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Being a content creator can be overwhelming. Keeping up with blog posts, guides, and everything else on the agenda is hard work!
Now, imagine a system that keeps track of all the content you want to create, all the steps you have to take when creating it, and where each piece of content is at in its creation process.
Sound like a distant dream? Well, it’s not. It’s called an editorial calendar and in this post, I’m going to show you exactly how to create one, with a free template too!
If you’re looking for a way to streamline and speed up your work flow, read on.
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What is an editorial calendar?
An editorial calendar is more than just a schedule of your content. It’s a visual tool that lets one person or an entire team to plan, create, schedule, and promote content—for the next week, month, or even year. It includes the tasks, team members, and due dates involved at every stage.
Why use an editorial calendar?
The benefits of using an editorial calendar are many, but here are a few:
- More cohesive content. When you plan out your content in advance, you can organize it into themes and create pieces that support one another each month.
- Save time. You always know exactly what content to work on next, taking writers block out of the equation. Plus, all of your tasks are prioritized and streamlined. Some editorial calendar tools even have integrations where you can publicera and promote across multiple platforms at once.
- Stay on track. An editorial calendar ensures that you and every team member can progress along with the timeline of a project, and make sure no task is left undone or delayed.
- Store ideas. Combining an idea bank with your content calendar is very effective idea capturing on the go, especially if you can access your calendar on mobile.
In my experience, using an editorial calendar has made a tremendous difference in the way I work and I have never looked back. Procrastination often occurs when we don’t know what to do next, and so we delay the work at hand.
But for me at least, when I know that all I need to do is conduct the different tasks listed in my specific checklists, I am more productive and I procrastinate much less. Now, I hope it can do the same for you!
Keep reading and I’ll show you how you can use a free template of a Trello-based editorial calendar.
How to create an editorial calendar
Here are some foundational principles to guide you in the process.
1. Establish a loose content strategy
While an editorial calendar can help you to refine your content strategy, you do need to have an initial framework to begin with. You can use our guide to creating a content strategy for a deeper dive, but here are some basic questions to start with.
- What are your goals? Are you looking to increase organic traffic with blog posts, generate leads with gated content, produce sales enablement materials? This will help you answer the next question…
- What type(s) of content are you making? For organic traffic, you’ll need SEO blog posts. For gated content, you’ll need to produce PDF ebooks. For sales enablement, you’ll need to create one-sheets and slide decks. For brand awareness and link building, you’ll likely need to write guest posts.
- How much content do you want to publish? Based on the content type and team size, you should have some realistic goals and objectives for how much content you want to publish each week, month, and year.
2. Lay out your work flow
Once you have an idea of what content you want to produce and how much of it, you can lay out your workflow. This includes:
- Your ideation process. How do you find, store, and manage your content ideas?
- SEO optimizations. You’ll want to include sökordsforskning and on-site and off-site tasks.
- Lay out the different stages and specific activities of your workflow, and assign any tags, color codes, or labels that are important to visualize and maintain production timelines.
3. Choose an editorial calendar software
With an understanding of your strategy, workflow, and team size, now you’ll need to find out which software is most suitable for you and/or your team. Which is what this next section will cover.
Editorial calendar tools
There are several different approaches and tools you can use to create your own editorial calendar for free.
Project management software
Project management software like Asana and Trello are often the go-to for editorial calendars. My coworkers and I use the free version of Trello and we love it! With Trello, you have a workspace and within your workspace you can create boards. Within boards are cards where you can add descriptions, checklists, labels, due dates, attachments, and more. This makes it simple to keep track of various aspects of the content creation process.
You can also invite others to work on your boards. This is great for collaboration, but not the best for large teams since it can become quite messy with too many cards and labels.
You can upgrade to the paid version for more power-ups and powerful integration features.
Keep reading to download our Trello editorial calendar template.
Spreadsheets
Spreadsheet software like Excel and Google Sheets can be used for editorial calendars if you don’t have the time to learn new software, but they are more manual and not as visual. I have made an example in a spreadsheet to demonstrate what an editorial calendar in Excel/Google docs might look like. Feel free to make your own based on this suggestion.
