Tips for Performing a Successful Brand Audit to Improve Your Marketing

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Conducting a brand audit can help you understand where you stand within your market and in the minds of your consumers. More specifically, you can: 

  • Identify your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
  • Discover positive and negative perceptions of your brand 
  • Align offerings with consumer expectations 
  • Determine where you stand among competitors 
  • Adjust your overall brand strategy 

Follow these necessary steps to perform a successful brand audit, check in on your brand’s health and ultimately improve your marketing strategy.

1. Create a Brand Audit Template 

It’s beneficial to set up an analysis template to guide your brand audit process. Prior to getting started, you should build a framework around how you will actually conduct it. If you’re doing this internally, you’ll want a guide to follow so that the collected data can be put into action. It’s easy to get caught up in the numbers, so you want to identify the data that actually means something to your business. 

You can define your framework with a checklist of what should be examined and the methods you’ll use to do it. It’s also helpful to organize the list by internal and external brand elements. 

2. Examine Your Website’s Analytics 

Just because a website is visually appealing doesn’t necessarily mean it’s high-performing. If your website isn’t converting, it’s crucial that you understand why. Analytics you should be looking at include: 

  • Traffic 
  • Page views 
  • Bounce rate 
  • Conversion rate 

There are plenty of tools that can provide website analytics but we recommend Google Analytics, as it provides rich performance data, both historic and in real-time. 

3. Analyze Your Sales Stats 

This is one of the best ways to get insight regarding both customer and industry trends. An in-depth sales analysis can show customer buying patterns, which you can then use to redirect your focus. Some things to look for are irregular dips in sales, change in buyer location and competitors offerings. 

4. Take a Look at Your Social Media Metrics 

Social media contains mass amounts of information on your consumers that you can’t get anywhere else. It’s important to analyze your demographic data to have an understanding of who your social media audience actually is. Because it’s common that our target customers may not be the ones interacting with us on social media. Analyzing social data will help you identify who engages with your channels the most, allowing you to reevaluate your communication strategy accordingly to get the most out of your efforts. 

5. Observe Competitors 

To get a full understanding of your own brand health, you also have to determine how your competitors are performing. Some things to check include: 

  • The type of content they’re writing
  • Any brand partnerships 
  • If they’re getting frequent recognition 

Most of this work will be manual, but there are tools that can help give a deeper look into specific elements of a brand. Some competitive analysis tools can provide SEO-driven data, help you monitor your niche, give info on organic traffic and keywords, as well tell you how you rank among competitors. 

6. Ask Your Customers 

If you want to get insight on what your customers think about your brand, just ask them. You can do this through surveys, polls or by just asking for feedback directly. It’s important to look into the minds of your consumers to find out what motivates them, what their pain points are and what influences their decisions to ensure your brand can best meet their needs. 

When it comes to customer loyalty and brand advocacy, you want to measure your NPS (Net Promoter Score). This is found by asking customers how likely they are to recommend your product or service to friends and family via an opinion score. The NPS opinion scoring system is on a scale of 0-10 with 0 being “very unlikely” and 10 being “extremely likely.” 

Final Thoughts

After you’ve completed your brand audit, it’s important to determine what data you want to use and how. Set some goals into places before acting on your findings. What do you want to see come out on these changes? Whether it be an increase in conversions, a more cohesive look or a new customer base, it’s essential to have a clear goal in mind. Lastly, create an action plan to carry everything out.

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B2B Marketing Trends to Keep in Mind in 2021

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The B2B marketing landscape has shifted significantly over the past year. The pandemic has caused certain tactics to accelerate and move to the forefront. To stay relevant and competitive, B2B marketers have to embrace these newest industry trends. 

With that being said, here are the top 5 B2B marketing trends to keep in mind as we make our way through the rest of 2021. 

1. The Acceleration of Digital 

While in-person events are starting to happen a little more frequently, virtual events are still here to stay. Virtual events, videos and digital marketing channels to connect more with their customers. B2B marketers must continue to embrace a digital-first focus to stay relevant and competitive among their audience. It is important to note that you don’t want your entire strategy to be fully digital, but it should play a large role for the time being. 

