Different Types of Content and How to Use Them

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Optimizing a Website for Search

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University of California, Davis

Optimizing a Website for Search

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Cours 3 sur 6 dans Specialization Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Learn the ins and outs of optimizing a website, from conducting an initial audit to presenting your findings and recommendations. Hands-on activities include learning how to select and apply appropriate keywords throughout a website, incorporating keyword research in a content marketing strategy, and optimizing a site for local search. You will also learn strategies for setting goals and client/stakeholder expectations, building effective analytics and reports, and communicating SEO improvements.

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Advanced On-Page SEO

Welcome to week 2! While keywords help users locate relevant web pages, it’s the content itself that determines whether a click converts to a sale or increased site traffic. In many corners of the SEO world, the expression “Content is King” is a generally accepted rule, and in this module we’ll examine content from many perspectives: how to analyze it, organize it, create it, make it great and build it into our strategies. You’ll also learn how to conduct effective competitive content analysis and internal content audits. And finally, you’ll learn how to create a site-wide content strategy building on the data we uncover in our study and analysis of content.

Advanced On-Page SEO1:13

Benefits of a Competitive Content Analysis3:47

Dissecting the Competitive Content Analysis3:29

What Kind of Content Will Resonate with Your Customers?4:58

Conducting an Internal Content Audit2:36

How to Begin Your Content Analysis5:24

Organizing and Evaluating Content6:17

Creating a Strategy for Optimizing Content3:42

Domain Level Content Strategy7:30

What Makes Content Great?7:33

Different Types of Content and How to Use Them8:10

Creating Impactful Content6:52

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Rebekah May
SEO Manager & Lead SEO Instructor
LeadQual & UC Davis Extension

Hello.

In the last lesson, we reviewed what makes content great at a high level.

You learned how content that inspires action relates to larger business goals.

In this lesson, we'll review content in more detail.

We will learn about different content types and

how to incorporate each type into an overall content strategy.

Something to consider when creating content

is the lifetime value of your content.

There are four types of content you can create.

Evergreen content, which is content that will always be useful

regardless of the season, day or other factors.

Eventually this may expire, but it will generally take a long time to do so.

Trending content, which is content that takes advantage of a trending topic or

news story.

Seasonal content, which relates to a specific season, time of year or holiday.

General content, which is content that is currently relevant and

will be so for a while regardless of the season, but

is likely to be out of date within a year or two.

All of these types of content have their place in your content in CEO strategy.

Evergreen content is great for SEO as this will be around a while building up

a lot of authority and links while still remaining relevant years down the road.

Because of this, it can tend to rank higher than other forms of content.

Evergreen content should always be closely aligned with your audience and services.

While the content is evergreen,

you should still update it on occasion to help boost the freshness of the content.

This way it gets recrawled and indexed on a regular basis.

To help ensure your content is evergreen you should avoid mentioning things like

specific dates as this will quickly make your content appear old,

even if the topic is still relevant.

You should avoid references to current news stories.

You should avoid references to technology as this changes rapidly.

For example, a guide on the best laptop to buy

is likely going to be out of date in six months to a year if not sooner.

Trending content is also great for SEO.

Trending content takes advantage of a part of the Google algorithm

referred to as QDF, or query deserves freshness.

If a topic is trending,

then that likely means something interesting just happened that cause so

many people to begin searching for the same thing at the same time.

Due to this existing content on that topic

might not be as relevant to what those users are searching for at this moment.

Chances are they are looking for

information related to whatever event just occurred.

Content published directly before or during the trending searches, is more

likely to be relevant to what the search engine users are seeking at that time.

So this content is likely to rank much higher

than a post which has been around for while gaining authority.

This type of content can be difficult to write posts for.

You need someone dedicated to looking at trending topics, and

then trying to find a way to relate that topic to your brand goals.

If the topic doesn't somehow tie in to your services,

then it will not be useful to users and they are unlikely to return.

One of the main reasons to take advantage of trending topics

is to get your site in front of a larger newer audience.

But doing so won't be helpful

unless that audience finds your site useful and will return later.

Another type of trending content isn't about taking advantage of quick,

trending, newsworthy stories, but trends that tend to last a longer period of time.

Two examples that come to mind are bacon and zombies.

These are no longer trending as much as they were a while ago.

But for a while you couldn't look at you Facebook feed without seeing something

about bacon, whether it be a meme or a product or just a post.

While these aren't the types of trends that will help you rank higher through

QDF, these trends have a lot of shareability.

Coming up with a cleaver way to use these trends

while still making it relevent to your brand is a great strategy.

Just make sure it aligns with your brand voice.

For example, if you are a more serious brand in the financial sector,

your customers might think it a little odd if you suddenly start posting about bacon.

Seasonal content can be slightly related to trending topics, especially

as more people are likely to search for seasonal or holiday related topics.

For these types of searches,

it is a good idea to brainstorm the type of content you want to create in advance.

And then begin publishing these posts a few weeks before it becomes relevant.

And then continue publishing post throughout the whole season.

By publishing a small amount of time before the season or holiday rush begins.

The posts will already be indexed and

potentially ranking for relevant keywords by the time users begin searching.

Also keep in mind when the topic will become relevant.

For example,

a Christmas related post will definitely become relevant around Christmas.

But depending on the content, let's say Christmas tree decorating tips for

example, this might start to get search volume in early November,

maybe even earlier than that.

The last type of content is your general content which isn't trending,

particularly evergreen or seasonal in nature.

Chances are, the majority of your posts will be this type of content.

Like other types of posts,

you should always have some sort of call to action and sharing capabilities

to ensure these spread in social channels and among friends and family.

There are also certain types of posts which tend to be shared more, and

linked to, more frequently than others.

I would save one of these formats for

when you have a topic you think is particularly share worthy.

Example post formats include list posts, like top ten books to read before you die.

How to posts, they should be in more depth.

And provide a lot of detail on how to do or make a particular thing.

For example, how to cut your own hair.

Interviews, you can interview someone in your industry, or

someone famous who happens to use your product.

Checklists, for example, checklists for auditing your content strategy.

Case studies and white papers, these are more on the B2B side, but

are great resources to have.

Now that you have a better understanding of the types of content that can help your

site succeed, you can better audit and improve your existing content strategy.

That completes the video portion of this lesson.

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