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Website Design Cardiff

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:36:09 GMT

New website designed for Cardiff's leading Garage Door Supplier

We move into September, and have just set live this stunning website. We began Website Design Cardiff in January, but the project was mothballed through the pandemic. A couple of meetings since we were released from lockdown, and we now have a contemporary, professional website. Improvements from the old site include a Brochure Page, and a Gallery Page, where the customer can add images & content about work they've carried out.

Website Design Cardiff comes with on-page SEO tasks completed. And there are no monthly fees.

If you feel your website is looking tired, please contact us for a free, no-obligation quote. You'll be pleasantly surprised as to how cost-effective Digital Marketing Wales are for Website Design Cardiff.

Tel 029 20 600455 or email advive@digitalmarketing.wales

Google Ads Worldwide Credit Scheme

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 13:46:32 GMT

Millions of pounds worth of Google Ads credit given away!

16/6/20. Great news for any business who's a regular user of Google Ads. Here's the statement direct from Google.

'COVID-19: Ad credits for Google Ads Small and Medium-sized Businesses.

We want to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) stay in touch with their customers during this challenging time. That’s why we’re giving our SMB customers worldwide $340 million in ad credits, which can be used towards future ad spend, until the end of 2020 across our Google Ads platforms. This is part of a larger commitment from Google to support SMEs, health organisations and governments and health workers on the frontline of this global pandemic.'

We'd recommend you logging onto your Google account to see how much you've been given. One of our clients has £610 worth of credit applied!

If you need help or advice on maximising your Google Ads revenue, use a Google Ads Agency Cardiff, Google Ads Agency South Wales or Google Ads Agency Near Me to help.

We offer free, no-obligation help. Just call Digital Marketing Wales on 029 20 600455 or emails us at advice@digitalmarketing.wales

SEO Agency Cardiff or SEO Agency South Wales

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:13:43 GMT

How to choose your SEO Agency Cardiff or SEO Agency South Wales

A question we get asked a lot at Business Functions is what do you specialise in? Are you a Web Design Cardiff, Google Ads Expert South Wales, a Facebook Marketing Specialist or something else? When we set up (almost 5 years ago) we envisaged we'd be putting together Leads based websites for small businesses, backing this up with Google Advertising for our Cardiff and South Wales businesses. We knew we'd be an SEO Agency Cardiff but never knew how much of our work would go into offering SEO Advice as an SEO Agency South Wales or an SEO Agency Near Me.

So what is SEO?

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the work done on a regular basis to improve the visibility of your website in Google’s organic search results, making it easier for your target audience to find you. It is a key component of any digital marketing strategy, alongside PPC, social media, content marketing and other channels, and if done correctly can yield huge rewards to your organisation.

But, before we start working as an SEO Agency Cardiff with a client, we need to explore what searches are been made that are relevant to their business.

We perform in-depth keyword research to get the right search terms, so important to the client as us a SEO Agency South Wales.

As an SEO Agency near me, we work ethically to ensure our techniques comply with search engine guidelines,. Our monthly meetings mean we offer a complete transparency service to the business we work with.

For our clients we always recommend a long-term, content-led approach to SEO.

As an SEO Agency Cardiff we offer a variety of packages to suit all businesses and budgets, We analyse your needs and determine exactly what’s required to satisfy them.

As your SEO agency South Wales we will always include:

Keyword research backed with search trend analysis

Full technical site audits

Imaginative content creation and planning

Targeted outreach to gain backlinks and drive referral traffic

Full monthly reports detailing successes and actions moving forward along with analysis of results

For a free business health check please call us. Digital Marketing Wales, an SEO Agency Cardiff.

Tel 029 20 600455 or email advice@digitalmarketing.wales

Andrew Morgan Digital Marketing Advisor

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 13:46:17 GMT

Free Business Digital Marketing Health Check

Andrew Morgan heads up Digital Marketing Wales, and is an Award-Winning Independent Digital Media Advisor, offering SME's help and advice on all forms of online marketing.

With a 25 year career solely in Advertising and Marketing, Andrew cares passionately about proving the value on the marketing campaigns he manages.

At Digital Marketing Wales Andrew believes in building long-term relationships by placing the customer at the heart of all we do.
We believe a successful marketing relationship isn't about selling you products, but listening to and understanding your needs. We’ll strive to become your partner, and only then will we provide solutions that can help build your business.
Websites (Mobile responsive), Pay Per Click (Google Certified AdWords Professional), Call Tracking, SEO (achieve a higher ranking on Google for your website), Banner Advertising /Re-targeting, Online Reputation Monitoring, Corporate Videos. Data Analysis.
Don't trust your current advertising provider? Feel your business is invisible online?
Contact me for a free marketing health check.
www.digitalmarketing.wales

Challenging Times

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 12:17:02 GMT

We're here to help and support you

In these uncertain times local businesses are under severe pressure, all industries have been hit and business plans are ripped up. Let’s be honest its a nightmare.
But we must plan to keep business going and ready to step up when things pick up.
There will be a lot of uncertainty on what to do and how to update your customers as well as working out how to keep everything going.

If you're needing help and advice please do get in touch and I will offer my services FREE of charge for any local business.

Services offered include (this is not an exhaustive list)

Social Media Marketing (including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter)

SEO Advice

Website Design (including E-commerce sites)

Google Ads

Reputation /Review Monitoring

Call Tracking

Data Analysis

Tel 029 20 600455 or
email advice@digitalmarketing.wales

Social Media Cardiff

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 13:33:41 GMT

Social Media Marketing Cardiff

Social Media Cardiff

Here at Digital Marketing Wales, we know the importance of linking your social media strategy to your wider marketing & communications plans.

Working with a Facebook Channel Partner, our specialists will help you define your social marketing strategy. We'll also create and manage your social media campaigns, and deliver insights on your return on investment.

With monthly face to face meeting, Digital Marketing Wales will work alongside you to create a unique solution for your business that utilises the correct social platforms. For Social Media Cardiff choose Digital Marketing Wales

Whilst the majority of our Social Media Marketing Cardiff work is with Facebook, we also work with all the other major social media channels, including, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Pinterest. Leveraging the power of these platforms, we design targeted campaigns to help you achieve your business goals, whether it’s increased revenue, brand awareness or just more social interaction.

