{"id":10845,"date":"2019-02-05T10:56:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/?p=10845"},"modified":"2023-06-08T08:48:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T03:18:15","slug":"4-ways-your-employees-can-benefit-your-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/4-ways-your-employees-can-benefit-your-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Ways Your Employees Can Benefit Your SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Banner-Images_RW_Blog-20.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14280 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Banner-Images_RW_Blog-20.png?resize=640%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Employees Can Benefit Your SEO\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Banner-Images_RW_Blog-20.png?w=882&amp;ssl=1 882w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Banner-Images_RW_Blog-20.png?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Banner-Images_RW_Blog-20.png?resize=768%2C428&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many times have you purchased a product after a friend recommended it to you? When you\u2019re flipping through social media and an ad for a new kind of beer shows up, who convinces you to make the switch from your regular brand? Your buddy who already tried it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The endorsement of our friends is a powerful influence. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We trust people who think like us. Yet, even more, we trust people who\u2014though they may be vastly different from us\u2014have proven true to their word and taste time and again. So, when our true friends recommend something, we take heed. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How Employees Can Help You Improve Your SEO and Organic Traffic through Advocacy<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When an employee of a company truly loves their job what do we do? We ask why they love it. We want to hear the endorsement that follows. When he or she is telling us everything they love about the company, we can\u2019t help but be captivated by the passion they portray. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Passion captures us more than charisma ever could.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10849\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-1.jpg?resize=640%2C455&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-1.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-1.jpg?resize=300%2C213&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it is this passion which makes us want to make a career change, or at the very least invest in the product or service our friend so passionately advocates. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the power of employee advocacy. While <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/only-digital-marketing-metrics-that-will-matter-in-2019\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the usual digital marketing strategies are still lucrative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, employees who truly believe in what they are doing can give you an edge by improving your SEO and creating the organic lead flow for any business big or small.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What is Employee Advocacy?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a recent post by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/everyonesocial.com\/blog\/employee-advocates-boost-organic-traffic\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone Social<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cEmployee advocates are simply employees who share their support for their company, brand, product, or services on their social networks. It is also sometimes just referred to an employee advocacy.\u201d This simple definition opens up an entire world of possibilities for the business world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the 21st century, company culture has become a huge priority in business upstarts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Healthy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/whistleblowerjustice.net\/company-culture-better-workplace\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">company culture<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> leads to employees who are more than colleagues; they become personal friends. Healthy company culture means that team communication is smooth\u2014and when it isn\u2019t, it\u2019s worked through so the team comes out stronger than before. Healthy company culture also means that employees can\u2019t help but love their job\u2014even though the most mundane paperwork that RPA should be doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10850\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-2.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-2.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This environment is ripe for leveraging all the benefits of an employee advocacy program. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Healthy company culture leads to, \u201ccompanies leveraging their employees as digital influencers and encouraging them to become an extension of the marketing department.\u201d This improves your organic rankings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Employee advocates will help you by:<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>1. Boosting Traffic Through Brand Searches<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the result of employees sharing on company handles with specific brand hashtags. The sharing can be anything from company blog posts to sales that are being run. However, the most effective form of sharing is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.smarp.com\/what-is-employee-generated-content-egc-and-how-does-it-support-social-advocacy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">content that employees themselves have generated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Why? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their friends are going to be most interested in their recent accomplishments. Whether this is a promotion or their place in a marketing campaign, most people are willing to simply click and check out something their friend achieved.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>2. Boosting Click Through Rates<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By encouraging the sharing of employee-generated content, companies are showing consumers their human element. Oftentimes corporations appear to be these faceless monopolies that are perceived as a necessary evil in the system of the world. However, by encouraging employee involvement in SEO and marketing campaigns, companies show a softer side to themselves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Logic does not make sales. Emotion makes sales. <\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A logical person knows they can go to Amazon to get just about every practical item they could ever need. However, a person whose emotions have been engaged by a passionate friend will be more likely to forgo the convenience of Amazon and click through to your brand\u2019s site. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether this is merely to support their friend or they\u2019ve been completely converted, your ad click-throughs will go through the roof.