How Digital Marketing Will Change in 2021?

Neil Patel is talking about how digital marketing will change in 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic is still hitting hard worldwide, what will happen next in digital marketing, social media, ecommerce and more

2020 was a crazy year, especially because of COVID. But a lot of things have changed, from algorithms to people going after companies like Facebook from being a monopoly, to voice search controlling roughly 50% of the searches in the United States according to Comscore. But 2020 is over, what’s going to happen in 2021?

The digital marketing landscape is saturated, especially due to COVID, everyone’s coming online, and what would have happened five years from now has already happened due to COVID.

In essence, it’s pushed all these businesses online, made it super competitive so nowadays everyone is leveraging digital marketing. So how do you get a leg up on the competition and win in 2021?

Well, the first trend I have for you is page speed. It’s going to be more important than ever. Not only are we seeing it with an increase in conversions that is causing sites when they improve their page speed, but we’re also seeing that it increases their traffic and their rankings.

One trick or hack that you can do and we do this with the Neilpatel.com website is load your non-static files from CDNs. CDNs are also known as a content delivery network. We’re seeing conversion increases for up to seven percent.

The second trend that we’re seeing is content length won’t matter as much. And I’m talking about text-based content. Everyone used to create content based on the length being like, oh if we want to rank at the top, it needs to be super long, we need to have all these keywords in there, this percentage.

In 2021, I want you to make your audio length and your video length longer. We’re seeing audio and video length that’s over 10 minutes perform better than shorter versions that are only three, four or even five minutes. On the flip side, if you make your audio and video length 20, 30 minutes, we’re not seeing it have as big of an impact compared to just having it 10 minutes.

As I mentioned and this is the trend number three, as I mentioned earlier, there is no Holy grail of digital marketing because it’s super competitive. That means one thing, one hack will not get you that silver bullet that just helps you beat your competition. It’s about getting those little marginal gains.

Trend number four, how high you rank will matter more than ever. If you look at older data, it shows that, hey, if you’re rank at the top of Google, you’re going to get more clicks than if you ranked number two, three, four, or five.