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With an increasing amount of consumers using voice commands, brands have started to incorporate and cater to them.

The same applies to digital marketing as well.

But what has voice commands got to do with digital marketing?

(Don’t worry, we’ll get there)

Siri, Google Assistant and Alexa are some of the current in-use voice commands, but there could be a potential new player in voice command technology.

Facebook has begun testing voice commands in its Messenger platform earlier this month.

If and when it rolls out, voice commands would be a bonus supplementary feature, in addition to its Augmented Reality games.

With an increasing amount of development towards voice commands within digital and social media, what can brands do to adapt to this rising trend?

The answer is simple: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).

Voice command technology often relies on traditional search engines to provide results to its users.

To start off, if your brand is not implementing SEO on your page (what are you doing?!), start now.

SEO can be tough, but a qualified professional can help make things easier.

The logical next step would be to optimise your page towards voice searches.

Yes, but how?

From your website design interface down to the content within your website, these are key aspects that is a sure-kill to build up your ranking on Google SERPS and other search engines such as ASR.

They don’t call Google, “Everybody’s best friend” for no reason. Need help to find the best apartment in London or the best thai restaurant in town? Google it.

It’s 2018 – social media has remained a great influence in marketing decisions and Google is still (and seems always to be) a trusted source of information.

Copywriting: this underrated part of web design has the power to take your website to the next level or ruin it. The rise of the value in consumer journeys has made website design incredibly important here – where the smallest error can chase your web traffic away. As one of the top digital marketing agencies in Singapore and Malaysia, we’re going to share some insights to clear up the confusion.

If you own a smartphone or have any mode of access to the Internet, chances are you have a Facebook account. And so do billions worldwide! Last we checked Facebook has an average of 1.45 billion active daily users. Sounds insane?

For marketers, while those numbers mean for potential, they come with a downside: everybody wants their post to be seen, and there are a lot of posts (an estimated 4:1 ratio of posts to people, in fact). If you don’t already know, organic reaches have steadily gone down through the years although Facebook’s not acknowledging it.

Why this happens isn’t just because of the metaphorical mountain that is the 4-billion-posts-per-day-on-Facebook burying your own post – it’s also due to Facebook’s Newsfeed Algorithm, which filters posts and does quality control to ‘optimise the user experience’ by showing them what’s relevant and interesting to them.

That algorithm doesn’t necessarily help the marketers struggling to get their fan-base to see their recent posts, however – and the less engagement you get the less likely Facebook will let your posts be featured on people’s News Feeds.

Sounds scary, but there are ways to outsmart artificial intelligence:

With all the hype surrounding big name international brands and their digital marketing strategies, we think it’s time to put our local heavy hitters in the spotlight. We may be a Little Red Dot but we still have massive creativity and talent!