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How is AI affecting content marketing in the digital world

Studying analytics and trends

Data research

Keyword research

Studying analytics and trends

Data review

Search engine optimization

And finally content creation!

These are some of the many important tasks that a digital marketer does before actually writing any content. Such tasks add up to take away from some valuable hours that could be spent writing or editing.. However, as artificial intelligence isn’t a thing of the future anymore, it has already started to change the game of content marketing. Content marketing includes marketing content written for social media posts, seo, and websites. It is not just writing but includes researching, editing, uploading, and promoting this content.

So what is AI and how can it impact, or maybe even improve, content marketing?

AI or Artificial Intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence in machines. This technology leverages computers or machines to mimic the problem-solving and decision-making capabilities of the human mind. According to data, the global AI market value is expected to reach $267 billion by 2027.

One of the best digital marketing agencies in Ahmedabad, Flora Fountain is here to help you understand how this technology has affected or should we say benefited the content marketing strategy in the digital world.

Better research & insights

Creating content may seem like it’s an easy job to do. But it involves a lot of time, money, effort and intellect to come up with ideas and convert them into engaging content on social media and other digital media platforms. Research plays an extensive and important role in content creation. In our experience, right from professional content writing in Ahmedabad to strategising and executing local and national campaigns, its efficiency in the digital world depended a great deal on reaching the right person at the right time. And this involved many manual hours of research and data collection done by our teams.

Fortunately, AI exists! AI collects, analyses, and compares data faster than a human. And this data provides them with insights to form a cohesive and smarter content strategy. A strategy that is relevant, trending, and has been curated on the basis of numbers.

For instance, Instagram provides insights of the audience that the brand targets. It even helps detect the best times and channels to publish content. When it shows such insights a marketer or content strategist empowered with this knowledge can come up with a more customised content strategy for the brand.

Better research & insights

Content curation

Coming up with something new to write is a tedious task. And what is all the more difficult is to create perfect copies, captions and blogs that connect the brand with its target audiences. But just like AI helps with the research and data collection for content creation, there are tools which help curate and correct content to ensure the promotional material is error-free. Speaking from our experience of professional content writing in Ahmedabad, we have been able to curate our content, its language and focus on the basis of the region and the audience it is being targeted to.

BuzzSumo showing a keyword’s engagement on different platforms.

AI also helps to create high-quality automatic content in order to waste less time the marketers on small posts. One of the most popular and widely used software tools, Grammarly uses AI to check grammar, spelling, or plagiarism and also provides suggestions. Paraphrasing tools like Quillbot and Spinbot, work as full-sentence thesaurus as they restructure text while maintaining its original meaning.

Grammarly interface

Chatbots

Powered by AI platforms, chatbots are content intelligence tools that you see on websites or apps like Facebook messenger. These bots interact with customers who need answers to their queries immediately. They provide such customers with detailed and appropriate responses to the questions. Earlier, when people used to buy something online and wanted to ask something regarding the items, the executive took time to gather resources to respond. But with the help of AI chatbots, they retrieve relevant information in a fraction of seconds.

Customers feel like they’re having a normal conversation with a human being as opposed to a robot.

Read customer’s pulse with predictive intelligence

Imagine you are browsing Myntra, and you find some items that you like and you decide to save them for later. Next, you open your Instagram and are scrolling through. Suddenly an ad from Myntra appears with the items that you recently saved along with related products. Seeing those items again, makes you go back to the app and purchase that item. This is AI creating personalised content for every individual at the consideration stage.

With the help of predictive intelligence, marketers can track their customer’s behaviour and construct profiles. They can also create personalised content on the basis of the data recorded on the requirements and interests of customers.

AI in action on social media platforms

4.62 billion people around the world use social media, which means brands have a chance to promote their content in front of a large audience. Be it Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Twitter, hashtag (#) is an amazing way to drive views, likes and shares on any content. People who are interested in a certain topic find it by searching that particular hashtag. And in this way the brand easily draws attention to their posts. The more ‘niche’ the hashtag is, the more number of the right people can find it.

Similarly, trending songs or audios that are gaining popularity on the most popular feature of instagram, REELS, also helps a video content to go viral.

So this shows how AI empowers a business to prepare for smarter content strategies for their digital marketing. Want to witness it yourself? Let Flora Fountain, the best digital marketing agency in Ahmedabad with its professional content writing help you create better strategies with AI. To start a conversation call 91 95580 79502 or drop us an email hello@flora.ffteam.in

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Social Media

Kamaii ki Kahani – Marketing a home-cooked food ordering & delivery app

Flora Fountain is not new to marketing and promoting food brands digitally. Some of our highly successful campaigns as a social media marketing company in Ahmedabad, India have been for prominent restaurant chains, cafes and hotels.

