Branding has a direct impact on search engine optimization and return on investment. The more popular brands are mostly ranked higher on search engine result pages, even with lesser keywords and fewer links.
You can also get this advantage by working on your brand and making it a popular one. This is the major motivation for even the small businesses to focus on their branding strategies.
Here are a few ways through which branding can impact your business’ SEO and ROI
1. Branding Boosts Awareness
The major drawback of having a start up offering a brand new product or service is that as the people are not even aware of a product/service, hence they won’t look for it on search engines, which would result in no traffic, clicks or sales on your website.
Branding is the most common way to increase awareness about your business. It is the way of letting people know about your business, the products or services you offer, the motto of your brand and the other details.
When users specifically search for your brand, it gets easier to rank higher in the search engine result pages (SERPs) and get more clicks and conversions.
2. Brand Recognition Key for Receiving Clicks
Your ultimate goal after implementing SEO strategies is to get clicked and people to visit your webpages.
Even if you are ranked higher than a more popular brand on the search engine results page, there is still a chance that the user will click on the brand that is more popular than yours and is well known for a longer period of time.
There is no denying the fact that ranking is an essential objective of your digital marketing, but many a times, it is outweighed by the brand name.
3. Branding Builds Customer Loyalty
Branding is all about creating an emotional connect with the audience and creating a relationship and an experience that they automatically come to you without giving it a second thought. You aim to create such an understanding with them that they just think of you when they need a product you serve.
Branding even plays a vital role in ROI. As per a research by KPMG, 55% of the Indian consumers claim to shop from their chosen brand even if other cheaper and more convenient options are available to them.
Hence, branding will help you improve your SEO and ROI. It will connect your customers to you emotionally, which will definitely ensure repetitive sales and better business opportunities overall.