Online Advertising Facebook and Google Tips

Online Advertising Facebook and Google Tips

28, Mar 2017 | Top tips

People use the internet to research and browse almost everything these days.

It makes it the ideal place to market your business and reach out to a larger customer base via online advertising. Facebook and Google Adwords offer a great budget-friendly opportunity for targeted marketing campaigns.

Online Advertising on Facebook

Advertising on Facebook has the potential to change your business. It gives you an opportunity to reach such a large number of people. It’s an ideal advertising option for small business because it doesn’t involve huge costs and you can monitor the success yourself.

One of the benefits of Facebook online advertising is that is allows a targeted audience. By using this feature you can make sure that your advert will reach the right people for your business. You have complete control of the budget by selecting how many people they want their message to reach. This offers flexibility appreciated by small businesses, start-ups and those that want to gain an insight into their audience.

It’s simple to create an online advertising campaign. First, you need to setup a business page on Facebook, filling out your details, adding photos and posting updates. When you start a Facebook ad it will let you set up an objective, such as ‘send people to your website’ or ‘get people to claim your offer’. You will then be able to choose a target audience, selecting a location, age and interests among other options.

You will then select your budget and be shown how increasing or decreasing it will affect estimated reach. Once you’ve set out how you want your ad to look you simply need to place your order.

Top tips for online advertising on Facebook:

  • Have a goal before you start planning your advert. This will allow you to get the most out of our campaign and tailor the content to suit your aim.
  • Build a relationship with your Facebook users too – don’t just bombard them with sales and ads. Get your target audience to keep coming back to your Facebook page after clicking on an ad by providing a range of content.
  • Think about who you want each specific ad to reach and reflect this in who you select as your target audience. Facebook has millions of users so don’t waste your time and budget connecting with people who aren’t your potential customers.

Using Google Adwords

Using Google Adwords is one of the most effective ways to grow your business. It allows you to reach new customers that are specifically searching for businesses or products like yours. Like Facebook, it allows you to reach a targeted audience and control your budget.

There’s more than one way to advertise on Google Adwords, but the most commonly used involves pay per click (PPC) advertising.

Users bid on keywords that are relevant to their business and will then have their website featured to users that have used these keywords.

When you’re setting up your campaign you’ll be able to choose a location that you want to target. It gives you an option to see the competition, the number of monthly searches, along with approximate cost.

This is a useful tool if starting a marketing campaign to try different keywords that will give the best outcome.

Top tips for online advertising via Google Adwords:

  • Carefully select your keywords. Include branded keywords, such as your business’ name and phrases that are specific and targeted eg ‘Chinese restaurant London’.
  • A great deal of online business is now done via mobile devices, make sure your ads are suitable for viewing on mobile phones.
  • Include a call to action in your ad. This could be telling users to download a free report or to take advantage of one of your offers on your website.

Woya digital is a social media marketing agency in Chichester, that can assist companies of all sizes, anywhere, promote themselves through the internet, including online advertising. Our fixed price offering is straight forward and yields results! Woya is fantastic at social media management, website design and SEO, all paid monthly, with no upfront investment.

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Be Found Online – with Search Engine Optimisation – SEO

Be Found Online – with Search Engine Optimisation – SEO

10, Mar 2017 | SEO, Top tips

If you’ve researched creating a website or have set one up already, you’ve no doubt come across search engine optimisation, or SEO.

Effectively using SEO can make your website easier to find online, driving up traffic and business sales but if you’ve not used the technique before, it can leave you perplexed and overwhelmed by terminology.

SEO is basically a technique used to improve a website’s search engine rankings. With so many websites and competing businesses now online, having a robust SEO strategy in place can make a huge difference. After all when was the last time you went to the second or third page of Google’s results? Making your website easier to find can lead to more traffic and more sales, therefore improving your revenue.

Before you start SEO activity on your business’ website make sure it is functional and appeals to your target audience. If it’s not, potential customers will quickly click off it despite finding it. Ensure your content is clear and website is well maintained, not only will broken and invalid links frustrate customers they can affect SEO too.

