Create an Online Content Strategy.

• Know the keyword phrases your customers/patients use to search for your services.
• For each keyword, write an article, press release, or blog post with search-optimized images or videos for your website.
• Write a short teaser for the article and post it with an image or video on your Google Business Page and other social media pages with a link back to your blog post.
• Select small portions of your website content to post on GBP and social media.
• Select reviews that use the keyword to be posted on GBP and social media.

This content marketing strategy will attract search users and will grow your customer base. Your articles and web pages will show up in search results so that customers see your business when making their purchasing decisions.

This strategy is underutilized because creating content requires thought, writing, and/or producing. Leap ahead of competitors who are unable or unwilling to bother with content creation.

Linking the content back to your website or landing pages helps you get found on searches, demonstrates your expertise, and puts your business in front of a highly targeted audience of potential customers. You can count on adding new customers with Content Marketing.

Content For SEO

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) means optimizing your content for search results and linking to your website pages from your other online media. It also requires writing your website title pages and descriptions to match the content on the page.

Google and Bing web spiders notice your content, rank you higher in search results, and deliver your content to those searching for it.  SEO improves where your content appears in search. It goes hand-in-hand with successfully leveraging your content to create higher visibility for your business and brand.

Well-written and optimized online content also affects whether searchers will click through to your website. Engagement with your content and getting people to view your website are the ultimate goals, but getting eyes on the pages that link to your website is where you need to start.

One way to get more eyes on your website is with social media posts and/or press releases with noticeable links to your website or blog post to ‘Learn more.’ 

Benefits of Content Marketing & Management

Your content helps search engines know exactly what services or products you provide, and adds to your ability to rank your business higher in search results.

Additionally, multiple links to a variety of content on your website can dominate valuable real estate on search results pages – at the top where it counts – at the exact moment that your hyper-targeted audience is looking for exactly what you sell. Yes, searches can be so precise that you can count on adding new customers with Content Marketing.

Content Management includes optimization of all your illustrations and photos by adding your company information. This includes links to your website and other online pages from your photos that show up in other places. Crazy smart, isn’t it?

The most commonly used content media are social pages and posts (96%) and videos (76%). A good content management strategy incorporates blogs, posts, and videos, often used in combination. Your strategy can also include press releases, both to local and digital news media.

Creating content should be part of the marketing plan of any small business looking to appear high in search results and to increase awareness of your brand, products, and services. Not to mention an increase in customers.