What’re Digital Marketing Trends for 2020? Get Insights from Professionals

Shanshan Li
New Age in Digital Marketing
2 min readDec 13, 2019

What can we expect from the future of digital marketing? Hear what industry-leading expert Neil Patel, founder of Neil Patel Digital says at the 2019 Utah Digital Marketing Collective and get insights on the latest marketing trends and strategies.

#1 Marketing is Going Omni-Channel

  • Blogging is still effective.

“Nearly 25% of customers nowadays find the company through their blog content first. ”

While creating new content, you can also translate your content to other regions or update your old content, which leads to the biggest traffic gains.

  • Other platforms to re-publish your content:

Medium, Tumblr, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn.

#2 User Metrics Are the Key to Beating Google

“You don’t have to increase rankings to get more search traffic.”

Source: NEILPATEL DIGITAL
  • Look for pages that have less than a 5% CTR.
  • Look for pages that have less than a 4% CTR.
  • Make sure the keywords you rank for are in the title tag and throughout the content.
  • Once you make changes in your meta tags and content, have Google re-crawl your site.

#3 Focus on Branding

“Traffic and conversion generate success.”

The key to building a good brand is following The Marketing Rule of 7 to engage audience and increase traffic.

Strategies:

  • E-mails marketing
  • Use push notification
  • Chat box
  • Google Correlate

#4 Conventional CRO Techniques Won’t Work Well

The trend is to personalize the user’s experience.

  • Chat plus enriched data

It allows you to give a completely customized and personal experience to your user.

  • Product tours

Utilize product tours on a checkout page to encourage a user to take action.

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