This document discusses content marketing strategies and provides examples. It emphasizes creating quality, valuable content to build links and engage users organically. A tiered approach is suggested, including landmark content initiatives, small-scale blog posts and existing opportunities. Collaboration across teams and a shared content calendar are important. Case studies demonstrate using seasonal content to increase traffic for a baking site and building content around a character's adventures to promote a vehicle. The key is offering valuable, discussion-worthy content to different audiences.
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Cheap SEO tricks like directory links and paid for link networks
have stopped delivering results to most clients. Quality
content matters, but how do you come up with consistently
good ideas for content and convince your client to produce
them?
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OurApproachToContentMarketing
Principles In Practice
A content strategy should
go beyond just links
Aim to add value to people in the
consideration phase through targeted content
Utilise real content to form
real partnerships
Reach out to site owners offering content of
genuine interest
Collaborate with teams to
work towards one clear
goal
Create a content calendar accessible to all
teams and stakeholders
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Every quarter we analyse the landscape to gain a better understanding
of exactly how we should be marketing the site each month.
IntegratedQuarterlyPlanning Process
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In 2012 we created hundreds of videos, apps and games
resulting in over 100 million visits including the O2
Future Timeline
WorkingWithInternalAgencies
33. TieredApproachToContentMarketing
Landmark content initiatives – Quarterly opportunities that can
coincide with existing campaigns
Small scale content – Blog posts, infographics, competitions, press
releases
Existing Opportunities – Existing links, survey data, videos
34. A branded content idea which Performics
believe would shift the client towards the
centre of the conversation for selected
keywords
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WhatIsAContentInitiative?
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LandmarkContent:HelpingRAV4WorkHarder
Places based near
Dan’s adventures
on Route 125
Build More Relationships
Dan’s equipment
suppliers
Other
adventurers
sympathetic to
mission:active
Launch content in
r/Toyota or other
niche communities
Focus value back to
4x4 keywords
Optimise link
architecture
between Route 125
and Rav4 chapter
More features-orientated
content could target users
in the consideration phase
38. Baking Mad
– Over 2000 baking recipes
– Well optimised website
– Not capitalising on popular seasonal reasons to bake
The Challenge
– Increase traffic from generic Valentines keywords
– Ensure high SERP visibility during key fortnight around Feb 14th
Our Strategy
– Create and optimise specific Valentines-themed pages
– Use Performics content marketing methodologies to promote the new pages
Results
– 540% increase in Valentines related traffic compared to 2011
– 87% of this traffic was new to Baking Mad
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CaseStudy3:ValentinesCampaign
Hinweis der Redaktion
PrinciplesA content strategy should gobeyond just linksUtilise real content to form real partnershipsCollaborate with teams to work towards one clear goalIn PracticeAim to add value to people in the consideration phase through targeted contentReach out to site owners offering content of genuine interestCreate a content calendar accessible to all teams and stakeholders
This is how I describe content marketing to clientsDifferences: Content marketing is a strategy whilst inkbuilding is a tactic. If you only linkbuild, you’ll spend all your whole time chasing the search engines algorithms. Content marketing is about genuine content that is released at the right time instead of impulsively, will add value to the user which ranks you highly in the serps & keeps adding value until it is taken off the site. SEO becomes based around discrete projects which we can show real RoI against, instead of interminable investment in linkbuildingAnalogy: cycling up hill (current linkbuilding) vs whizzing down a hill (content initiative based linkbuilding)
Branded content is a mix of entertainment and advertising so its an idea that’s designed to appeal to, and be referenced by, people coming into the market for the services the client provides. What this means is that instead of building links, the links build themselves because people are naturally going to reference the content because its decent.