Regular calendars
Regular calendars like Outlook or Google Calendar can be good choices for visualizing and scheduling tasks fast and easy—plus you’ll get built-in reminders. Furthermore, you can create checklist templates with specific tasks across the different stages of the workflow, and paste them into the calendar note field to keep track of what you have done and what’s remaining.
Nevertheless, regular calendars might not be the best if you want to keep track of status in an orderly manner and see everything in one glance. Here’s a simple overview of how a month’s worth of planned content might look like in Google Calendar, with color codes used to identify the type of content and status.
Free Trello editorial calendar template
Ok! Let me share with you my Trello editorial calendar template. It works wonders for me in building out my content marketing funnel, so I want to share it with you!
Here’s the link:
Trello editorial calendar template
Here’s what it looks like:
And here are its three components:
- Lists: The lists are used to represent the different stages of content, from ideation to promotion.
- Checklists: The checklists are used to add tasks to cards.
- Labels: Colored labels represent statuses, for example “Pending review”.
When you decide to make content on one of your ideas, simply move the card into the “date assigned” list and set a date for it.
The lists
This Trello editorial calendar board consists of 6 lists:
- Guest post ideas: Stores all your ideas for guest content
- In-house post ideas – Stores all your ideas for own content
- Date assigned – Content ideas that you have scheduled
- In progress – Content that are in the making
- Publicerad – Published content
- Resources – Checklist templates and other resources.
As mentioned above, each list consists of cards, which are your content ideas. You can add checklists, labels, and dates to each card.
The checklists
This editorial calendar has several different checklists, each relevant to different stages of the content creation process. Alright, but what kind of checklist am I talking about here? Well, in fact, checklists for helping you along every step of the process!
- Keyword research – This is the very first checklist you conduct when creating a piece of content. Here you can choose between the free approach, or the paid approach using Ahrefs. I use both methods. I have made a post on how to do free keyword research.
- Review draft checklist: Title, content structure, call to action, images identified.
- Review checklist. Relevant when editing your first draft and getting it ready for publication. It’s basically on-site SEO stuff, optimizing for social media sharing, quality check etc.
- Publishing and initial promotion checklist. For publishing and promoting your content. It’s a list of several different channels to promote your content in.
- Follow-up promo checklist. Promotion activities one year after publication.
- Pinterest publishing checklist: Step-by-step checklist on how to make pins and schedule them for post promotion on Pinterest.
To import any of these checklists into a card:
- Go to the card in which you want to import a checklist
- Click the “Checklist” option on the card’s right-hand side.
- Choose “Copy items from…” and choose your intended checklist from the menu.
The labels
In this template, I use labels for content type as well as status. This is great for staying organized and in control of your schedule.
You can add new labels as well to customize it as you wish. Here are the labels I use for content types:
- Blog post
- Video
- Email newsletter
- Guest post
- Freebie
- Podcast episode
- Passive income products
Here are the labels I use for content status:
- Draft in progress
- Pending review
- Scheduled (publish date)
- Publicerad
How to get this free editorial calendar template
Here’s how you get your copy of the board:
- If you don’t have a Trello account already, go sign up for Trello at Trello.com
- Log in to your Trello account
- Once signed up / logged in, Klicka här
- Now you should be inside the board. Click the icon with the 3 dots on it at the top right, and choose “More”.
- Click on the “copy board” option
- Now go back to your workspace overview in Trello. You should be able to access your new editorial calendar from there!
Pro tips for this editorial calendar
Now I’ll leave you with some final tips for getting the most out of this template!
1. Customize to your liking
Note that this editorial calendar is a template, and you can edit it the way you want. The more detailed customization is added to it, the better. If it suits your needs as it is, great!
2. Get Trello for mobile
Download the Trello app on your mobile phone and use the widget to capture ideas quickly when you’re out and about. Here’s how
- First, download and install the Trello app from Appstore or Google Play
- Second, add the widget to your phone’s widget area
- Then, wait until you’re hit with a content idea. Now, quickly get your phone out and click the widget’s “Add card” button
- Choose the Trello board and the list that you want the card to be added to. This would be one of your idea lists. Like this:
- Finally, click the “Add” button, and that’s it! Your new idea has been saved to your idea list.