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>3. Increasing chances for organic link backs<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We cannot forget to mention: your employees are a diverse body of people, with interests and connections that are beyond valuable for SEO. By engaging your employees on social media, you open yourself up to an entirely new demographic of exposure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10851\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-3.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-3.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-3.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not only does this increase your chances of new leads sharing your content but, every single one of your employees knows someone with a shop, a blog or an affiliate marketing connection. When those friends engage with your brand, the possibilities of organic link backs on some of these sites are almost guaranteed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business is a numbers game, but it\u2019s also a people&#8217;s game. Engage the right people, and you\u2019ll never run out of numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>4. Saving You Money on Marketing<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While every company needs SEO and marketing departments, creating an employee advocacy program is the greatest extension to those departments. These are people already on your payroll who are actively helping promote your brand\u2014sometimes even off the clock! Their residual influence in their personal and professional sphere will potentially bring leads for years to come. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, one thing should be noted. Since these employees are not specifically part of the marketing department, companies should lay down employee guidelines for interacting with social media\u2014both personally and professionally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-4.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10852\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-4.jpg?resize=640%2C441&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-4.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-4.jpg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These guidelines will help some of the less subtle wordsmiths and the not-so-tech-savvy members of your team to craft posts that will be useful. Not having guidelines for social media could result in the opposite effect you wish to have on your brand. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Offering a class or training for your employee advocacy program is highly advised. Not only will this ensure that positive messages are being posted online in the proper way, but this will also improve company culture and camaraderie. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Including a social media brainstorming session in your weekly meetings is a good idea to do across departments. This allows your employees to come up with a unique plan to engage with their natural market. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How All of This Benefits Your Seach Engine Optimization<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SEO is a tricky aspect of Google\u2019s website ratings. While Google is explicit about their qualifications for high search engine ratings, some of the execution can be a bit nebulous, especially when it comes to social media marketing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, some benefits are clear. <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By having employees spread web content like tweets, videos, and blog posts, the <\/span><b>hashtags and keywords will appear more organically in searches<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Consumers love to see actual people advocating for a product or service rather than just the brand\u2019s official social media and webpage. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>backlinking generated by employee advocacy naturally enhances the SEO rating<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as well. As long as quality stores, blogs, and sites are backlinking to your site, your SEO rating will go up. The added traffic from click-throughs in these backlinks will also do wonderful things for your Google Analytics report. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lastly, <\/span><b>the more real and live people you have engaging with your content, the better your circulation will be<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The greater your feedback, the more chances you\u2019ll have for people engaging with your content. The greater content engagement, the more Google will see that you are producing quality content that your customers want to consume. This illustrates the legitimacy of what you are trying to accomplish and offers greater credibility to your site and brand as a whole. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So while there is some discrepancy on the internet about if social media directly affects SEO, these subtler aspects certainly cause a big impact on your online marketing campaign. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the end of the day, organic traffic and SEO can be improved greatly through a well-executed employee advocacy program. Getting your employees involved with multi-department projects will not only boost a sense of company community but also allow them to feel appreciated and valued as a well-rounded individual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-5.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10853\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-5.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-5.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-5.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happy employees speak positively about their work environment. This positive attitude directly reflects on the management and the product or service itself and speaks volumes to all the would-be customers around them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People flock to companies that treat their people well. So developing a healthy company culture is a must for any company wishing to turn their employees into advocates. The endorsement of a friend is always more effective than the endorsement of a flyer, but getting your employee to endorse your flyer\u2026 well, that\u2019s next level. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not only will your employee have the material to show their friend, but they\u2019ll have the excitement and the knowledge to explain everything. It\u2019s a win-win. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engaging employees in the marketing process is really the best move any company could make towards lead independence. And truthfully, it&#8217;s the best move a company can make for its people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t you think?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have you purchased a product after a friend recommended it to you? When you\u2019re flipping through social media and an ad for a new kind of beer shows up, who convinces you to make the switch from your regular brand? Your buddy who already tried it. 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