Digital marketing and advertising strategies that get results
Drawing quality traffic from search engines like Google is vital in ensuring a website’s long-term success. It is a cornerstone of digital presence, an essential component of digital marketing strategy, and by extension, a key determinant of a company’s long-term viability. Attracting customers through your online presence is a niche area of marketing where SEO (Search Engine Optimization) plays a pivotal role in optimizing a website to increase visibility across search engines while attracting more targeted traffic. It involves a combination of technical know-how, strategic planning, and continuous effort. It is an ongoing process that requires experience with user behavior, how search engines work, and what your competitors are up to. Despite its importance, businesses often overlook or misunderstand SEO, especially in the early stages of website development. This oversight can seriously affect a company’s online visibility and ability to attract and retain customers.
We design and develop every website with SEO in mind. Our team lays the groundwork for basic SEO, ensuring that the site is properly structured with the right tags and hierarchy for search engines to crawl, understand context, and index so others can find relevant information. This includes optimizing the site’s meta tags, URLs, and content and ensuring the site is mobile-friendly and fast-loading. However, basic SEO is just the starting point. To truly compete in the digital marketplace, advanced SEO techniques are necessary, including strategies like keyword research and optimization, link building, content marketing, local SEO, and more. These techniques help to improve a site’s search engine results page (SERP) ranking making it reach more potential customers.
Alongside SEO, our suite of services includes SEM (Search Engine Marketing) and PPC (Pay-Per-Click) solutions, ensuring a comprehensive and strategic range of offerings. SEM is a broader digital marketing strategy encompassing SEO and paid advertising tactics involving increased visibility on SERPs through promotional methods such as optimization (SEO) and advertising (PPC). In contrast, PPC operates as an internet marketing model where advertisers charge for each click their ads receive. In essence, a company can purchase targeted traffic to their website in a short timeframe rather than attempt to earn those visits organically over a longer period. When integrated with a robust SEO strategy, PPC advertising becomes a powerful tool for driving targeted traffic to a website.
SEO, SEM, and PPC are all interconnected components of a comprehensive digital marketing strategy. They each serve a specific purpose and can complement each other in various ways. For example, while SEO is a long-term strategy aimed at building a strong organic presence on search engines, PPC can provide immediate visibility and quick results. SEM, meanwhile, bridges the gap between these two tactics, leveraging both organic and paid strategies to maximize a website’s visibility on search engines.
However, it’s important to note that while these strategies can be highly effective, they are not a one-size-fits-all solution. Each business has unique needs and goals, and what works for one may not work for another. That’s why we offer these services both as standalone solutions and in combination with each other. We work closely with our clients to understand their business objectives, target audience, and competitive landscape, and then we tailor a digital marketing strategy that aligns with these factors.
The long-term success of a website, and consequently the success of a company, now depends heavily on the ability to attract quality traffic from Google and other search engines. SEO, SEM, and PPC are powerful tools in this regard, but they require expertise and strategic planning to be effective. Whether launching a new website or looking to improve your existing site’s performance, investing in these services can provide a positive return on investment in just a few short months. Don’t overlook the importance of SEO, SEM, and PPC in your digital marketing strategy. Instead, allow us to leverage these tools to enhance your online visibility, drive quality leads to your page, and meet your revenue and operating goals.
Key Capabilities
Search Engine Optimization
The difference between obtaining a first-page organic search ranking on Google and being relegated to the third or fourth page of results is similar to the difference between having a prominent storefront position in the mall, and running a business out of your garage. Our SEO strategists can help you reach the first-page placement you deserve.
Search Engine Marketing
When organic SEO isn’t enough to get the desired results, SEM is an underutilized method for picking up the slack. Leveraging Google Ads and the Google Marketing Platform to give your target keywords an extra push, SEM can help you obtain great SERP positioning locally or nationally. We’ll help you determine when SEM is necessary, then launch your campaigns.