OUR SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING SERVICES
We produce social media advertising campaigns for both B2C and B2B audiences, giving your business the opportunity to send targeted messages to your audience.

Our Social Media Cardiff services include

Designing the Creative
Writing the Content
Targeting the right audiences
Choosing the right demographics
Targeting the correct geographic locations
Setting up your Business Goals, and regularly reporting on the performance of your ad campaigns and the number of conversions they are generating, together with a list of actions we think will improve their performance.

You're probably to busy running your business to worry about Social Media Cardiff. Leave it to the experts.

For Social Media Marketing Cardiff or Social Media Marketing Wales choose Digital Marketing Wales.

For a free, initial business meeting to discuss your Social Media, email advice@digitalmarketing.wales or call the office on 029 20 600455.

Facebook Visit

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 06:43:56 GMT

Working with a Facebook Partner

This week I spent a really interesting day with Digital NRG at Facebook's HQ at Brock Street, London. We all know the importance of Google Ads and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) to drive online leads to your business, but Social Media Advertising is getting more and more important. Incredibly, only 8% of worldwide sales are done online, however the UK leads the world at an impressive 15% of all sales made online. There is a huge growth opportunity for early adopters, and Facebook advertising consistently offers a low Cost Per Sale. If you're based in Cardiff or South Wales and would like to chat about how Social Media Advertising (including Facebook, Instagram & Twitter) can help grow your business, please email us at advice@digitalmarketing.wales or call us on 029 20 600455.

Affordable Website Design Cardiff

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Website Design For All Business Sectors

Digital Marketing Wales continues to help businesses with their digital marketing needs in Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, near me and throughout South Wales. Recently a number of new businesses have come onboard and requested help with SEO advice, Google Advertising, Social Media Management and also Affordable Website Design. Last week it was incredibly busy, with 3 businesses having their Affordable Websites Cardiff go live. Firstly an affordable e-commerce website for one of the UK's leading Hair Product Businesses. Also a traditional website was built for a local Roofing Company who wanted an affordable website designed to promote their work in Cardiff, across South Wales and further afield. Finally a new business asked for an affordable website design for their Business Cost Reduction service. It's always interesting to sit down with local Cardiff businesses and take their requirements and to turn them into an affordable website design Cardiff, Newport, Bridgend, near me, South Wales. With a few more projects lined up we continue to afford Affordable Website Design to our portfolio of clients.

Website Design Cardiff

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 13:38:47 GMT

Latest Blog -Website Design Cardiff

It's been a busy few months at Digital Marketing Wales. A few new clients have joined us from a number of different, interesting sectors. As we all know, the customer comes first, so working with them always takes precedence over writing a new blog.
5 new websites have gone live this year, including Waste Disposal, Online Retail and the Financial Sector.
So, for Website Design Cardiff, Website Design South Wales, Website Design Wales, Website Design Near Me, please don't hesitate to give us a call. We offer Website Design for all budgets and projects and have many Website Design projects we've completed to show you. Website Design with one of Wales' leading Digital Marketing Agencies.
Our Website Design packages can suit all budgets and we can offer different payment terms to make your Website Design Cardiff or Website Design South Wales even more affordable.
Call Us or email us today for Website Design Cardiff, Website Design Wales, Website Design South Wales, Website Design Near Me and for all your Digital Marketing Needs.
Tel 029 20 600455 or email advice@digitalmarketing.wales. We'll come to you to look at you Website Design ideas.

Digital Marketing Wales -New Year, New Logo!

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:21:22 GMT

3 years in and we've updated our logo

Happy New Year from Digital Marketing Wales, the new brand name for Digital Marketing Advice Ltd. We continue to strive to offer the best in class service to the SMEs of South & West Wales, and have decided to tie the company name in with the website address.
We're 100% Welsh and 100% proud to be working with Welsh companies.
We are still offering the most cost effective options for SEO Cardiff, SEO Advice Cardiff, SEO Wales, SEO Advice Wales, Website Design Cardiff, Website Design Wales, AdWords Cardiff, AdWords Wales as well as Social Media Cardiff and Social Media Wales
www.digitalmarketing.wales

SEO Cardiff

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:58:33 GMT

SEO Cardiff. Helping Local Businesses in Cardiff with SEO

We get a number of enquiries from local business asking about all our services, but SEO Cardiff is by far the largest number of calls. In fact, we get calls for SEO Cardiff, SEO South Wales, SEO Wales, SEO Newport and SEO near me.
All businesses want to rank high up on Google. 92% of clicks are generated by listings on page 1 of Google, so it's perfectly understandable why local companies want help with SEO Cardiff, SEO near me, SEO South Wales, SEO Newport and SEO near me.
It's the holy grail of all businesses to be on page 1 of Google, so allow Digital Marketing Wales help you with your SEO Cardiff.
We offer a free business audit of your business, looking at your website, AdWords, Reviews, Call Monitoring Systems and of course SEO Cardiff.
We will evaluate your current SEO Cardiff strategy, looking at both on and off site activity, how mobile friendly your site is, the speed of your website, its links and hosting, together with the keywords used on the website. All these help with SEO South Wales.
We will give you a detailed report covering all these aspects, and how to improve them.
We will help rectify any issues, and continuously improve all areas.
We'll work to strengthen your site, and won't stop until you're on page 1 of Google. SEO Cardiff & SEO South Wales will be relentless!
We'll work on your site each and every month. We'll visit you each month for a face to face meeting to discuss how SEO Cardiff is performing, and issue you with a transparent monthly document detailing all work carried out.
There are no upfront fees for this service and the minimum contract length is 6 months. So, if you want to be on page 1 of Google, whether it's for SEO Cardiff, SEO South Wales, SEO near me, SEO Newport or even SEO Wales, call the team at Digital Marketing Wales for your FREE business health check.
Tel 029 20 600455 or email advice@digitalmarketing.wales

SEO Advice Cardiff

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:14:44 GMT

SEO And Improving Your Google Rankings

The term ‘natural’ or ‘organic’ search, relates to the way your website is listed in search engine page results without having to pay for it. With millions of sites competing for the same space it is often seen as difficult to rank highly. This is why businesses spend vast sums of money on paying for AdWords to get above their competitors. If you have an effective SEO strategy in place you can achieve high positions in the ‘natural’ listings for many of your keyword search terms and start generating revenue from it.