But, Kamaii is different. It was not just another food ordering and delivery app. It is a novel idea, which has come to fruition thanks to the efforts and intentions of the client and their team of home chefs, to make food accessible to the multitudes left wanting post-pandemic. However, when Flora Fountain was on-boarded as one of the best digital marketing companies in Ahmedabad, the audience was yet to see and experience the concept.

Here’s how we made it happen: Kamaii ki Kahaani.

About Kamaii – The Client

Kamaii is the brainchild of Darshan and Stuti Jani, first-generation entrepreneurs and venture capitalist couple, who wanted to bring together the talented home chefs of Ahmedabad and the food-loving Amdavadis who crave and need a delicious home-cooked meal, but somehow do not have access it.

This mobile platform allows home chefs to create a profile and put up theri homemade meals and snacks. Customers looking to enjoy homemade food for lunch, dinner or snacks, can then place their orders on the app.

Once the order is received, the Kamaii home chefs, known as Kamaii Food Partners, start preparing the food from scratch using fresh ingredients. As soon as the order is ready, a Kamaii Rider Partner picks up the order from the Kamaii Food Partner’s home and delivers it to the doorstep of customers.

The variety of food options on the app include Gujarati meals, Punjabi thalis, Rajasthani cuisine, freshly baked goodies, popular local snacks & even desserts.

This app is available for both Android and iOS users and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and App Store.

Objectives of the brand

A lot of homes lost their source of earning post-pandemic. One of the main objectives of the brand Kamaii is to provide a platform for home chefs to use their cooking skills and to earn extra income or “Kamaii” for their family. The other fallout of the pandemic was that a lot of people, such as students, senior citizens and even office and factory-workers were left without access to a fresh, home-cooked meal, which is a basic necessity. Through Kamaii, the brand also tries to solve this problem of accessibility to healthy and fresh home cooked meals..

According to the client, Kamaii brings people together for the joy of enjoying fresh homemade meals that are prepared with passion!

Challenges with the Brand/Observations by Flora Fountain

Brand name connect. The end-user had to understand the idea behind the name itself. Kamaii, in Hindi and Gujarati, means ‘Earning’. While the app is actually a food ordering app. So, we had to decipher and break down the connection for the user.

Brand name searchability. There was an additional ‘i’ at the end of the name, which was something not many knew about, and made it difficult for people to find it on the various app stores.

Inconsistency in brand messaging. Every platform had a different description for the app and the brand. This could be misleading for potential customers, partners and clients.

Communicating to different audiences. Kamaii had two audiences it needed to target. One needed to target home chefs so they could be made aware of the platform, its earning potential and on-boarded, second was the end-user who had to be made aware about the app usage, download and USPs such fresh made-to-order home-cooked food. There is also a third smaller TG and app connecting delivery partners. The messaging to each of these groups was being done the same way, without speaking to any of them.

Strong brand voice/identity missing. Because of the undefined target audience, improper language use and inconsistency in messaging, the brand lacked a uniform and distinctive voice. Right from the messaging on social media to the app bios and descriptions on multiple platforms, to the videos uploaded on YouTube.

Digital Branding Solutions provided by Flora Fountain as the best social media marketing company in Ahmedabad, India

      • Brand PositioningWe redefined the way the brand is being positioned in the market. Since people were confused by the unique name and the similarity in the services offered to that of other food delivery apps, we focused instead on the human touch, clearly demarcating the mission, vision and services of the brand across various digital platforms.
      • Social Media MarketingSocial media was one of the first places where we swung into action, which gave the brand a fresh look and feel through upgraded and consistent designs and simple but well-written content.
        first grid on Kamaii
        We reintroduced the brand, showcasing the people behind Kamaii, the home chefs, and the various Indian homemade delicacies they prepare every day and even for special occasions.

        One of the more popular campaigns we ran recently was the De Thaali campaign, centered around one of their most ordered products on the app, the lunch thaali, by running a quirky yet relatable series of posts around it, highlighting the low price point, the various types of thaali and the various offering available in a thaali.

      • Content clean up, improvement and creationOne of the most important parts of this exercise was the clean-up and improvement of the content put out for the brand, across platforms. Right from the bio on Instagram, to the messaging that goes out on the app through notifications, we rewrote and restructured the entire brand communication strategy for Kamaii.

        The reason was simple, our research revealed that people who use the app aren’t looking to read lengthy prose, they simply want information about the product, and easy to understand messaging.

        Once the existing content was fixed, we created newer pieces of content, to communicate with the audience such as newsletters, additional notifications and a website revamp, all of which is now in the works.

      • Product ShootWe eat with our eyes first. And with that exact thought, we directed a full-fledged photoshoot of almost every best-selling item from the app. The shoot was directed by our inhouse team, and the venue was Kamaii’s office itself, helping save costs and time!
      • Packaging DesignThe initial packaging was the standard rectangular cardboard box which had a faded print of the logo and sometimes even plain brand-less packaging. We designed a new food parcel box jacket, using the brand colours and smarter design and content reiterating the message of fresh, home cooked meals for highly reasonable rates. We even designed t-shirts for the delivery partners, so that the app was being marketed even as they were on the road.

