5 Step Of Content Marketing

1. Planning & researching your topic:

–          Use Google keyword planner to find relevant keyword phrases that people are searching for to use in your post.

–          Search Twitter for popular topics related to your keyword and pay attention to the ones getting the most retweets and favorites.

–          Do a quick Google search to see other pages that are ranking for that keyword.

–          Create a list of major points you want to get across in your post.

2. Writing your content:

–          Don’t let paragraph get too long – they should break up every 2-3 lines or roughly every 300 words of text.

–          Try to include an image for every 300 words of text.

–          Use sub headers to segment section and break up your article for easy reading or scanning

–          Create a compelling headline (ideal length: 55 characters)

–          Make use of bullets and lists where applicable

–          Link to other valuable resources in your article (webpages or your other blog posts) where relevant

–          Spell check!

3. Optimizing your content for research:

–          Aim of 1000-1500 words for a blog post – that is the Google ‘Sweet Spot’ for SEO based on research from serpIQ.

–          Place your SEO keyword into your blog title.

–          Include your SEO keyword in at least one H2 header.

–          Place your SEO keyword at the very beginning of your title and H2 header for optimal results.

4. Make it shareable:

–          Create a custom graphic that shows the title of your blog in an attractive way to increase shares on Pinterest and other networks.

–          Use click to tweet to include tweetable quotes and start throughout your blog

–          Create or update an infographic relevant to your chosen topic and include it in your post

–          Include slideshare presentations or a video

5. Promote your content:

–          Send an update to your email list with a link to your blog post.

–          Share your blog post on Facebook and make sure your image is optimized to look good in Facebook link preview for optimal click-through rates

–          Share on Twitter and include your custom title graphic

–          Share on Pinterest using the custom title graphic

–          Pin to relevant shared Pinterest boards to increase exposure

–          Share your blog post as a status update on LinkedIn on your personal profile and your LinkedIn company page

–          Share in relevant LinkedIn groups by creating a discussion around your topic and including the link as a reference

–          Share your post to Google+ to your personal profile and company profile

–          Find niche Facebook groups and Google+ communities to share your post by creating a discussion about it

–          Consider using Facebook ads or LinkedIn sponsored updates to run targeted ads to promote your content

–          Use a social sharing plugin like Digg or Flare that allows for easy social sharing directly from your blog.

–          Consider more niche places to post such as reddit but be aware of the etiquette of each site’s community before posting.

SEO CopyWriting : 10 Tips for Content that ranks in 2013

• Write for humans-Optimised for robots.

It’s 2013- Nobody want to read SEO content, not even the search engines! Everything points to the fact that Google prefers natural content to obvious SEO stuff. Moreover, there;s no point in great ranks if your content does not convert.

So focus on your flesh and bone target audience- but help the robots find your content.

• Forget about keyword density- once and for all

Keyword density is one of the most tenacious SEO myths out there.But there is nothing to indicate that Google favours a certain density over another. Its important to use relevant keywords in your copy, but use them naturally. Cramming keywords in where they don’t belong will mostly likely to more harm than good.

• Use related keywords,synonyms and grammatical variations.

Google and other search engines use latent semantic indexing (LSI) to match search result to the intentions of the person performing the search.Using synonyms, related keywords,and grammatical variations is an easy way to make your content more relevant-without stuffing the actual keyword into the copy.

• Use Google Tilde to find related keywords

If you add ~ before a keyword and perform a search, Google will show you a number of related keywords at the bottom of the page that Google finds relevant in relation to your query. Use these keywords to increase the relevance of your content.

• Write LONG, in-depth, quality content

The average web page ranking on the first page of Google has over 2,000 words. Moreover, evidence points of the fact that in-depth articles get more shares and links than short, Superficial ones. Aim for content that delves deep into the subject matter and provides real insight. But DON’T write lengthy content just to please engines– do it because you have knowledge and sight to share with audiences.

• Take advantage of the long tail

The problem with “big” , “fat” keywords is that they usually are super competitive and ranking for them demands a huge effort. In many cases there lots of related searches that are much easier to rank for e.g. “landing page” vs. “how long should a landing page be?” Long tail phases have a smaller search volume, however the traffic quality will be higher as the visitors are more motivated and likely to convert.

• Answer your prospects’ questions

If your prospects have questions about your product or services. they’ll probably type those same questions into Google. Provide your prospects with content that delivers credible answers, and they’ll visit your site. Provide them with better answers that you competitors, and they’ll buy from you. Additionally, answering questions is a great way to taking advantage of the long tail.

• Get your content noticed and shared

Sharing gets you links and traffic, and the more “shares” your contents gets, the more relevant and popular it will seem to Google. Do your part to get your content out there and shared via relevant forums, blogs, influencers, newsletters, and the usual suspects like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+, etc, And don’t underestimate the incredible power of guest blogging!

• Get down with Google Plus

Google is going to play a bigger and bigger role in SEO. Moreover, the inevitable introduction of Author Rank means that Google will start connecting ranking factor to individual authors– not just the website hosting the author’s content.

Setup your G+ profile, add your authorship markup, Claim ownership of your content, build Author Rank, and play an active role on G+. By doing so, you can boost the authority of every piece you produce- regardless of where it gets posted.

• Title tags and snippets are still king

Your title tag is one of the first things Google looks at when categorizing the individual web pages. Moreover, the combination of title tag and “snippet” (meta description) is what your prospects are going to see in the SERPs. So including keywords- but make your titles and snippets sound natural and focus on motivating prospects to click.

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