Achieving success in the search engines is all about getting your website found by the right audience. You may have a great looking website that you have spent lots of money on but if you can’t attract the right visitors then you will struggle to make your business a success. AT Digital Marketing Advice we offer SEO Advice Cardiff, SEO Advice Swansea, SEO Advice near me and SEO Advice South Wales. We are an established company that can prove how we have helped businesses improve their organic rankings. We help trusted, proven, clever SEO strategies to get your site in front of the right people for the right searches.

To achieve this, amongst other tools, we look at the following areas:

Coding your website for SEO
Writing website content for maximum SEO
Keyword Analysis for SEO
Improving Search Engine Ranking
Advanced SEO for Google

SEO Advice Cardiff takes time and effort. Your time is best used on running your business. Employ an SEO Expert South Wales to improve your Google rankings today.

Call 029 20 600455 or email advice@digitalmarketing,wales today for your FREE SEO Health Check.

Need SEO Advice Cardiff? Trust the Experts

Changes to Google AdWords

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 15:05:49 GMT

Google AdWords rebranded as Google Ads

At the end of July Google AdWords rebranded as Google Ads. As Wikipedia describes the new platform, 'In addition to the full range of advertising capabilities on Google.com and across other Google's properties, partner sites and apps, the new Google Ads will offer Smart Campaigns for small businesses who don’t have the time or resources to manage complex digital advertising campaigns'
One of the key changes to the adverts you see on Google is the ability to add a 3rd headline and a 2nd line of descriptive text. Whilst many agencies wait for their clients to contact them, at Digital Marketing Advice Ltd (Digital Marketing Wales) we have spent the last month proactively looking at all our clients adverts and amending accordingly.
Google AdWords (now Google Ads) -we believe we are one of the main suppliers of Google AdWords Wales, Google AdWords Cardiff and Google AdWords Near Me.
Google Ads 3rd headline is up to 30 characters, and the 2nd line of description is 90 characters. Instead of just adding generic terms, the team have looked at each individual advert and added relevant content to each advert.
If you don't hear from your Digital Agency often (Digital Agency Wales, Digital Agency Cardiff, Digital Agency Near Me) then feel free to call Digital Marketing Advice (Digital Marketing Wales).
We work with clients across South & West Wales and work in conjunction with Google's fastest growing Channel Partner.
We also offer the following services
Website Design
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Review Monitoring
Social Media Management
Corporate Videos
Data Analysis
Call Tracking
Traditional Advertising Formats including help on leaving Yellow Pages /yell.com
Email advice@digitalmarketing.wales or call 029 20 600455.

Website Design & SSL Certificates

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:33:43 GMT

Website Security and your Website

You may have already seen it but thought I would share a blog so that everyone is aware.

Chrome 68 now marks ALL sites that are not https as not secure. This is the version that that makes HTTPS mandatory on all websites. Whether you are in the process of Website Design Cardiff or you have an existing site being designed, it's imperative you now purchase a SSL certificate.

Any website still being served via HTTP will receive a negative visual indicator that says, “not secure” beside the URL in Chrome’s address bar.

Why is Google making HTTPS mandatory?

It all relates to the overall security of the web. HTTP has served its purpose but its achilles heel is in its lack of security. Specifically, its lack of connection security. When an internet user’s web browser arrives at an HTTP website, all of their communication with that site is sent in plaintext that can easily be intercepted and stolen. This is hardly ideal in a number of contexts, from online banking to healthcare to social media, so Google and the rest of the browsers a pushing to make better connection security a default for the entire internet.

When you install a SSL certificate and migrate your website to HTTPS, it facilitates encrypted connections, which keep the data being transmitted from being eavesdropped on or even manipulated.

So for website design South Wales, digital marketing Wales, cheap websites Cardiff, make sure you use a company that will automatically install a SSL certificate.

Encrypt today.

Keyword Research

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 10:24:53 GMT

PPC & SEO Keyword Analysis

Leading your company, the main priority for you is to get your product or service in front of the right people at the right time.

Conducting keyword research will help you stay relevant in your market, and to get you ahead of your competitors. This will give a better insight into what your audience search for and which keywords you can successfully rank for online.

Digital Marketing Advice offer SEO and PPC keyword research for free across Cardiff Newport, Swansea and throughout South & West Wales.

SEO & PPC Keyword research includes

Discovery – finding as many keywords or phrases that relate to your product or service
ROI analysis – finding the most valuable keywords for your website that will help to get you ranking on search engines
Competitive analysis – evaluating and analysing the strength of competitors for potential keywords.

Google fields over 100 billion search queries every month., In order to to get your company ranking for the terms relevant to your business, it’s important for your website’s pages to be properly optimized for the most relevant keywords. At Digital Marketing Advice Cardiff we ensure your website is built around this.

Keyword research is one of the most vital parts of both PPC and SEO. It helps to determine which words are most relevant to your business and gives an insight into what people are searching for.
We use the Google Keyword Planner to reveal which keywords are most relevant to your product or service, and will help to determine which keywords will bring your business the most success. When we better understand the search data and keywords, we can begin to properly optimise your site and create good quality content that your audience will want to read.

Naturally, this takes a lot of time, time that you want to spend running your business. At Digital Marketing Advice Wales we have the experts to do this on your behalf, and report our findings in a clear, concise report.

In summary, Digital Marketing Advice helps your SEO and PPC work in Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and across South Wales with this info. It also aids your Website Design.

Call us on Digital Marketing Advice on 029 20600455 or email us at advice@digitalmarketing.wales

Digtal Marketing Wales

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 08:32:36 GMT

Digital Marketing Wales latest blog

It's been a while since my last blog, and this one won't be long!
It's been an extremely busy time recently at Digital Marketing Wales.
Firstly, there has been the implementation of GDPR across all the websites we've designed over the past couple of years, making sure they are all compliant with the new legislation.
Secondly. we have received a large number of enquiries for digital marketing help and digital marketing advice from a number of Yellow Pages and yell.com clients from Cardiff, Swansea and Newport.
Yell.com visits have dropped 40% over the past 6 years. In 2012 they would receive 22 million visits per month. I spoke to a Yell tele-sales agent yesterday to be told visits have plummeted to just 13 million.
And, as visits and performance drop, prices increase way above inflation!
So, loyal Yell customers are looking for alternatives. This is way Digital Marketing Wales helps.
There are no sales people with targets to hit. You get digital marketing advice to help your business, to achieve greater leads and more profit for you.
We've been helping with website design in Cardiff, Swansea and Newport in the past couple of months. A Concrete Supplier, a Garage Door company and a Tree Surgeon have joined Digital Marketing Advice.
We've seen a huge increase in our clients rankings through SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). Our clients have benefited massively from our SEO Advice.
And we've helping drive down the cost per click our clients pay on through our Google AdWords Help and Advice Cardiff Swansea Newport.

