Find out how to create outstanding content across Europe. Every market is different, timescales are short and budgets can be tight - but there's plenty of efficiencies in creating an integrated content strategy to combine local knowledge with a centralised strategy.
This session will share experiences of how we have achieved great results for brands including Momondo and Premier Farnell across Europe, by crafting content tailored and localised towards a targeted audience and promoted to leverage relationships within your geographic region.
How to Create a Social Media Plan Like a Pro - Jordan Scheltgen
How to Create Outstanding Content Across Europe by Kevin Gibbons and Chelsea Blacker
1. Content Marketing in Europe
Kevin Gibbons & Chelsea Blacker
e: kgibbons@blueglass.co.uk / cblacker@blueglass.co.uk
t: @kevgibbo / @chelseablacker
w: www.blueglass.co.uk
2. Who Are BlueGlass?
We speak over 25 languages
BlueGlass UK,
London, England • BlueGlass EMEA,
Zürich, Switzerland
3. Agenda
Part I – How to Run Content
Marketing Campaigns
Part II – How to Achieve Success in
Europe
11. • Profit per Customer?
• Number of
Customers?
• Market Share?
• Customer Lifetime
• Total Revenue?
• Net Profit?
• Volume of Sales?
• Average Order Value?
But It Needs to be Aligned & Measuring
the Right Goals
12. Content Should be Driven by Brand Strategy,
Not Channel-Specific Tactics
Brand
Strategy
SEO
PPC
Social
Media
Digital
PR
Marketing
Strategy
Content
Strategy
Affiliate
14. • How does your audience interact with your content?
• What content do prospects need before they purchase?
• Is your tone of voice consistent across all channels?
• How many channels do customers typically come from?
• Do returning customers have a different behaviour to new
visitors?
• Can you tailor the experience to multiple personas?
• What is the lifetime value of a new customer once they’ve
visited content? <-- Measure this!
Focus on Consumer Opportunities
22. Every Story Needs an Audience…
If you haven’t got one, leverage someone else’s!
23. Promoted business card content:
- Generated links/shares from
authority environmental blogs
- Increased ranking for “business
cards” from #3 to #1 in Google!
Leverage Organic Search from Overall Strategy
26. Provide Unique Content to Affiliates
What affiliates would contribute to the overall multi-touch profile for
your brand
Do the affiliates your working match your brand values? (cash back
affiliates might not go with high value e-coms products)
Are all affiliates updated with the latest offers and opportunities?
Does your affiliate programme prioritise end of funnel activity or are
you incorrectly benefiting affiliates in driving “research” activity?
27. Capture & Retarget Potential Customers
Again & again (via multiple channels)
31. Translated & promoted
infographic across 12 countries:
Generated over 100 quality links &
thousands of social shares from
authority publications.
What We Learned With Content in Europe
40. BlueGlass.co.uk
@BlueGlass @KevGibbo
Algorithm changes happen in English about 6 months
before rolling out in other languages, anticipate how to
improve link building issues before updates lead you
down the wrong path.
Don’t Wait Before a Google Penalty Hits…
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@BlueGlass @KevGibbo
Low domain authority in small markets isn’t unusual,
it’s simply because these markets don’t attain the same
volume
Quality Links Are All Relative to the Market
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@BlueGlass @KevGibbo
Build logical bridges between
content in the same language.
Ensure previously built links are
asked to point to most relevant
language page.
Try to clearly separate geo-location content
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• Hobby bloggers or webmasters of non-commercial
websites can be very sceptical of outreach requests
• Good opportunities in other German speaking countries
such as Austria and Switzerland.
• Target just a few websites and personally address them,
explaining the benefit to their site to share your link.
• Content/emails must be written by a native speaker.
• German people are quite straight forward – just tell them
what you want!
Germany
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• Yandex has market share – and old-school tactics still work here,
but build carefully, focusing on natural links if you can.
• As a general rule, Russian web users are a bit younger than in
other western European countries so take this into account when
creating content for them.
• Outreach in English can work, better than other European
countries.
Russia
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• There is very limited resource and audience compared
with other markets.
• Nordic users are very web savvy, but SEO is far behind.
• While most users are fluent in English, they do search in
their mother tongue so it’s not enough to write content in
English.
• Lots of consumer protection laws around sending
unsolicited emails, personal relationships work better.
The Nordics
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• When approaching French speaking webmasters, only
speak in French. Make sure your grammar is correct.
• Co-branded content partnerships work much better
than link exchanges for content.
France
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• Italian market is very small, which means you can get
away building links from sites with standards below
those of English language websites.
• Even Italian national media websites often have very
average domain authority scores.
Italy
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• Very commercially savvy
• Building blogger relationships can be a long-process, but
pays off long-term
• To gain access to top quality sites, create a piece of
content which shifts a niche’s standards or knowledge
base.
• Don’t expect quick results, the American market takes a
while.
USA