    Packaging Design

    • Newspaper & Radio AdvertisingAs the best marketing agency in Ahmedabad, we still swear by the power of traditional marketing. For the “De Thaali” campaign we planned and executed a multi-channel advertising campaign across newspaper, radio and digital platforms. The ads in the newspaper were created in Gujarati and English and run across prominent local language newspapers, in tandem with a full-fledged radio campaign and digital campaign across a period of three weeks. Finally ending in one of the founder’s being interviewed about the brand on radio.

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Results

More reach

social media reach report
From a subdued reach, the Instagram and Facebook pages of Kamaii saw an exponential jump of 495% and 686% respectively. This, thanks to the relatable content, and targeted promotional activity done on a regular basis.

More downloads

During the period of January 2021 to August 2021, the mobile app downloads were just 1975 and the active customers were a measly 34 people. But ever since we began actively promoting app downloads with attractive promotional campaigns, the number jumped to 8481 downloads, an increase of 6506 downloads.

More orders

During the period of January 2021 to August 2021, the orders on the Kamaii App stood at just 38. But thanks to engaging content marketing and attractive offers on social media, the orders from September 2021 to March 2022 stood at 6490, of which 5082 were new customers.

Some more interesting facts

Apart from the above, now over 1600 customers repeatedly order from the app, the value of the orders placed till date has now reached Rs.7,85,600

Client speak

Kamaii_Team_2

We joined hands with Flora Fountain for the branding, digital strategy & social media management of our brand, Kamaii. While we had heard good words about them in the market, we were mighty impressed with their commitment to our brand, their professional approach & their flexibility in ideas & execution. Thorough research, an understanding of the brand & the market & the ideas that connect, Flora Fountain has ensured that our brand has started connecting with the right audience in the city.

Working with them has seemed more like a friendly partnership, than a client-agency relationship. We highly recommend them to all businesses that are looking to work with a committed & intelligent team of professionals.

Impressed? This could be the story of your brand too. At Flora Fountain, WE LOVE PROBLEMS! Come down to our office for a cup of coffee, served with a side of kickass ideas and strategy for your brand. Drop us a hello on hello@florafountain.in today to schedule a meeting.

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Digital Marketing Agency

Tap into your loyal customer base & boost sales with remarketing in digital marketing

remarketing in digital marketing

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No, we haven’t pivoted into selling coffee from being a creative advertising agency in Ahmedabad or a digital marketing agency!

But, we’re sure that the above text did remind you of having seen something familiar, either as a text message, email or push notification on the phone. This is an example of a brand trying to lure back its existing customers to keep shopping with them regularly.

This is the brand ‘remarketing’ itself to stay relevant, maintain a loyal customer base and keep the sales going. The example here is of a prominent Indian coffee brand pitching one of its popular summer brews as soon as the weather started getting hotter.

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BUT, WHAT IS REMARKETING?

Remarketing is a type of marketing activity that focuses on consumers who have previously shown interest in the brand. This interest could be in the form of a visit to the brand’s website, following it on social media marketing, or clicking on any of its ads online.

The idea behind remarketing is to reach out to the most receptive audience and utilize that interest towards the company’s goal like boosting sales with digital marketing. At the core, rekindling the audience’s interest and drawing them back, has more chances of conversions and helps the brand build a loyal audience base.

And before unravelling how to increase sales through digital remarketing, it is important to talk about retargeting.

REMARKETING VS RETARGETING

Remarketing is sometimes considered retargeting. Yes, they do sound eerily similar and both help to boost sales with digital marketing, but there is a slight difference.

Retargeting is usually done to serve ads across various platforms, such as social media and Google Ads Network, to potential customers based on their past interactions on digital mediums with the brand.

Remarketing is reaching out to users and website visitors through messages and emails, by making a sales pitch, with the help of the contact information shared by them while subscribing or while making a purchase earlier.

However, over the years, remarketing has become an umbrella term, of which retargeting is a part alongside the many other marketing activities which engage existing customers and previous visitors.

So how to increase sales through digital marketing targeted to the present customer base?

How to increase sales through digital remarketing

Let us understand this using an example of a remarketing activity that Flora Fountain performed to boost sales with digital marketing as the top digital marketing agency in Ahmedabad for one of our ecommerce clients.

Suppose, Sujith visited www.falguni.shop, the ecommerce website of Falguni Gruh Udhyog, a well-known farsan and snack store in Ahmedabad. He made some purchases and chose to get them delivered to his friend living in New Delhi.

Now, to complete the purchase, Sujith is required to create a profile on the website, hence providing his email ID and contact number. Secondly, for the delivery to be successful, he will be required to provide his friend’s information, like name, address, email ID and contact number.