All our clients are spending LESS than they were spending with Yell!

If you want digital marketing help and digital marketing advice contact Digital Marketing Advice Ltd today for a FREE marketing review on your business, and how we can tailor a marketing package specifically for your business.

Call us on 029 20 600455 or email us at advice@digitalmarketing.wales

www.digitalmarketing.wales . Helping local businesses achieve greater leads and sales.

Yell -the demise and is there an alternative?

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:04:39 GMT

For 40 years companies worked with Yell to promote their business. With the end of Yellow Pages and the continued decline in yell.com, we look at your options.

After a 40 year lifespan, the lack of consumers using the Yellow Pages directory has meant the struggling company has decided to cease publishing the old yellow book. Across the industry this was expected. In 1997 I was working for an advertising agency. Advertising in Yellow Pages was the most important element of my client's advertising. Over the past 10 years the book has become less and less important. Now, none of my clients would dream of putting budget into it.
More concerning for Yell (or hibu) as the company tried changing its name a few years back (it didn't stick, even the CEO at the time admitted hibu meant nothing!), is the continued demise in yell.com.
In 2012 the monthly visits to yell.com was 22.1million. In 2016 this had decreased to 18million.
In 2018 THE MONTHLY FIGURES ARE NO LONGER PUBLISHED. This can only mean one thing. The figures have dropped so much they are afraid to tell you the truth. Contact yell.com yourself. Ask the question. YOU WILL NOT GET A STRAIGHT REPLY. We have asked many times for the latest stats!
Whilst the usage of yell.com decreases, the prices continue to increase year after year! My clients tell me the enquiries are dropping, the rates are increasing, and they are visited just once or twice a year by their rep, where the meeting is just to get them to spend more money (it doesn't matter on what, just increase your spend!)

A lot of the time it is not the fault of the rep. They have around 100 customers to look after, normally across a huge area. They have a demanding manager who expects huge growth of these clients to satisfy his /her line manager. Miss a target, you're on a warning, miss two and you could be kicked out of the business. A tough environment to work in.

So, what else can Yell offer you?
Well, there's their websites .
A basic site can cost as little as £499, but you will be tied into a 'service charge' of around £75 per month. Every month.
They offer bespoke sites that are exorbitantly priced through their Yell Agency department. One of our clients wanted a new, e-commerce website. Yell quoted £6000. We were able to build the site to the exact same specifications for just £3250.
Feedback we have received included 'cheaply put together templated site', 'Amends take so long to action' and 'SEO are on the site is poor'
Google AdWords (Pay per click) .
Yes, Yell are a reseller of AdWords, as are a large number of businesses across the UK. What is highly questionable is the quality of the campaigns that are built, together with the ongoing maintenace.
Also, their is no flexibilty with them. You may have a seasonal business where you wish to incrase your budget for a month or two. Yell do not allow you to do this. Ask to increase for a month, you are tied into a further contract where you have to maintain the increased spend for at least 4 months! No good if you are targeting Valentines Day, Easter, or Christmas.
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) .
Getting your website up the Google rankings. Getting seen. A huge importance to any business, but not Yell.
Their SEO department is tiny, as a company they don't focus on this. Why? Simply, it's not cost effective to them. SEO takes man hours, hard graft to write blogs, syndicate, them, design videos, update websites. Yell wants your money, they prefer to push you to spend on yell.com and AdWords where they make more profit.
So, what can you do?

There are alternatives.

At Digital Marketing Advice Ltd we work with clients across South Wales and Herefordshire, including Cardiff, Swansea and Newport.
We don't solicit business, all our work has come to us through recommendations.
We offer to our clients
Websites built around your needs and expectations. No templated designs, you have what is relevant to you.
Google AdWords. Campaigns initially built, but, more importantly, an ongoing service that monitors daily /weekly /monthly the effectiveness of the advertising, and tailors it accordingly. Monthly face to face meetings are essential to discuss with you the performance.
SEO. There are 200+ elements to achieve excellent SEO rankings. We look at them ALL. We work with you on the keywords that mean the most to you, and make sure your website is found in the locations you want to appear in. We will manage your Social Media blogs, so you can concentrate on the important things like running your business.
A range of other products, including Online Review Monitoring, Review Platforms, Call Tracking, Live Chat plus more.

All our clients are spending LESS than they were spending with Yell!

Contact Digital Marketing Advice Ltd today for a FREE marketing review on your business, and how we can tailor a marketing package specifically for your business.

Call us on 029 20 600455 or email us at advice@digitalmarketing.wales

www.digitalmarketing.wales . Helping local businesses achieve greater leads and sales.

Free Marketing Tools – Google’s Consumer Barometer

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 14:26:40 GMT

Free Tools to Analyse Your Market

Expanding your market or identifying new trends in your industry can be a lucrative way of getting ahead of the competition. Google offers a number of free tools to analyse your market or industry. Here are the best of the free tools:

Google’s consumer barometer brings together a number of tools which measures how people use the internet. You will see a number of statistics on this page, and many of tthem have come from this source.

Google Consumer Barometer – Data Graph Builder

This tool simply has too much data to capture in one post. Want to know where and how people are first aware of products? Where and how people research products before buying? How people buy products, when ready to buy? This is just one set of data, amongst 1000’s of pieces of data available in the graph builder. The clue is in the name I suppose, but the tool then builds clear and colourful graphs around the data you have researched.

Data Graph Builder – How To Use the Information

There is any combination of data that can be applied to your business. I will use the example of a clothes shop. Here is some data you may find relevant:

What motivated people’s product purchase? the top two motivations are a “discount or promotion” (24%) and a “gift for one’s self” (21%)
When did people start researching their product purchase? The top answer is “moments before purchase” (34%)
Where did people make their purchase? The most popular places to buy the clothes was “Online” (49%) and “in a store” (44%)
Which devices do people use? Overwhelmingly, “mobile phone” (92%)

How can you use this in your marketing? If a clothing store was a client of ours we would make the following suggestions to make the most of where and how people buy footwear.

