28 Nov These 4 Digital Marketing Tactics Drew More Patients for Pantai Group
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In today’s digital age, medical brands such as hospitals and pharmaceutical companies are leveraging into building their online presence to strengthen their brand through an array of digital marketing efforts, particularly SEO and search marketing. Thanks to the advancement of online advertising, greater visibility and a wider reach to potential customers are now possible.
IH Digital, a , was recently appointed by Pantai Holdings Berhad (PHB) as their digital marketing agency to further enhance their brand awareness online. Commonly known as the Pantai Group, PHB is one of with a network of 14 multi-disciplinary hospitals throughout the country under 2 brands: Pantai Hospitals and Gleneagles Hospitals.
Pantai Group engaged with the agency to increase patient acquisition and website traffic within Malaysia by utilising SEO marketing, content marketing, (pay-per-click or PPC), retargeting via Google Display Network (GDN) and Facebook Ads.
4 Digital Marketing Tactics to Grow Website Traffic for Healthcare Brands
1. SEO Marketing
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is crucial as more patients are relying heavily on search engines to do their research. The agency aided in optimising by improving the usage of keywords & phrases that potential patients are looking for when they search.
2. Content Marketing
Content marketing includes everything that online presence and website encompasses. In efforts of enhancing the online presence of the healthcare group, IH Digital was commissioned to produce branded article content as well as medical content writing for specific conditions and diseases. The published articles include , , and .
IH Digital produced branded medical contents for Pantai Group’s website.
Besides content writing, the agency also provided creative infographics with 4 language adaptations, such as English, Mandarin, Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia, to fulfil the article.
IH Digital, also a creative agency, designed infographics in 4 languages.
3. Search Marketing (Pay-Per-Click or PPC)
The competition in search marketing in the medical industry is considerably high, and despite the firms’ best efforts on search engine optimisation, integrating targeted keywords on website content alone cannot easily put your website to the top of Google search. That is why IH Digital utilises paid search marketing through Google Adwords PPC to make up for any shortfalls in search engine and to ensure that Pantai Hospitals’ website appears in the first Google search engine page results.
Within the first month of Pantai Group’s search marketing implementation, the ads generated a significant increase in website traffic by 10.22%, while patient acquisition grew by 22%.
Pantai Group also launched paid search marketing with Google AdWord PPC.
4. Retargeting via Google Display Network & Facebook
Not everyone searching on Google have the same intention. Some people don’t book an appointment immediately without considering their options. Some may only be looking for general information online related to their symptoms or conditions. This explains why sometimes, having a high website traffic is not parallel to having a high conversion rate at the same time. However, due to the advances in online advertising, there is a so-called retargeting method, which IH Digital deployed in line with Pantai Group’s goals. With retargeting, any healthcare brand can ultimately convert online visitors into patients in no time.
As previously mentioned, the agency incorporated a retargeting strategy via Google Display Network (GDN) for Pantai Hospitals in an effort to optimise conversion by targeting those who have visited Pantai Hospitals’ website in the past without submitting an appointment. Creatives and copies were also produced by the agency.
Pantai Group employs retargeting strategy via Google Display Network to optimise conversion.
Other than GDN, IH Digital also implemented social media marketing on Facebook, specifically to amplify retargeting efforts.
Pantai Hospitals are currently running Facebook ads managed by IH Digital.
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