Regular Updates

Updating regularly is one of the key things a business can do to improve their SEO. Aim to add new content every few days. A simple way to do this is to include a business blog, where you can share business updates, industry news and other content your customers will find interesting and useful. Make sure all your titles, headers and pieces of text are clear and use your keywords in a natural manner. Content should be unique and aim to provide at least 300 words. Mix this up and publish longer pieces sometimes too.

Link Building

Building links can improve SEO as well by establishing your business as trustworthy and a voice of authority. While it can be tempting to spam sites with links to your business go for quality over quantity. The important thing is relevance – a link from your local newspaper or an industry website is more valuable than a 10 free links from general online directories.

A huge amount of online research and business is now done on mobile devices and this isn’t only useful for increasing your sales, it helps with SEO too. Google’s algorithm for instance will consider if your website can be viewed on mobile phones or tablets.

Finally, use analytical tools to see where most of your traffic is coming from. There are lots of free tools online, such as Google Analytics, that can provide you with valuable insight as to what is working and what needs improvement.

Top tips for improving SEO:

  • Use keywords throughout your website. Your keywords should reflect what people would search to find a business like yours.
  • Create a plan for when you will update your website and publish new content and stick to it. How frequently your website is updated has a large impact on its search engine rankings.
  • Monitor your success and make sure you keep an eye on what is working. The internet is constantly evolving and your SEO strategy should too, check out how search engines are changing their algorithms and reflect this in your techniques

Woya digital is a social media marketing agency in Chichester, that can assist companies of all sizes, anywhere, promote themselves through the internet. Our fixed price offering is straightforward and yields results! We are fantastic at social media management, website design and SEO, all paid monthly, with no upfront investment.

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Be Found Online – Keywording Your Website Content

Be Found Online – Keywording Your Website Content

26, Feb 2017 | SEO, Top tips

Once you’ve set up your website you need to make sure it’s easy for customers and clients to find.

Even if you’ve developed an incredible website that perfectly encapsulates your brand, it’s not going to have any impact if people aren’t visiting it.

One way to make sure you’re found online is to use keywords in your website content.

Content

When you’re creating a website you’ll need to create content to fill it with. This could be information directly related to your business, such as product descriptions, or other written content, such as blog posts. Blog posts are an excellent way to keep your website updated and fresh, connect with your audience and improve how prominently your site appears on search engines like Google by offering valuable content.

Keywords

Firstly, you’ll need to consider what your keywords are. These will be different for each business and could even change as your business grows and develops. For example, if you’re a florist operating in London your keywords could include ‘florist London’ and ‘wedding flowers London’.

Think about what your potential customers would be searching if they were looking for a service or product you offer. Create a list of between five and 20 keywords for your business and regularly review these to see if they still fit with what your business does.

When it comes to writing the content, it’s a good idea to include some keywords in the headers, sub-headers and introduction. This will help with making the website easier to find through search engines and useful for people that are skim reading. While you want to incorporate keywords into the actual content you’re writing you don’t want to do it too much. Remember that you want to add value and therefore it needs to be readable and enjoyable rather than just a sales tool.

Top tips for key-wording your website content

  • Start a business blog. There’s lots of reasons to start a business blog but offering valuable content that uses keywords to make you easier to find online is just one great motive for setting up yours.
  • Keep a list of your keywords handy when you’re writing your content so you can refer to it.
  • Aim for around 2-5% of your content to be made up of keywords. If you add in too many it can make the content unreadable and seem forced and readers will quickly become bored and look elsewhere.
  • Remember to use keywords as tags for your content.

Woya digital is a social media marketing agency in Chichester, that can assist companies of all sizes, anywhere, promote themselves through the internet. Our fixed price offering is straightforward and yields results! We are fantastic at social media management, website design and SEO, all paid monthly, with no upfront investment.

