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29Oct

How to use Instagram Link Stickers ?

Would you like to include a link in your Instagram Story? According to a business announcement, Instagram’s Link Stickers will now be available to all users on the social media network. Previously, the function, which allows users to embed hyperlinks in the form of stickers in their Instagram Stories, was only available to verified accounts and handles with a large number of followers.

In June of this year, the social networking platform began testing its Link Stickers function. After multiple users requested access to the feature, Instagram said that the sticker will now be available to everyone, regardless of their number of followers.

Link Stickers, according to the company, are highly valuable for creators, businesses, and other members of the community who may use them to distribute information and resources. Instagram, on the other hand, stated that accounts that consistently breach community norms and disseminate disinformation and hate speech will be denied access to the function.

In June, Instagram stated that the Link Stickers feature would not be added to the main Instagram feed or other portions of the program. According to The Verge, the company’s stance has not changed.

The sticker has taken the position of Instagram’s ‘swipe up’ feature, which was formerly used to direct followers to other websites from the platform. However, in August of this year, the firm removed the feature, which was only available to accounts with over 10,000 followers.

What does an Instagram link sticker entail?

The Instagram link sticker, which takes the place of the swipe up feature, allows users to add an external link to their Instagram Story. Story link stickers are the simplest method to promote various pieces of content and items on Instagram, while also allowing you to use analytics to improve your Stories strategy. When it comes to links, Instagram claims that the sticker has three significant advantages over the swipe-up feature:

  • Stickers are well-known and popular among users, who utilize them to express themselves through music, questions, locations, and polls.
  • Stickers provide you more creative control over the aesthetic of your Story than swipe up links did previously.
  • Furthermore, stickers allow viewers to interact with a Story, whereas the swipe-up feature did not allow for replies or reactions.

Simply said, Instagram link stickers, like swipe-up before them, are a crucial component for any Instagram business strategy.

What is the best way to use the Instagram link sticker?

Although Instagram Stories only last 24 hours, including a link in your story can help you drive conversions, increase organic engagement, and make it easier for your followers to share the material you want to.

  • Press the + sign in the bottom centre of the Instagram app.
  • Select Story by scrolling down (rather than Post or Live).
  • Use all of the beautiful media you have at your disposal to create your story.
  • In the top row, tap the Sticker symbol.
  • Put your link here.
  • After that, just submit it to your Story and you’re done!
  • Don’t forget to track your analytics once you’ve put your first link sticker so you can improve your click-through rate.

Instagram is also working on customizing the stickers so that when users hit on the link, “it’s clear what they’ll see.”

 

26Oct

Facebook has new ways to generate leads and connect with customers.

Facebook is not as impressive as it once was. It is more of an ancient relic these days. But, it is still a major platform that businesses consider when advertising their brand and products.

Facebook is still useful in that regards. It is not entirely useful. A large number of people are still on Facebook and they do get online. Lead generation might not be as impressive as we would expect. Facebook plans to change that, it seems.

They have developed a few features which are still in testing and are not available to the public. Businesses are going to get a boost from this when the big update drops. Facebook seems to have read the souls of the various entrepreneurs hoping to make it big.

Let’s get a sneak peek at the various tools and new features that Facebook has come up with. Please note that these are still being tested.

Versatile Messaging

Facebook’s counterparts — WhatsApp, Instagram are doing way better than Facebook in a lot of things. Whatsapp, for example is more suited for messaging than Facebook. And, Instagram has gathered a huge base and many people have permanently switched over to Instagram from Facebook. Facebook has undoubtedly lost it’s out of the box freshness.

So, Facebook advertisements will come with an option to start chat in other platforms owned by Facebook like WhatsApp and Instagram. All the business talk can be carried out where the customers are more comfortable.

Requesting Quotes

Facebook has made it easier to get quotes by automating the whole process. Businesses can make questions regarding the thing and according to the responses by the customers, they will get a quote.

