If you own a blog or website you know how important content is to you. Without enough content you won’t get the traffic your site needs and no one will come back because you don’t have enough interesting information on your site. You need to be able to create content and market that content to your users and customers to be effective online.
Advantages of Content Marketing has been more evident from ranking perspective after Google’s Hummingbird algorithm update in September last year.
Generating Interesting Content
The first thing you need to do as a content marketer is to ensure that your content is interesting and relevant to your site. Have a look at your existing content and see if anything can be improved. Maybe there are areas of your site where the content is weak. You should work on your content as much as possible to make it interesting and engaging for your readers. As you come with ideas you can write these down and then refer to them later. You need a good stream of ideas to draw from. You might want to have a survey to see what your users are looking for as this would help you create content that meets the needs of your users.
Have a Plan
You’ll need a plan to get your content out. You might decide to create a blog post per day for example, or a certain number of pages per week for your website. The more you plan out what you want to do for your website or blog the better off you’re going to be. Your site might be weak in terms of content in a certain area so you would want to work on that to ensure that your users are getting the best experience eon your site. By planning your content you’ll stay productive and help improve your site over time.
Professional Content
Make sure that whatever you ass is as good as it can be. You don’t want to create poor content such as spun articles for example, as this does nothing for your website or blog. The content needs to be as engaging as possible. You want to create content that your users will actually read and content that they can use. You need to ensure that all your content helps to grow your website or blog not hold it back. If you can’t create content then hire a writer to create the content for you. A website or blog needs to look as professional as possible to gain credibility online.
Search Optimization
Your content should be ready for the search engines so ensure you’re making use of keywords so search engines such as Google picks up on the content you create and lists it in the search engines. You may want to hire someone to optimize your content so it’s the best it can be for the search engines.
Social Media
Make sure you’re active in social media as this is a great way to market your content online. A strong social media presence is essential to getting your content out quickly to people online.
Your content is important and the more you work on it the better your blog or website is going to be. With great content you’ll get more visitor and more sales too.
I like the piece, though I have one suggestion. As far as writing is concerned, these broader marketing topics always require specific examples. It can be widgets, it can be midgets, just guide the reader into a quick snapshot. For instance:
-Content Marketing Calendar for trendy soda co. (literally spitballing here)
1. Articles about the content of soda
2. Articles about other similar competition, comparisons/contrasts, getting the brand in the mix.
3. Series on X
4. Webinar on Y
rinse and repeat.
Even an example that simple (and so hastily constructed) is nice for the reader. Graphics (not too flashy now) are even better! I read the words, but some people don’t. Make your “simple” marketing guide unique.
Thanks Benny,
Your point is taken and will try to have more ‘experiment’ and ‘example’ focus. Let’s see.
Good analysis…
Hi Shiva,
It was a good article and worth reading!
Can you elaborate more on “Search Optimization content”?
How we should write a content that is very interesting to the customers?
How we should write a humingbird friendly content?
Regards,
Loken Singh
Loken,
As a writer, you should wear the boots of the user and see what will make him understand and take action. As far as Google Hummingbird concerns arise, unique-useful-engaging content can beat any existing and future updates is what I believe.
Hi Shiv,
The article is quite nice no doubt. It would have been more helpful if you could elaborate each point separately. I agree this would create more articles to write however what every marketer faces today is how to do it.
Everyone ideally reads up on what needs to be done, but no one tells you how to actually do it. Maybe you can have a vote on the different ways in which to write content for the website. Web content and SEO content maybe the same at a glance but in reality i believe are more different than one tends to notice. This is what I felt. looking forward to read more of your articles.
Thanks for reading the post and giving your feedback Archana. In fact, due to time crunch, I’m not able to do more research now a days, however, will do something for the marketing experiment perspective and share soon.