The Zelst Digital Marketing Blog: the latest industry insights from a passionate bunch of specialists who live and breathe digital.
Sharing our knowledge, exploring the latest digital trends and celebrating the work and people behind the screens.
15 Best Proofreading Tips
Knowing how to proofread your own writing is vital for any writer. It's the final stage of the writing process and consists of fixing spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and formatting issues. By taking the time to proofread properly, you'll ensure that the work you...
How to Optimise for Google Featured Snippets in 10 Steps
A featured snippet, previously known as position zero on Google, is a piece of information that usually appears at the top of the search engine results page (SERP). The purpose of a Google featured snippet, and other SERP features, is to provide short, relevant...
Bing Ads vs Google Ads: The Benefits of Bing Ads
It’s safe to say that Google Ads currently has the lion’s share of the search engine market, but it doesn’t have to be a case of deciding between Bing Ads vs Google Ads for your business. Despite Google Ads being the dominant platform for paid marketing, it isn’t...
Digital Marketing for Local Sports Clubs Guide
Effective Digital Marketing For Local Sport Businesses Digital Marketing is essentially selling yourself online. The online world is growing rapidly every day, with the increased use of mobile devices; the access to unlimited information is literally at your...
How Zelst’s Predictions for SEO Trends for 2021 Fared
Back in 2020, Zelst SEO Specialist Lauren put together her predictions on how things would change in SEO in 2021. Here we review how she fared.
How to Get a Job in Digital Marketing
Digital marketing is a diverse and fascinating industry, with its allure calling to thousands of young people every year. Blogging, vlogging and influencer culture have thrust digital marketing into the spotlight under many different guises but if you’d like you make...
The Latest Social Media Trends Predicted for 2022
In 2021, social media platforms had to adapt quickly due to the disruption within the social media landscape. We run you through our predictions for the top social media trends for 2022, and explore the latest social media trends to look out for across Facebook and Instagram.
10 of the Best Christmas Marketing Campaigns
Christmas is coming and, as a digital marketing agency, we're particularly excited to see what the best Christmas marketing campaigns will be this year. With the John Lewis Christmas advert released earlier than ever this year, we got thinking about our favourite...
10 Search Marketing Myths Busted
“Email marketing is Dead”, “Digital Marketing Isn’t for Small Businesses” does this sound familiar? These are just a few of the marketing myths we often hear on the search marketing grapevine. Unfortunately, these common digital marketing misconceptions are not only tiring, but they can also be disingenuous and misinformative. So, in our pursuit of truth, we’ve decided to cover the most common marketing myths. So, here are the facts!
Wellness Tips for Office Workers: National Stress Awareness Day 2021
Sometimes work gets on top of you, and you get to the brink of burnout – or maybe you overshoot the brink – before you realise that you’re struggling. It happens to the best of us, and the more pressure you put on yourself, the harder it is. National Stress Awareness...
How to Build Brand Loyalty
One thing that most brands have in common is that they want to establish customer loyalty; shopping with your company once is great, but coming back again is even better! When looking at how to build brand loyalty, it can be difficult to know where to start, so we’ve...
10 Tips for Optimising Your Black Friday Social Media Activity
Black Friday is a huge day for online retailers. We’ve listed our tips on how to optimise your Black Friday social media posts for the day. Read now.
10 Benefits of Video Marketing on Instagram
Investing in video content can help to keep you contextual and relevant, whilst benefitting from increased brand awareness and engagement.
What Can I Do to Get Fake Online Reviews Removed?
Getting fake online reviews for your business can be extremely stressful and frustrating, particularly when you know that the reviewer has never been a client of yours or has never even approached your company. The good news is that each platform has its own policy...
The Google Ads Kick-Ass Guide to Black Friday
With Black Friday (Friday 26th November 2021) and Cyber Monday (Monday 29th November 2021) just around the corner, your Google Ads account and all of your campaigns must be in tip-top shape. So get an early start, and set your campaigns up for success today with...
Black Friday Digital Marketing: 16 Things to Think About
Although originally an American tradition, Black Friday was introduced to Britain by Amazon in 2010. This sales extravaganza soon took the UK by storm, and having realised the enormous potential of this event, the majority of UK businesses now partake in the weekend...
Exciting Company Growth at Zelst
It's been a big year here at Zelst! Despite a turbulent 18 months for many businesses, we've been fortunate enough to grow our team and become involved in even bigger projects. This is all thanks to securing a number of amazing new clients, whilst continuing to help...