3. Use the calendar power-up
When the calendar power-up is activated in Trello you will see the scheduled posts in the Trello calendar making up to a month’s worth of content visible at a glance. Simply click the calendar power-up located at the top of your board.
Now you’ll see a calendar with all your cards visible at the assigned date, with its labels. I have done some demo scheduling with cards in all the different lists to show you how it looks like in the Trello calendar
In the calendar view you may click on the cards and view them directly from the calendar interface. Notice that all the status labels are also showing, which gives you a good overview of status of all the scheduled posts. The labels are explained in more detail below together with the other features of the board.
4. Use Mammoth
If you have a WordPress site and write your content in Microsoft Word or in Google Docs, you can use a plugin called Mammoth .docx converter to import a post from your writing client easily into WordPress!
5. Use Yoast
Now you can just do the tasks in this checklist and get the stuff done! The YOAST SEO plugin is very helpful when working through this list.
Start building out your editorial calendar
Using some form of an editorial calendar is a must for every content creator. I hope you have enjoyed reading this post and that it has provided you with some constructive value.
Enjoy this editorial calendar! I hope it makes a difference in your workflow efficiency. Please leave a comment if you have any questions and I’ll be happy to answer them the best I can!
Thank you!
Om författaren
René Frydson is a 33-year-old passionate digital marketer, blogger, and productivity enthusiast from a small city called Forde in Western Norway. Alongside his formal education in marketing management with a specialty in digital marketing, Renè has 6+ years of experience from his own ventures online. He has hands-on experience from his employment in the marketing department of a large energy company in Norway. Join him over at themarketingonion.com where he publishes interesting and informative content within the digital marketing and productivity space.
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De 7 bästa marknadsföringskanalerna för e-handel för nya butiksägare
Here’s the thing about digital marketing channels: there’s no shortage of them out there, but as a new store owner, you cannot afford to be on every one. Nor do you have the time to figure out which ones are best for you.
Detta troubling image concepts what it feels like to be a new ecommerce store owner.
So, we’re going to save you hours by sharing the top seven ecommerce marketing channels for new businesses—including the pros, cons, and tips for getting the most out of each one!
The top 7 marketing channels for ecommerce stores
Below are the top ecommerce marketing channels we recommend for new store owners to drive sales and maximize profit.
1. Influencer marketing
As a new store owner, influencer marketing is one of the guaranteed ways to fast-track your journey to market. There are micro-influencers in every industry, and consumers respect and follow the recommendations and words of authority figures they know.
Pros
- Builds trust.
- Easiest way to spread word of mouth.
- Cheaper than mainstream media.
- Very effective if executed properly.
Cons
- Difficult to predict ROI.
- A change in the influencer’s reputation could impact your brand.
- Can be hard to identify and get responses from influencers.
Tips
Gretta Van Riel, a multiple 7-figure ecommerce store owner, uses influencer marketing as her primary marketing channel. Here are some tips from her on how to get the best out of influencer marketing:
- Give your influencers creative freedom. They know their audience better.
- Do not overwhelm influencers in your initial outreach message.
- Be clear with deliverables. Quantify where possible. For example, they will write one round-up blog post mentioning your product and three social media mentions (Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok). And what are you giving them in exchange? A free trial, unlimited or early access, or a discount?
- Stay small. Micro-influencers oftentimes have better engagement than macro-influencers.
2. Social media marketing
Organic marknadsföring i sociala medier refers to using the free posting and online store options available on major social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, and more.
Many consumers use social media to learn about brands and ecommerce stores and will look to see how other customers engage with your brand before they buy from you.
Poppin Candy uses marknadsföring i sociala medier to sell ecommerce products with catchy videos about its candies.
Pros
Cons
- Takes time to build a presence and stay active.
- You do not have complete control over the content you create, since people can comment, share, and generate their own content.
- You need to have the time to engage back with your audience.
Be sure to engage back with your followers!
Tips
For more help with social media marketing, check out our resources:
3. SMS marketing
SMS marketing remains one of the OG means of telecommunication, and people trust marketing content delivered via emails and SMS more than generic online content or ads.
