Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Push Strategy in Digital Marketing – Improving Your Online Presence

This week I attended a guest lecture run by the search marketing agency Propellernet at the University of Brighton on the role of public relations (PR) in Digital Marketing and how important PR can be in driving a successful website.

Propellernet are a search marketing agency that specialise in improving the visibility of their clients websites, they operate in many business channels such as travel, retail, fashion and finance. To find out more visit their website Propellernet.co.uk.

The main focus of the presentation was on push and pull tactics and how these tactics can help improve your websites visibility. Push tactics are proactively building links one by one, i.e. ‘pushing’ your information out to potential customers. Pull tactics are earning links, so building creative content ‘pulling’ potential customers to the website.

In this blog we will focus on push tactics, propellernet gave some main categories to work on to develop your push tactics and improve your websites authority and visibility. We will run through four main tactics that can improve your websites online presence.

      Link Chasing

It is important to ask other websites (relevant to your client’s or your own website) to link back to the website you are working on. This will give your client’s or your own website better coverage improving the brand name and websites visibility.

Reactive Pitches

Monitoring the daily news will enable you to create reactive pitches; a reactive pitch is the process of reacting to a relevant news story integrating your own company products or ideas. For example a news story is breaking on safety when skiing; your company sells skiing helmets. Creating an article outlining your products and ideas may help drive traffic towards your website. This will also promote your brand name and products in such a way that a customer may want to purchase a product off the company.

Planned Features

Planning features to post on your website to run alongside related events can be an excellent way of improving your websites online presence.  For example featuring an article, blog post or special deal on your website to tie in with events like Christmas, Valentine’s Day, St Patricks Day, Bank Holidays, or Sports Events like the Football World Cup or Olympics can be beneficial and is a great way of attracting attention to your website.

Blogger Product Reviews

Product reviews is a great way of getting an honest third party review on your products, these can be advantageous when consumers are thinking about purchasing one of your products. Good reviews will help spread your brand name and products; this will in turn drive traffic towards the website and increase the brand exposure online. 

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