As we have entered the era of digital advances, hope, and growth, i.e., 2022, it’s time to revisit our digital marketing strategy. Here are the top trends that are going to make your 2022 better and help you or your business reach a new audience.
Visual searches are nothing but searching on a search engine using visuals instead of text. It is gaining popularity and it is going to be all over the internet in 2021. It has shown rapid growth since 2019 and by 2021 early adopter brands that redesign their websites to support visual and voice search will increase digital commerce revenue by 30%. (G, 2019). 62% of Millennials desire the ability to visually search over any other new technology, and the likes of Google, Amazon, Pinterest, and Bing have already developed significant capabilities in this area.
It’s high time to make your videos and images optimized for visual search and rank higher in SERP. Visual information is preferred over text by at least 50% in all categories of goods except for electronics, household goods, and wine and spirits.
Handy tips for a better Visual search result on SERP:
The ranking has shifted from #1 to #0 and everyone is running after it in 2021. the end-goal is continuing to shift to more SEO visibility in position zero that is “feature snippet”. Feature snippets are the results shown on google even before the paid advertisements. Hence, it got its ranking as #0 rank. It looks something like the figure given below in the google search engine result page (SERP).
What the fuss is all about?
It’s read aloud with Google Assistant voice searches. When someone used google voice search, chances are, the google assistant will read out from the snippet itself making it even more desirable rand on SERP.
The above graph shows the google mobile click-through rate for organic, Pay per Click PPC, and featured snippet in Europe plus the UK and USA. It is clear from the graph that the click-through rate of feature snippet has increased from 51% to 54.4 % in two years in Europe and the UK. There has been an increase of CTR for feature snippets from 56.1% to 61.4% in the USA from 2016 to 2018.
How to use it?
It’s high time to focus on user enjoyment more than ever and gain useful engagements and insights as a reward. The more the user enjoys the content the more is the chances of him/her to share the content. This will lead to eWOM and it will drive more and more organic traffic to the webpage or blog or the social media page.
Optimize your stories and posts by intensifying the use of Interactive content like quizzes, ask a question, surveys, contests, giveaways, polls, calculators, and more. 15%–25% of people swipe up on a link in branded Stories. (content, n.d.) due to this increase in engagement through stories, many businesses are already opting for more and more stories for their brand and product promotion. Instagram Stories accounts for 34% of Instagram’s sponsored content, and the numbers are going to go up in the coming years. So, it is better to use more and more engaging content in the form of posts and stories.
How does it help?
With this, we can conclude that interactive content is the key. The content should be new, original and it should have the element of interest that people will be willing to share with other people.
With the current COVID situation and economic layback, a pattern is getting popular day by day. It is nothing but producing and consuming locally. More and more indigenous startups are spreading wings and this trend is here to stay. Also because of the environmental crisis people have become more sensitive and responsible towards the planet and its resources. People around the globe are opting for a more sustainable way of living. Decreasing carbon footprint is one of the ways of doing it, which is fueling further the go local trend. The same is reflected in digital platforms also. It’s time to go local be it any business and Google updates their SEO algorithm yet again, so it’s time to update your business’ appearance in local results.
Local SEO is even more powerful than broad SEO as people searching for a specific type of business with their geographic location have more intent to purchase. So, more and more businesses are optimizing their website for the local population.
How to get started?
Focus on a large number of small marketing campaigns targeting specific audiences instead of a small number of large marketing campaigns targeting general audiences is one of the trends that going on already but will be more prominent in the years to come.
Targeting small segments not only brings refined traffic to the website but also improves the conversion rate. This increased conversion rate leads to better ROI. It also helps in knowing the requirements of a group or segment of the customer and helps a brand in delivering more personalized and tailored products and services to the target customer.
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