Brand Management and SEO: A Happy Marriage

March 2, 2011

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Brand management is an important aspect in getting your brand promoted and seen.  Not many people understand or know your simple marketing efforts merely will not get the job done.  It is vital, in this case, to tackle and understand what drives traffic to your site and certain things must be taken into consideration. A brand, over time, gets engrained into the minds of its viewers.  It could be a company’s logo, design, saying, or feel that can be marketed. The brand can be anything and virtually everything. This is important and crucial because all the previously mentioned things say something about your company. People take notice of it and act on it.  Branding goes beyond simply having a logo or a saying.  In comes proper SEO practice. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) helps provide your website (and subsequently your brand or product) rise in the search engines. A rise in the search engine ratings leads to greater leads and better business. There is also staying power involved.
The Relationship

People often don’t think there’s a relationship with the two, but in reality, they are married to one another.  Brand management depends on SEO and SEO complements the brand management by providing the public quality information about the product.  That symbiotic relationship works wonders. By developing your online presence your brand grows.  Growing the brand grows viewers.  Viewing the brand enough times in a good light bring the brand into the forefront of viewers’ minds.  Most of all, SEO coupled with good brand management gains your website more viewers and more leads.

That is a relationship that can’t be matched anywhere else.  SEO’s main goal is to brand a wonderful product into the eyes of viewers.  SEO is marketing and marketing is branding.

Business Growth

You might have seen famous brands and logos such as Braum’s, McDonald’s, and AT&T.  These are million dollar brands that have much going for them.  But they all share a common link: they all had to start from scratch.  While the Internet was not around for their inception as a business, they still utilized the practices to further their sales.  There is nothing that SEO can’t do for your business.  In the long run your business will benefit more than without it.

Making your brand known will help grow your business in ways you never expected.  Obtaining leads and views is all anyone can ask for.  Every large business has utilized or continues to utilize an SEO strategy or two.

You can make it work for you, too.   Anyone who doubts the viability of SEO’s relationship to brand management should take a second look.  The competition for Internet-based success and branding gets stiffer and stiffer by the day.  Since 2000, there has been a 10 percent annually in the number of websites that go live.  In an Internet-driven world it is vital to have proper branding in place.

It takes skill to know where to market, how to market, and how often to market.

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About Pratik Dholakiya

Pratik Dholakiya is the founder of Growfusely, an SEO and content marketing agency. Pratik has contributed on sites like Moz, Fast Company, Social Media Examiner, KISSmetrics, and Content Marketing Institute to name a few. He's a "must-follow" SEO expert according to Search Engine Watch and has been named one of the top content marketing influencers by Onalytica. He's passionate about fitness, entrepreneurship, start-ups, and all things digital marketing. Hit him up on Twitter @DholakiyaPratik for a quick chat on any of these topics.

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