Pay-Per-Click Advertising
PPC advertising is a paid method for running ads on search engines and social media platforms that only charges you when someone clicks through to your site. This type of advertising can be competitive, but it is a great, cost-effective option for retail businesses looking to increase site traffic, spread awareness of new products, and promote major sales.
Common Digital Marketing Questions
What exactly is digital marketing and how is this different from traditional marketing?
Digital marketing involves all marketing efforts that use electronic devices or the internet. It extends to all online marketing efforts, which include search engines, social media, email, content marketing, and other websites to connect with current and prospective customers. Contrarily, traditional marketing involves more physical means such as print ads, billboard, direct mail, TV, and radio ads. The primary difference lies in the method of delivery and the level of interaction. Digital marketing provides targeted, measurable, and interactive marketing, which enables real-time customization and incredible depth in segmenting the audience. Despite the broad reach of traditional marketing, it doesn’t offer the same level of direct engagement or precise measurement the digital marketing offers.
What is your role in digital marketing for my business?
IronGlove Studio plays a critical and active role in shaping your business’s digital marketing strategy. We leverage proven methods in SEO, SEM, and PPC campaigns to maximize your online presence and lead generation. However, our approach goes beyond just applying these methods. We deeply analyze behavioral and analytical data to understand your target audience’s habits and preferences. This comprehensive understanding aids in formulating a custom digital marketing plan tailored to address your unique business challenges and goals. Our emphasis remains on delivering a strategy that not only elevates your online visibility but also optimizes customer conversion and engagement, contributing to your business’s overall growth and success.
Why can't I just manage the company's website without digital marketing?
Simply building a website and relying on organic traffic alone is not enough to effectively reach your target audiences or achieve significant conversions. This is because the cyber world, just like the real world, is teeming with competition. Millions of online portals vie for the users’ attention, and without proper direction or strategy, your website can easily get lost in the noise. Incorporating strategic digital marketing practices like Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising, and social media promotion, not only improves your site’s visibility on different platforms, but it also drives targeted traffic resulting in higher conversion rates. These digital marketing techniques provide a holistic approach to online visibility, customer engagement, and ROI tracking, ensuring your website effectively fulfills its purpose beyond mere existence.
Can you help us manage, attract, and engage users on our social media platforms?
We understand the integral role social media plays in a comprehensive digital marketing strategy. We can assist in not only managing your social media profiles but also in formulating strategic content plans to attract and engage your target audience. We’ll employ effective SEO techniques to optimize your social media posts for maximum visibility, and we will analyze user behavior to identify what types of content drive the most engagement. By continually monitoring and adjusting our strategies based on this data, we can effectively leverage your social media platforms to drive traffic to your website, enhance user engagement, and ultimately, increase conversions. All these efforts align with our overall goal to help your brand grow and be successful online.
Testimonials
We’ve had 700% more engagement on this new website; it’s unbelievable. We get daily updates and can read the analytics, so it’s been a massive improvement. We’re now working on a marketing campaign for website awareness.
-Executive Director, West Linn Chamber of Commerce
We started with a full review of the website, where IronGlove came up with designs and a theme that matched what we wanted. Moreover, we didn’t have any products on the website; we simply showed that we were selling products from particular brands — there were no details. The same was true for our services page, which only had PDF files. This affected our SEO and Google ranking. When Google crawled it, nothing on it said that we were selling the products we had. If someone searched for those things on Google, our site wouldn’t show up. Our site speed has increased, and our Google Ads now go to direct pages; previously, around 80% of our ads simply went to the homepage. Other Google- and SEO-related metrics for the website also improved even though we’ve only launched recently.
-Marketing Manager, Classic Pool Spa & Hearth
When we hired IronGlove Studio, we saw double-digit growths in our businesses thanks to their help in implementing our initiatives. Our company recorded an increase in sales during that time.
-Marketing Manager, CRKT
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