2. Content Marketing 

Going hand-in-hand with digital acceleration is the increasing importance of content marketing. Prospects and customers are consuming more digital content than ever, with video as the top type. In fact, Statista found that last year, 27.2% of users watched more than 10 hours of online video on a weekly basis. Webinars and podcasts also played a significant role in content consumption last year. With the average amount of time spent listening to podcasts rose to over 6 hours, according to Edison Research and Triton Digital. 

In general, any type of interactive content can help your brand stand out and allow your audience to immerse themselves in your brand. Consider creating infographics, quizzes, surveys and virtual or augmented reality. 

It’s important to not forget the importance of traditional content as well, such as blogs and emails. Written content remains one of the best ways to position yourself as a thought leader in your industry. This is also a great way to help increase your SEO and overall online presence. 

3. AI-Powered Marketing and Marketing Automation

AI, machine learning and marketing automation tools will continue to be extremely valuable for B2B marketers. These tools aid in targeting, segmentation, personalization, lead scoring, predictive analytics and content generation. According to Statista, the global AI software market will see about 54% growth year after year. It’s predicted that more and more organizations will come to utilize AI and automation to assist in their marketing efforts. 

4. Customer-Centric Marketing Builds and Customer Relationships 

Last year forced many marketers to shift their main goal from generating leads to providing customers with helpful information and solutions. Empathy had to become a big driver in outreach efforts and the customer experience approach. Customer retention, keeping customers engaged and building a deep relationship with them also took priority over gaining new prospects. This was accomplished through personalization and relevant content that helped show that marketers understood their customers, their pain points and the situations they’re experiencing. 

5. Account-Based Marketing

The last trend involves narrowing marketing and sales efforts from an entire industry to only a few key accounts. This allows for stronger personalization and event individualization in those marketing efforts, which ultimately help drive more conversions. Success in account-based marketing requires alignment, integration and committed effort to be there for their customers through difficult times and provide answers and solutions tailored for them. 

Final Thoughts

Agility when it comes to strategies and tactics is essential when it comes to success in any area of marketing. It’s important to frequently check and analyze results to see what can be improved, what’s working and what should be dropped. This is A/B testing is so critical in showing what content audiences best respond to, what channels are preferred and what info piques their interest. 

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3 Post-Pandemic Marketing Strategies

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Even though the majority of the world is still in the thick of COVID-19, it is crucial to consider what the post-COVID world is going to mean for our customers, our businesses, and the way we go about advertising and marketing. The speed at which we are “going digital” has been fully accelerated during the pandemic and has given brand new or additional power to many online industries. This past year has introduced a lot of firsts for us as a society, for example being very reliant on Amazon or Zoom to simply get through the day. This means that as digital marketers, we want to make decisions that use this new reliance on technology to our advantage. Experts at Onimod Global have formulated 3 top strategies that you can put into place to market successfully in a post-pandemic world.

1. Move everything online

If you haven’t already, this is an absolute must for post-pandemic times. Now is the time to increase your online presence. You likely already have some of your business functions online, but the pandemic has shown us just how much more we can do online. For example, moving order opportunities and implementing automated emails could be a great first step to going digital.

A couple of ideas on what this might look like:

  • Hosting webinars to maintain current customer relationships and attract new customers.
  • Investing in a good customer relationship management (CRM) software.

No matter what industry you’re in, there is always a way to take your business online, and having those capabilities will help to set you apart from your competitors and stand out to potential customers.

2. Invest in social media ads

The ROI on PPC ads in many industries has skyrocketed as more and more people had to stay at home and focused heavily on social media. This is a good way to remind people that your business is alive and well and that you aim to be a very significant part of the ‘new normal’.

If you have a strict marketing budget, a great place to start would be Facebook ads. Facebook ads in are quite affordable by PPC compared to other social media advertising—even for local businesses—and can help you showcase any changes you have made to your business or any COVID-19-exclusive discounts or promotions you might be offering.

With Facebook’s granular audience targeting capabilities, you can reach customers on a variety of different demographics. They can be based on gender, location, hobbies and interest, marital status, profession, and the list goes on.

3. Focus in on main paid advertising channels post-pandemic

As mentioned above, PPC ads are going to be very beneficial and cost effective. However, focusing on Google Ads, LinkedIn ads, Twitter ads, Facebook ads, and Instagram ads all at once is most likely going to you spread you too thin. It is best to determine where your target audience is spending their time and then focus most of your PPC efforts on those channels.

