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How to Make Content Marketing Your Key to Search Visibility

SEO and Content Marketing: Synergistic Relationship

If you want organic search results, content marketing should be naturally integrated with your plan. In fact, despite confusion that content marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) are at odds, they are actually tied together.

Neil Patel of Kissmetrics explains that some pros have wrongly described Google as shifting from an SEO to a content marketing philosophy, as if transitioning into a new relationship. “It’s not as if SEO and content marketing are two different people,” he says. “To borrow the same metaphor, SEO and content marketing are actually two personalities of the same person.”

How to Make Content Marketing Your Key to Search Visibility

8 Steps to Better SEO Through Content Marketing

Here are a few steps you can take to use content marketing to improve your prominence on the search engines, offered by Jodi Harris of the Content Marketing Institute:

Step 1 – Write down your plan.

To address SEO, you want to build it into your content strategy. That means the plan should include your preferred SEO tactics, what metrics you’ll track, and overall objectives.

Step 2 – Perform an SEO audit.

You want to review your SEO methods on a regular basis. Rethinking the ways you approach the search algorithms is especially helpful given how often their parameters are updated.

Step 3 – Monitor Semantic Search’s 4 V's.

As search becomes increasingly focused on semantics (context and meaning rather than strictly defined keywords), it’s helpful to check content for four attributes: volume, velocity, variety, and veracity.

Step 4 – Zero in on the most powerful keywords.

In the semantic search universe, keywords are not as critical as strong, user-friendly content. However, if you research keywords carefully, you can improve your targeting.

Step 5 – Optimize for the keywords you’ve chosen.

Make sure that your content reflects the keyword priorities you’ve made. In his piece outlining how to target a specific keyword on a particular page, Alex Chris notes that it is easy to overdo it. “Optimization is good, as it will increase the page’s rankings,” he says, “while over-optimization is bad, as it can generate exactly the opposite results.”

Step 6 – Get inbound links from credible domains.

You need backlinks, also known as inbound links. One simple way to get high-quality inbound links is through SlideShare. One reason this site is such a great place to build your presence and link to your site is that transcription is built into each slideshow by default, giving Google more to read.

Step 7 – Embrace rich snippets.

Rich snippets will improve your visibility on the search engine results pages (SERPs) through the inclusion of additional data. Examples include reviews, ratings, and video previews.

Step 8 – Blend your social media and SEO.

It’s easy to think that Facebook, Twitter, and Google Search are all their own unique, disparate environments. There’s not that much delineation, though.

“To succeed in the world of semantic search,” says Harris, “your social media and SEO efforts should complement each other.”

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Laura Pence Atencio

As Founder and CEO of Social Savvy Geek, LLC., Laura Pence Atencio is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and business owners meet and exceed their goals. She is committed to providing the most engaging and effective strategies in online marketing by combining traditional business networking and marketing fundamentals and best practices with current and engaging online marketing methods and tactics. Laura has worked with some of the top names in Internet Marketing and has consulted with entrepreneurs, businesses, and nonprofits in the US and abroad. She is the author of the popular article, 10 Tips to Build Your Twitter List Now, which has been published both online and in print in the US, Australia, and New Zealand. A lifetime student herself, Laura has achieved certification as a Computer Administrative Specialist at Beta Tech and has studied Art Education, History, Art History, and Criminal Justice at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is fascinated by learning, sharing and growing, not just in business, but in life. She participates in US Masters Swimming and has ranked in the top 25 nationally in her age group in both the 50 and 100-yard backstroke. She served in the VA Army National Guard as a Combat Engineer in the 229th Engineer Battalion. She never meets strangers, only friends not yet made– an attitude that serves her extremely well in the networking world, both online and off. She currently lives in Denver, CO with her husband, 3-year-old daughter, and German Shephard.

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