According to Demand Metric, around 90 percent of organizations are now using content marketing to generate traffic, leads and sales. Also, 78 percent of CMOs consider content to be the future of marketing.
When it comes to online marketing, metrics are important. You need to be able to analyze the data to find out if your marketing efforts are working. This goes far beyond simply looking for an uptick in sales whenever you run a new advertising campaign. You want to know exactly what worked, why it worked, what did not work and how you can replicate those results moving forward.
Just barely over one year ago, we discussed how a string of layoffs could mean the end of Yahoo search. However, it now appears that Marissa Mayer’s leadership has changed all that, as Yahoo is redoubling its efforts by adding new upgrades, tools, and features to its search engine.
You know that most people don’t have a lot of time when they search for something on the internet. In our fast-paced modern culture, people expect to put a word or two into Google and get relevant results in a split second. And it usually works. This means the competition for those keywords can be incredibly high.
You know that you want to use blog posts as a significant part of your content strategy. They give you a chance to promote new content on your website, answer questions that your readers may have, and much more. Ideally, you hope that your blogs will draw in new traffic, which you can then funnel to your main website so that you can sell your products or services.
It takes time, effort and investment to rank on the first search results page. The old days of the internet, when simply having a website could get you more attention, are over. There are billions of sites and you’re constantly competing against others for placement and rankings. Merely having a website is not going to help because it is what your potential customers already expect. It would certainly be a red flag if you did not have a site, but they’re not impressed just because you do.
John Mueller recently announced that Google’s Penguin 3.0 update is likely to launch sometime this year. Webmasters
There’s an old saying in business that the three most important factors are location, location, location. Much of this viewpoint stemmed from the fact that businesses got a lot of their customers through foot traffic. People would be walking in a shopping area, a bar district or an area known for restaurants, and they would stumble upon these local businesses that they wanted to visit.
Is return on investment (ROI) all you really think about when you set up your marketing campaigns? You want traffic, you want conversions and you want sales. A good social media campaign can and will get you all of those things, but remember that you have to go farther.