Enligt SMS Comparison, it has an open rate of 98%.
Pros
- Easy to set up and deploy.
- High delivery, open, response, and conversion rate.
- Easy to integrate into a sales funnel.
- Great follow-up channel to engage prospects on your list.
Cons
- Can be costly.
- Becomes intrusive if not done properly.
- There are regulations against it in some countries.
- Can be subject to spam filters.
- Difficult to measure and track.
Tips
For tips on getting started with SMS, head to our guide to SMS marketing.
4. Email marketing
Email is one of the most effective marketing strategies available today and a great way to communicate with potential, current, dormant, and even churned customers.
Below are a few steps you can take right now to start getting results.
- Define your target market.
- Collect emails to build a list.
- Nurture the contact.
- Use a clear call to action.
Pros
- High response and conversion rate.
- Easy to track and tweak.
- Great for nurturing prospects through any stage of your funnel.
- Easy to personalize.
Cons
- Requires list maintenance and efforts to stay out of spam filters.
- Like SMS, requires list building and maintenance.
- Need good copywriting skills.
Tips
For tips on email marketing, we’ve got plenty of resources:
5. Search engine optimization (SEO)
SEO is the science of optimizing a website so that it ranks high in search engine results for terms relevant to your business and services. The more relevant traffic you get, the more you can convert that traffic into leads and sales.
The key to the blog is to write articles that target informational intent keywords. For example, Quip is an ecommerce site for oral care, and it’s got a blog on topics like how to use an electric toothbrush, how to clean an electric toothbrush, and more.
Pros
- SEO is free! And keyword-targeted evergreen content produces long-term traffic growth.
- SEO is scalable so you can maintain performance as your traffic increases.
- When combined with conversion rate optimization, your SEO can boost sales.
Cons
- Long-term strategy. It takes time to see results.
- The SERP for evergreen topics is more competitive than the local SERP, so it can be difficult for new stores to gain visibility.
- SEO may be free, but it does require time to write articles, do keyword research, and maintain pages.
Tips
To get going on your SEO strategy, here are some helpful posts:
6. Pay per click advertising
Pay-per-click advertising (PPC) is a great choice for new ecommerce store owners with some marketing budget. It simply means paying ad networks to show your marketing messages or banners across search engines or other online media.
Pros
- While SEO takes time to gain traction, PPC yields immediate results.
- Because you can target highly specific audiences with PPC, and because you’re only paying when someone clicks on your ad, this method is cost-effective.
- Data! With clear visibility into which campaigns are working and which ones aren’t, you can make data-driven decisions to optimize your campaigns and maximize your ROI.
Cons
- Running effective Google Ads and other PPC campaigns requires regular maintenance, audits, and reporting.
- You need to pay to play. If you underfund your campaigns, they won’t generate enough volume and data needed for machine learning to take place and optimize your campaigns for profitability.
- The online advertising landscape is always changing, so it’s important to stay on top of platform updates.
Tips
Here are our best resources for PPC:
7. Video marketing
It’s impossible to overlook the power of video marketing. Most social media platforms now favor video content over any other form of content. You can use video to create educational tutorials, ads, educational ads, product demonstrations, explainer videos, and more.
Pros
- Video gives you a competitive edge because it allows you to not only tell but show your value and demonstrate how your product provides benefits.
- While it can be hard to take creative freedom with SEO and PPC content, video affords plenty of room for ideas and creativity to help you distinguish your brand.
- Live shopping streams are becoming more popular and accessible.
Cons
- Video marketing can be resource heavy—it takes time to edit, and you need to have the right equipment so that you’re working with quality footage from the start.
- Requires consistency. To gain traction with your YouTube Channel, you need to be consistently posting content and monitoring your YouTube analytics.
- Lots of influencers use video, so your business can be up against some heavy competition with large audiences.
Tips
Here are our best tips and resources for a successful video marketing strategy:
Final tips for choosing the best ecommerce marketing channels
Not sure which marketing channel to start with for your new ecommerce store, or which one will be best for you? Here are some final tips:
- A multi-channel strategy is the way to go. Each channel has its strengths and weaknesses, but employing multiple channels in concert with one another will bring you the best results.
