Using Content Marketing and SEO for Marketing Plans this 2024
Content Marketing and SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, are integral to each other. We could say that one would not thrive without the other. Content Marketing needs SEO, and in order to succeed in SEO, we need high-quality content. But, how do we leverage both, and why are these important in your digital marketing campaigns in 2024?
What is Content Marketing?
Content marketing is a strategic practice of creating valuable content that can attract, stimulate engagements, and retain audiences. At the core of content marketing is creating high-quality engaging content that people love reading about. Content marketing can be done in a variety of channels – social media, websites and blogs, videos, infographics, and a lot more.
What is SEO?
However, websites, blogs, and any other content published in an owned web property are the only ones that can greatly benefit from SEO. SEO is the process of getting users, or traffic, into the website through search engines – organically. This is mostly through creating high-quality content that cater to what people are looking for via search engines. By doing SEO, we are providing high-quality editorial content to people who are looking for them online.
SEO is done through creating high-quality content and publishing them in your website, and through optimizing your website in a way that it’s easier for Google and other search engines to index, or “scan and list”, your content and allow for people to find your content easier. By ensuring that your website is free from errors, and has the necessary configurations to allow search engines to index your content, people looking for you or your services and products online will find you within the first few results of their search.
How do you utilize both Content Marketing and SEO for your 2024 marketing plans?
There are some tried and true ways on how you can include Content Marketing and SEO into your 2024 marketing strategy.
- Discover what people are actually looking for, when they’re looking for your products/services. Keyword research is an important part of the process, for both Content Marketing and SEO. Before you actually have to start creating content or optimizing our website for search engines, we need to know what terms and keywords people look for in order to find your business. This way, you are guided on how to actually make it easier for your potential customers to find you online.
- Audit your website for technical and configuration issues. Doing a website audit guides you or your website developers to easily find the items that they already need to fix for your website. Remember, keeping the website free from these issues help your SEO “scores” and allows search engines to rank you higher in results.
- Create content that matches how people are searching for you online. It’s not just writing blogs or articles that bear the terms and keywords people are using, or worse, overstuffing your blogs or articles with these terms and keywords. It’s having the right amount of these terms and keywords across your article without being too overbearing, strategically placed in your article, and effectively linked to related pages that are also helpful for your readers.
Partner with the Content Marketing and SEO experts for your 2024 marketing goals
If you need expert advice or support as you execute your Content Marketing and SEO plans for 2024, we’re here to help. Contact our digital marketing team today and let’s start planning for your 2024 content!