Make sure that your products are online as well as in store – that will almost double your potential market. Build an e-Commerce website. Consider utilising Google Shopping, display advertising and Facebook remarketing.
Ensure that your website is fully responsive and the products are easy to buy online using a mobile phone.
Have a brand or clothing type on offer with a discount or promotion and ensure that this promotion is advertised heavily on the website generally, the specific product page and in store – including the shop window. The advertising message (online and instore) would show an image of the product with a message of something like “You know you'll look great in this – treat yourself. 20% sale now on”. Bring the top two buying motives together.

Consumer Barometer Graph Builder Here

Google Consumer Barometer – Trend Data

Although this tool gives more generic data around internet usage and is not industry-specific, it can help to identify trends. It allows you to search by country, sex and age to understand how your target market uses the internet.

For example, if your target market is under 25 the 2017 data shows that 97% of your target audience is connected to the internet, and use it on a daily basis (52%) and do this on their smartphone (97%). Only 51% use a tablet and that usage is declining from its peak in 2015 (51%) as is the use of a computer (91%) up 3% from last year, but still not at the dizzy heights of 2012 (92%).

Compare this to the statistics if your target market is over 55-years old where 2017 data shows that 66% of your target audience is connected to the internet, and use it on a daily basis (93%) and do this on their smartphone (52%). 43% use a tablet and that usage is increasing year-on-year by about 6%. Use of a computer remains static at 57%.

Access Google Trend Data Here

At Digital Marketing Advice Ltd we have access to one of Google's Channel Partners. In turn this allows you access to Google's HQ in London to discuss your marketing needs with our Google Business Managers. For a free marketing audit call 029 20 600455 or email us at advice@digitalmarketing.wales

Digital Marketing Agency Cardiff

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:12:05 GMT

How to Find the Best Digital Marketing Service in Cardiff

To discover the very best internet marketing company in Cardiff first, we should understand “exactly what is online marketing”, “will online marketing reap some benefits your company” and answer the question” how do I get more qualified leads for my company? “- which should be the aim of any marketing and advertising.

Just what is a Digital Marketing Agency?

The dictionary definition of “Online marketing” is the marketing of products or services making use of digital technology, largely on the internet, but in addition including mobile phones, display advertising, and any other digital medium. So easy to summarise in a single sentence, yet it can be a complicated technique to get right and to ensure your entire digital marketing is working together, not as silo activities. This is why the experience and expertise of the best internet marketing services can be hugely beneficial.

Conventional marketing and advertising, newspapers and paper directories, such as The Yellow Pages, are significantly less effective for business owners. Whilst a few years ago individuals would go to some type of computer to find a service or product, today people are connected to the internet all day, every day and “live online”. Searching for information, products or services is as quick and easy as looking on a laptop or computer at the workplace or picking up their mobile phone or tablet. Digital marketing is targeted on having your information, products or services in front of people when they’re searching on the internet.

The best digital agencies comprehend the buying process of your services and products and ensure your information is prominent to the potential customer at the appropriate time. In the digital marketing world, the various phases of the buying process i. e. research, consideration and purchase are called “micro-moments” and the most effective digital marketing agency will present the relevant information, services or products at the targeted time in the buying process.

Whilst some online marketing businesses will also produce and manage conventional marketing or business marketing, for example, newspaper advertising, expert online marketing agencies will concentrate on online marketing as opposed to “marketing companies” who commonly concentrate on TV, radio and print marketing.

Whether or not your business is business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C), digital marketing generally is a speedy, usually instant, and efficient way to get leads into your business and driving up revenue. The very best online marketing agencies will handle all the digital advertising based on return on investment (ROI) making certain the sales opportunities generated are at a cost which makes business sense and improves profit levels. Digital marketing will benefit your corporation and answers the question “how do you acquire more prospects for my company”?

Internet marketing, sometimes known as website marketing, is usually divided into a number of significant services and features:

SEO Services

Search engine optimisation, most frequently shortened to “SEO”, is the process of getting your site seen on search engines like Google when individuals make a search strongly related your business, products or services.

Regardless if your site is e-Commerce or selling professional services it will generate qualified prospects and sales into the business if it is found for the key phrases people use (also known as” keywords”) to find them in Google.

SEO demands experience and knowledge of how Google scans your website. What messages and details you want Google to read for any web page or website and understanding where to place that information so search engines will find it. An excellent SEO company will have a proven history of ranking websites high in the search results.

SEO is most effective when the proven strategies of acquiring rankings are applied in conjunction with latest trends that are getting visitors or traffic. A good example of this is the “near me” phenomenon, that has seen a 150 % growth in the last calendar year, where mobile phone consumers are including “near me” to their search query i.e. ” SEO Company near me”. These consumers have the desire to buy and buy from a local goods and services provider.

Whilst Search Engine Optimisation is often a stand-alone solution, it is best suited when combined with Pay Per Click, social media and reputation marketing. SEO is also the cornerstone of effective Pay Per Click, social media marketing and reputation management promotions.

Pay Per Click

Pay Per Click (PPC) often referred to as “Google Advertising” or “online advertising” is where you position adverts on top of the search results for precise search words. These search phrases can be the words individuals use while in the “research” stage of buying or targeted at the “buying search phrases” when potential clients want to buy.

Though your advert, dependant upon your budget, can be shown everytime a search is done, you only pay when an internet user clicks your advertising and is taken to your website or calls you direct from the search results web page meaning you pay only when you’re getting a click from a possible client hence the name for this type of advertising of Pay Per Click (often abbreviated to PPC ).

How much you pay for every click depends upon a few elements. The “cost per click” (abbreviated to CPC) is determined by the quality and relevance of the advertising to the key phrase used along with the relevance of the webpage on your website that the potential customer land on. These factors contribute to your overall “quality score”. The better your quality score, the less you pay per click and less you have to pay per lead into your business.

