by Karl Hudson | Mar 31, 2015 | Social Media Marketing
Boost Your Marketing With Social Media
To some people, the concept of social media marketing can be likened to rocket science. However, it really isn’t that difficult to come up with creative ideas that will boost your social marketing. The following are some suggestions.
Social media contests
People like winning. Create a chance for them to win. Introduce a social media contest where consumers have to guess what a particular object is. Provide a kind of reward to increase motivation. A beer company once posted a picture of one of their 20 beers in a clear mug. They asked the audience what type of beer it was and said the right answer would win a free 6 pack. They told their consumers that a hint was on their website and then provided the link. This gave the business two unique advantages: free traffic and a boost in their online following.
User Based Decisions
Your business makes decisions every single day. What products do you need to stock? How many hours will that take? Should you introduce a new product or service? You probably end up making these decisions without thinking to ask your consumers. What was the most important lesson you learned in your marketing class? Listen to the consumers. Social networks such as Facebook, Google+ and twitter are great platforms to interact with your consumers. Post a picture and ask them what they think. The thrill is even greater for them when there are 2 or more products to choose from. You can start with something simple like ‘red vs. white’ and see what your consumers say. They like to be involved in this kind of decision making.
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This one is a fun way for your consumers to begin interacting with you. You can post a picture related to your business and tell fans to post the first thing that comes to mind. Adding a little motivation like ‘the funniest comment will win a free T-shirt’ can also boost your following. At the end of all of it, you will end up with a fun game that involves all your consumers and keeps them interested enough to watch out for the next ‘contest’.
Promotional contests encouraging people to ‘share’ or ‘retweet’
When a business comes up with a new product, one challenge is to find ways to get the word out about the product. Most businesses know that there is no better way to do this than to get a good recommendation. This is where sharing and retweeting comes in.
You can tell your consumers to post a status related to the new product. The most shares or retweets will get free tickets to that event you’re hosting this weekend or a free gift voucher. Your consumers will tell their friends to help them win the contest thus making their friends curious about what your product is about.
These are just some of the ideas your business need to put into good use on your social media platform. If you look closely, you will see that these ideas require no finances on your part (except maybe buying a T-shirt or that gift voucher we mentioned). Get your creative juices flowing and come up with interesting ideas as well. The goal should be simplicity and increasing your online followers.
by Karl Hudson | Mar 11, 2015 | News, SEO
Do we suspect a mobile update coming soon to major search engines? Over the past few weeks users have been seeing significant changes in search rankings with regards to mobile search.
Google’s own Jon Mueller was asked about an algorithm update in one of his Google+ Hangouts, he stated that it was not related to a Panda or Penguin refresh, which means it could be some form of new algorithm.
The cherry on the cake was where Google has been sending out warnings to webmasters whose websites were not mobile-friendly and asking them to update their site.
Users suspect the mobile update to be launched around 20th April 2015 so if your website is still not mobile friendly then please wake up and smell the roses and act. It takes very little time for a standard sized website to be converted into a responsive site, making it friendly for all devices.
If you have seen a drop in mobile traffic since the 24th January 2015 then it would be worth checking to see if your website is mobile friendly and if it is not, then act now.
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by Karl Hudson | Mar 10, 2015 | Search Engine Optimisation
There are people out there who possess a lot of shrewdness when it comes to a PC. Whether this skill comes from your professional life or your hobbies it still pays to be aware, that unfortunately you can’t know everything. Therefore deciding to do your own SEO might end up being detrimental to your personal blog or business. Without a proper strategy set in place, or a true understanding of all the intricacies that make SEO difficult, your efforts may all be in vain or even harmful. So that being said here are a few reasons why you might consider hiring a pro to help your online business.
Time is money, friend
Time is the biggest restrictive factor in the universe, it won’t stop, slow, or bend the rules for us and we are all dominated by it. Search engine optimisation can absorb a huge amount of your time, I have even had clients spend so long trying to figure out SEO on their own that they almost forgot the trade they were trying to bring in business for. Hiring a company dedicated to this means they can spend their time and experience working for you when you are concentrating on what you do best.
Tools! Tools! Tools
Search engine optimisation companies usually invest a lot of money in the right tools to increase efficiency and accuracy. Like any specific trade, these tools come with a hefty price tag. SEO companies can afford this expense because it allows them to put their strategies in place quicker and manage the process of bringing your website up in the search engine ranking pages (SERPs).