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Top 3 Google Ads Features

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Google released new smart features and ways to buy ads on its different channels. Much like all other updates to Google Ads features, there will be learning curve with the new tools. Here is how you can make them work for you.

1. Get listed for free on Google Shopping

Google is still operating as a paid PPC channel, but you can also enjoy its free traffic. Once Google had introduced the shopping channel to their platform, Google completely beat most of the other price comparison websites from its SERP (Shopping.com, Shopzilla, BizRate). Following this very significant move that occurred in 2017, the European Commission fined Google €2.42 billion (~$3 billion) for breaching EU antitrust rules by “giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its comparison shopping service.” This claim is still going through appeal, Google has made changes to ensure other options are present on its services and SERP than its own.

How should you make it work for you? Number one priority is optimizing your Shopping Ads and understand what products click and convert the most. For example, you can use SEISO Google Shopping Analyzer (Free to try) to get shopping reports. From there you can adapt your product feed and product pages to ensure you focus on products that are margin positive.

2. Get impressions on Goolge Ads for free.. only pay  your sales

When it comes to online acquisiton of new formats, video and display formats are not the first type of format you think of They are more popular for brand awareness and influence targets. Google now is trying to convince you otherwise. Google has so much data on users’ profiles and their intents that they can predict what they will buy. Google knows the users very well: from the search queries, from the media they consume (Videos, AMP pages…), and its past purchases thanks to receipts received in Gmail.

Thanks to this treasure trove of data points, the algorithm identifies which new video game console the user wants. And it only shows him the relevant ads when the customer is ready to buy. The ad will be more likely to convert and Google will get a higher revenue per page by only showing converting ads to users: win/win.

You can now run performance-based targeting for Youtube Ads and on the Display network. It usually means a lower reach than a CPM or a Trueview campaign but you will get incremental conversions while controlling your budget.

How to keep tracks of offline conversions

Nowadays, it is very simple to forget that most of the business still happens offline and that zoom calls and online shopping are not all there is to life. Yet offline conversions tracking are not always taken into account. According to Google, 30% of mobile queries are local searches and it is the fastest-growing segment. And 75% of users making a local search will go to a store within 24 hours. This is a lot of conversion lost to online tracking.

In order to be successful tracking these conversions for Google Ads, you will need to set up an omnichannel tracking that integrates offline elements. From there you will be able to measure different types of conversion. You should create a set of conversion actions for each campaign:

  • In-store visits: Google automatically tracks walk-in traffic from user’s location captured from their Apps and OS). You will need to register all your points of sales addresses or GPS coordinates.
  • Offline purchase thanks to offline the Conversions API or bulksheets upload.
  • Online purchase through your regular tracking pixel.

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Wix and Google: GMB Integration Coming Soon

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Google’s partnership with Wix is raising to a new level. The companies have recently announced an expanded partnership that will integrate Google My Business (GMB) directly within Wix. GMB data can now be accessed by businesses, customer interactions and manage their profile directly from Wix.

Why Wix?

The reason Google partnered with Wix in the beginning was because of the business model. Wix’s value proposition is that they take handle the technical side of an online presence. “Back-end” type of work like search engine optimization (SEO) and structured data are taken care of by Wix. Wix also provides marketing tools that are helpful to small businesses succeeding. This allows businesses to focus on doing what they do best.

After knowing the Wix business model, the integration of Google My Business fits in with the philosophy of making it easy to do business online. The expanded partnership with Google simplifies managing a Google My Business (GMB) profile. This gives them a very strong position in the local search industry.

The Value Of GMB Integration

The goal is to simplify the platforms removing unnecessary steps for users. The goal is that anything a business owner can do in the GMB interface, including managing their Google Search and Maps profile, can be done directly from the platform through a familiar user interface.

An update from Wix’s team says:

“Business owners can manage their Business Profiles, update their business information and hours, add photos, update their website, create posts, add attributes, respond to reviews, share Q&As, message with customers and accept bookings.

An up-to-date Business Profile is considered 2.7 times more reputable, 70% more likely to attract location visits and are 50% more likely to lead to a purchase.”

Integration With Wix

Wix already has experience integrating Google services directly into the Wix platform.

Here are some of the Google integrations already built-in:

  • Google Search Console
  • Google Workspaces
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Reserve with Google

Local Search Win

Other platforms out there can definitely help small businesses build an online presence. But there aren’t any with the full suite of marketing and business features included with a Wix account.

