Content Marketing Best Practice
Research, Amplification & Monitoring
Content Marketing Strategy
Research
• what content is resonating
• current trends
• what formats are working
• popular authors
• use alerts to stay updated
• what are competitors doing
• Identifying content opportunities
• generating content ideas
Amplification
• links, shares & paid
• who is amplifying content
• Role of Facebook
Monitoring
• content benchmarks
• domain comparisons
• use alerts to track
• Mentions
• Links
• Content published
Most content gets few shares
and even fewer links
AverageMedian
Skewed distribution of
links and shares. Most
articles get few links or
shares.
Good Content Marketing is…
Creating & distributing valuable,
relevant, timely and consistent content
to build an audience.
What is Valuable? Relevant? Timely?
What content is resonating with your audience
this week, or right now?
What is driving engagement, passion, shares
and comments?
You need data not hunches
and Hippos
Content Research
Valuable and relevant:
Will your audience like your content?
Make sure they’ll like it, with data:
• Research what topics work
• Find out which sites are winning
• Stay on top of competitors
• Choose winning formats
• Target the right networks
Research the content your
audience loves
What do they
share?
What do they
find helpful?
What are most shared posts in your area?
Timely :What content is engaging
your audience right now?
Leverage Trends
See what content
published in the last
2 hours is starting
to trend.
Create A Competitive Edge
By knowing what content matters to your audience
right now you can:
– be the first to share viral content
– the first to comment and share viewpoints
– create content quickly around the stories that
matter most to your audience
In short, create a deeper level of engagement and build
credibility.
Which sites are winning?
Most shared
domains for
content on
Kitchens on
Facebook
Track the winning sites
• Review their most shared content
• Be alerted :
– every time they publish new content
– when one of their stories starts to trend
– get a daily digest of their new links
What content formats
engage your audience?
Which networks work best
for your topics?
What Is Working For Competitors?
View Their Most Shared Content
Check Specific Topics
View Their Top Content Formats
What is Working For Them On Facebook?
Use BuzzSumo’s Facebook Analyzer Tool
Amplification
How is content amplified?
Why Do People Share & link?
• Highly relevant & useful
• Comprehensive & evergreen
• Authoritative content
• Exceptional content
• Reciprocity
Shares valuable for content discovery
But shares don’t lead to links
Which sharers amplify content?
This tweet had 492
Retweets!
Amplifiers
Average Retweets
Above 2
Facebook now drives 25% of all traffic to websites
What is Working On Facebook?
Use BuzzSumo’s Facebook Analyzer Tool to see trends and top performing content
for any topic or popular Facebook page.
What is Working On Facebook?
Example top questions for Halloween
View sharers of competitor content
View sharers
Analyze the fans of your
competitor’s content.
Filter by:
• Number of followers
• Retweet ratio
• Reply ratio
• Page Authority
Follow and engage
Export for Twitter tailored
audience list
View who links to content
See who links to a specific article, sub-domain or domain
Monitoring
What did they publish today?
Who mentioned them today?
Who linked to them today?
Example of Competitor Monitoring
Content Alerts
Link Alert
Be alerted every
time they publish
new content
Track mentions over time
Track links acquired over time
Track volume of content published
Content Marketing Strategy
Research
• what content is resonating
• current trends
• what formats are working
• popular authors
• use alerts to stay updated
• what are competitors doing
• Identifying content opportunities
• generating content ideas
Amplification
• links, shares & paid
• who is amplifying content
• Role of Facebook
Monitoring
• content benchmarks
• domain comparisons
• use alerts to track
• Mentions
• Links
• Content published
Thank You
@Buzzsumo @steverayson

Content Marketing Best Practice

Editor's Notes

  • #3 Brief overview of what we will cover.
  • #4 Is content poor? Or just poorly amplified.
  • #5 This means averages are misleading.
  • #6 How do we improve?
  • #7 It is about understanding you audience.
  • #12 Most shared content on Moz last month
  • #13 Most shared ‘how to’ posts on content marketing, people sharing how to’s about optimising content in social media
  • #17 Most shared content on Moz.
  • #18 Once you have identified them
  • #19 Most shared content on Moz.
  • #23 Can turn to buzzsumo and see what is working socially, what is resonating and being shared. Filter by time etc.
  • #24 Hubspot were ranking number 1 for searches on term, “landing pages”, so can begin to see why, by using domain and “landing pages”.
  • #25 Can do an analysis report of all their content by social shares and see what formats are working. Infographic & list posts. As well as what networks are most receptive to those types. Now, we can crib strategy notes.
  • #26 Can also see what content length working, whether network users favor any particular length, as well as day of week published etc.
  • #27 Can also see what content length working, whether network users favor any particular length, as well as day of week published etc.
  • #28 Find sharers, build lists
  • #30 Social is critical to amplify content – the future is not what it was.
  • #32 Example from last week
  • #33 Find sharers, build lists
  • #34 Amplifiers typically have a retweet ratio of above two.
  • #36 Can also see what content length working, whether network users favor any particular length, as well as day of week published etc.
  • #38 Content analysis report
  • #39 Content analysis report – pick your targets to court influence – work to scale
  • #40 Content analysis report
  • #43 Create alerts using BuzzSumo to receive notifications to track competitors
  • #44 Get alerted every time they are mentioned in content
  • #45 Link alert will tell every time they acquire a new link in real time or get a daily digest
  • #46 Content analysis report
  • #47 Web mentions matter
  • #50 Brief overview of what we will cover.
  • #51 Thanks for attending