- Research your target audience. Find out the platforms your target audience uses most. For example, Tik Tok works more with Gen Z than the baby boomer generation. And emails work better with the baby boomer generation than with Gen Z.
- You’ll only know how each channel works with your niche if you pay attention to your metrics. Use tools like Google Analytics, Data (Looker) Studio, a CRM, and the native analytics tools within each channel to monitor and measure your results. This will allow you to see which channels bring in the highest ROI as well as to A/B test different approaches within each channel.
The best ecommerce marketing strategies (recap)
Using these ecommerce marketing strategies can help your new store flourish and get customers.
- Influencer marketing
- Marknadsföring i sociala medier
- SMS marketing
- E-post marknadsföring
- SEO
- PPC
- Video marketing
Om författaren
Bhujal Patel is a marketer and SEO, passionate about helping businesses get more revenue and profit through customized strategies. He lives in Toronto and writes about business ideas and scaling organic growth at mydigitalkube.com. Connect with him on LinkedIn.
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PPC Campaign Testing: Dos & Don'ts för att förvandla risker till belöningar
There are certain facets of marketing that have always seemed to capture more attention than others in regards to growing your business online. One of these is testing.
This adherence (and some might conclude, obsession) with data is not confined solely to the marketing world, as it seems most aspects of society have transformed into “data-driven” models.
Data-driven decision-making in marketing is incredibly valuable, but there is a time and place for everything, and marketing itself is a lot more than just numbers.
The data that drives successful marketing campaigns can’t materialize prior to creating said campaigns. The chicken that lays the egg that makes testing possible is the creativity that drives results fuels the data that informs decisions.
In this post I’ll walk you through what A/B testing is from a paid media perspective, when it’s necessary, and when human abilities like creativity, intuition, and common sense lay the groundwork.
What exactly do we mean by “testing”?
There are many forms of testing within marketing including multivariate testing, usability testing, and content testing, but for the sake of simplicity within paid advertising we will mostly be referring to A/B testing.
With an A/B test, you create two variants of an ad or landing page, and everything is identical except for one element so you can see which variation leads to more conversions. You can test ad copy, button colors, creative elements, the length of the landing page, and more.
The variant that performs better needs to reach statistical significance, which Investopedia defines as “the claim that a result from data generated by testing or experimentation is likely to be attributable to a specific cause. A high degree of statistical significance indicates that an observed relationship is unlikely to be due to chance.”
You generally want a confidence of 95% to consider that a change or variant is statistically significant.
When is it appropriate to begin testing?
Many folks take an extremely “scientific” approach right out of the gate, analyzing every impression and click with a magnifying glass and conducting micro experiment upon micro experiment with slight alterations in ad copy and creative.
The problem with this is that they are limiting themselves by hyper-focusing on small details too early on. Successful paid media is not always an immediate victory in regards to the quality of feedback or results that you may experience when you get started.
With a channel like Google Ads, for example, patience and observation is key to learning which levers to pull and where to make strategic adjustments. You may create an ad or make and adjustment and wait a week or two to observe the impact. Plus, there’s the algorithmic learning period to consider.
So the question is, when should you begin testing?
Every business is different—their stage of growth, the number of creative resources available, and the industry they are competing in. When it comes to paid media channels, everyone starts with a blank slate at some point. The promotions and strategy that you choose from the start often influence the evolution of your paid advertising accounts for better or worse.
From my experience, testing should begin after you start to get some traction with the results you are looking for. So for example, if you are looking to generate conversions from a lead form submit, then you should begin testing after you begin to see some results. So you might now be thinking, “What if I’m not driving any results and therefore need to test in order to do so?” My answer to that question is to separate testing from experimenterande.
Testing vs experimentation
From a paid marketing perspective, testing is comparing a control to an alteration. You are “testing” a new variant against a pre-existing one to see if the changes you have made are statistically significant or not.
Experimentation, on the other hand, is pushing your creative juices to produce a variety of different ads or promotions against your target audience to see what appears to gain the most traction.