Cost Effective? I Think So
I have already mentioned that SEO companies pay for expensive tools saving you on the purchase, while this saves you money this is not the true marker of saved cost. The true wallet/purse saver is when you look at the cost to return ratio. If you have done a little bit of research you will find that SEO is one of the most cost effective return on investments you can make when it comes to advertising. 4 Billion Searches are made every day on Google and 70% of those click on organic search results rather than paid ads.
Bring Me Those Leads
With all the traffic the internet can bring through your website it is almost guaranteed to increase sales. 60% of people click on the top 3 organic search results, this is why an organic SEO strategy is so important. If your product is getting a lot of search volume it pays to convert that traffic into visitors.
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by Karl Hudson | Mar 6, 2015 | SEO
The ways SEO can benefit your online business are numerous. Search Engine Optimisation encompasses everything from reputation management to just a simple increase in traffic flow. SEO is unique in an advertising sense that it connects you with people seeking you out already, this is hugely advantageous to any business.
Search engine optimisation can also be used to propagate awareness of your brand online. Anything from local awareness, even to an international scale. SEO does this by focusing on getting you to rank highly for brand or keyword related search terms.
SEO is a 24 hours 7 days a week endeavour. It will work for you when you’re sleeping as search engines never rest. Once you’re brand is recognised on the first page for keywords of your choice it will continuously bring in visitors seeking what you offer.
Being in the spotlight for your keywords naturally means more sales. Expanding your business to reach hundreds, thousands or in some cases millions of people who are seeking your product will result in increased revenue.
Pay Per Click is ubiquitous with online businesses, unfortunately many businesses aren’t aware of all the nuances of ad management, split testing and landing page optimisation. This could save massive amounts of money on their campaigns. Thats where SEO companies come in, they can offer their vast experience with ad campaign management.
Long term cost for pay per click is reduced through keyword optimisation. Pay Per Click judges your ads based on the quality of optimisation of your website. This means that if your website is poorly optimised the cost of running your ads will always be at the apex of ad bidding. Hiring an SEO specialist to optimise your website for your keywords will reduce the amount of money coming out of your budget to get those customers on your website. Eventually you could get rid of cost per click all together. If you’re website is already ranking first for your chosen keywords, Then PPC is no longer needed. Long term SEO can achieve these results.
However keep in mind when you hire an SEO specialist, that it’s like any other business there are always going to be people who will sell poor quality service, for premium prices. SEO evolves like any living being over time. It constantly changes and can be every bit as disastrous for your business as it can be profitable if not handled carefully. Hire an SEO company that care for your brand and can provide a clean service. Black hat SEO is very popular in the underbelly of the search engine optimisation world and if not carefully monitored can destroy your chances of online visibility.
Being a UK born company GetMediaWise are proud to stand out from rogue SEO agencies that want to take your money and offer very little or nothing in return, in some cases even damage your brand. GMW will always strive to go one step further to achieve your goals. Our online marketing team marketing team is ready to handle anything that is thrown at us.
by Karl Hudson | Mar 6, 2015 | Case Studies, SEO
We are currently setting up a case study where we have taken one of our affiliate site that’s currently ranking 3rd in the search engines for its main keyword. This site has had no real social signals sent to it.
For those who don’t know what social signals are; if someone mentions you on a twitter update, for instance;
In this instance, the social signal would be to the URL that is linked to the status – my b-daily articles. The same applies to Facebook updates, Pinterest pins, Linkedin Statuses, etc. Anything that points back to your site on a social site is classed as a social signal.
One of the reasons for this study is because we have noticed sites that have hardly any backlinks but are very active on social media networks have been ranking quite highly within the search engines. So we wanted to create our case study to see if it could help push a website that has become stagnant in the search.
So what are we doing to get hold of social signals?
We have a few tools that we will be using; I won’t mention them on here as they are some secrets we like to keep private.
The other places where we will be gaining the majority of social signals is fiverr.com we are searching for social signals and finding gig’s that have good reviews.
Our aim will be to send around 10-20,000 social signals of the next week. Ideally we will look to send anything between 1-4,000 per day.
I will update this post with our latest amount of social signal’s that have been sent and the influence it is having on the search.
Update 1 – 06/03/2015
We have purchased over 5000 social signals day 1. We have sent them all to the website. I will let you know the results once these have been published.
Current rankings before social metrics have been acquired:
Keyword 1: 3rd
Keyword 2: 10th
Update 2 – 07/03/2015
I have purchased two lots of social signals now.
Keyword 1: 3rd
Keyword 2: 9th – +1 Spot
Update 3 – 11/03/2015
Keyword 1: 3rd (No movement yet)
Keyword 2: 8th (+1 since last update)
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