contribute to the social reach of the page. Creativity fosters the social engagement of a page, therefore, creativity on the social platform is a must.

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Google’s Top Trending Searches For 2013

With Google having published its list of top ten global trending searches of 2013, it is now clear what people searched the maximum this year on the search engine giant. Without any doubt, Madiba rules the hearts. To many, it must be an unsurprising fact that the #1 trending searches of 2013 was an international symbol of strength and peace: Nelson Mandela.

The global search interest for the former President of South Africa was very high even before his passing away. And now after him, people from all over the world have turned to Google to learn about the life and contributions of Nelson Mandela’s legacy.

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How to cope up with Google’s 2014 Algorithm Updates

The year 2013 had been an incredible year in terms of Google updates featuring Humming Bird algorithm, further releases of Penguin and Panda and so on. Due to such major updates, many SEO strategies were ruined and played no role in improvement in the Search Engine platforms. SEO industry faced a major problem and was a doubtful issue whether they will be able to cope up in the market or not after such major changes in the updates and strategies of the search engine giants Google. The future can never be predicted and so is 2014. No one has any idea of what the search engine giant is planning for 2014 and what changes it shall bring it in the search and keyword strategies. But nothing is impossible, monitoring the behaviour of the search engine giants and other techniques may give an idea about what’s coming next! Research and development is a necessary part to predict what changes might come. Therefore, after a research, here are some suggestions for SEO companies and professionals who want to get prepared for changes that might come in the year 2014.

·         2013 updates carried forward, only the volume and details will be added

All that happened in 2013 will be carried forward in 2014, but some micro adjustments might be done to Panda and Penguin that will target both link and content quality.   Read more.....

Why your Digital Marketing Strategy is failing?

 DigitalMarketing helps to fetch leads and increase sales for a business. It worries a lot when there is a decline in the sales and no leads are being fetched. However, it may be the result of poor Digital Marketing strategy. Let’s discuss the 3 must haves that will help boosting and increase sales and leads.

 1.       Conversion of more visitors should be the first priority

The first and foremost priority of the Administrator is to increase the number of visitors to respective website. The visitors should find it really friendly to access the website, keeping the website simple yet full of information and other products and accessibilities that generally a user is in need. Being clear, open and honest about what exactly being served, not wasting the time of visitors by unnecessary form filling procedures, which usually many visitors find it frustrating and is considered to be a bad impression on the website and most importantly, updating with new products and information to the users, who visits website. These tips help creating a good impression further leading to a long term relationships with the customers creating goodwill and influences the users to visit again.

2.       Adopting SEO Strategy for the Website

Google has been updating its search engine with its major updates such as Hummingbird, it is time for a website to tackle the SEO strategy to create its online presence, and also keep a check whether the SEO strategy is done according to the Hummingbird updates or not. Ensure that the search engines have a purpose as each pages on a website that have been allowed, should get optimized according to the search engine. Analyze each keyword that matches to a particular field of a website, have enough content to support a particular keyword, which may drive relevant traffic. Do a deep dive analysis of backlinks and be updated. Keep a check on what the rivals are doing with their SEO techniques and strategies.

3.       Don’t be scared of making wrong decisions

Visitors like to feel and experience changes. Keep testing a website with few interesting changes and coming up with exclusive features, which other websites do not have. There is nothing to worry about being wrong in changing the look and feel of a website, or with the creativity, simply get the website live. Data analyzed shows whether the changes achieved the targeted goals or not, if not then the website can be updated very quickly and for testing other ideas.

Digital Marketing strategies can never be perfect, but understanding and adapting the technology and the changes can advantage in the future of businesses.

Search Engine Marketing or Social Media?

Everyone likes the new shining objects. So does the marketers, who started switching from, search engine marketing to social media, and such trend followed by other marketers. Of lately, there has been a shift or thinking to shift their Digital Marketing focus from Search Engine Marketing to Social Media. Switching search to social was a smart move? Can marketers rely completely on Social Media instead of Search Engine?

Few years back, the companies that shifted their Digital marketing focus from search engine to social media are now bringing back the search engine marketing as the strategy that is the part of Digital Marketing. The major question is, why did the search engine was chosen again? It is because; the marketers didn't receive the kind of performance that they were hoping to get out of the social media campaigns.

A research showed that, only 1 per cent of online transaction could be generated through social media. At the same time, there was a great contribution of Search Engine Marketing for e-commerce sites for lead generation, sales and representing 31.43 percent of sales traffic. E-mail marketing had 2.82 percent and social media just had 1.55 percent of all e-commerce traffic.

It doesn't mean that social media failed those businesses, but the marketers failed to understand how to use and optimize social media in their respective businesses. If a business makes use of social media, it should generate genuine people who’d get engaged in the activities and trends put by the business. Social media is not about adopting give-away campaigns like “Win iPad” and converting people who want to win, follow the brand using social media such as Twitter and Facebook. This will not bring in genuine fans or leads. The business will face a decline in the engagement due to not implementing a perfect strategy that suits social media which will lead to generating the leads and actually the genuine ones.

Another trend flowed in Asia is to put Paid Ads (PPC) to be focused of the search engine marketing and not concentrating on the SEO. It might be because of the assumption made by the people of SEO getting too harder. But if a website is healthy and well optimized, more than half of website traffic can be fetched through organic search results. One can easily get traffic to a website if SEO strategies shall be implemented properly and following rules and regulations of search engines and rather focusing on paid ads.

Social media, Paid ads and SEO have their own different roles in the digital marketing field and despite of adopting these techniques one over another, try bringing all together and implementing it in the business which results in bringing business goals closer.

To collaborate the above 3 techniques, a business shall make use of the following 6 steps:

·         Behavior of Audience in Search and Social Media

It is really necessary to understand how people behave on search engines and social media, such as what people search for, in search engine and social media. For that, a marketer has to look and analyze own website so that relevant audiences can b targeted according to their needs and purposes.

·         Setting up goals for search engines and social media

Set up the search and social media goals, once a marketer have well understood the audience and adjusting it according to the digital marketing projects.

·         Using maximum advantage of social media on SEO

The social activities that is being performed by social media has a greater impact on search engine and a marketer should take maximum advantage of social media on search engine optimization, so that improvement can be brought in the organic search performance.

·         Combine search and social media

A marketer goes wrong as far as they consider search and social media to be different. A marketer shall create a cross-functional process between the search and social so that you can integrate the search learning into social media, and the social media learning into search.

·         Implement the best practice and influence people to follow it

Give a shape to the findings, research, goals and process and implement it and enforce the people across the world to follow it.

By: Search Infomedia