2012 seems set to be the year of mobile, with creating mobile friendly websites as well as mobile applications expected to be more important than ever before to businesses. As well as creating web sites optimised to use on mobile phones, mobile SEO is going to be used by a growing number of digital marketing companies.
Although you’ll be thinking about mobile SEO, standard search engine optimisation must also not be forgotten. The latest research from Ofcom has revealed that businesses in the United Kingdom are actually spending more on their online marketing than almost every other marketing method, except for television, and SEO and pay per click make up 61% of this online spend so that you have to be aware that if you are not using SEO, your competitors probably are!
Social media is also one of the key internet marketing tools for 2012. With eight hundred million active users on Facebook and also tens of millions more using sites like LinkedIn, Foursquare, Twitter and Google+, you can reach a huge audience utilising social media properly. These websites also store a huge amount of data on their users, so marketers from your social media agency may easily connect immediately with their target audience.
However, it’s not just social media and your SEO you ought to be thinking about – you must also know about your online PR. As well as creating understanding of your brand and also increasing trust in your company, press releases published online rank well in search engines so there are lots of benefits to using the services of an online PR agency alongside an SEO company, or better yet a full service digital marketing agency offering all the services you might need.