#SEOPodcast289 - 20 Useful Content Marketing Tips You Might Not Be Using, But You Should

Episode38 min2015-09-24

Blogs with videos rank higher and get more shares, email inboxes reveal repeat customer questions worth turning into posts, and promoting content before you create it determines how well it performs.

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Key takeaways
You must understand where this content is going to be posted, right? As you begin developing ideas and figuring out what you're going to write about and then you go down your path of keyword research, okay?

About this episode

Welcome to the most popular internet marketing podcast on iTunes, hosted by eWebResults! Join us this week as we talk about:Add a Platform Specific CTA in Your Bios20 Useful Content Marketing Tips You Might Not Be Using, But You ShouldHow to Support Your Mission Statement

Questions this episode answers

How should I find blog topic ideas for my business?

Check your email inbox for repeat customer questions and ask your sales and customer service teams about common objections or questions. If those questions keep coming up, there is likely no content on your site addressing them, so writing blog posts on those topics helps both customers and your team.

Why should I embed videos in blog posts?

Blogs with videos are more likely to get additional hits and shares than those without. Before embedding, optimize the video on YouTube by giving it a strong title, a lengthy keyword-rich description, and voiceover so Google can transcribe it, which adds to its ranking value.

What does putting promotion first mean in content marketing?

Before developing content, decide where it will be posted, such as your blog, Pinterest, SlideShare, or social channels. Then have all supporting assets, like featured images sized for Instagram or Facebook, created at the same time so you can promote effectively the moment the content goes live.

How do outbound links in a fact list help your content?

When you link facts in your content to credible external sources like a Forbes article, reader trust in your site increases. From a Google perspective it signals a quality outbound link, and if that external site has alerts set up, they may link back to you in return.

In their words

when you find yourself answering the same question from clients or buyers time after time, consider turning it into a blog post for your company site

Host

anytime you can get on someone's calendar. Yeah. Like, they've committed to watching you, committed to listening to you, committed to doing, you know, being wherever you ask them to be at, then they're half sold.

Guest

Stories are a way to break the ice. Stories get people's attention. Stories lower people's defenses.

Host
Terms defined in this episode
Knowledge Graph
A Google feature that displays direct answers, such as health condition explanations, right in search results, reducing clicks to external sites and already linked to a reported 40 percent traffic decrease for some content publishers.
Platform-specific CTA
A call to action in a social media bio customized to each platform, for example using the word subscribe on YouTube or follow on Twitter, rather than using the same generic bio everywhere.
Who-to-follow list
A piece of content that compiles non-competitor industry contacts worth following, which positions you as a trusted source and encourages those listed to link back to you.

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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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