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Digital Marketing and its Ways

A Brief on Digital Marketing

By Pooja YadavPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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Digital Marketing and its Ways
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Digital Marketing is about marketing your products and services using the internet. The devices can be mobile phones, computers, or other devices. It can take the form of ads on social media, websites, search engines, blogs, or YouTube channels. Internet marketing is different from digital marketing, as the former utilizes only websites for marketing and the latter is a broad field that encompasses marketing on social media, emails, blogs, and more.

When it comes to marketing principles, traditional and digital marketing have the same marketing principles. They both work to get brands visibility across their target audiences, but their medium is different.

To get our content visible across the audience, we need to create awareness and tell them what our content is about and how beneficial it is to them; to do all this, we need marketing. In the last decade, there has been a surge in internet users, which has forced brands to change their marketing platforms. Many brands are solely available on the digital medium, whereas many brands have traditional and digital mediums to expand their presence. Smartphones have made interacting with people easier it is now possible to get quick reactions from people we make content for.

Search Engine Marketing

Search engine Marketing is a digital strategy that helps our brand come on top of the search engines. To create awareness brands need to make sure they are visible across the web. It is a paid form of generating traffic to your website, which makes it different from SEO, which is an organic way of marketing. As more and more search content on search engines, more will be the value of SEM. People run queries on search engines with an intent to find more about websites SEM helps make them visible

All the keywords and backlinks help the website appear more valuable to people. If people are searching for any content, they might be more in a state of mind to make a purchase decision, compared to social media, which people use for entertainment purposes also. It especially helps in the case of new visitors who stumble upon a website while searching for content.

Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization also helps make brands visible across the web, but it is an organic, free or natural way of doing so. It consists of:

Technical Optimization

All the activities that often happen backstage to increase visibility. It improves SEO by doing activities that are not related to content.

On-page SEO

In on-page SEO, relevant keywords and quality of content play a vital role in increasing a website's trust and value to audiences. To make your content more findable and trustworthy, brands must focus on using relevant keywords and high-quality content with proper headings, titles, images and multimedia that people can find needful.

Off-page SEO

Apart from having a high-quality, websites need backlinks that will enhance their reputation. The links can be natural, manually built links or self-created links.

Social Media Marketing

Digital Marketing which happens through social media platforms, is social media marketing. As the trend of social media increases, more potential customers will be there, and more brands will be perfecting strategies to capture their attention. Social media platforms help build a platform, offer an interactive interface, increase interaction with the followers who like, dislike and share the content among them, and drive significant traffic to a website.

Platforms

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Snapchat

Email Marketing

When marketing campaigns involve email for promotion and reaching potential customers, we call it email marketing. It helps target potential customers and helps target individual customers by giving them exclusive content, offers and discounts.

Email marketing involves sending out a daily newsletter about topics, exclusive deals and offers, and articles on what's happening around the world and the brand's outlook on them. It helps in delivering information through specially curated marketing or general messages. Various analytical tools will help you track email marketing campaigns and give you needful insights for further campaigning.

Video Marketing

Video marketing uses videos for marketing a brand's content across web platforms. Videos are a powerful way of marketing as they can be emotionally immersive for the audience.

The best example is YouTube channels. YouTube videos can spark emotionally charged reactions from viewers through comments. The length of the videos can be short or long, and brands have to give their all in that time span. Along with this, they need to focus on the placement of those videos to reach the correct audience.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is a powerful way of marketing where an affiliate promotes a brand's products and services and receives a commission. Affiliates take the help of their followers and their online marketing strategies for promotion. They help people make decisions by giving their opinions on the content, and if people like their opinions, they check the website and make a choice to buy or not. Affiliates help drive more traffic to the website and build the brand's trustworthiness and relevance.

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