{"id":13487,"date":"2019-10-14T15:49:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/?p=13487"},"modified":"2023-06-01T14:15:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T08:45:57","slug":"develop-a-content-marketing-strategy-that-drives-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/develop-a-content-marketing-strategy-that-drives-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Develop a Content Marketing Strategy that Drives Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Untitled-design-2.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13488 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Untitled-design-2.png?resize=640%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Content Marketing Strategy\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Untitled-design-2.png?w=882&amp;ssl=1 882w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Untitled-design-2.png?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Untitled-design-2.png?resize=768%2C428&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no doubt that content drives the businesses. It pips the context and companies with good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/how-to-fit-ai-in-your-content-marketing-strategy\/\">content marketing strategy<\/a> are likely to be most successful. However, research points out that most companies don\u2019t focus on putting in place an effective strategy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest survey from the Content Marketing Institute shows that <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/contentmarketinginstitute.com\/2016\/10\/research-b2c-content-marketing\/\">63%<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of businesses are not having any strategy for content marketing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/content-marketing-statistics\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Statistics<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> show the need for companies to create a content strategy to grow their business. Though content it provides the guidelines, having a strategy alone will not guarantee you results. You require proper execution of the strategy to see any results. With the flood of information available online for free, you get an edge over your competitors depending on how well you execute your plans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Creating an Effective Content Strategy<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_45_50.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13496\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_45_50.png?resize=640%2C424&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Content Strategies\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_45_50.png?w=464&amp;ssl=1 464w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_45_50.png?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first step in succeeding to drive traffic to your business is to have an effective content marketing strategy. However, hardly 30% of businesses have any. The companies which document their content strategy are found effective than those that have not documented.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Content marketing involves a strategy for blogging, social media, email marketing, and SEO. You need to have the best tactics and tools in online marketing, covering all the aspects to influence a customer\u2019s journey. A proper strategy helps drive more organic traffic since it delivers traffic with little or no investment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Businesses have to follow precise steps to build their content marketing strategy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Define Your Goals\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An essential step in building an effective content strategy is to have clear goals. Have clear mission statements that define your approach<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your target niche and audience<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Content methods to reach your audience<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benefits you provide them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You should have a primary goal and secondary goal. For example \u2013 Building a successful brand in the next 18 months could be your primary goal. The secondary goal should further break down the primary goal into smaller goals like<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acquire 25000 leads every month<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get 1000+ likes, shares and at least 50 comments on your social posts.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grow email list to 20000 prospects.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improve customer base by 20%.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unless you have goals well defined, you can\u2019t measure them. What can\u2019t be measured can\u2019t be improved. The more specific and quantifiable goals, more likely they will be achieved. You can also track your progress using metrics like Traffic to your site, Engagement, and Growth using tools like Google analytics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Establish Your KPIs<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Key performance indicators (KPIs) help you know when you have reached your goals. You can have milestones defined in terms of sales, revenue, traffic, and social media metrics. You could also have metrics on marketing expenditure to track spend on various campaigns to keep the cost of acquiring leads and customers under control.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Research\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_44_12.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13495\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_44_12.png?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Strategies to increase your traffic\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_44_12.png?w=461&amp;ssl=1 461w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_44_12.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you have your goals defined, you need to collect data on both demographics as well as psychological data of your audience. Knowing your audience helps you create the right kind of content to reach them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use Social media analytics to gather demographic data of your audience like age, gender, education, income etc. Get audience interests to get more insight into customer behaviour. You can also get more information about market segments customer visits using <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rankwatch.com\/how-to-improve-your-content-marketing-using-google-analytics\/\">Google analytics<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. You can gather this information from social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While researching, ensure that you get to know about your competition too. It will help you to understand the market landscape and design your strategy much better. You can also know the tools and strategies that your competitors are using. You can use tools like BuzzSumo, SEMrush to analyze your competitors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research into keywords that your audience are using to search to better rank your content using different keyword research tools. Once you have the required information about your audience, you can build buyer personas which is a representation of your ideal customer. Businesses marketing to buyer personas are 2-5 times more successful than those who don\u2019t take time to create buyer personas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Assess Your Position<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know where you stand right now. Assessing your resources, your customer feedback with your content out there and responses to your social media posts help you redesign your strategy for better success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You need to carry out a content audit by\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Logging all the content, blogs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assess the reach and response<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Content quality and gaps<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To log your content, you can use tools like Screaming Frog. It can be used to list URLs, sitemaps, find duplicates, Analyze page descriptions and titles of both yours as well as your competitors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Plan Your Content Channels and Content Types<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you find the content that has worked for you and your target audience interests and needs, you should plan for right content channels to reach them. You have to know where your target audience is hanging out and their online presence. It is prudent to always start from what\u2019s working and amplify from there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can use tools like BuzzSumo and Google Analytics to know which networks to target and what type of posts to include. You can know whether to focus more on videos, infographics or mix all kinds of content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Content Planning and Allocation of Resources<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_43_04.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13494\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_43_04.png?resize=640%2C428&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Content Marketing strategies\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_43_04.png?w=464&amp;ssl=1 464w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_43_04.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you become clear on content channels and content types to reach your target audience, you need to plan and manage your content. You have to create editorial schedules and allocate your resources to provide a steady stream of engaging content to your audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have to ask the right questions like<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who will spearhead in producing and disseminating the content?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pagetraffic.com\/blog\/35-tools-to-enhance-your-content-marketing-efforts\/\">digital tools and resources<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to use to create the content?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What should be the optimum content schedules?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Execute Your Plans and Measure the Results<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_40_21.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13492\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_40_21.png?resize=640%2C385&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Measure your plans in content marketing.\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_40_21.png?w=476&amp;ssl=1 476w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/screenshot-docs.google.com-2019.10.14-15_40_21.png?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you have your content creation planned and required content generated, you need to handle the distribution and marketing of content efficiently. You can amplify your results when you can market your content with right schedules using techniques like drip campaign with tools like Missinglettr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can also use email marketing to make it more personalized. Using influencers can help you spread the word and reach a broader audience. OptinMonster is one of the best tools for promoting your content. It provides page-level, geo-location targeting and onsite retargeting along with exit-intent technology to grab visitors when they leave the site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last but not least, you have to measure your results to know your progress. It will help you realign your content strategy depending upon the feedback.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can use tools like OptinMonster\u2019s Conversion Analytics, Google Analytics, and Social Sharing Activity via BuzzSumo. These tools can help you analyze the success of your content strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Create Amplification Plan<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you fine-tune your strategy based on the feedback and find results, you can try to amplify the effects by allocating resources to what is working and trimming down what is not working. It is at this stage you will see your results grow exponentially.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most businesses fail to do this leaving handful on the table even when they can grab most of it. It is pathetic not to maximize the results even after having worked for it and succeeding in seeing the results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Conclusion:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now you have a clear idea on how to go about building a robust content marketing strategy from scratch and the tools to achieve your desired objectives. It requires more than just writing some content and publishing it on social media. You need to know exactly what content to create, whom to target, when, where to focus and the right time to amplify by optimally allocating your resources. You have to take time to do proper research and plan carefully to achieve the maximum with your content marketing efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no doubt that content drives the businesses. It pips the context and companies with good content marketing strategy are likely to be most successful. 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