Showing posts with label Content. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Content. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Jump-Starting Your Content Marketing

Most businesses rely so heavily on the use of internet for most of their needs - research and development, marketing, selling, advertisements, etc. All of these used to be done in the old traditional business ways. Nowadays, you can do almost everything with one click of the so likeable mouse.

Content marketing is another marketing technique or method in which relevant and valuable contents are created and distributed with the main objective of attracting and engaging specific target users. The ultimate objective, of course, is to convert this traffic into profitable customer response.

To jump-start your content marketing, you might want to check these easy steps out:

Find your Domain

Before even starting with your content writing, one needs to prepare ahead and identify where the content will 'live' after being 'born'. To make your content marketing effective, you need to have a domain (place) which you can control on a platform you can use as you please. Your contents will not live on Facebook or Google+ but you have to own a platform that will allow you to play around with it in terms of how it will look like in general. For many content marketers, the best platform to have is WordPress. It is adaptable and dynamic. Having your own domain to house all of your creative contents will definitely help your content marketing efforts.

Think of your Clients

Content marketing is about the clients, so you have to think of how your content can get to these clients. How can you get their interest? How can you engage them as your readers? In other words, you need to master your craft. You may create contents that are valuable to you and gradually transforming those contents into something about your clients, what they need, what they want to know, etc.

Interesting Content

This is every writer's objective - to be able to write something that readers will actually read and not trash. Your content should be crafted in a way that it engages the readers to even post comments or opinions on what they have read. If your marketing efforts are not showing any positive trending, you might need to get a friend to read your contents and have their honest opinion, from a reader's point of view, on what your contents are to them. Losing traffic to your site is one indication that your contents are lacklustre.

Secure your Domain

Creating contents is hard work, plain and simple. Losing content and starting from scratch will make someone hate the virus, hackers and yes, hackers from competitors. Can you imagine the amount of time, effort and resources lost because your site has been hacked? Require your web host to comply with the highest security measures possible. Keep your WordPress or whatever other platforms you are using constantly updated. Require security 'scans and sweeps' of existing sites before bringing them onto your hosting platform.

Give your Contents a Beautiful Domain

Don't make your readers click the 'back' button immediately because your site is unsightly. Match your excellent content with spectacular webpages. Make your site attractive enough to get readers glued to their screen, intently reading through your scores of information.

Build a relationship with client

The best way to build that relationship with your clients is through email. It is more engaging, more personal, more human. Specific actions and responses are immediately available by email. You will know right away what they think about your email.

Do Guest Postings

Guest postings are equally effective and have a wider or larger reach. Just remember to send your readers back to that quality content built on a site you have full control of.

Don't Forget to Offer

Writers tend to get carried away by their writing that they sometimes forget the reason for such writing. Introduce the offer before your content gets any longer.

Go Social

If you have done all steps so far, then you are ready to build your content around various social media networks which has wider circulation and reach. The unique characteristic of social media in terms of spreading the word may be maximized and optimized to favor your marketing efforts. Just make sure you have good content that will give them good reason to let others in their network know about.

Don't make the mistake of taking short-cuts. You might end up wasting your efforts instead if you rush into making things happen.

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How Search Engines Work: Google Algorithms and Page Content

Knowing how search engines work and having a working knowledge of Google algorithms can help you to promote your business effectively online. The largest search engine by far is Google. Yahoo has fallen way behind because it is not a true search engine, and the others such as Google's own Bing and Ask, lag way behind in terms of users and search technology.

The way you market your website determines your success, and it is safe to say that no commercial website will be successful if it fails to satisfy the Google algorithms. One important factor to keep in mind with respect to how search engines work is that it is not your keywords that are important, but the search term used by the person using the search engine to find information. That is the true 'keyword' and those you use on your web pages are guesses as to what people will use to find your page.

If you are doing this right, these 'guesses' will be based on keyword research, and you will generally use the search terms that people most often used to find the information your web page offers. 'Web page,' not 'web site' because as has been iterate many times, Google lists individual pages - not entire domains, or websites.

Today, Google looks at over 200 factors when indexing your web pages and calculating their ranking position for specific search terms (keywords). Among these is the frequency of the search term (keyword) on the page, whether or not it appears in the title, and also the frequency of synonymous terms on the page in question. The perfect answer might not be what you think!

PageRank (correct form of the term) was developed by Google's co-founder, Larry Page, hence the name. This Google algorithm counts the quality and number of links to a specific page, and uses that data to estimate the importance of the page to the keyword. This is making the assumption that the more authoritative sites receive most links from other web pages focusing on the same search term.

Google would not like this way of describing PageRank, because web pages should not strictly focus on search terms or keywords, but offer good, solid information, irrespective of the keywords used. However, this is the real world and Google realizes that when managing the way search engines work.

There are many more aspects of a web page that Google takes into account in determining your search engine results (SERPs) page ranking. Only the Google "need to know" personnel know what these are, but we can guess. Some relate to the number of quality backlinks to your web page. Others are related to your on-page SEO, such as using your keywords in the graphics 'Alt' attributes and the correct use of Heading tags.

The algorithmic robot that searches your website is known as the Googlebot. Also known as a crawler or spider, this algorithm detects new pages in your website. It is important that you design your website to be easily accessed by the Google spider. Why Google? In case you have forgotten the first paragraph, it is because that is the largest and most influential search engine by far.

If you understand how search engines work, and design your website to be easily scanned or crawled, and if you make sure that you select your keywords based upon what people have historically used to find your kind of information, then you should pass Google's indexing criteria. Once indexed, your listing position will be determined by the relevance of the content of your web pages to the search terms used by those using Google to find information.

Google is no different to any other in the way search engines work, and there are many Google algorithms that are used to calculate mathematically what your listing position should be. Get to understand these, and you can use that knowledge to dominate your niche.

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