Common Digital Marketing Mistakes to Avoid

Ronn Torossian
3 min readDec 7, 2021

Businesses everywhere tend to make very simple and avoidable mistakes in their digital marketing efforts, which can cost them a lot.

However, the best businesses can learn from others’ mistakes as well as their own.

With the increase in the prevalence of digital marketing and the large sums that many companies are spending on their digital marketing efforts, it’s best to avoid some of the most common errors in order to optimize a company’s digital marketing campaigns.

Defining a Target Audience

One of the biggest mistakes that companies make in their digital marketing efforts is not having a clearly defined target audience for those efforts. Many small or newer businesses tend to believe that they can get the best digital marketing results by casting a wide net that will reach a large number of customers.

However, the reality is that this strategy is only efficient for very specific market niches, and it’s not a possibility for every business.

Not only that, but this type of approach stops businesses from developing a deeper understanding of the target audience’s interests, behaviors, and pain points, which means those businesses lack one of the foundational elements of a digital marketing strategy.

Directly Addressing Pain Points

Another common digital marketing mistake that businesses tend to make is not addressing in a direct manner any pain points from the target audience . Most of the time, the target audience is only interested in solving its own problems, and not in the company’s products or services themselves. This means the company should be focused on detailing the way in which those products or services can improve the lives of consumers instead of talking about all of the different features a product has.

SEO Efforts

Every day, there are about two billion new blog posts shared online, which means the only way that a company can get visibility and organic traffic is by optimizing its content for search engines.

However, SEO tends to have ever-changing rules, which means companies also have to spend time and effort in keeping on top of the latest rules.

While there are certain evergreen SEO rules that companies can follow, keeping track of the changes and applying them to the company’s own content can generate better results than maintaining a very superficial SEO approach.

Keyword Research

Similar to the last point, keyword research is another foundational element of a good SEO strategy, especially considering that nearly 70% of all search engine results page clicks go to the first five results that show up. With an increasing number of consumers starting their buying journey by searching for products online, they rely on search engines.

If a company doesn’t invest in keyword research and optimization, it misses out on the opportunity to meet customers organically, and when they’re ready to make a purchase.

Fortunately, there are certain tools that companies can use to make their keyword research efforts better. This can help them avoid most of the common digital marketing mistakes.

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Ronn Torossian

Ronn Torossian is Chairman & Founder of 5WPR, one of America’s leading & largest PR Agencies and the Author of the best-selling PR book: "For Immediate Release"