Experimentation is not to be confused with Google Ads experiments, a feature within the platform.
Some may call this testing but in my opinion, it is less scientific and restrictive. Once you begin to accumulate meaningful data and feedback you can then identify and zero in on what works and test within that framework.
How to do experimentation the right way
When you are in the experimentation and exploration phase, there is a strategy to apply as well. On paid social networks, I like to create the target persona as best as I can manually, then create 3-4 ads targeting that persona.
Given the objective of the client, these ads will be in alignment from a conversion or web traffic perspective. I will also typically create a retargeting audience to test against visitors who are already familiar with the brand. From there, we may incorporate more variations of ads, play around with copy or creative, and allow the campaign to run and collect data.
This stage allows us to gauge the audience’s receptiveness to different messages and ultimately the data will inform us on a direction to explore further. For one client of mine, we were able to increase lead-to-sales opportunity ratios by over 15% by simply identifying that certain language and creative elements resonated much better with our audiences than others. We arrived at that conclusion, however by not being too stringent on testing early on, rather, letting the ads play out then assessing the findings.
Bottom line? The purpose of the experimentation or exploration phase is to create baselines—which allow you to set expectations as well as goals for improvement. This will move you beyond the experimental phase into the testing phase. From there on you can create a model for testing that allows marginal improvements to performance without all the risk of trying an entirely new promotional set.
How (and when) to move from experimentation to testing
To simplify my process for experimentation and testing I will outline from my experience, the stages of growth within a paid advertising account and what you should be doing:
Early stage: Experimentation only
If you’re starting your Google Ads campaign or account from scratch, you should be focused primarily on setting up proper tracking, pixel implementation, etc. first. The most important part of this early phase is that you know your general goal for advertising and ensuring your website and CRM are tracking these results properly, whether they are website visits or conversions.
From there you should take that overall goal and begin to construct campaigns in which to enter the experimentation phase.
If it is paid search, create campaigns for your branded search terms and through sökordsforskning, some of your most relevant terms. Try to start with something that has the highest probability of producing the result that you want, then expand from there once baselines are established. You can learn how to set up conversion tracking in Google Ads here.
In paid social, you should do the same but with website remarketing and a carefully constructed target persona. In paid social you should establish the goal you are looking for and try numerous promotions that align with that goal.
You can learn how to set up your Facebook Pixel here.
You may also want to set up the Facebook Conversions API for the most complete tracking.
Middle stage: Start testing
What I refer to as the middle stage is where you have experimented with different offers and have figured out what appears to work. You have baseline costs for these promotions and are ready to start testing variations of this offer in a more scientific way. This is where you can begin to A/B test.
Growth stage: Refine your testing
This is where you are certain of what drives business within the account. When an account is in this stage you want to find ways to grow but do so within the framework that has proven to be successful. At this stage in the game, you want to test very stringently with fairly smaller changes to variations to mitigate risk of decreasing performance. Larger riskier experiments should be isolated to their own testing campaigns, separate from the ones that are currently driving business for you.
Patience is key with campaign testing
The main takeaways you should have from this advice is to treat new and early paid advertising much looser than what some others might tell you. Although everyone wants to score a touchdown right out of the gate, it is much more beneficial to your paid accounts and development as a marketer to be patient.
Not relying too heavily on data to make decisions early on allows you to be more creative and push the envelope with your marketing abilities. If you are more open to new ideas early on, it will inevitably reduce the amount of time you otherwise would have been testing micro changes to one idea. For long-term success in advertising, you need to take some risks to set a better baseline for the future.
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Hur du hittar online: Våra 9 bästa tips för lokala serviceföretag
In today’s digital landscape, having a robust online presence is essential for businesses of all sizes, but especially those in the local service industry. With more people relying on search engines to find what they are looking for, businesses that are easily found online and have a solid online reputation will have a major advantage over their competitors.
So in this post, I’m going to show you how you can improve the local online presence of your service-based business using two fundamental marketing strategies: SEO and PPC
9 best ways for local service businesses to get found online
As a digital marketing instructor and consultatnt, I have had the privilege of not only teaching my students about the importance of combining search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising for businesses, but also experiencing the positive impact of this combination firsthand. Here’s how to leverage these two strategies to drive traffic, generate leads, and maximize a limited budget.
