What is Content Marketing?

Content Marketing

According to Content Marketing Institute,

[quote align=”center” color=”#999999″] “Content marketing is a marketing technique of creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action.”[/quote]

Part 1: What is Content Marketing?

Blog Writing

Blog Writing should be the first important component of your Content Marketing Strategy. An expertly written blog is an important way to grow the organic search reach of your brand. It improves search engine rankings, which makes it easier for people to find your brand in their searches, and it plays a significant role in your long-term marketing PR strategy. For example, if your marketing materials are designed to make you “appear” as an expert in your field then your blog is the perfect way for you to voice your expertise. According to Social Media Today research, 81% of the online population trusts the information they receive from bloggers.[2] Here are 3 quick ways to make blogging a part of your marketing strategy:

1. Quality Counts.

It’s simple – your consumer doesn’t want to read a blog that is uninformative or poorly written. If writing isn’t your strong point or you don’t have time then hire a marketing PR firm that offers blog writing services.

2. Know Your Market and Set an Editorial Calendar for Content.

Ask yourself: What information would be useful to my customer? A blog writing schedule should be planned out for the year in order to help capitalize on trending topics. For example, when PBPR wrote the blog for IQuit with AHEC (Tobacco Free Florida’s in-person option of “3 Free & Easy Ways to Quit”) this May, we wrote about smoking’s effect on skin cancer, since the trending search topic during the month of May is Skin Cancer Awareness. Our client’s blog has the potential to expand their organic reach when the topic is relevant.

3. Use Keyword Rich Blog Content.

You want your blog to come up when people are searching for topics that pertain to your field. Then your blog better contain keywords relevant to that topic. But be careful Google will penalize you for overstuffing your blog with keywords! Blogging also gives you a way to connect with others in your business community and makes customers feel like you are reaching out to them in a friendly, useful manner without just being sold to. Not only that, but you can start to build a network with other bloggers to promote your product or to be a guest writer on their site.

In Part 2 of our blog series, “What is Content Marketing?” we will discuss the second important element of Content Marketing: Sharing relevant content through social media marketing.  

1 http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/what-is-content-marketing/

2 http://socialmediatoday.com/irfan-ahmad/2443541/tips-developing-solid-blogger-outreach-strategy-infographic