5 Digital Marketing Trends That Will Remain in 2020

Raphael Gauthier
WisePass
Published in
3 min readJul 19, 2019

There are two things similar between fashion and marketing, one is their dynamic and ever-changing nature and the second is their trends. While there are some new trends every single year, there are a few trends that are absolutely constant; again there is that group of trends that keeps repeating themselves from time to time. Here we are to speak about those digital marketing trends of 2019 that proved to be extremely successful and will be repeating their success stories in 2020 as well.

Digital Marketing Trends you should be looking out for in 2020:

As mentioned above there will be numerous digital marketing trends that will extend their fruitfulness in 2020 as well. Some of these include

1.Mobile Optimization

Traffic is what you are looking forward to from the moment you start with your digital marketing campaigns. Over the last year, far more amount of traffic was noticed to be directed from smartphones and tablets as compared to computers. This year is expected to be no different. In case your business website is not optimized for mobile phones, it is time that you look into achieving mobile optimization. This makes navigation on your site through mobile devices a lot easier, more comfortable and also efficient for smartphone users, rendering better customer satisfaction and increased traffic.

2. Local SEO is more important than ever

With the now active status of My Business, Google is paying more importance than ever to local SEO. With tags being kept on black hat SEO activities, the need for proper and strategic SEO promotion, to increase your ranking effectively and law-abidingly on search engines has become imperative. To boost their local SEO, businesses need to create a Google account first, followed by effective use of My Business.

3.App Store Optimization

Over the last year, about 52% of internet users have been tracked to use different applications to serve a specific function rather than conducting random searches on search engines and different sites. This obviously provides them with better functionality. In case your business does not have an app, it is time to get one followed by optimizing it on app stores for its better visibility. Also use in-app analytics to measure app open rates, click-through rates, and conversations to make effective use of the app.

4. Selling on Social Media

The platform that immediately boosts your organic reach to hundreds and thousands of people every single day is social media. Leading social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, etc, are not only great places to promote your products and services but also sell the same. Use your Facebook pages and Instagram accounts to increase your follower base and sell your offerings to them directly.

5. Enjoy the benefits of Content Marketing

There is no better medium for promoting your business’s products and services than using content marketing as your much loyal weapon. The creation of useful, crisp, informative and unique content that extends some kind of value to the reader and urges them to take interest in your products is key to achieving success for your e-commerce venture.

Apart from these, some of the other major trends of 2019 you are sure to see in 2020 as well are- email marketing, Instagram sponsored ads, Facebook advertisements, live video streaming, link building, guest blogging, on-page SEO, social posts, voice search on search engines, etc.

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