1. Pick the right company and domain name
Naming your business should be a thoughtful process. You want something that reflects your brand personality and is not easily copyable.
As a local business, it can be extra helpful to pick something that aligns with your target audience’s search intent, but don’t force it. I once came across a dentist that named itself “Dentist Near Me” and secured the domain dentistnearme.com. Taking this approach to an extreme certainly has its SEO benefits but it may not always be the best idea as others may follow suit and adopt similar names, potentially rendering the strategy ineffective.
A helpful tactic is to include your city, town, or service area name in your business name but it isn’t essential.
2. Get your listings in order
Having an up-to-date Google Business Profile is also a great way to improve your local business’s online presence. Regularly update your business information, add photos, and create posts with deals and helpful articles to build trust and credibility with potential customers. You should follow suit for the rest of your online listings as well to increase your chances of ranking in local searches.
This will make it easy for them to find and connect with you.
3. Target keywords with blog posts
Publish keyword-rich blog posts that answer common questions from potential customers—not just about your business specifically but about things related to the products and services you provide.
This will not only improve your website’s search engine ranking, but it will also build trust and credibility with potential customers.
You can use our SEO-optimized blog post templates to get started!
4. Put your highest value CTA at the top right of your homepage
Make sure your website is user-friendly and provides a great user experience. We have plenty of website examples you can browse through here. Implement prominent call-to-action buttons, such as a clickable a phone number in the top right-hand corner and footer, and a large contact form in the footer. These buttons are easily accessible, intuitive, and make it simple for customers to get in touch with you, book a lesson, start a free trial, etc.
Your highest value CTA should go in that right-hand section.
5. Track your SEO performance
In addition to reporting on your PPC performance, you should also keep track of your organic/SEO performance. Use Google Tag Manager and GA4 to analyze SEO metrics and customer behavior against your goals, as well as Google Search Console. You can also use Google Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio) to monitor organic performance.
6. Reduce your PPC spend with location targeting
This is a key home service business marketing tip. One challenge many small businesses face with advertising is a limited budget. One client I worked with had only $10 a day to spend. To overcome this challenge, I used location targeting to reach a 5km radius around the business’s location. This approach helped them save their advertising budget while also reaching the right audience.
7. Bid on commercial intent keywords
When running Google Ads, you have to tell Google which keyword(s) you’re bidding on. While there are tons of keywords relevant to your business, the ones to bid on with your PPC campaigns should have high commercial intent.
Do extensive keyword research to identify the keywords that potential customers would be searching for when looking for what you have to offer. Informational intent keywords should be used for SEO. For PPC, use commercial or transactional intent so that your ads won’t just appear for those searches, but so that they’ll get clicked on by people, and those most likely to convert.
8. Maintain a negative keyword list
In addition to targeting high commercial intent keywords, be sure to use negative keywords—which are keywords that you do not want your ad to appear for. This will prevent your ads from showing up for and getting clicked on by people for whom your product or service is not a good fit.
In my view, even with broad match, this is especially important when your daily budget is low.
9. Set up conversion tracking
Another important aspect of running a Google Ads campaign is measuring your success with conversion tracking. With this visibility, you can harness the campaigns, offers, settings, and strategies that are working and eliminate what’s not and improve your ROAS (Return On Ad Spend).
Check out our list of conversion tracking mistakes to make sure you’re getting the most accurate data possible.
Improve your local businesses’s online presence with SEO & PPC
The best way to improve your online presence for your local service-based business is to use SEO and PPC together. Both will help to improve your presence on the SERP for a wide range of keywords, and with the tips I provide, you’ll be able to reach your target audience and build trust and credibility with potential customers.
Here are the tips I mentioned in this post:
- Pick the right company and domain name
- Get your listings in order
- Target keywords with blog posts
- Put your highest value CTA at the top right of your homepage
- Track your SEO performance
- Reduce your PPC spend with location targeting
- Bid on commercial intent keywords
- Maintain a negative keyword list
- Set up conversion tracking
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