The Merge

Facebook will be kind of flowy in that. it will help you generate leads in other platforms owned by Facebook (like Instagram). That’s a good move from the part of Facebook. This is a win for businesses who are trying to get leads in multiple platforms.

The different platforms working together can ensure wider reach and target and audience copies can be identified faster, leading to more conversion rates. This is an unexpected surprise that would be welcomed.

Facebook Business Suite

Facebook Business Suite is made especially for businesses trying to get leads and all the good stuff on Facebook.

First, it tries to enable e-mail responding from within the platform. This would make things much easier and would save time switching between two entirely different platforms with entirely different UIs.

Second, it brings a file manager from where you can manage your posts.

Third, they give you a much awaited option of tracking how well your ads are doing. Imagine you have two similar ads. With the help of this feature, you can know which of the two posts is performing better and engaging customers. This will help you in future campaigns and can give you clarity on which direction to take with the advertisements you have planned.

Accounts for the Business Person

Facebook is introducing a new kind of account — a business account. This is for the people who strictly log in for business related stuff. With a business account, you can use the manager that we mentioned before without creating a normal account and going through the hassle of establishing it as a business-related account.

This will help businesses to manage employees and their accounts, which at the moment is not really easy. The features are expected to be launched to the public in 2022. Well, can’t imagine how it is going to be then. Undoubtedly, this is going to bring back a few users who instinctively quit Facebook.

 

For more such information, visit our website. We at TGI Technologies, one of the best digital Marketing companies in Kerala, are dedicated to bringing you the latest news and advancements in Digital Marketing. We can help you get your foot through the door to the digital world and help you get a strong foothold.

06Oct

Google’s new feature – ‘About This Result’

Now, Internet is a part of our daily life . Though deserving of trust, one must be careful treading the wonderful place that the internet is. We all use browsers to get to the places we want on the internet. And, Google is undoubtedly the most used of the browsers. They do have the interests of users and their well being in mind.

In this regard, they have introduced an ‘About This Result’ feature that would allow users to get more information about the search result that popped up with regard to their query. This has made Google more transparent, in a way, allowing users to trace the source of something without any hassle.

What does this feature contain and what to expect?

This feature contains a few details that you might find interesting and what to expect? We are not quite sure as the feature is still in it’s BETA phase and it’s too early to say anything.

Is this available here in India?

This feature has been available in the U.S. for quite some time and it is finally available here in India. It is not a finished, polished feature. It is still in early BETA, so, you must know there might be a few bumps here and there.

Where is this feature?

Search for anything and you’ll see 3 dots to the right of each result. Pressing that will bring up the “About” for that result.

What does it contain?

  • Website information

It contains general information about the website whose result you are checking up. This information is usually taken from Wikipedia and is cited so.

  • Why it showed up

There must be a reason as to why the result is relevant to your query. In this About, these are listed out. As of now, it is usually the keywords you used or something related to the keyword. It also states if other websites using the keywords have linked to this particular result (which makes it more relevant).

It will also let you know if an image related to your keyword is the reason you’re seeing a particular website.

  • Connection

It also states whether connection to the site is secure or not. Most of the times it is. This is a handy feature to avoid scams and clickbaits and non-secure sites in general.

  • Language

This also states which language the content of the particular webpage is written in.

  • Location relevance

The feature also allows us to know how a particular location is relevant to the query.  It simply states “Relevant for searches near ______”

Advertisements

This new feature clearly states whether it is an advertisement or not and also tells how one can distinguish between an advertisement and an organic Search Engine Result.

Why the ad?

This feature states why you got a particular advertisement. It might be either due to Google’s estimation of your location or things that may interest you according to your past activity on the browser.

Who put up the ad?

It also gives the advertiser’s name (who put up the particular advertisement) and their location (the country).

What about images and videos?

This feature does not support Images and videos as of now.

