What would you think if you went to the doctor for an annual physical and he or she only checked your right arm and your left foot? That’s not a full physical, right? There’s a lot more that needs to be done in order to make sure you’re functioning properly — as a whole.
It’s the same with online marketing. It has to be looked at holistically, as one. Yet most of the time this is not the case. Instead, each facet of online marketing is often addressed in a silo, disassociated from the rest. This often results in fractured and ineffective online initiatives that leave organizations feeling frustrated.
The book is broken up into four major parts:
Gaining an understanding of search engine optimization (SEO), user experience (UX) and conversion (CV) — and why they’re important to your online success.
Before you do any work with your online marketing, you’ll need to gain a clear understanding of search engine optimization, user experience and conversion. Because there’s so much confusion around each of these strategies, this book begins with an in-depth chapter on each.
You’ll get a solid understanding of what each strategy is and why it’s important before we address how to use each strategy on your website, blog and social media efforts.
Without a good understanding of the foundation, your online efforts will not be as successful as they could be. Remember, making a change for the sake of change is like playing darts with a blindfold on after being spun around until you’re dizzy. In other words, it’s very unscientific, and very unreliable. You might hit the target, or somebody might get hurt!
When you understand the foundation of online marketing, you can “take aim” and make deliberate changes. And because you know exactly what you did and why you did it, if it was successful, you can replicate the process again and again. And if it wasn’t so successful, you know which changes you might want to test going forward.
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Next, you’ll apply these learnings to your website, optimizing every nook and cranny with solid SEO, UX and conversion strategies.
The SEO will help you get found, the UX will keep your visitors comfortable and happy while they’re on your site, and your conversion strategy will help them take the next step you’d like them to take.
When it comes to online marketing, address your website BEFORE your work on any other platform. Why? Because it’s your virtual hub — your linchpin — that everything else revolves around. Part 2 of A Holistic Guide to Online Marketing is all about how to effectively implement intelligent SEO, UX and conversion strategies into your website — both desktop and mobile versions — respectively.
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Once your website has been addressed for SEO, UX and conversion, the next step is to learn how to apply these strategies to your blog.
Before we discuss these strategies, we’ll take an in-depth look into the world of blogging, addressing topics such as:
Now that your blog is up and running (yay!), it’s finally time to learn how to apply SEO, UX and conversion into your social media.
As mentioned earlier, before you start publishing content on social media, you’ve got to have something to say AND have a place of your own to say it.
By this point, your blog and website are both optimized, chock-full of rich and relevant content, and contain solid UX and conversion strategies. Gone are the days of highlighting other people’s content. Now you get to highlight your own!
As you may have guessed, social media needs SEO, UX and conversion strategies, too. We’ll examine how to effectively apply these strategies to your Facebook, LinkedIn and Google My Business posts, respectively. We’ll also take a step-by-step approach to optimizing each of these social media platforms, helping you stand head and shoulders above your competition.
In this section, we’ll take a look at the “two sides” of social media: the human-facing side (LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.) and the SEO side (Google My Business). Understanding the differences between the two, and how to take full advantage of each side, plays a big role in your overall online marketing success.
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