Jump to a week later. Both Sujith, who is a direct customer for www.falguni.shop, and his friend, an indirect consumer, receive an email that looked something like the one below:

Falguni Gruh Udhyog, a famous farsan and snack store in Ahmedabad

While Sujith ignored the email, it piqued his friend’s interest and later that day, the indirect consumer, ended up visiting the ecommerce website and making a purchase.

And that is how to increase sales through digital marketing or remarketing to be specific! This way you too can boost your sales from digital remarketing.

TYPES OF REMARKETING

You can increase sales through digital marketing with any of the following strategies:

EMail and SMS Remarketing

Customers who have previously purchased anything from the brand’s website or subscribed to the newsletter are the target of this strategy. The brand reaches out to them through tailored text messages or emails with specific offers relevant to them, such as promotions or discounts comparable to what they purchased or showed interest in the past.

This list of customers/users can be segmented too. They can be grouped as:

  • Customers who bought a similar product in the past
  • Customers who added products but abandoned their cart before checkout
  • Customers who looked at a product that wasn’t in stock at the time

This type of focused remarketing increases the chances of conversion.

Display Ads on third-party sites

The most prevalent way to boost sales with digital marketing to previously existing customers is by displaying third-party ads.

It entails reaching out through paid marketing, notably display ads on third-party websites, to users who have visited the brand’s website.

Display Ads on third party sites

There are many platforms to run such display remarketing campaigns, and Google Ads is one of the top and most used platforms.

These platforms track the traffic to the brand’s website using cookies and then target users who visited the site with ads for the products and services of the brand.

Display ads appear on websites that are connected to the ad network the brand is using. If a brand uses Google Ads, then its display ads will appear to users when they visit sites that are part of the Google Display Network.

Push notifications

Push notifications

The take on push notifications on ‘how to increase sales through digital marketing’ is the most interesting and perhaps the most personalised one.

These messages exist for both mobile and desktop devices and can be sent either manually or automatically to contact website or app visitors, whose personal information the brand may not have access to.

For instance, if someone who visited a site or opened an app leaves it halfway, a message can be sent to the user’s browser or device encouraging him/her to return to the site and finish the purchase or revisit the site.

Mobile apps even use this method to create recall, engage with users and pitch offers to the user with the idea of drawing them back to the app and making a purchase.

The best part about it is that no matter what the user is doing on the computer or mobile phone, the message will appear as a pop-up notification on the screen, until he/she either clicks it away or opens it, hence there is no ignoring it.

FAQs

Q1 How Does Remarketing Work?
Remarketing works by using cookies, which are small text files that are stored on a user’s computer or device when they visit a website. These cookies allow brands to track a user’s browsing behaviour and target them with ads as they continue to browse the web.

Q2 What are some benefits of Remarketing?
Boosting sales with digital marketing, increasing conversions, enhancing brand awareness, and improving targeting, are a few benefits of Remarketing.

Q3 How does remarketing impact consumer privacy?
Remarketing relies on the use of cookies to track user behaviour, which has raised concerns about consumer privacy. However, most remarketing platforms allow users to opt out of seeing targeted ads or delete their cookie data if they choose to do so. Additionally, many remarketing platforms adhere to industry standards for data privacy and provide transparency around their data collection practices.

Q4 What are the best ways to increase sales through digital remarketing?
Some of the best practices for remarketing include:

  • Defining your target audience
  • Creating targeted messaging and ads
  • Using compelling ad creative
  • Highlighting your USPs and encouraging CTAs
  • Setting a frequency to avoid overexposure and ad fatigue
  • monitoring and optimising your campaign performance

In Conclusion

Remarketing can be a powerful tool for brands looking to boost sales with digital marketing strategies targeted at previous customers.

Sounds interesting? Getting ideas about how your brand can benefit from remarketing? Get started by dropping us a “hi” at hello@florafountain.in.

Get the best digital marketing company in Ahmedabad, India to back you and your brand in this crowded marketplace that is the Internet.

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Branding Services

Lift up your brand spirits with humour

branding agencies

An entrepreneur, an advertiser and a comedian walk into a bar….

Yes, they made a knock off your pants funny campaign together, got featured on Social Samosa, generated a whole lot of ‘shares’ and ‘saves’ on Instagram and branded their message right into their TG’s minds!

You get the drift.

So why and how are some of the best branding agencies in India and Ahmedabad, yours truly at Flora Fountain included, using humour to create memorability and differentiation for a brand? Read on to know it all…

Why humour works in selling?

People love to laugh. It’s something that almost everyone has in common. That’s why using humor is a popular advertising technique. The key, of course, is doing something that a majority of people will find funny. Laughter is always good for people. It can reduce pain and stress as well as lower blood pressure. Getting people to laugh also makes them more inclined to think positively about a business and buy its products.