If by some chance, a video comes up as the most relevant, i.e., at the top of the results, the ‘About’ will show up and will say that it’s source us simply “from across the web”. This is the same for images. These videos and images are groused together and are only available on the ‘All’ tab.

If a video does pop up in the ‘all’ tab during a search, the about will contain information about the site on which the video is hosted (source). The other things listed are the same as what has been previously mentioned.

In case of results that pop up as a single word or sentence that Google sources from different places, the ‘About This Result’ feature says the information comes from Google’s Knowledge Graph.

Learn more search tips

This sub-feature is currently unavailable. We can expect  it in the future.

Feedback

Google also provides an option to send feedback on the given piece of information corresponding to a search result.

 

We at TGI Technologies, one of the best digital marketing agencies in Cochin, Kerala, are dedicated to keeping you updated on the digital world especially in regards to marketing. For more information of the sort that you do not wish to miss, check up on our website occasionally.

11Sep

How to improve local SEO ranking on Google search?

To create better rankings for your website on search engines search engine optimization has become a necessity when it comes to digital marketing. If you want your brand to get a better reach, investing in SEO will always help.

But it is a fact that most people search online to look for local businesses. Like, most of us search on Google for example, “restaurants near me” or “mobile services nearby” etc. This is because everyone wants to find a good business but it should also be convenient or in other words within a certain region. This is why it is important to improve your local SEO ranking on Google search.

With our experts, we can improve the local SEO of your brand on Google search as we are the best SEO in Cochin, Kerala. This will help you attract customers locally and increase the reach of your brand throughout the community.

What is local SEO?

Improving the ranking of the web page of your brand on local searches on Google is what makes local SEO different from that of regular SEO. If your business provides its service to a particular region or geographical area local SEO can be of your benefit.

So if any customer searches for products or services related to what you provide along with your location in specific, with local SEO your website comes on top of the Google search results. With the coming of mobile phones, the internet, and GPS, local SEO has become extremely important for the successful growth of a lot of businesses across the world.

People will always search for services or businesses within their reach where they are comfortable. As local SEO helps to attract the maximum local audience it can be beneficial for your brand if you are the owner of a small-scale business

Do you want to improve the local SEO of your website? What are you waiting for? Contact us at TGI Technologies, the best digital marketing company in Kochi, Kerala.

Here are a few ways that can help your brand improve its local SEO:

  • Create a GMB Account

The first step of your local search engine optimization strategy is to create a Google My Business account. Claiming and optimizing your listing or in other words, your business profile is one of the few effective ways to improve your ranking.

For this, it is mandatory that you provide the essential details regarding your business as per requirements. The details you provide should be up to date. This includes the accurate and correct business name, address of your office or store, correct location, phone number for contact, and your website.

After your verification, you can also provide additional details like photos and pictures of your products or the office surroundings, the logo of your brand, working hours, and any other relevant information regarding the business you do.

Also posting regular content about your services and products to keep your audience updated is an important factor to optimize your Google My Business account.

  • Mobile friendly optimization of the website

We all prefer convenience in everything, which is why nowadays most people carry smart[phones instead of using their desktops. Mobile is the most common device used to find local businesses that function nearby.  So you have to make sure that your website is smartphone-friendly.

It is only obvious that almost everyone does their local searches that is to find businesses nearby only using their mobile phones.

Also, add a call option in your Google My Business profile as many customers can contact businesses through phone calls to make quick inquiries. If you do this, it will be more convenient for your customers and they will get exactly the information they need.

  • Get regular and positive reviews from your customers

It is a known fact that positive reviews help in increasing the reach of your business. If you want to check out a particular product or service for the first time, naturally you will ask someone else who has done the same before making your choice. This is why reviews are important.

Encouraging your customers to post their views and their experience with your company, especially positive ones. Also, reply to their reviews and thank them as they took the time to write a good one for you. This way your audience would trust you while making their choice. No one will be interested in a business with low reviews.

