Boost B2B SEO with Quality Content
Categorized in: B2B Digital Marketing, SEO
It’s so true that SEO and content go together very well. However, when it comes to B2B, it is so important that the content strategy be thoughtful and intentional. When done right, content marketing can bolster ways steadily and consistently in ways that you may not even realize. However, the content needs to be high quality and perfect for the audience, in sync with the sales cycle, and aligned with business goals. Here’s more information about this:
Get to Know the Audience
The first step of this is that the content needs to really connect with the audience in order to be effective for B2B. After all, it is the audience that will ultimately become customers. In order to get them to that place, they will need to read your content and resonate with it. What does this look like exactly? It all starts with you understanding the needs, pain points, interests, and concerns of your audience.
How do you discover this information? Well, there are several ways. First of all, you can ask your existing customers through surveys and real conversations with them. If this isn’t possible, consider working closely with the sales team. They might have insights that can help marketing pinpoint the right messaging, topics, and writing style of the audience.
The Art of Aligning the Content
Another crucial piece of the puzzle is that content needs to be aligned with both the sales cycle and the goals of the business. It isn’t enough to simply come up with a list of topics that loosely relate to the business and your product or service. Most of the time, that is what people do. They post this content and hope for the best.
Well, we can do better. Take some time to think about not only the audience, as mentioned above but also the what the sales cycle looks like. Content should connect with the audience at every stage of the buyer’s journey. It should also be written in a way that also connects with the business goals. In fact, the goals are the cornerstone of the whole thing.
Define What Quality Really Means
How do you truly define what “quality” means when it comes to content? What we talked about, above, got us closer to understanding and defining what quality content really means. There area a few factors that goes into this. First, it’s the obvious characteristic of the piece being well written. But there’s even more to this than it first appears. “Well written” means a lot of things, but in this case, we are referring to it as writing in a comfortable and capable style that aligns with the brand and resonates with the brand itself.
All of these factors combine to make content that resonates with the audience, helps the business achieve its goals, and even helps with SEO. In fact, the search algorithms are written in a way that suggests that they know when the audience is pleased with the content. They tend to favor these pieces more heavily.
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