And guess everyone knows, that the best ice breaker in the world is jokes (after food of course). And some of the most commonly heard conversation starters are, “have you seen/heard that ad where…”. That’s how humour creates a recall for brands, making it stand out and get its message shared among more people.

Popular brands that have used humour to spice up their marketing game

Let’s take a look at how some of the brands became household names with their wit and humour in delivering the message and marketing their products.

Old Spice

The popular men’s deodorant and hygiene products brand is known to go meta with their campaigns, making fun of the whole idea of advertising in itself. It usually features a very well built, handsome man, doing something completely out of context in their commercials, like riding a horse on a beach while mouthing the catchphrase addressing women, “Ladies, your man can smell just like me”. Here, take a look at one of their television commercials that aired sometime back.

Prime Video

Amazon’s video streaming service Prime Video in India has decided go all out and tickle the funny bone to promote the movies and shows on their platform. One look at their India Instagram page and you’ll find out posts peppered with humorous memes and jokes all involving some scene or dialogue from one of the movies in their catalogue, and a pop culture reference. One of their longest running advertising and marketing gags is wishing its followers “Good Morning” through funny memes. Here check out a few:

Prime Video

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Netflix

Everyone hates spoilers. And everyone hates that one Netflix subscriber in the group who watches every movie, every TV show right when they release and give out spoilers to everyone. Netflix gave out fake spoilers of its highly popular shows through huge outdoor billboards as a part of their smart and funny campaign asking people to stay at home during the pandemic, to stay safe from the coronavirus and spoilers.

Eleven 11 Restro Cafe (@eleven11restrocafe)

This Ahmedabad-based restaurant cum cafe is not only known for its lip smacking food and Instagram-worthy ambience and interiors, but their quirky social media presence too.
The brand knows that their audience on the internet is a young, hip crowd that loves their memes and are fluent in pop-culture references.

Eleven 11 Restro Cafe

And to match their vibe and draw them to their outlets, Eleven 11 regularly indulges in fun banters and shares witty takes on their social media pages.

Falguni Gruh Udhyog, Vastrapur (@falgunivastrapur)

This Ahmedabad-based snacks and packaged food brand is synonymous with being a Pakku Amdavadi, i.e. loud, funny and a total film buff. Falguni Vastrapur is a legacy brand, with loyalties of their customers spanning 30 years.

But they promote their products through trending memes and jokes shared on their Instagram pages. Here’s a sneak peek on what they usually talk about online.

Falguni Gruh Udhyog, Vastrapur

The idea behind this is that the brand is pretty confident that the elders of the house (mothers, grandmothers, etc) will always visit the store to purchase their snacks. But the brand wishes to attract the cafe-hopping, new-gen audience by speaking to them in their lingo, while promoting their traditional and fusion Gujarati snacks.

Customers appreciate and remember a funny take

Sprout Social conducted a detailed survey of consumers in relation to brand personality. The report found that three in four consumers appreciated humor from brands. Humor helps a consumer remember and engage with your brand and that they appreciate good humor from companies

Good humour, a cheeky take on oneself also showcases honesty. Which is something every customer seeks from a brand. This honesty helps in building the trust between the consumer and the brand. And when there is trust and honesty in such a relationship, customers tend to engage more with the brand and further refer it to their friends and family too.

Can humour fail in marketing too?

But not every brand has the chops to be cheeky. Failing at humor in the marketing world is sure to attract attention, but not the kind that your brand wants. What builds a powerful connection also has a downside. Humor tends to be highly subjective. What’s funny to one may offend another. That can spread like wildfire and damage your brand. Humor can also water down your message. Make sure your team is on the same page and consistent with who you want your brand to be.

88% consumers dislike it when brands mock their fans
71% of consumers find brands engaging in politics on social annoying

Dos and Don’ts when it comes to using humor in marketing.

  • Test your jokes on others before posting

What’s funny for one, might just be a plain ‘fact’ for another. Check if the ‘hilarious’ joke you thought up for your brand actually makes any sense or not, by cracking it with your peers, maybe the designers, the copywriters, and even the interns.

  • Avoid controversial topics

What’s worse for a brand is a joke offending people than a joke not landing. People may let go of an ‘unfunny’ post, tweet or a blog, but a joke that mocks their beliefs, ideologies or anything sensitive has a high chance of backfiring.

  • Be sure the timing is right

Oh, and what’s worst, is a badly timed joke. Never make jokes or post something funny when there is a scenario that is serious and sensitive, like a national mourning, war, natural calamities, etc.

  • Select the right channel

Some jokes are specifically crafted for particular platforms. For instance, the “Like, Comment, Share” jokes are meant only for Instagram. Posting them on Pinterest or Twitter will never work.

You know what, some of the funniest jokes come out when you hanging out with the right people. How about you drop by our office for a cup of strong coffee and stronger punchlines for your next brand promotion? Drop us a hello on hello@florafountain.in

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SEO

On and Off: Your brand’s guide to creating an SEO strategy

off-page SEO and on-page SEO

93% of all online experiences begin with a search engine like Google.