So it is important to collect plenty of reviews from your satisfied customers that can help you increase your reach and above all bring up your company reputation.

  • Create content that is based locally

Another strategy in local search engine optimization is posting regular and fresh content that the local audience can relate to. This is one way that can help to grab the attention of the audience within the community or locality.

Writing content on local events, stories, and others that your local audience might be interested in along with pictures and videos to enhance it.

If your business has multiple locations, create a local webpage for each location featuring content that is based exclusively on the local audience. This way you get ranked better for different branches.

  • Give more attention to keywords

Content creation and writing blogs for your website to get better ranks but keywords in these contents are much more important.

Especially when it comes to local customers, keywords are essential. Using locally relevant keywords is the strategy that is to be applied over here. Applying keywords including a particular location can also work.

People might search for a service in a particular location. For example “furniture shops in MG Road” so using such specific keywords that your local audience may use helps your brand get better reach.

  • A web page for each product

This is a useful strategy to create a unique web page for each product or service you provide. So if you provide multiple web pages not only for products but also the different locations where your company branches.

So these are some of the strategies to boost your local SEO on Google. Do contact us as we are the best SEO Company in Cochin, Kerala.
12Jul

Wish to increase your business? Here is how SEO can help!

Most of the clients who are new to the world of digital marketing would be having so many queries regarding how to increase their business via this medium.

There are so many divisions within that of digital marketing of which SEO optimization can be considered one of the most important factors.

Search Engine Optimization?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which is the practice of accelerating the probability of your content to be discovered on top of the search engine’s organic ‘search results’ i.e., to improve your website’s ranking in search engines. A properly optimized website helps to attract more customers and increase website traffic which in turn gives a better ranking of your websites on search engines. Thus, search engine optimization is extremely essential in digital marketing. As one of the top SEO companies in Kochi, we would like to introduce to you, the new trend of SEO marketing.

How does SEO affect a website’s reach?

It is the main aim of search engines to display the best and most relevant search results to their users. There are innumerable websites present in the digital arena and yours is just ONE among them. On top of this situation, there exists another crisis fact- 80% of people are not at all interested to look beyond the first few pages of search results. In such a field, competition is really high. So having your website displayed in the first few pages of search engines surely helps to increase your reach compared to your competitors.

As you can see, it is indeed very hard to survive this competitive spirit of the digital world. But with the right inputs of marketing strategies, your website is sure to reach great heights! Reach out to us, as an SEO company in Kerala, we can help you with various strategies to increase your website ranking.

Applying SEO strategies to your website helps you to increase your visibility!

SEO can help your content to get in front of the right people by optimizing your post by including relevant phrases and keywords. With the apt uses of keywords, the search engines would choose your website to get ranked higher.

Here is how you could increase lead generation using SEO:

  • A responsive site for a sleek look on any device:

Make sure that your web design is responsive and renders well in devices of all varieties. Smartphones are preferred over desktops as they are handier so people nowadays are more inclined to search while they are in ‘move’, not only on desktops but on other devices too.

  • Most often used keywords should be identified for content optimization:

Keywords and phrases that contain more probability to be included in the queries and questions posted in search engines should be identified. Make sure that these keywords are used in one or another place on your website’s content.

  • Fresh contents posted consistently helps you to get better results:

It has been widely seen that the websites that post authentic content consistently are more viewed on the top of the search engine results! Hence, the more you will be posting, the more ranking you will be getting. So staying up to date with your content is necessary. Keep track of the ongoing trends to improve the quality of your content as most people tend to follow trends especially the ones that are prominent on social media. In this way, you will know what attracts which customer.

Make sure that the content you post is long and descriptive. Longer content helps to convey more information and customers always like to gain detailed information on what they are looking for. Brief and incomplete content tend to be less informative so it is important that your content must provide the right amount of information that your customers would find helpful. Also, ensure that the language used in your content is simple enough for everyone to understand, complicated or intricate content might not help customers. Sharing your content is as important as its quality, so it is necessary to make your content linkable.