In the UK, Google has almost all search traffic and most of your budget should be placed their, nonetheless, you won’t want to miss the lesser, but still significant prospect of customers from search engines like Microsoft’s Bing system, and a small part of the budget ought to be allocated to other search engines. Also, the very best PPC management companies will also examine dispersing your PPC budget over a number of campaigns aimed towards different parts of the customer journey. A small part of the budget needs to be used on the research stage of the buying process when people are using broad keyword phrases to find information and facts, a small part of the finances when individuals are trying to find yours, the competition or market leaders business name. Almost all of the budget when potential customers are applying keywords directly related to making a purchase and lastly, a small part of the budget to remarket (show your advertising to people who have shown a desire for your services or products by looking at your website) to capture and enhance conversions from the people previously marketed too.

The ideal PPC Agency has to be a Google Premier Partner . A Google Premier Partner status indicates that the company has a proven track record in delivering high-quality campaigns, which produce very good competitive/ low CPC’s and produce high and favourable ROI’s. The very best PPC agency will have a robust Pay Per Click management process in place to speedily react and develop on alterations in the Pay Per Click campaigns of your competition. We work with one of Google's Premier Partners, Digital NRG Ltd.

Unlike Search Engine Optimisation, which will take some time to be thoroughly effective, Pay Per Click is instantaneous in the fact that as soon as your campaigns are live they can be generating leads for your company.

PPC is very successful when carried out in harmony with SEO. A well-optimised website will increase the quality score of your Google advertising campaigns creating a lowered “cost-per-click” which means you get more qualified prospects for your budget.

Social Media Marketing Cardiff

Social Media platforms which include Facebook and Twitter are now respectable places for a company to seduce prospects. Facebook has in excess of 38 MILLION active and regular users in the UK and the number is anticipated to increase to a number exceeding 42 MILLION by 2020. Regardless of whether your company sells to consumers or other corporations, your potential customers are on Facebook and using it often.

Facebook is very useful at boosting awareness during the customers “research” stage, reminding them of your products or services during the “consideration” stage and placing your specific products in front of potential customers at the “buying” stage. With such a sizable target audience as well as the versatility to focus on clients during the entire buying process, Facebook can be a good avenue to create qualified prospects and sales and to generate a good return on your investment.

A good online marketing agency will have a proven track record of delivering successful Facebook advertising campaigns. The very best internet marketing agencies can show the conversion rate and cost per lead of your social media advertising.

Again, social media and especially Facebook marketing can be performed as a stand-alone action but it really performs so much better when put together with SEO and/ or Pay Per Click. Whenever a potential consumer visits your site their computer is marked as having visited. This then allows you to target the user of that computer, who has demonstrated an interest in your products or services.

Reputation Management

When contemplating making a purchase, a possible customer will scour the world wide web to seek out feedback and reviews from previous customers. Your online sales and marketing can live or die by the reviews for your business, services or products. Ensuring that positive reviews are really easy to locate and that any negative feedback is managed effectively, could be a massive benefit to your conversion rate.

Internet marketing companies refer to this as “reputation management” or “online reputation management” even so, in reality, it really is creating systems to generate testimonials and customer feedback ensuring good customer satisfaction is captured and readily available for potential prospects.

Many companies are concerned with permitting people to be able to freely provide feedback. You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and companies worry that a negative review will have a negative impact on their company. First of all, if someone is determined to leave a poor review for your company they will discover a platform to accomplish this and there are 1000’s of platforms from which to choose. It is advisable to have control of where customers are encouraged to leave a review. Next, a poor or bad review, if managed properly, can be a positive for your business. Engaging with a negative review illustrates that you care about feedback and therefore, you care about your customers. One properly managed negative review is often as beneficial to your business as ten good reviews.

A good digital marketing business will use one of the handful of recognised review platform and provide the various tools and means of enabling you to capture, manage and reply to customer reviews.

SEO Company Cardiff

Digital Marketing Advice Ltd is the leading SEO company in Cardiff. We work in partnership with Digital NRG Ltd , a Google Premier Partner. This SEO agency and its team of SEO experts are based in Bristol, UK. They take care of the Google Search Engine Optimisation for over 100 companies which include SME businesses, National companies and International organisations. Every SEO customer, whether it is a small damp proofing business based in Cardiff or one of their numerous national household kitchen appliance brand names right through to an international waste management and recycling company based in Dubai – each and every client gets the services of local SEO, national or worldwide rankings tightly related to their business.

Website SEO services incorporate:

Keyword research – Your dedicated Digital NRG SEO Consultant will research and evaluate the search terms (keywords) that potential prospects use which are tightly related to your business. These can include the generic terms found in the “research” stage of the customer journey and concentrate heavily on the phrases and keywords that are utilised by potential clients at the “buying” stage.

Competitor analysis – As soon as your allocated Search Engine Optimisation specialist has identified the words and phrases to drive customers to your website we analyse your online competitors. Understanding who your competition online is, and ways to overcome them in the search results, is essential to increase website visitors, increasing market share and leads to your business.

Search Engine Optimisation audit – The next thing is to complete an entire SEO analysis of your website in regard to the key messages it’s portraying to Google and compare the current website along with your competitors’ website to devise an approach and plan to take forward to get to the top of Search Engines.

On Website SEO – From your Search Engine Optimisation audit plan your SEO Manager will provide and publish the SEO marketing that will generate the higher rankings. Included in this marketing will be written content for the website (Search engines love fresh and relevant content), videos (Google owns YouTube and links from the website have high significance. Additionally, you will benefit from ranking within the video specific search engine results) and we will modify and improve the present website content to the format that Google rewards.

Off Website SEO – You can find Hundreds of high-authority websites that Search Engines have confidence in and like. Adding your business to these websites enhances the authority of your website. Incorporated into our SEO services is incorporating your business details to those websites, acquiring hyperlinks from these trusted internet sites and further confirming to Google the key messages (and location) of the services or products you are offering.

Monthly Reporting – Some Search Engine Optimisation businesses might make an effort to sell SEO as a “black art” or “magic”. In fact, it’s a selection of continuing actions that, experience shows, increase the way a website is viewed by Google And Bing and the benefit in search positions experienced from that enhancement. Every one of our Search Engine Optimisation clients receives a custom report describing the work completed on their website and the current search positions. This report is sent on a monthly basis.

Regular Contact- Your business, your competitors’ company and also the Google landscape changes regularly. It is essential that your dedicated SEO Manager and your business keep in frequent contact. Depending on your wishes this can be a face-to-face meeting or simply a telephone update. During this update, we will discuss the changes in the market and ways in which these changes may be implemented as an opportunity for your business.