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Growing Your Business Through Facebook

Growing Your Business Through Facebook

25, Feb 2017 | Social media, Top tips

If your small business sells products or services to consumers, Facebook can be a useful, free marketing tool.

Used correctly, this social media platform is a valuable conduit linking your brand with potential customers and a whole suite of tools to grow your business.

You can use your Facebook page to inform customers of business developments, offers and new products. However, you don’t want to post too often and you’ll need to share links, images and posts that your audience is interested in as well as sales-based stories. Promoting your business too much on a social media platform can lead to customers unfollowing or blocking your business page. It’s a fine balance between using Facebook as a tool to advertise your products and connecting with people.

Businesses can use Facebook Promoted Posts to reach a certain number of users, increasing the post’s reach. The tool allows you to choose your audience, for instance you can set a geographical location, age range or select interests, so you can reach the right type of people at exactly the right time, and not waste any of your valuable advertising budget on irrelevant eyeballs. You’ll be able to choose a budget and Facebook will estimate the number of people you’ll reach, giving you some useful insights into your possible advertising outcome before you commit a penny.

Promoting a post is a great way to attract new customers and draw them to your Facebook page and website. Carefully choose which posts to promote to make this functionality really work for you – fun and informative posts are more likely to increase engagement and drive traffic to your page than a sales pitch.

You also have the option to use Facebook Marketplace Ads. Again, Facebook allows you to target the audience of the advert, with a choice of sophisticated demographic options. The ad you create features in the News Feed sidebar and includes a headline, copy, an image and a website link. The price you pay will vary as the advert works on a bidding process. You can bid either on impressions (the number of times your ad is shown) or clicks.

Facebook contests and promotions are a great way to raise brand awareness too and can get users sharing your updates and expanding your network. Be aware though that there are rules for running a competition on Facebook and you’ll need to use a third party app.

Social media platforms are constantly evolving and trends are always changing. You need to monitor what is working and what your customers are interested in to get the most out of Facebook. Page insights can show you who your customers are, the Adverts Manager dashboard will allow you to see how your ads are performing and using tracked URLs means you can tailor the content you are sharing.

Do:

  • Understand what your audience shares on Facebook – images tend to attract more likes, shares and comments than a simple status update.
  • Engage with your followers – ask questions, share interesting new updates and reply to queries through Facebook.
  • Measure the success of your updates – see what your audience responds to and adjust your social media strategy accordingly.

Don’t:

  • Ignore feedback – Facebook is a useful tool for gathering feedback and customer opinions, make sure you take them on board.
  • Be slow to respond – people expect quick responses when it comes to social media so make sure your response times are appropriate.

Only post updates about your business – you need to keep your audience interested so post news updates, funny videos, pictures and views throughout the day that aren’t directly related to your business.

Woya digital is a social media marketing agency in Chichester, that can assist companies of all sizes, anywhere, promote themselves through the internet. Our fixed price offering is straightforward and yields results! We are fantastic at social media management, website design and SEO, all paid monthly, with no upfront investment.

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Growing your Business Through LinkedIn

Growing your Business Through LinkedIn

23, Jan 2017 | Social media, Top tips

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional social network. As a result, it offers a great opportunity to grow your business if you’re targeting other companies or working professionals.

Step 1

You will want to create a LinkedIn company page for your business and include details along with a company description. It’s also a good idea to ensure your own LinkedIn account is up to date so you can connect with customers and business associates and share updates. Many business opportunities come through networking and LinkedIn is a brilliant tool for this.

You can use LinkedIn to display recommendations for your products and services, gain introductions to business connections and allow potential customers to search for you. Individuals can search the platform for businesses within a certain industry as well as using keywords so make sure your profile page is searchable.

Step 2

Once your page is set up, connect with professionals you already know and join groups that are related to your business or trade.

In order to engage with your LinkedIn network, you’ll want to post regular updates. From a business point of view include information on what you’re working on, clients you’re working with and new launches. However, you don’t want all of your posts to be directly about your business. You should also include updates that would be of interest to your customers and business partners, this could include industry news, governmental policies that may affect businesses and challenges the sector is facing, for instance.