At the same time, posting duplicate or plagiarized content can cause your website’s ranking to get pulled down. Make sure that your content is fresh and 100% original. So be VERY careful with the authenticity of the content that you post on your website.

  • Your website’s speed matters:

It is the main aim of the search engines to provide the users with the best authentic data that they will get in the fastest time. Hence the speed of your webpage also matters.

Most people get annoyed if the website speed is low. So, they would prefer other websites over yours if you can’t provide enough speed for your website. Therefore, the speed of your website is really important for search engine optimization.

Search engines would only route and point out their users to an optimized site. Hence, either optimize your webpage to be faster than others or let the other fast pages take up the position on search engine results.

  • Being active on social media platforms matters:

Almost everyone today is a part of one social media platform or the other so being active on social media can help you reach a wider audience. With the help of social media, you can keep your customers updated with your upcoming products so that they don’t lose interest. So being regular and active on social media actually matters in increasing the visibility of your website.

Optimizing your social media profiles increases your chances of visibility as the search engines tend to index your social media content. Hence, the more activities you could be on these social media platforms, the more likely it is that your website appears on the search engine results.

  • Off-page optimization

This refers to the measures you can take outside of your website for its promotion. Backlinks are the most important factors regarding off-page optimization. If a website has many high-value backlinks it is likely to get a better ranking on search engines than those with fewer backlinks. So in order to increase the ranking of your website you have to make sure to provide quality backlinks.

You can also make use of other off-page optimization strategies like celebrity marketing, guest blogging, content marketing, brand mentions, etc. As a prominent SEO Company in Kerala, we can help you with these strategies in order to increase the ranking of your company’s brand.

  • On-Page optimization

These refer to some of the factors that you can control on your web page itself. It includes high-quality content as mentioned earlier, optimizing headlines and headers, titles and meta descriptions, URL optimization, etc.

  • SEM

SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing. If you want to elevate your brand awareness to the next level, grow your business rates through online marketing and also keep up with the current competition in digital marketing, here’s how SEM can help you. It is one of the most effective strategies used in digital marketing.

The main and most important aim of Search Engine Marketing is paid to advertise. Advertising includes online advertising especially on Google Ads or Bing Ads and paid search which includes  Pay Per Click(PPC) or Cost Per Click(CPC). Using these advertising strategies while keeping in mind your target audience will definitely help to promote your brand and sustain your competition in the business.

Reach out to us as we are a leading digital marketing company in Kerala and can make sure that your brand stands out!

  • Be open to reviews and comments

Your target audience would find your brand accountable if your existing customers leave their reviews on their experience with your company. Positive feedback can surely help to increase your leads. Most people rely on customer reviews to make their choice and with the existing competition, positive feedback can help put your brand on top.  Hence, it is a must to support and urge customers to leave their reviews on your website.

Since everyone makes use of technology these days digital marketing has become a necessity and SEO is the soul of digital marketing. Now that you know a few factors of SEO utilization, we hope that it helps your website to get better! Make sure to evaluate and mandatory note the results after each SEO change that you have made. If it helps, you might apply it to your whole website and if not, remove it. We at TGI technologies, the best digital marketing agency in Kerala, happily look forward to helping you with any queries or doubts!

20Feb

The battle for traffic: Organic SEO V/S Social media marketing

Are you in search of better traffic for your site?

Site traffic is an important yardstick that marks your site’s overall success and pushes your potential customers to buy more thus increasing your sales. But have you ever wondered what would be the best way to upsurge your traffic! SEO and social media marketing are two of the ways opted by many. But most of the time companies either hire an SEO agency turning a blind eye to a social media marketing or hire a social media marketing agency neglecting SEO in totality. According to a recent survey, more than 50 percent of people use search engines for product discovery. At the same time, many youngsters depend on social media recommendations to finalize their purchases. First of all, let’s take a look at what these terms mean.