As a great SEO company, we are able to demonstrate an established track record of ranking websites high in the search results, the qualified prospects generated as well as the return on investment achieved. You can expect a totally “done for you” service where you can have as much input and involvement as you like or leave it all to us.

PPC Agency Cardiff

Digital Marketing Advice Ltd is the leading PPC agency in Cardiff. We work in partnership with Digital NRG Ltd , who have been rewarded for the quality of results they've achieved for their clients by Google and are a registered and official “Google Premier Partner”. They have created the Google advertising and conduct Pay Per Click management services for more than 500 businesses in the UK and across the world.

We are able to put into action every aspect of Google advertising (PPC, Google Display, Google Shopping, Google Re-Marketing) to make certain a balanced and efficient lead creating machine. Digital NRG Ltd's Google Premier Partner status highlights that they have attained, and maintain, for their clients the high-quality score which is extremely important to reduce the CPC’s and yield leads at a great return on investment.

Also, being a Premier Partner, they have the latest methods and guidance which is available from Google and frequently get the chance to make use of these power tools for their customers prior to being launched to the rest of the world.

Digital NRG Ltd is also official Microsft Bing Ad Search Partners.

Digital Marketing Advice Ltd can manage PPC campaigns from £500 a month to £1M a month – providing a fantastic return on your investment.

Our PPC management services incorporate:

PPC Audit – if you are running, or have recently run, Google advertising we can easily review the Pay Per Click campaigns and capture the low-cost, highly effective parts of the campaigns. We will also identify the areas of the advertising campaign which are wasting budget.

Competitor and Market Analysis – Understanding how the competition use Google advertising and the competitive metrics for your market or sector will highlight exactly where success can be achieved and the issues to avoid.

PPC Marketing Creation- Utilising the audit and competitor analysis (and our substantial working experience) we’ll create a campaign, or group of campaigns, designed to match the specific requirements and goals of the business. A high quality score and highly relevant campaigns will be developed to drive leads to your company.

PPC Management Services – The main reason we consider ourselves the most effective Pay Per Click agency in Cardiff is due to highly-effective Pay Per Click management we apply to all client campaigns. Producing and setting live a great advertising campaign is just a tiny part of how to achieve effective results through PPC. Ongoing and live management of the promotion is key to gaining leads at the appropriate cost. We use the most powerful Pay Per Click management software to analyse the changes in the market, how your competitors have reacted and if there are opportunities that your campaigns can manipulate. This evaluation is conducted every 30- minutes.

Conversion Tracking – You’ll want to be assured that each penny allocated to Google advertising is performing. As opposed to most PPC management businesses that merely count the volume of visitors to your website, we go a great deal further. We track every telephone call or email lead to your company. We then use this information to comprehend not only the search keywords and advertising campaigns which get people to your website but the successful campaigns that are driving real leads to your business. Ongoing good results, of increased leads for a better ROI, emanates from implementing a budget to the campaigns which are genuinely passing qualified prospects into the business.

Regular Reporting – Our reporting systems can provide relevant reports on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule.

Regular Reviews – Your specialist PPC Account Manager is accessible to offer regular updates on the overall performance. For customers with a substantial budget, this can be live and continuous communication, if needed.

Social Media Management Cardiff

Digital Marketing Advice Ltd has a knowledgeable and expert Social Media Management team in Cardiff. Mainly Facebook orientated, they have a demonstrated track record of finding low-cost leads from the social platform. Merging broadcast advertising to focused demographics to push traffic towards the website and combing this with remarketing to website visitors has delivered qualified prospects for companies that match, and in most cases are better, compared to the cost per lead of other forms of digital advertising.

We run Facebook campaigns for text/posts, video and image advertising. We produce all the “creatives” and manage the method from start to finish.

Along with the regular measurements, including post engagement, we keep track of and can report on the number of leads produced via lead form completion. Giving clear proof of the cost per acquisition.

Reputation Management Cardiff

As stated before, customer reviews are critical to the customer buying process and your business’s rate of conversion. In partnership with internationally recognised review platform “Ekomi”, Digital Marketing Advice Ltd have access to a system which enables businesses to easily capture customer reviews and place them on your website and digital advertising.

Capturing customer reviews – if you are a service-based business or “bricks and mortar” retail premises, capturing customer testimonials couldn’t be simpler. We supply you with a mobile tablet, loaded with the Ekomi app which allows customers to leave a review in a few seconds. Just hand the tablet to the customer, they choose their star rating from 1 to 5 and leave a remark. As you decide who is given the tablet to leave a review, you are in 100% control of the customers that may leave a review, defending you against unfounded or not impartial reviews from people who might never have been a client.

As opposed to other recognised review platforms, the Digital Marketing Advice Ltd system is an invite-only software that means that you have either passed the customer the tablet to leave a review or you have e-mailed them. Safeguarding you against phony “bad reviews”.

A summary of your reviews score and most up-to-date reviews can be added to your website to support your other online marketing. However you get visitors to your website, the reviews will endorse your company and increase your rate of conversion.

Once acknowledged by Google, the star rating will appear within the search results on Google making your site stand out from your competitors.

Digital Marketing Cardiff

A highly skilled SEO team with a proven track record and headed up by one of the UK’s most well-known experts in search engine optimisation for a business website. A Google Premier Partner with a long history of providing high-quality Google advertising campaigns that generate a great return on investment. Social Media and Facebook advertising which provides fantastic brand awareness and targeted (lower- cost) potential customers and lastly a tightly managed customer review platform to simply capture those highly prized customer reviews – this is why we consider ourselves the best digital marketing agency in Cardiff.

For a free audit on your current marketing and website, please call Digital Marketing Advice Ltd on 029 20 600455 or email advice@digitalmarketing.wales

More Free Website Tools

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:14:17 GMT

Mobile-Friendly Website Test

Mobile phones and especially smartphones such as the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy has changed the world. Today, everyone has smartphones with them, constantly communicating and looking for information. In many countries, including the UK, the number of smartphones has surpassed the number of personal computers; having a mobile-friendly website has become a critical part of having an online presence for your business. Digital Marketing Advice would go as far to say that if your website is not fully responsive (the size, shape, content and menu change depending on the size of the screen it is being viewed on) you would be better off not having a website at all. A non-responsive or website that is not mobile friendly is doing your business much more harm than any good.