Why is Quality Content Important for SEO?
If you work in digital marketing in any capacity, you've probably heard the phrase 'content is king', but we feel it's often misused. In this post, we're going to explore why high-quality content is important for SEO and your audience. We'll also look at how you can...
Strange Mobile Usability Issues Reports
In recent years, one of the benefits of the Google Search Console has been increased communication from Google and the notification of issues that might affect a site’s performance by email. However, one of the drawbacks of this can be that some of these messages can...
In-house Marketing vs Agency | Pros and Cons of Outsourced Marketing
It’s a battle many businesses contend with when looking for the right digital strategy to improve visibility and sales. Choosing between in-house vs. outsourced marketing can be challenging, and there are key considerations that should be made before making such an...
How to Improve Your Business’ Instagram Accessibility for Visually Impaired Users
Instagram has over 1 billion active users worldwide and many brand’s want to capitalise on this powerful, free-to-use marketing tool – and they’re quite right to. Your business’ Instagram account is a hub for your company and should reflect your brand’s voice and...
Print vs Digital: Why Online Content is so Important
The argument of print vs digital content gets more heated every year. Print isn’t dead yet – although it is on an annual decline – and it can still prove to be a profitable source of customers for some industries. However, online content has many advantages over print...
Everything You Need To Know About Social Media Influencer Marketing
Social media influencer marketing is another form of Digital PR and should be treated with the same respect as all other marketing functions. Influencers are not merely marketing tools; they are social relationship assets with which brands can collaborate to achieve marketing objectives.
Different Types of Digital Marketing Agencies Explained
If you’ve decided that your business will benefit more from outsourcing its digital marketing than doing it in-house – see our blog post on in-house vs outsourced marketing if you’re still not sure – the next step is to figure out what type of digital marketing agency...
19 Major Google Shopping Problems
How to Tell if Your Google Shopping Campaign is in Trouble. We look at 16 of the Biggest Google Shopping Problems That We See Nearly Every Day. Check it out.
Page Title Update Confirmed by Google
Google have confirmed that changes seen in SERP titles is new system of generating page titles based on what they think page is about, regardless of query.
How to Promote Music Through Social Media Music Marketing
Social media promotion for musicians is crucial for gaining exposure. Read this post to learn how to promote your music through social media music marketing.
A Guide to the Google Page Experience/Core Web Vitals Update
A background Guide to Google Page Experience/Core Web Vitals Update. A long read on understanding Google Page Experience and its impact on your site.
Effective eCommerce Reactive Marketing Examples
What is Reactive Marketing? Reactive marketing refers to campaigns, adverts or social media marketing posts that are responsive and relatively unexpected or sudden. It is the opposite of a proactive marketing strategy, where a brand plans ahead for events or holidays...
How to Convert Instagram Followers into Sales
Instagram is quickly becoming one of the most-used social media platforms for businesses. Whilst the platform used to be solely for sharing photos, a recent announcement that “we’re no longer just a square photo-sharing app” demonstrates their change in focus toward...
How to Improve Your Business’ TikTok Accessibility for Hearing Impaired Users
The mobile social media platform TikTok has soared in popularity over the last few years. Total UK users are expected to reach 14.8 million individuals in 2022, which is a 200% increase in users from 2019. So, if you aren’t utilising TikTok as part of your social...
How to Respond to Negative Reviews
When considering how to respond to negative reviews, it’s worth bearing in mind that it's not the review itself that says a lot about a business. It’s the business's response to the review that speaks volumes. Of course there are also cases where customers...
20 Best Social Media Marketing Tips for Businesses
The power of social media is showing no sign of slowing down, so it’s understandable that businesses of all sizes want to keep up with the best social media marketing tips. As most companies know, just having a social media presence isn’t enough. Typically, the more...
Ten Instagrammable Places in Harrogate
There’s an abundance of Instagrammable places in Harrogate, a beautiful spa town in North Yorkshire best known for its combination of fashionable bars, charming buildings, and greenery. Our Zelst office is located in the heart of Harrogate, and our team have pulled...
Are Google Images Free to Use?
Every online marketer worth their salt understands the importance of having decent imagery on their websites, blogs and social media. Google Images is free to use and you can find almost any image you can think of. The Digital Age has brought about a culture...
19 Inspiring Ways to Generate Content Ideas
Creativity and ideas are two of the key contributors to valuable and effective content, but what happens when writer's block hits and it feels like you've forgotten how to generate content ideas? This blog post looks at nineteen ways to refuel your content strategy...