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2. THE SYNERGY OF SEO AND CONTENT
MARKETING: A GUIDE TO BOOSTING
TRAFFIC AND LEADS

3. We all are living in the era of “Digital Transformation”, signifying
the assimilation of digital technology into all facets of life. It
predominantly replaces the way we used to live, interact, and
work formerly and currently. The centre of attention is on
capitalizing the technologies such as artificial intelligence,
blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), and ultra-modern
techniques of data analytics to pioneer and refine the efficiency of
various sectors.

4. Speaking of the categorization of digital marketing it encompasses innumerable
strategies and channels to promote the products and services online. It
accommodates Search-Engine Optimization (SEO), Content Marketing, Social
Media Marketing, E-mail Marketing, Pay-Per-Click (PPC), Affiliate Marketing,
Influencer Marketing, and Mobile Marketing within it. The entire objective of
digital marketing is to recognize and target prospective customers and allure
them with what the brand is aiming for. Many businesses have a mindset that
digital marketing is as easy as traditional marketing as things are momentary and
un-identical here, first, the business has to figure out the requisite goal that they
are focusing on to accomplish with digital marketing.

5. The whole procedure of producing an advertisement leverages unique
marketing strategies and channels for instance if a business centers around
provoking brand awareness, then, social media marketing is the best-suited
option for it. Likewise, if a business completely focuses on generating leads
and, for such, Pay-Per-Click and SEO are the top-notch alternatives.
This blog is all about “how content marketing and Search Engine
Optimization work simultaneously to attain the best ROI”. But before
beginning with the topic, let’s relearn the basics of what these concepts
were about.

6. In short, content marketing plays a pivotal role in building brand authority,
amplifying brand awareness, laying the foundation for the trust of
prospective customers towards the particular brand, and last but not least
in the list engaging and educating customers. Search engine Optimization
assists the content by optimizing it for better reaching the prospective
customers for better reach and engagement.
When the lead-generating component is taken into account, the sales
funnel plays a momentous role here.

7. What exactly is a “sales funnel”?
Fundamentally, the sales funnel is a marketing concept that summarizes
a journey a prospective customer experiences, from the foundational
awareness stage of the product or service to the last stage of making the
final purchase.
It’s not the sales funnel alone that is responsible for lead generation,
however, it’s a consecutive effort of both the sales and marketing
departments for the same. Principally, the marketing and sales funnel is
composed of 6 levels or layers, every layer is responsible is devoted to
carrying out specific roles and responsibilities. The first two layers or the
top of the funnel (Tofu) are dedicated to marketing’s responsibility, and
the bottom of the funnel (Bofu) is devoted to sales responsibility.
Although, you all are wondering what the middle of the funnel (Mofu) is
devoted to. The middle of the funnel (Mofu) is dedicated to both sales
and marketing departments and here the shared responsibilities of both
works in a collaborative manner.

8. What does Content Marketing stand for?
Before diving into content marketing, we first and foremost acknowledge what
content represents. The word “Content” symbolizes contrasting meanings as it
encompasses blogs, videos, and articles. Infographics, podcasts, social media
posts, and interactive content like quizzes, polls, etc.
After knowing what content stands for, we now come to recognize the true
meaning of Content Marketing. Content Marketing is one of the classifications of
digital marketing and a strategic marketing approach whose entire central point
is on creating, publishing, and distributing valuable, relevant, and compatible
content to clearly define the target audience. Content marketing utilizes content
strategy, value-driven content creation, and promotion to drive profitable user
actions. The entire objective of content marketing rests upon targeting the
specified audience, constructing brand awareness, building trust, and pushing
the consumer through each stage of the buyer’s journey until he/she is reshaped
into a purchaser.

9. There are three paramount verticals of content marketing that play an
essential role here and without these three verticals, content marketing is
insufficient. These verticals are content strategy, content creation, and
content boosting.

10. Content Strategy:
It is the most significant part of content marketing as without a strategy nothing
can be planned accordingly. Content strategy is also known as content marketing
strategy as it is an approach for producing and marketing content. Content
strategy assists the business in setting the goal for a campaign they are targeting,
their target group, planning the content you want to publish, and at last on which
channel you want to publish and boost your content, what would be your
promotion plan, and what metrics business utilizes to track the performance of the
content.

11. Content Creation:
The second pillar in content marketing is content creation is an act of constructing and
sharing information or media content which are concretely reshaped for a particular
audience, especially in a digital environment. The entire process takes into account firstly,
the idea generation phase in which, what will be the title of the content needs to be taken
care of. In this phase, a collaboration of brainstorming about the same is supervised. When
the content writer has decided upon the idea of the topic, then, the next phase comes into
play, which is the research phase in which gathering information on the topic to make sure
the accuracy and relevance part of the content. Then crafting the content in the form of a
blog, article, etc. Making the creative representation in the form of infographics, images, and
videos can aid the content for the prospective audience to have a better understanding of
the topic. In all these, you all are thinking about which is the most crucial component here.
The explanation is for every content writer this is of the utmost significant component which
is before publishing the content anywhere, they must review their content, by following this,
if there is a requirement of any kind of refinement, they can perform it which in turn
strengthen the clarity, coherence, and quality of the content. The final phase is publishing it
on the targeted channels like website, social media, etc. Choosing the right keywords is a key
component in content creation.