A desktop version of a website might be difficult to view and use on a mobile device or phone. A website that is not mobile-friendly requires the user to pinch or zoom in order to read the content. Users find this a frustrating experience and are much more likely to abandon the site. Alternatively, the mobile-friendly version is readable and immediately usable. In 2016, Google created to versions of the search results. One for desktop computers and one for mobile users. This means that your website could be ranking well when you look on your computer but is not ranking at all for mobile users. “Oh well”, I hear you say, that isn’t so bad. Oh yes, it is! A report issued by Ofcom, which measured people’s use of the internet during 2017 found that, in the UK, 75% of the population used their smartphone to access the internet, compared to 39% of the UK population using a desktop or laptop.

There are two ways to measure the responsiveness of your website or if it is mobile friendly mobile friendly. The first is to visit the website on your own phone. If you have to “pinch” or “zoom” in any way to read the text or to view an image or the menu/navigation is not easy to see and use – your website is not responsive and is not considered mobile friendly.

The second and far easier way is to use the “Google Mobile-Friendly Tool”. Simply, add the address of your website and press “Run Test”

Try Google’s Mobile Friendly Website Test Here

My Website is Responsive – is that all I have to do?

Yes, and no. Google reads your website as being responsive, which is a very good start. Consider though the mobile users’ experience. Does the website have an easy to read, simplified version of the content? Do the images align and flow in a way that makes sense? Are the all-important “contact us” and “buy now” buttons aligned in the correct places and easy to see and use? If all of that seems okay, then you will be benefiting from having a well-designed and easy to use responsive website. If any of those factors are not great for the user – consider having a mobile version of your website created. This can be a relatively low-cost alternative to building a new website or spending hours developing the main website to work on mobile devices.

My Website is Not Responsive – What Should I Do?

If your website is deemed to be non-responsive or is not mobile friendly, it is costing you money and, as mentioned earlier, doing more harm to your business than good. You need a new website. This doesn’t have to be a huge expense, and it will likely pay for itself in terms of revenue generated, in no time at all. At some point, you will come to the conclusion your website needs updating – so why not make the decision today and get the benefit of a new mobile-friendly website sooner rather than later.

If you feel that it's time for a new website, call Digital Marketing Advice today on 029 20 600455 or email advice@digitalmarketing.wales for a free website audit.

We have clients in all sectors and have built websites for Solicitors, Caravan Dealers, Ice Cream Machine Manufacturers, Skip Hire Companies, Glass Suppliers, Garages, Concrete Suppliers, Monumental Masons, Roofing Companies, Funeral Directors, Double Glazing & Home Improvement Companies, Drain & Cesspit Emptying Companies, Commercial Property Maintenance Companies, Gas Engineers and Boiler Repair & Servicing Companies. We serve all of South & West Wales including Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Merthyr Tydfil and Bridgend.

Free Tools to Analyse Your Website

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:53:14 GMT

Free Website Tools – Page Speed Checker

Google’s PageSpeed Insights reports on the real-world performance of a page for mobile and desktop devices and provides suggestions on how that page may be improved. It measures the load speed of your website as if it were being used on a desktop/laptop and a mobile device, such as a smartphone, and gives you a score for each.

Page load speed has for a number of years been an important factor for users. In Spring 2018, Google has now made it an important factor for how your website ranks in search engines.

PageSpeed Insights evaluates how well a page follows common performance best practices and calculates a score from 0-100. It evaluates if a page can improve its performance.

The free tool could not be easier to use. Simply enter the address/URL of your website and press “Analyze”

Try Google’s Free Website Speed Test Tool Here

If you feel you could do with a new website call 029 20 600455 or send an email to advice@digitalmarketing.wales for a free audit on your current site. We offer affordable website design for small businesses across South & West Wales

Free Website SEO Checker & Tools

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:43:22 GMT

A Collection of the Best Website and SEO Checker and Analyse Tools

Understanding why your website is not attracting enough visitors or how to increase the visitors you are getting is the key to making your business website a “revenue generating machine”. There are a range of free tools to analyse your website, check the optimisation (SEO) of your website or analyse your market and competitors. Our forthcoming blogs will focus on these, how to use them and why they will benefit your business.
If you need an SEO Company Cardiff to help you and your business, call 029 20 600455 or send an email to advice@digitalmarketing.wales for your Free Marketing Audit.

My First Blog Post

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:27:33 GMT

It's official, I have a blog and I know how to use it.

I have finally decided to take the plunge and add a blog to my site. I always wanted an easy way to share information with visitors and I'm super excited to start this journey. Keep coming back to my site and check for updates right here on the blog.

10 Reasons You Should Love Blogging

andrew@digitalmarketing.wales (andrew morgan) — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:27:32 GMT

Blog posts are a great way to get recognized within your community and share your voice. Here are the top 10 reasons you should love writing blog posts.

Anyone can make one:
For better or worse, anyone can write a blog post about anything they want. Everyone has a voice and the best voices will rise to the top.

The writer can show their personality:
In blog posts, the writer has more leeway to add in their voice and personality than other types of writing.

Blogs are a great form of mass communication:
You can help people, learn new things, entertain your audience-the possibilities are endless and amazing. Blogging opens up all of these to a very wide audience.

You can make money:
Get the right blog going and you can make a lot of money through advertising and sponsored posts.

It allows people to craft better thoughts:
Instead of reading haphazard, uneducated Facebook statuses, it's much better to see people's thought process in a well-written blog post.

You can establish a community:
Blogging allows you to connect with other individuals who share the same interests. Sharing ideas and opinions within your community helps establish yourself as a thought leader.

Good for SEO:
Keeping content on your site fresh and relevant, you can use your blog to boost the search engine ranking (SEO) of your site and your business.

It brings people back to your site:
If your blog is strong enough and updated regularly, people will come back looking for more and bring traffic back to your site as well.

It's free:
It costs you a grand total of zero dollars to post to the blog, so if you have something to say, there's nothing to stop you.

You can establish yourself as a thought leader:
A blog is a great place for your original thoughts, and it can be a wonderful way to show off your individuality. If people like your ideas, you can become a thought leader in your industry!

What else do you love about blogs? Let me know!