75% of users never go past the first page of search results.

Knowing such facts is one thing, but internalising them and then acting on them is what helps a brand really shine online.

SEO or search engine optimisation empowers brands to do that. The process of optimising a website to improve its visibility and rank in search engine results is known as SEO. It is a detailed plan which on execution helps a website improve its search engine ranking in order to capture more organic traffic. This plan is built on two different foundational pillars like on-page and off-page SEO. In order to fully optimise a brand’s SEO strategy, a thorough understanding of these two pillars become extremely important.

The difference between on-page and off-page is quite simple. On-page as the name suggests are all the activities done ‘on the pages of your website’. Whereas off-page means all the activities done ‘beyond the pages of your website.’ Of course it’s more than just these two lines.

Read on as Flora Fountain, a top SEO company in Ahmedabad, India, is here to help you get a better understanding of all that SEO jazz.

Let’s jump in!

On-page SEO

The process of optimising individual web pages in order to rank higher and garner more relevant organic traffic in search engines such as Google and Yahoo is known as On-page SEO. It entails optimising both the content and HTML source code of a page. From creating content with keywords, optimising title tags, meta tags, and internally linking relevant pages as per the URL structure, everything that takes place on the website falls under on-page SEO.

Content and keywords

You might already know all about content and keywords, but a refresher never hurts!

Content is indeed the king QUEEN! Most brands, despite knowing this, fail to optimise content. SEO includes looking for the keywords that your audience is using to search for information on the internet, and then creating, optimising, and regularly publishing website content around these keywords. Content also includes the kind of images you put out on your website. So you need to optimise them as well. Make sure that they are not larger than they need to be and are in the right format (JPG and PNG).

The experienced SEO team at Flora Fountain, the best digital marketing company in Ahmedabad, India, also understands how to optimise existing content, in order for a brand to increase its organic traffic.

title and meta description

Title Tag and Meta description

The main heading or the title of the web page is a title tag. And the short description that appears under it is a meta description. Title tag comes up on the search engine results page (SERP) and is a very important factor for the success of on-page SEO. And because Google search engine usually picks up only about 65 letters or characters from the title tag, a brand needs to choose every word, even letter, very wisely! Meta tags on the other hand describe the content on that page but, more importantly, it’s written to help your web page stand out in the list of SERP results. Keep the meta description under 155 characters to ensure your entire description is shown in search results.

Internal Linking

Connecting any link from one page on the website to another page on the same website is known as internal linking. Linking to various relevant pages on the website makes it easier for search engines like Google to understand the relationship between pages on the site and to crawl everything. Internal linking also provides a more immersive user experience that can keep the visitors engaged for a longer time. Though, unlike backlinks, internal links don’t boost the website’s domain authority. But, they funnel existing domain authority built using backlinks and spread it across the website.

Mobile friendly website

A website designed to show the most optimised view as per a device’s screen size, ranging from smartphones to tablets, is known as a responsive website. The overwhelming majority of website users browse on their phones, and yet 44% brands still do not have mobile-friendly websites. Google too favours mobile-friendly websites, pushing up the ranking of the website if it is mobile-friendly. These are all the considerations that go into website development when you hire a top SEO company like Flora Fountain to work on your website re-design from day 1. Just like this Ahmedabad-based school did!

Another thing to keep in mind is that SEO results are different when it comes to mobile pages. A website does not automatically inherit the main site’s SEO ranking on mobile. The search results on mobile are calculated based on the site’s mobile page speed.

URL structure and SSL HTTPS

URL structure is a very crucial part of any website. URLs with relevant keywords allow search engines to crawl from page to page on a website very smoothly. This also makes navigation more efficient for visitors. While creating a URL, a brand should always use the primary keyword for the page and avoid repetitive words to keep it short.

Similarly, an SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer, certificate is also very important as it improves the website’s page security and visibility. With the help of SSL, the likelihood of interference of a third party in between a website’s server and a visitor’s server, decreases, guaranteeing that the content on the website is safe. Moreover, because of this search engines give ranking preference to sites that are SSL enabled.

Website Speed optimization

1,2,3,4,5! If your site takes this much time to load its content completely, chances are that 90% of users will abandon your site before the website loads. This metric is tracked as the bounce rate. And the more time your website takes to load, the higher the bounce rate. While crawling, Google correlates a high bounce rate with lower user engagement which affects your ranking as well. In fact, as per Google guidelines for developers, the site speed does impact search rankings.

So while most website design agencies might not give enough importance to this, from an SEO and user experience perspective, your website must load in under three seconds, so that with the help of SEO services and other on-page and off-page optimization, your website can come up ranking high in Google.

