Are you small businessmen struggling to outrank your competitors? Do you want to promote your products and services locally to users nearby? Ready to capture the local markets through SEO in first phase of launch? If yes then this is the right read for you! Let us spend how 2-3 minutes to understand how brands are leveraging themselves in local markets through SEO. In this blog post I am going to share all the secret strategies that we have used to rank different websites in localities to specific cities of India and USA on the top of the Google for targetedlocal searches! Some of the following strategies helped us outrank the competitors on google listings and local searches for varied industry segments, from moving companies to holistic healers. Let us explore and understand the Local SEO (and feel free to share your ideas in comments below) What is local SEO? Local SEO is a part of SEO which only deals in ranking a website locally or providing it rank citations in a specified geographical area. It is mainly done for local businesses and is very helpful for small business owners as well as businesses with small teams especially those who believe in starting small and growing with perfection and ease. The keywords for local SEO are geographically bound with a prefix or suffix to make it an easy found in the local searches. For example- Best Movers in New Delhi, Holistic Healing in Navi Mumbai, Financial Planners in Delhi NCR etc. When anybody searches for these kind of keyword for a particular niche it suggests that they are very much clear and interested in hiring local only. Basics of Local SEO Google Business Optimization The basic steps of Google Business Optimization include: First of all we need to verify our local business listing on google. Add appropriate and same address used in website a small change can affect ranking. Any change in address should be avoided. Google will send you a pin to verify your business within7-10 days and then once you are verified your listing would appear in google business. Make sure this is done without a miss. To optimize your local listing in best manner possible – it...
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The best link building strategy is to create something awesome and let everyone know about it. ~ Tim Soulo Wondering why we are doing this post on our space at 30TH FEB because we are a brand management agency. Our client servicing team insists on sharing the significance of Mindful SEO Techniques and Content in your Branding Mix. Well this blogpost is about the basic SEO tips for your website. For those who plan to go digital with their business must take time to read this and understand as to why good content writing is the basic requirement for managing a brand in digital spaces. It cannot be just about posting stuff on your web spaces – namely Blogs, facebook, linkedin, pinterest or youtube for that matter. What matters is – how good is your content on each of it. Is the content good? Is it readable? Will people find relevance and truth in your content. And how it can be used as the best ingredient of your Digital Marketing. Let us understand the basic for Good SEO and understand through this Quick Guide to perfect SEO for your web portal. What Is SEO? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is a methodology of getting free or organic traffic from search engine by doing different optimization practices. SEO is a practice or art of getting visibility in search engines to attract more and more traffic to your website. No one goes to the second or third page of google to search any piece of information everyone wants to be on the first page this is why SEO is needed because the second page of Google is the safest place to hide a dead body. Well if you are optimizing and you not on the first page, you are losing your valuable customers. Don’t worry I am here to guide you, how to attract more visitors to your website. SEO is a time taking process involving many strategies, stages, and a good unique engaging content. It involves mainly two process- On Page Optimization Off Page Optimization In this post we will be covering the mindful SEO techniques and content for on page optimization. The subsequent post will cover the details...
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“Does your content lead readers on a journey, or does it merely stuff them as leads into a pipeline?” – Ann Hadley, Head of Content, Marketing Profs As a brand agency we work on different ideas and different brands each day. Our job is primarily to make them stand out as business and more importantly to make them resonating & truthful to their respective audiences. Smarter Branding Goals – are integrated goals. They are not just customer oriented, vision oriented they are created out of a positioning which works for both. Gone are the days when businesses survived on single agendas being talked about in a single manner, a celebrity endorser. The brands need to engage, connect & deliver experience through different channels as per their popularity with the varied target segments. This is what differentiates branding from advertising. Advertising can target a single goal, it could be around a product, a service or an offering. In an advertisement, you can concentrate on the benefit to the audience. On the contrary, branding is holistic. It works on the fundamentals of your entity, covering the essentials, the business purpose, consumer insight, competition and also the benefit. It works like on the behaviors, the environment, the brand goals, the brand benefits and works the brand plans that way only. India celebrates MahaShivratri today i.e., the February 14th, 2018. Yes, the date which is long been commercialized by the marketers & business houses of the past as The Valentine’s Day. Many a times, the client team gets into confusion – as to what to keep and what to miss. It is also complicated because some of the brand owners witness religious posts, other notice the commercial viability of running some campaigns of the globally acclaimed commercial day which offers financial viability and instant impulsive actions from customers of all strata. At the fundamental core of what your company is and what they do, is who they are. The story. Branding and Brand Management revolves around – the brand story. The brand reaches its audience through its content, the channels and visual strategy. In the pre-digital era of branding, the brand collaterals used to be around the Offline Brand Communication. The offline brand communication channels included:...