Step 3

Actively participating in discussions on the platform is an effective way to gain exposure and credibility. Pick topics that you know a lot about in the area your business operates in to help establish yourself as an expert in the field. While you want to promote your business it’s best to focus on the discussion, if you have something interesting and insightful to say people will likely click on your profile to learn more about the business. Simply focusing on self-promotion can lead to you being kicked out of a discussion and can harm your reputation.

If there’s an area of your business’ sector that you think would make for a good debate set up your own discussion. Pick a topic that will have lots of different opinions, ask questions or start a poll to get people engaged. By tying the discussion to relevant news and trends you also boost its popularity.

Step 4

LinkedIn also offer targeted advisements for B2B. The advertisement can be targeted based on job title, industry, company size and seniority allowing you to reach your desired audience. You can set your own budget for your campaign and there are no long-term contracts or commitments, making it a good choice for those that want to try out the service and measure outcomes.

Do:

  • Post regularly – Keep in touch with your network to increase your visibility on the site.
  • Update your page frequently – Be sure to keep your page updated with your latest projects or products.
  • Keep your contacts up to date – Connect with anyone you do business with, it means you can keep them up to date with company news.

Don’t:

  • Self-promote too much – LinkedIn is a business network but adding value through your expertise will be far more beneficial than several updates a day that are self-promotional.
  • Be too informal – While you don’t need to be really formal on LinkedIn, you need to be aware that the people you’re connecting with could become your business customers or partners.
  • Spam groups and discussions – Carefully select the discussions you join and only comment when you have something interesting to add.

Woya digital is a social media marketing agency in Chichester, that can assist companies of all sizes, anywhere, promote themselves through the internet. Our fixed price offering is straightforward and yields results! We are fantastic at social media management, website design and SEO, all paid monthly, with no upfront investment.

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Add a New Administrator to your Facebook Page

Add a New Administrator to your Facebook Page

22, Jan 2017 | Social media, Top tips

Whether you are working with a social media agency like Woya Digital or empowering an employee with access to Facebook, at some stage you will want to add or change an administrator or other role to your Facebook business page.

Unlike Twitter, where anyone with a password can access the account, Facebook works by giving an existing Facebook user a permission based role on the business page (see end of blog).

Adding roles on a Facebook page

Adding a new Administrator to your Facebook business page is a fairly easy task that will take only a few minutes (make sure you have the Facebook login email of the person you want to add) and is one essential action needed before Woya Digital can start work on your social media.

  1. Log in to Facebook
  2. Go to your main business page and look for the settings link, under the blue Facebook bar, top right hand corner
  3. Click Page Roles on the left hand side
  4. Add the new administrator by adding their Facebook account email address 
  5. If you do not know their Facebook login email, you can use their username, but only if they are an existing friend or already like the page – To ensure that you add the right person we suggest using their Facebook login email
  6. Click SAVE 
  7. Enter your Facebook password to confirm to amends

Add a New Administrator to your Facebook Page
Add a New Administrator to your Facebook Page
Add a New Administrator to your Facebook PageRole types
Admin

Admins can manage all aspects of the page, including sending messages and posting as the page, creating adverts, seeing which admin created a post or comment, viewing insights and assigning other page roles.

Editor

Editors edit the page, send messages and post as the page, create adverts, see which admin created a post or comment, and view insights.

Moderator 

A moderator can respond to and delete comments on the page, send messages as the page, see which admin created a post or comment, create adverts and view insights.

Advertiser

Advertisers see which admin created a post or comment, create adverts and view insights.

Analyst

Finally an analyst can just see which admin created a post or comment and view insights.

Woya digital is a social media marketing agency in Chichester, that can assist companies of all sizes, anywhere, promote themselves through the internet. Our fixed price offering is straightforward and yields results! We are fantastic at social media management, website design and SEO, all paid monthly, with no upfront investment.

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