Wix has been making great strides with what they bring to the table for their users, including in the area of SEO. Integrating GMB into the Wix platform solidifies as a strong consideration for any business wanting to go online but without having to make significant investments hiking the steep technical learning curve. This makes them a strong contender.

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3 Live Streaming Tips Every Content Marketer Needs To Know

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Live streaming in 2021 is a game changer in terms of brand awareness and growing a following. This feature now offered on multiple platforms is a fun, rewarding, and incredibly valuable tool for growing your brand in an online space. The number of B2C content marketers using live streaming in their content mix almost tripled between 2019 and 2020 (13% vs. 35%). When it comes to creating a professional live stream, it’s difficult to keep viewers engaged. Often times there needs to be many moving part, but the payoff is huge and worth it to put in the effort. There is heavy competition among content creators, so in this post we will share some streaming tips and tricks to help you achieve success.

Promote on multiple platforms

Are you doing an IG Live to promote a new line coming out for your brand? Promote that on every channel possible. Don’t limit yourself to an audience that’s only on one platform. This also includes promotion while the live is starting during any platform. Make sure you’re sending out tweets that your live is happening now for anyone that wants to view the products in action. Also, don’t be afraid to let your live run for a bit with only a logo for some time as it’s proven longer live streams perform better than short ones. Just make sure that you’re available to answer any questions for your audience while they wait. However, this pre-roll method isn’t ideal for Facebook Live in particular. The live video is featured in newsfeeds, so it is unfortunately easy to scroll past and miss.

Is your live over? Now time to share on all platforms you can. Edit snippets and upload an IGTV or reel, add video to Twitter, upload to LinkedIn and Facebook, the list is endless. The point is to make sure that your quality content is able to be revisited by your customers that are still interested in your product but missed the live stream.

Respond to comments live

This is the perfect set up for a live Q&A on your brand, your product, your service, anything you want to discuss with your audience! This is where authenticity is key for your audience, it can be very off script and conversational as you discuss any topic with your customer directly. Having an extra set of eyes on your live stream is very important in this case. The extra person helps provide support and can read you questions from your viewers. They also are helpful to inform you of any problems you can’t see, such as audio sync issues or products out of frame.

This is also perfect to set up a Q&A with a guest, multiple leaders in your company, or brand ambassadors. Not only is live streaming more fun and engaging more people, but the additional company offers fresh insights and perspectives to make your live show more interesting.

Do it, but don’t overdo it

It is clear that there is tremendous that value live streaming can bring to a brand – as long as brands focus on creating content that makes their community want to come back for more. This doesn’t need to be expensive production for your team either, because it doesn’t have to be overly produced. Everything to get started – a good camera, microphone, lighting, and a streaming service – can be purchased online.

To increase engagement, go live at a regular time to build up an audience. Inconsistent and irregular frequency of live streams will only frustrate your audience. Consistency in your schedule also makes it easier to market and promote the show. For example, hosting a new influencer on your channel every Tuesday at 6 PM to try on the new collection of jewelry.

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Google Will End Behavioral Targeting – What’s The Impact

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We’re officially in full swing of 2021, and that has come with tighter privacy and data regulations across the board. Google, who is up against high pressure from regulators around antitrust and data privacy, announced that they will cease the permission of cross-site tracking and targeting of individuals outside its own properties. This would include properties such as in inventory they sell through video ad exchange and Google Ad display.

 David Temkin, director of product management and ads privacy wrote in a blog post, “Today, we’re making explicit that once third-party cookies are phased out, we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web, nor will we use them in our products.”

Google’s move comes directly after the recent decision of Apple to give users the choice to block the IDFA identifier at the app level, which means apps will be required to ask users for permission to collect and share data.

“This is yet another confirmation the web is shifting to a consent-oriented framework,” said Nii Ahene, Chief Strategy Officer at Tinuiti. “It’s going to be all about opt-in, not opt-out initiatives.”

It is very evident that many of the behavioral targeting capabilities marketers have heavily depended on will fade out or disappear completely, however it is not yet confirmed the exact implications of how this will affect each of Google’s Ad products. The changes are slated to take place at the end of the year and only impact the open web, not mobile app ads purchased and sold using Google’s ad tech.