SEO – Search engine optimization is all about showing up as your audience’s search result. Your ranking would determine the number of click-throughs you receive and the traffic on your site.

Social media marketing- Marketing of your brand and products through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc… This is usually employed to create brand authority and engagement with your potential customers.

As a leading SEO and digital marketing company in Kochi we here analyze what would work best for your company in the long run.

Target Audience

Every marketing channel would have a target audience the group that uses it for a greater time. Identifying this target audience and creating content suiting to their taste would be beneficial for your company. This works better for social media marketing as accurate data of users are easily accessible. Organic SEO  is not based on any apps they are currently using but on predicting the kind of conversation they are hoping to have. Thus you can try creating marketing personas; fictional characters who have the characteristics of your potential audience. Then you could try creating content answering the questions they are most likely to raise. The more precise your answers are more likely are they to rely on your site. You can then use Google Analytics to see how your content’s performance and change marketing personas if necessary.

Efforts

Which of the two – SEO and social media marketing requires more of your effort. Being a digital marketing agency in Kochiwe work with both these strategies and know both its pros and cons. Social media marketing requires planning, commitment, and specific tools to make your task easier. Only quality content and scheduled posting can keep you on trend in social media. Users would also look for an instant response to their queries. On the other hand, organic SEO  might take a long span of time to rank, doesn’t require continuous effort like in the case of social media marketing.  Thus organic SEO brings in more conversions with little effort. However, the brand’s authority that social media marketing brings in makes it worth the effort.

Content types

Content is indeed the King in all digital marketing fields. In accordance with the change in the digital platform you use the type of content you use has to be changed to suit your target audience. In the case of SEO long-form content with a maximum number of keywords would work best. Make sure that they are evergreen contents that new users would visit often. People searching in the browser would be certainly looking for entire information about a topic. Hence, you should satisfy their needs through detailed description, or else they might leave your site.

In contrast, social media contents are much shorter in length and would change their style depending on the app you use. Also, they would have fewer technical terms with a lighter language. User engagement is also one of the factors that would make your content a hit on social media. The number of shares, likes, and retweets can be used to measure the reception of that content by your audience. People use social media in search of entertainment or emotional content. Thus what you post on social media should be attractive and entertaining at the same time compelling them to like and share.

Hence both SEO and social media marketing are dependent on contents but only differ in their type. The most effective way to hike your traffic is to link these two contents. You could try providing a link to the whole content under an infographic on social media. The interested audience is sure to click through!!

Subject

The subject matter of your conversation should also change when the digital marketing platform changes. As discussed earlier short and condensed subject matter would work well for social marketing. What you could do to improve your reach is to add a hashtag related to your subject. It would help you to spread your content and ensure that it reaches the right group of people. Many young people tend to search for content using hashtags in trend.

To yield the best from SEO you should have thorough knowledge about keywords that are frequently searched by your audience. Keyword tools can help you in this and push your site to further reach.

Success Rates

What matters at the end of all your efforts is indeed success rates.  You would have to wait for several months to know the result of SEO marketing as search engines take time to find and index your content. However, SEO is an excellent method to generate visitors and lead to conversions. On the flip side of the coin, social media marketing works within seconds and you could analyze your success rate within a short time. However, the problem is that it would shine only for a limited time creating a mini viral event with your audience sharing it rapidly. But they would soon drown unnoticed as new posts pop up on their screen within seconds. Since most of the people today sit for hours engaged in social media accounts your efforts would never be in vain. There are high chances of people to head to your site from social media through recommendations.

Thus, it is hard to say which party would win in this fight for traffic. The best way is to merge and utilize both of these marketing strategies. As a social media marketing company in Kerala our advice would be to employ social media marketing to create an engaging audience, new leads, influencers, and traffic to your site. Meanwhile, as an SEO company in Kerala, we would advise you to keep posting evergreen content and links generated from social media will hike your ranking. Make up your mind and act now!!