12. Content Promotion:
It is a strategic marketing approach whose center of attention is on
creating, publishing, and administering valuable, relevant, and consistent
content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience and ultimately
drive profitable user actions. Fundamentally, content promotion is a
strategy being used in search engine optimization to expand the visibility
and reach of content. Content promotion authorizes the content to reach
the audience having the involvement of generating backlinks from
elevated authority sites, promoting it on numerous channels, and at last
getting engagement on your content.

13. Search Engine Optimization was established for “What”?
The term “SEO” is in hype these days as multiple businesses are utilizing
it, ultimately resulting in better engagement and generation of leads.
Still, some newcomers are not aware of its actual meaning and how it
works. Let’s take on board that the term “SEO” incorporates three words
namely: search, engine, and optimization. The world at large exploits
search engines in their daily life to explore whatever they are interested
in. The word “Optimization” encapsulates everything on which SEO can
be understood. The actual meaning of “Optimization” signifies the
process or methodology of creating something as effective, perfect, or
functional as possible.
Search Engine Optimization is the process of revamping the quality and
quantity of website traffic by enhancing the visibility of a website or
webpage. The techniques that SEO makes use of are On-page and Off-
page assist in getting more traffic to the website.

14. Search engines like Bing, Yahoo, and Google take advantage of search
engine optimization to determine the relevance and ranking of websites
in their search results. Out of all the three search engines, Google is the
most widely used search engine. Google search works in three phases.

15. Crawling: In the world of SEO, Crawling implies “following your links”. It is a
process by which search engines send bots, crawlers, or spiders to “read” the
latest content. These Google spiders, or bots crawl your website along with
zillions of others to fetch information about them. According to research
conducted, it reflects that in the year 2008, Google crawled 1 trillion pages,
trailed by 2013 it leaped to 30 trillion pages, and 2017 showed the figure of
130 trillion.

Indexing: After the crawler collects the data, the result is listed on the web
search (often called Google’s index). Indexing is the process where search
engines orderly collect, analyze, and store information from webpages to
involve in their extensive databases. This implies that crawling and indexing
is a step-by-step process.
Search Engine Result Page: When both the above steps are carried out,
then, comes the last part where Google displays the best possible search
result when a user enters a query. SERP includes two types of searches:
Paid Searches: These are primarily advertisements that appear on the SERP.
They are ranked according to their relevance and bid amount.
Organic Searches: These are purely based on search engine algorithms
without any paid influence. They are ranked by relevance to the search query.

16. Keyword research plays an essential role in ranking search results. The
meaning indicates, a process of identifying and analyzing the words and
phrases that people usually use in their search engines. There are three
types of keywords: awareness, navigational and transactional.
Awareness keywords are used by potential users who are at the beginning
stage of the buyer’s journey. At this stage, the users are not well aware of
the products or services offered by the brands but are starting to recognize
an interest or need for the same. The ultimate goal of these keywords is to
capture attention and build awareness about a problem or topic.
Navigational keywords are the keywords that are used when the user
intends to find out about a specific website. These types of keywords often
comprise brand names, product names, or particular URLs. Facebook login or
YouTube homepage are some of the examples of it. Transactional keywords
are keywords used for the purchase or completing a transaction when the
end user is all prepared. Buy, purchase, discount, coupons, orders are
common examples of it.

17. Classification of Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization is further classified into two
basic types: On-page and ­Off-page.

18. On-page SEO
On-page SEO is also known as on-site SEO. It is a practice of
optimizing an individual webpage to enhance its search
engine ranking and earn organic traffic.
This encompasses a variety of techniques and strategies.
The key components being included were:

19. Content Optimization: Optimizing the content and ensuring that the
content is relevant, contains the right keywords, and is of high
quality.
HTML source code Optimization: Utilizing the proper tags, such as
title tags, meta description, header tags (H1, H2, etc.), and alt text
for images.
URL structure: Make sure to create clean and descriptive URLs that
include the relevant and applicable keywords.
Mobile Responsiveness: It is an important component of On-page
SEO as it directly affects both user experience and search engine
ranking. Make sure that the website is mobile-friendly and
accessible in all mobile devices

20. Off-page SEO
Off-page SEO refers to the strategies and activities that occur
outside of the website whose ultimate goal is to boost search
ranking and online visibility. It includes optimizing factors not
personally controlled by the website owner but have a direct
influence on (E-E-A-T) which stands for Experience, Expertise,
Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness.

21. Key elements included in Off-page SEO were:
Link Building: Backlinks act as a “vote of confidence” from other sites,
indicating to search engines the credibility and authority of the linked site.
Social Media Management: Having active participation on social media
platforms such as LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, etc. would escalate brand
awareness, drive traffic, and in the end indicate content relevance and
popularity.
Influencer Marketing: Collaborating with leading influencers and leaders of
the industry leads to amplifying of brand exposure, backlinks generation,
and enhancement of online authority.
Content Marketing: Crafting and promoting high-quality, shareable content
which can result in end users knowing more about the brands and latest
industry news.

22. Collaborative efforts of Content Marketing and Search
Engine Optimization
Content Marketing and Search Engine Optimization are closely related to
each other as each strengthens the other to drive organic traffic, enhance
user experience, and achieve higher search engine ranking. The collaborative
efforts of both concepts reflect the best results with the integration of a few
things such as Keyword research, Content quality and Relevance, Backlink
generation, Improved user experience, and consistent content updates.

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