Important highlights from Google

At this exact stage, here is what we know for sure:

  • Google will be completely stopping to build user-level profiles within its ad systems. They will also not use such data to enable targeting on non-Google sites. That means Google’s AdX ad exchange and other services that target ads to web inventory outside Google properties will no longer support any cookie replacement identifiers.
  • Google’s ad targeting changes are focused solely on the open web. At this time, the changes will not apply to the mobile app ads bought and sold using Google’s ad tech.
  • Google’s targeting changes only will go into effect after the company officially stops recognizing third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. In January 2020, the company said it would do that within two years.
  • Advertisers will still be allowed to target their own databases of consumers through their own first-party data on Google properties, such as Google’s search results pages and YouTube.

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5 Types of High-Performing Video Content to Enhance Your Marketing Strategy

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Video continues to be the king of content types as we work our way into 2021. All brands should be utilizing video, but certain types of videos appeal to some marketing objectives better than others. So, how can you know what type of video is right for your company? 

Here are 5 top performing types of marketing videos that almost any brand can take and customize to fit into their strategy. 

1. Explainer Videos 

This type of video is extremely simple. As the name suggests, they’re short and concise videos explaining a brand, product or service. These are best used at the awareness stage in the sales funnel and perform best on websites, social media, YouTube and in ads. 

They often involve animations to make the explanation easily digestible with voice overs to increase message retention. Some things to watch out for are making these videos too long, braggy, too salesy or get too technical. Be sure to tell a compelling story, have a simple message and include a clear CTA. 

2. Product Demo Videos 

Product demo videos aim to show the value of a product and how it can solve pain points. These videos are most beneficial at the decision stage of the sales funnel and perform best through email and on websites. The ideal length is generally around 2-3 minutes. You want to give clear insight into product usage, but you don’t want to make it so long that viewers lose interest. 

3. Testimonial Videos 

Testimonial or customer review videos show a real user of the product or service telling how it helped them solve a problem. These are also most beneficial at the decision stage of the sales funnel and perform best on websites and social media. 

A positive review from customers gives potential customers more confidence in trusting a business, making it easier to make an informed decision. In fact, customer reviews create a 74% increase in product conversion and 90% of consumers look at online reviews prior to trusting and visiting a business. 

When creating this type of video you want to make sure it’s authentic. You don’t want to ask customers to memorize a script, it should look as natural as possible. 

4. Behind-the-Scene Videos 

Behind-the-scene videos show potential customers how a brand produces its products and adds a more personal touch to its image. These can be good to use at both the awareness and decision stage of the sales funnel. They also perform best on websites, YouTube and when shared on social media. 

Behind-the-scene videos are important because they let potential customers understand what all goes into your business. It gives a “peak behind the curtain” and can make them feel more connected to your brand. You want to keep these videos casual, let your brand personality shine through and seem authentic as possible. 

5. Company Culture Videos 

The last type is company culture video. These are a short highlight reel from the perspective of an employee and show what it’s like to work at your company. These are most beneficial at the interest or action stages of the sales funnel and perform best on websites, social media, YouTube and through email. 

Company culture videos communicate brand purpose, values and insights from current employees. This can help customers get excited about doing business and starting a relationship with you. 

With these videos you want to make sure to show passionate employees, find ways to project your values and show off a good day at the office. Avoid relying heavily on a script, coming off too braggy or focusing too much on employee opinion. Again, these videos are best when they’re completely authentic and organic as possible. 

Final Thoughts 

If possible, it’s best to mix and match different styles and types of videos to find something that’s unique to your brand and helps you stand out among the competition. You should also utilize the videos you create on all relevant platforms. Even if they perform better on one than another, you still want to reach the biggest audience possible. 

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How To Advertise On Clubhouse

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Have you heard of Clubhouse yet? It’s the newest social media app to take the world by storm. The invite-only drop-in audio platform currently has over 2 million people users interacting with the platform each week. The new platform is currently valued at over $1 billion US dollars.

After a tweet recently sent out by Elon Musk, the platform received a huge push after he tweeted that he would be hosting an event on Clubhouse. It just so happened that he was joined by the Robinhood CEO, Vlad Tenev, gaining even more traction.

To sum up the platform in a few words, Clubhouse offers people a loose collection of drop-in clubs and events, where you can not only listen to people discuss topics ranging from startups and technology through to philosophy and comedy, but also contribute your own questions and thoughts. It’s kind of like a spontaneous podcast that anyone can listen to live, and several hundred to several thousand attendees dropping in from all over the world.

