Despite this rise in understanding, however, a prominent problem remains: many marketers still struggle to get their content consumed by their target audience. Smart content is: Discoverable: Easily found Optimized: From point of creation Profitable: Measurable To improve content performance, brands need to stop producing content for content’s sake and instead produce smart content: content that is better suited to what users want to read, and is prepared for the SERP so those targeted users can find and engage with the material. The data marketers gather from search can provide invaluable information about what target audiences search for and what they want to read. Data provides key insights on consumer intent and the topics marketers need to produce content that serves this audience. Smart content in context Smart content is about taking the financial investment that companies make in their content development and channeling it towards a more effective and data-driven strategy. It is different to the content that brands already produce, because it builds off of brands’ improved awareness of customer intent signals and how site visitors interact with the content that organizations produce. The content will also be optimized from the moment of its creation, and therefore, the content will perform. Understand who Make sure you know exactly who you will target with your content. With SEO and content converged into a single portion of the digital marketing process, all content produced should be optimized right from production so that no content needs to be re-optimized later, empowering it to rank as highly as possible from the first time it is crawled. Following these five steps will help you produce the right amount of content that delivers the right results.
The convergence of SEO and content has been a driving force in marketing for the past few years.
A recent survey conducted by my company, BrightEdge, found that 97% of marketers view these two areas as converged disciplines.
Given that 51 percent of the traffic arriving on your website is likely from organic search, I believe that the growing understanding of the integration between these two formerly separate silos is an essential transition.
Despite this rise in understanding, however, a prominent problem remains: many marketers still struggle to get their content consumed by their target audience. BrightEdge found that a full 71 percent of marketers report that less than half of their content has been used by their target audience.
This problem not only causes tremendous frustration for brands, it also results in countless wasted work hours as well as unnecessary spending. It is time for marketers to take a more intelligent, smart approach to content marketing.
Smart content is:
- Discoverable: Easily found
- Optimized: From point of creation
- Profitable: Measurable
To improve content performance, brands need to stop producing content for content’s sake and instead produce smart content: content that is better suited to what users want to read, and is prepared for the SERP so those targeted users can find and engage with the material.
Smart content improves the effectiveness and ROI of the material produced by making itself more discoverable and consumable.
The data marketers gather from search can provide invaluable information about what target audiences search for and what they want to read. Through looking at this data, marketers can identify trends as well as consistently popular topics that their target audience will want to engage with in posts and articles. Data provides key insights on consumer intent and the topics marketers need to produce content that serves this audience.
When content is optimized for SEO before it goes live on the web, it will be prepared for searchers and rank higher on the SERP from the moment of publication.
This improves its overall performance and therefore the worth provided for the brand. During the content creation process, data provides insights into the customer discovery process and what different types of content are most likely to be consumed.
Smart content in context
Smart content is about taking the financial…
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