Breadcrumb navigation and Alt Text

Some other important parts of on-page optimisation include adding breadcrumb navigation and alt text. Breadcrumbs inform the website visitors to navigate through the site. It shows them where they are on the website. Moreover, it enables Google to understand the structure of the site. While alt text is a word or phrase that can be attributed to a picture file to help ensure it gets indexed and makes the website more accessible for reading software. Both these factors make a website with alt text for its images rank highly.

As you might have guessed, On-page SEO optimisation is something you have complete control over through your website’s code and content, however that’s not always the case for off-page SEO. So what exactly is off-page SEO optimisation?

Off-page SEO

As mentioned before, this refers to all the strategies and activities planned and executed, outside of your website, to bring traffic to it. It is tremendously valuable because it tells search engines that the website is important to others on the web. Every link that a site receives acts as an endorsement from another source. It shows the quality of the website. This is usually done through backlinks.

Backlinks

Also-known-as inbound links or incoming links, Backlinks are links that are created when one website links to another. They help a website gain more traffic and it also serves as one of Google’s top three ranking factors.

Imagine, a company with a brand new website. And no one links to it and it doesn’t submit the website Google. It can’t be found because search engines will take forever to find it, if at all. But if multiple other websites, especially those with a high ranking or domain authority, link to it, search engines can crawl through that link and index the pages. If this sounds awfully a lot like a popularity contest straight out of high school, that’s because it kind of is. Being linked to by the “popular kids” or high-trafficked websites, usually ranks your website high in search engine’s crawling eyes, and eventually bodes well for your website traffic.

Backlinks

Create. Earn. Build.

These are the three ways to get backlinks.

Creating means when someone manually adds links to their site from other sites. This can be done by regularly leaving blog comments or replying on forums. Earned backlinks or organic backlinks occur when people discover a site’s content after googling it or through social media and choose to link it in their site. This usually happens when the content on your website is rich with information or entertainment, or another quality that the reader highly values. Last but not the least, building backlinks means when a website owner contacts other website owners or editors and requests them to link to their website. This usually works as a barter between websites.

Local SEO

According to studies, more than 50% of ‘near me’ searches result in a store visit and 46% of all Google searches are seeking local information. So your brand needs to show up when someone searches for the service you provide in your area. That means you need to show up in your local google searches. But how does one go about it? With ‘Local SEO’, which helps brands to be more visible in local research on search engines like Google.

As part of local SEO, a citation is an online mention of your business on another’s website, that links not only the name but also the address and phone number of your business. It consists of your business’s name, address, and phone number or NAP. You can submit these citations to the listing sites or can hire an agency to do it for you. These citations work as proof for Google’s algorithm to find out that your brand is a local business.

Social media

Over 93% of regular internet users log into social media. So as a brand make sure to create social media accounts for your business on the platforms where you know your target group is active.

And though it is true that the likes and comments on social media don’t directly impact the website rank, it still enables you to promote your site to 93% of users who are either new or existing customers of your brand. When they see your brand on social media, they get an opening to contact you, and you get to answer them regularly.

Another thing that you can do is join hands with the right influencers and seek collaborations to promote your product or service. When influencers successfully create a buzz for your product, Google takes note of this online chatter and if there are enough shares, they’ll start to prioritise your content over others. Similarly, blog posts are a great way to put out new keywords with more recency, as blogs get indexed by search engines. In such cases, it makes sense to go with a top digital agency, with social media services, content-writing services and SEO services in-house so all the functions can work together without friction.

Reviews

It should come as no surprise that people do a fair share of research on the product they are about to purchase. And 88% of customers trust reviews posted by others online. So the more the reviews, the more your brand establishes itself as a trustworthy online brand among your existing and potential clients.

And according to Google’s local quality guidelines, responding to such reviews can improve your business visibility.

Still on the fence about SEO? Let the SEO experts, at one of the best digital marketing companies and SEO companies in Ahmedabad, India help you get a better understanding, and craft a smart and persistent SEO strategy for you. Give us a call now to inquire about our SEO services.

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Web Design and Development

How we created a mobile-first responsive website for an Ahmedabad school

Shivashish World School Website Desktop

Located in one of Ahmedabad’s fastest developing areas, Shivashish World School (SWS) is a premier co-educational school which started back in the year 1994. A charitable trust started the school with Gujarati medium but with time the school got its CBSE affiliation and introduced English medium. In the year 2021, they went through a major expansion and re-branding exercise, which included a completely new building, identity design and re-doing their digital presence across website and social media.

The school wanted a total revamp of their design and branding, so one of Ahmedabad’s best digital marketing agencies came up with a best in class website to help them achieve a complete image makeover.

The Client’s Problem

Incepted more than 28 years ago, SWS has been imparting high-quality education from kindergarten right to high school. In 2021, they set up a new world class building for their CBSE board, but realized that in the post-pandemic era, most parents were going to discover them online first. Unfortunately, their existing website did not match the scale and aesthetic of the new building. The website was also being used for two different brands, the Gujarat Board school, called Shivashish School, and the CBSE school, called SWS, creating confusion for the user.

