It can be almost redundant to reiterate the importance of an online presence, regardless of the business sector. But how can a small and medium-sized company emerge in the problematic and crowded sea of the Internet? Here are which resources to use.
Let’s try to summarize the pillars of digital marketing in 5 key concepts, which must be the basis of the actions aimed at a robust online presence of your company and your brand. To implement the growth of both, these concepts must be put into practice continuously and rigorously, always trying to do things at their best.
The pursuit of perfection will be based on subjective variables such as objectives, budget and business sector. Still, it is equally clear that a company’s success on the web cannot do without a few steps, from the website to the editorial plan. Let’s see what they are, deepening the salient aspects.
Beautiful, optimized and user-oriented: these are the characteristics that a company blog/website must have to be functional. Here’s what it means in detail and practice:
These conditions are not negotiable, as an overwhelming fact shows: smartphone users are close to 3 billion in 2020and mobile searches are on a steady and dizzying rise. Suppose a person searches for a product or information on your site. In that case, they must be able to use it efficiently, which means that the page must load quickly and thoroughly: even a single second of delay in loading can reduce user satisfaction. And it can put the loss of a potential customer at stake.
Heat map technology and subsequent data extrapolation will help you understand how people interact with your site so that you can identify any areas for improvement. While as regards checking the optimization status of your website pages, we recommend that you use, among the various online tools, the one created by Google itself https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly.
You may have heard it repeated many times, yet the phrase “Content is King” – the title of an article published in 1996 on the Microsoft website and signed by Bill Gates – is still a pillar of any digital marketing strategy. The unique and quality content, therefore defined as valuable, are the founding element for building a strong and solid online presence: without them, your brand will not emerge, and your reputation, as an authority in the sector, will not stand out in the thick and fierce competition from the Internet.
Only by making content with added value a priority (be it a post, a photo, a video, etc.) can you have the chance to please Google and consequently to reach a better ranking, thus increasing the chances of intercepting interested users. One of the focal questions is, “What is quality content? “. The answer is simple and complex at the same time: they are those relevant to the sector, informative, helpful and able to involve the target audience.
A complex mix to achieve, which is the only way to obtain relevant results for traffic volumes and online presence and conversions (e.g. sales, newsletter subscription, app download, fanbase increase, etc.).
This hard work will improve your organic rankings, allowing you to be placed at the top of the first page of search engine results (SERPs). It will facilitate optimization for SEO (an acronym for Search Engine Optimization ). NB The SEO strategy is continually evolving and is a sum of many factors, gathered under the heading SEO friendly, including the construction of the site (theme, tags, speed, etc.), the production of quality content and the updating of new releases of the Google algorithm.
Knowing what indicators of value the search engine is looking for when it scans every single page and every content on your website is essential to be found. And being found remains the primary goal of any online presence strategy worthy of the name.
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The site alone is not enough to guarantee you an online presence worthy of good visibility. Attending social media is a primary activity, for which almost standardized procedures are required—planning first. An excellent editorial plan must foresee which contents must be shared on various social networks, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest etc. Then you will have to think about how to produce them and when to publish them. Photos, infographics, videos, live streams are potent means that can drive traffic to the website or even convert themselves.
But you will have to keep in mind that this is an activity that requires time, knowledge of the various platforms and the ability to produce compelling content based on the desired goal. In this case, it may be convenient to evaluate the preventive advice of a web agency that can develop an adequate strategy.
Instead, what we advise you not to delegate is listening to your fanbase: monitoring which contents are most discussed is an opportunity not to be missed to ‘take the pulse’ of those who follow your company, which means being proactive about what works, for possible replication of the model, but also being ready to respond to criticism and negative notes.
Dura lex sed lex! Yes, to increase your product and your company’s visibility, you cannot do without paid advertising. Being able to exploit the potential of specialized platforms, such as Google Ads and Facebook Ads, will allow you to increase visibility exponentially, achieving results that are not matched by organic or spontaneous growth.
The advantages of promoting on the Internet are ease of use and cost savings compared to traditional media, such as print and TV. These conditions of convenience, however, are realized only on the state that the campaigns are built in an organized way, which means:
Steps not taken for granted and for which it may be worth relying on specialized professionals who know how to optimize the resources of time and money.
Building an online reputation must go hand in hand with strengthening your web presence. Every company that operates on the web, whether small or large, must make IT security and data protection a strong point. Suffice it to say that even giants like eBay and Uber can fall victim to computer piracy to steal sensitive and non-sensitive data of those who surf the net.
In the presence of increasingly alarming data relating to hacking and computer viruses – + 365% annual crimes on the web in 2017, of which 61% against companies with less than 1,000 employees (US sources) – let your users know that yes, they can trust, score a point in your favour. Trust in the brand and consequently in its products will allow you to make customers feel at ease while interacting with your company online.
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