5 Tips To Improve Your Content Strategy, Sponsored by SE Ranking Ep. 544

Ep. 54455 min2022-08-134,738 plays

A strong enterprise content strategy requires thinking like a publisher, aligning all content to your sales funnel, documenting your editorial process, refreshing evergreen content, and actively using your network for backlinks.

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Key takeaways
good content certainly does happen by accident, but it doesn't happen consistently by accident

About this episode

5 Tips To Improve Your Content Strategy, Sponsored by SE Ranking Content plays an important role in every marketing campaign. Here are some ways you can improve your content strategy and get better results.

Questions this episode answers

What are the five tips to improve an enterprise content strategy?

The five tips from the episode are: think like a publisher, make sure everything fits into your sales funnel, refine and document your editorial process, review and refresh or replace existing content, and use your network to build backlinks and relationships with industry sites and influencers.

How important is it to reach the number one position in Google versus just the first page?

According to the episode, reaching page one is just the beginning. Moving from position three to position one alone produces a 200% increase in traffic. The hosts stress that being in the top positions, not just on the first page, is where real traffic and ROI are generated.

How should you handle old or underperforming blog content?

The hosts recommend reviewing existing content and either refreshing it by adding new paragraphs to trigger re-indexing, combining low-traffic posts into a stronger single post, or replacing content that no longer serves a purpose. Evergreen content should keep being promoted across social media channels.

What is the difference between Google Search Console and Google Analytics?

As explained in the episode, Search Console tracks all traffic coming to your URL directly from Google, including any manual penalties, while Analytics fires a pixel and tracks what users do once they are on your site. Both tools together give a fuller picture of site performance.

In their words

Google unindexed, out of those 80, 76 of those posts, that those posts were not helpful and not useful.

Matt Bertram
Terms defined in this episode
SERP Analyzer
A tool in SE Ranking that lets you compare all 10 pages on the first search result page across factors like content, keyword density, page experience, backlinks, domain age, and internal and external linking.
Evergreen content
Content designed to have a long shelf life that continues to generate traffic, clicks, and interaction for months or even years after it is published.
Content Management System (CMS)
Technology platforms such as WordPress, Shopify, and Squarespace that allow you to manage content across channels without writing a single line of code.
Bowtie strategy
A linking approach where authoritative sites in your industry link to you and you link back to them, creating mutual association and cross-sharing of quality content.

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Matthew Bertram, host of The Best SEO Podcast
Matthew Bertram
AI keynote speaker · Owner & CEO, EWR Digital · President, ModalPoint

Matthew Bertram is an AI keynote speaker, creator of DIG™ (Digital Information Governance), and owner and CEO of EWR Digital. He helps energy and industrial leaders win visibility in AI search (GEO and AEO), is President of ModalPoint and CMO of the Oil & Gas Global Network, hosts The Best SEO Podcast, and has authored eight books including LLM Visibility. More about Matthew Bertram.

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