The platform has completely exploded in popularity and is growing rapidly by the day (the app had just 600,000 weekly users in December of 2020). The caliber of users is increasing since the Elon Musk tweet, and all are at least experimenting with the new platform. The obvious question for creators, brands, and contributors, however, becomes ‘how do we monetize this?’.

Currently, Clubhouse does not offer any in-app advertising functionality, as the company doubles down on the growth and user experience of its platform. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t advertise on Clubhouse. Let’s take a look at both podcasts and meetups (during normal non-COVID times) to discover how marketers can jump ahead of the curve and make money advertising on Clubhouse.

1. Branded Events and Clubs

It can be as simple as a branded event. Brand events and clubs always have an extra flare by adding something to the effect of ‘Presented by Company X’ in the title of an event. This is no different to many a local tech or startup meetup that might be presented either online or an in-person type of event. Not only that, but larger more traditional organizations — think IBM, Microsoft, and financial services organizations — are always more than delighted to align themselves with the latest trends and up-and-coming segments.

2. Guest/Celebrity Appearances

Both brands and personalities might want to access the spotlight at high-quality events that draw a large crowd and place them alongside influential figures.

As such, you might be able to offer pay-to-play for speakers/moderators at your events. This gives them an opportunity to get in front of their audience, build their own Clubhouse following, and develop or further solidify their brand and association with a particular demographic.

3. Product Placement

If you’re running an event on, say, beauty, and you have a club that regularly draws thousands of people to its events, then you will no doubt find brands that will want to get in front of your audience. Common in podcasts and events alike, product placement can be huge for an app such as Clubhouse. For example, it could be a conversation centered entirely around reviewing a certain product live, or discussing the features with a trusted influencer.

It might be as simple as name-dropping products, and if you have any reservations about this, limit product placements to products that you’re personally using and give out affiliate links for certain products and/or services that you would personally vouch for.

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Simple Link Building Techniques to Follow in 2021

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When it comes to SEO, both on-page and off-page efforts are equally important and need to be done appropriately. Link building is an off-page SEO technique that has become essential in enhancing a website’s rankings and its overall growth. 

Over the past few years, marketers have had to change the way they go about link building due to changes in Google’s algorithm. Google now ranks the quality of links above the total number of links a website has. With that, here are four effortless link building techniques you can utilize in 2021. 

1. Guest Posting 

A guest post is one of the most impactful link building techniques. This not only allows you to generate more backlinks, but helps you build relations with others in your industry as well. It’s fairly easy to identify blog sites that will allow others to write guests posts for them. Look for a medium that is appropriately related to your niche, but not a direct competitor. Doing this will not only allow you to build more backlinks, but can help you build good relations as well. 

When guest posting, you want to make sure your content is high quality and published in a good presentation. If the delivery is not good, your reputation could suffer and defeat the purpose. Make sure you generate informative content so you’re building links in the most effective way. 

2. Broadening Your Relations 

No matter the industry, relationships matter. The same goes for link building. Identify blogs, forums and pages that are related to your niche. Follow them on social media and try to get into contact with them. Connecting with more businesses similar to yours can help in a variety of ways. Not only are you building links but you’re also putting yourself more in the loop of what’s going on in your industry. This also helps you create more awareness for your brand, ultimately helping you and your site grow. 

3. Testimonials 

Writing testimonials is another simple and effective link building method. There are many companies that ask and enable people to write testimonials on the products or services they offer. When you leave a testimonial, you can get a backlink if the company publishes it. Ultimately this will engage more visitors and traffic to your website. 

4. Keep an Eye on Competitors  

Lastly, you should keep an eye on the links your competitors are building. Monitor the strong links they have and see the strategies they implement in going about building them. This can help you improve your own strategies and identify how you can go about getting the highest quality links. 

Final Thoughts 

Link building is an essential factor in an overall SEO strategy. While these are fairly simple tactics, there are many more. Sometimes it’s easier to seek help from the experts. At Onimod Global, SEO is our core attribute and a pillar of our marketing strategy. We develop organic search engine optimization campaigns that deliver increases in organic traffic through an increase in natural rankings across all major search engines. If you’re interested in digital marketing assistance or want to learn more about what we do, contact us today. 

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