There are 3 levels of Digital Audits available:
Simple health-checks: Fast reviews of key communications to highlight improvements that will boost effectiveness, engagement and conversion.
Integrated communications audits: Deep reviews of the channel mix, marketing processes and marketing structures with detailed gap analysis to identify priorities, quick wins and strategic wins as well as cost savings and streamlined processes
Capability audits: Reviews of your digital marketing processes including team competencies, agency capabilities, briefing processes and the infrastructure to deliver digital marketing that works
MediaConnect’s digital audits measure your brand’s presence and performance across 7 areas:
- Reach
- Footprint
- Architecture
- Content
- Conversion
- Effectiveness
- Goal Alignment
MediaConnect benchmarks these 7 key performance indicators against your competitors so you can easily identify areas where there is an opportunity to improve.
Reach
Reach is the number of unique individuals who have visited your website. It is the exposure your company is receiving across its digital channels. Reach is extremely important if your company is to flourish in an online environment. MediaConnect’s team uses various online tools to measure how well you’re ranking organically for specific keywords across multiple search engines. Your email marketing efforts are also analyzed on a number of KPIs such as the open rates and click through rates. Your company’s social media channels will also be analysed. This analysis is based on user engagement, followers, likes and a plethora of other KPIs.
Footprint
A digital footprint is all the information about your company that is openly available on the internet as a result of online activities. Your digital footprint is very important as potential customers or employees can base their opinion of your company on what they can find online. MediaConnect uses various social listening tools to analyze the reputation your company has earned in the eyes of the public. MediaConnect will then carry out an unbiased sentiment analysis based on your company’s online reputation. This will give you tangible examples of how you can improve your digital footprint and, ultimately, improve peoples’ perceptions of your company.
Architecture
A high-quality website is fast, easy to navigate and user-friendly. It must also present information in an effective and easily consumed manner. MediaConnect analyses the architecture of your website to test load times, link integrity, navigation and much more. MediaConnect also applies similar metrics to your social channels too to analyze the level of optimization. For example, MediaConnect will analyze the information available on your profile, the descriptions used, tags and hashtags and more. MediaConnect will benchmark these on your competitors as well as industry best practices. From this, you will gain invaluable insights into how you can improve the architecture of all your digital channels.
Content
The content you choose, the tone used and the way you disseminate it all is extremely important. Creating quality content is key, but is it enough? Your content will be analyzed to determine if it’s reaching the people it’s intended for. It will also be thoroughly examined to determine whether you’re providing the right content to the right audience. Every market is different and your content needs to reflect this. MediaConnect also carries out research on your target audience, advises you on content strategies you should implement and offers suggestions on how you can optimize your content for SEO purposes. You can apply this to this to your social channels as well as your website. MediaConnect analyses the content you use on social media and, in addition, will offer insights into what type of content best works on which social channel.
Conversion
Conversions are ultimately the most significant indicator of how successful your digital efforts are. MediaConnect will first examine your current conversion funnel to see if this is in line with your company’s objectives. Following this, you will have a better understanding of how to optimize the number of conversions you gain. MediaConnect will perform an in-depth analysis of your efforts to encourage engagement. This includes forms on your website and engaging calls to action, in addition to many others. MediaConnect examines the customer journey to find areas where potential customers abandon the conversion funnel. As a result, you can then optimize these areas to increase the conversion rate on your website.
Effectiveness
This measures the effectiveness of your digital strategy. The digital objectives you have in place to increase awareness, engagement and influence will all impact the effectiveness of your digital strategy. MediaConnect will compare your objectives to the effectiveness they have achieved in the past and offer advice on changes you can implement to optimize them. MediaConnect will also examine the KPIs you use to measure performance. Sometimes, it can be difficult to properly define what KPIs and objectives will optimize your company’s digital performance. You will receive invaluable insights and concrete examples to aid you in adjusting your perception of performance to achieve the desired outcome.
Goal Alignment
In order to enable your company to flourish, you need to align your online and offline goals. Therefore, the former should be an extension to strengthen the latter and vice versa. MediaConnect will study the existing goals within your organization and compare these to other companies within your industry. You will receive a complete analysis of your online goals and how well they align with your company’s vision. Based on this, you will be able to more effectively align your company’s goals online.