Moreover, the old website had been designed primarily for the desktop, with its mobile version created almost as an after-thought. However, a quick look at their analytics showed that up to 90% of their unique users accessed the website through mobile devices. All of whom were being served a sub-par experience.

The school also realized that most of the things that made them unique, such as their pedagogy, amenities and most of all its teaching staff had to be showcased better!

CBSE & GBSE The history of the school as presented in old website

Solution presented by Flora Fountain

Since most parents were accessing the website from a cell phone, we decided to create a mobile-first website, a first for any school in Ahmedabad, that was dynamic and sleek. Modern design concepts like glassmorphism, neumorphism, micro animations, extensive use of swipe, and an almost app-like UI were identified to create a modern website matching the new identity of the school. In order to accomplish this, we decided to design and develop a completely new mobile-first website, which was a first for any school in Ahmedabad.

Neomorphism in the footer of the new SWS website

Phase 1: Analysis

According to research, 61% of mobile users are more likely to contact a local business if they have a mobile-friendly site. That means, more than half of the target audience, parents, would look for schools in their locality on their phones. So on the basis of the research conducted on their website usage and research on the new mobile web technologies, we listed some points to work on.

1) There was a lot of information available for parents, students, and teachers. So the information architecture of the old website needed to be fleshed out better for users to easily navigate through the website.

2) The new website had to reflect and highlight current school values, while at the same time showcasing the facilities and amenities of the new school building, the talents of its students and most importantly, its teaching staff.

3) The new website had to be Search Engine optimized, or SEO optimized, to improve the school’s reach on search engines online

4) The new website had to provide an intuitive and delightful responsive experience for all its audience, especially those accessing it through mobile devices

5) The new website had to be created on a user-friendly CMS like so the client could edit the content and images on their own going forward

Phase 2: Ideation & Implementation

Committing to a Mobile-first approach

After gathering and analyzing the data and noting that parents would be the target audience and that the site should be easy for them to use, we went ahead with our original idea to create a mobile-first website. This means that our product and design team starts by creating wireframes and mockups for mobile first. This means thinking of a more modular layout than a grid-based one. The modules can then be rearranged to create layouts for desktop and mobile.

responsive vs mobile first web design

Neumorphic, Glassmorphic, Animated

The second idea was to incorporate Neumorphism, Glassmorphism and animation in the user interface or UI. Once the wireframes were sketched, our design team created mockups using these two effects on all the various elements that make up a website, right from buttons and tabs, to images and navigation elements. Each page was painstakingly mocked up so there was no room for error while coding. A document was created for all the animation with adequate references.

To implement Neumorphism all this, the front-end team placed UI elements behind a background in CSS, to make it seem like components such as buttons are actually housed inside the background. For the frosted-glass effect of Glassmorphism, a blur effect was added to the background. Contrasting and vivid colours are used in the background to highlight the blurred transparency, giving a subtle border to the translucent objects. For animation we relied on extensive use of jQuery’s animation libraries.

Creating content through writing and photo & video shoot

Since we had put our heart and souls into designing and developing the website, we realized that we would also be the best people to create content for it. We wrote SEO-optimized content using the information provided by the client, adding all relevant meta tags and keywords on each page to target audiences in the nearby 5 km radius. Since that is the most parents are willing to travel to send their kids to school. We also realized the need for high quality photographs and images to bring this vision to life. So we conducted a shoot to get the right expressions of each child and teacher for the website. We also shot scripted videos with the children each presenting school values in an irrepressibly cute way. We overlaid sketched illustrations on some images to give them an element of storytelling. Finally, we added GIFs for each teacher to give the website a fun approachable vibe.

Testing

We extensively tested this website across top 10 mobile devices used by parents, with at least 5% of the website traffic percentage, such as Samsung Galaxy phones, Vivo, Oppo, Google Pixel, OnePlus and Apple iPhone. In addition to this we also tested it across popular desktop browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari.

Result:

And viola, just like that the new website turned out to be as awesome as we had dreamt on paper and Illustrator 🙂

Let’s take a look!

Neumorphic, Glassmorphic, Animated visuals on the new SWS website

The new website highlighted the teachers and the students in a quirky and creative way, in line with the client brief.

SWS Teachers Mobile friendly views of the new SWS website

It showcased the history of the school in a fun and more accessible way, than the usual text format.

And here is the highlight of the website! A 3-d globe showing the alumni of the school spread across the world.

Want to explore this website some more? Check it out here.

Alumni of the SWS school Mobile friendly views of the new SWS website

So this is how Ahmedabad got its mobile-first school website! Time for your brand to do the same! If your brand needs a kickass and memorable website that works equally well on mobile as it does on desktop, one of the best and most thoughtful website development companies in Ahmedabad, Flora Fountain is here for you! Drop us an email on hello@flora.ffteam.in or call 9558079502!