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Wow! What a turbulent year that was! Giving all of us jerks & pauses with big decisions for nations that waved the small business plans that we had! Be it the historic demonetization or reforming GST, my brand owners felt confused and undecided. Over to the digital era – where the brands saw an influx of videos, google played well with the SEO and Content emerged as the king – only when handled well! Whatever happened left us with Lessons and Triggers for the future! Nothing went right but nothing went wrong too. But new year is certainly the time to check on the wrongs to become slightly less wrong then earlier (I like this philosophy of Mark Manson,the NYTimes bestselling author) Well that’s exactly how Branding is taking its Shape with the Digital branding shaping ways for businesses – whether you are selling products or services. The approach is minimalist as far as the customers are concerned. The approach note needs to be detailed as far as the clients are concerned. When you are sold – you need to keep updates easy & frequent. When you are selling you need to detail out as much as you can – so that the person can derive value for money from your quote itself. The world is becoming interesting. And so is the dynamics of business. The social media is opening ways of expression and is giving us the freedom to reach out & expand our horizons. But it again depends on what you are, who are you chasing and how do you plan to reach to your consumers! Choices are abundant. As a brand marketer – we have choices and as a consumer we have more choices. We choose what we want to see, follow and even whether we want to be followed by or not by a so & so person. Advertisements are Pouring. Yes, advertisements like always are a solution- from temporary bliss & business. And mind you they work too. But the challenge remains same – is your advertisement sharp enough to create that space in the mind of consumer. Will it stick forever? Was it effective? Did it influenced the prospect to...
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It is really been long that I took time out to share updates on my entrepreneurial journey, experiences or hurdles, struggles or happiness, profits and losses! Unlike everyone else entrepreneurs cannot take it easy, they most of the times work for more hours, procrastinate due to tiredness and sometimes are found juggling between the dream run and reality. It is all so interesting, needs patience and needs dare to. It is been 5+ years of entrepreneurship for me and I kick-started this year with an agenda. Learning something and enhancing my skill-set, personality, friends or network was a part of it. Half the year gone by and I was yet to get a boost to do something exciting. I had been thinking of learning music, a new language etc. But being a business woman that I am, I chose a Digital Marketing Workshop to start with. It will help me brush up my digital skills and in turn will help my business, my work and it was for just 2 days of a weekend. So I enrolled for a digital reboot. And because I was excited about it, I had mailed my doubts & queries on module subjects to our trainer a day before the workshop! How mean, nope; how resourceful! Another good thing about this whole thing, I was looking forward to meet people, make connections, to reach out more entrepreneurs for ideas & inspiration and to make friends. I planned to reach on time and with the excitement and good habits I managed to reach early on day one. It was good as I got to connect with some of the participants and was happy to realize that many of them were entrepreneurs. And each one was exciting for the digital reboot with masterclass. The fact brought in some more positive energy. Continuing, here is brief about the session and my version of Three M’s. Hope you enjoy reading. ———————————————— The Opening Act was simple ‘Om Chanting’ and I quite liked the logic for doing this, it helps us gain ourselves together and let go the several kinds of energies we all carried from the pre-occupied hassled world. And guess what, because of this simple trick –...
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Internet and communication technology have advanced way too much. It gives the power to potential customers out there to look for solutions to their problems online without having to put efforts for travelling, visiting the market places which in a way also cuts the possible costs that can occur. Moreover e-business has become the latest trend in present scenario. It becomes imperative for any business to create an online presence. Here the website comes into picture. A website is your first impression to your prospective clients. It enables the potential customers to view what you have to offer to them. It makes them able to access the needed information anytime and anywhere. The more detailed you are – the higher the trust levels of your visitors. The information or the content you provide on website ought to be true and relevant. A website helps in creating a perception in the minds of clients/customers that we have necessary knowledge about the business. A simple question you should think before you start writing the content for your website – Are we offering solutions to their problems? The more detailed you are about a subject – the chances of a positive call to action double. Imagine if you have put less information, the visitor will lose interest in the middle and there are chances they will drift away to get better results for their queries. Is it important to know your website visitors in advance? Yes. Once you have the idea what are the current trends of the market, you understand what client/customer is looking for. This gives you the confidence to develop the right offer for right customer. Certainly when you know in advance what information the customers will be checking out on your website, you will be able to provide more meaningful information. In a nut shell it gives a sense and a purpose to your work. You cannot mention complexities on the website as not all users are equally educated on the subjects equally. So the language has to be simple and approachable – heavy jargon and tough English is not advised. It only confuses your visitors and those who are naive will only switch to simplified sites. That...
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