From elevated brand awareness and customer engagement to increased website traffic, conversions, and search engine rankings, quality, engaging content marketing can offer a wide range of business benefits. Whether in the form of blog posts, infographics, or short videos, creating quality content helps your business stand out in the crowded digital landscape we find ourselves.
Elevated Brand Awareness
Brand awareness refers to the level at which consumers are familiar with your brand, goods, or services. If you want to increase brand awareness, creating engaging content is one of the most powerful methods to achieve that marketing goal. Engaging content marketing captures your preferred audiences’ attention, keeps them interested, and makes them more likely to share the content with their friends and followers.
Similarly, with quality content posted to social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, you’re better positioned to grow your social media engagement. The more likes, comments, and shares of your social media content, the more people you reach.
Improved Customer Engagement
Content marketing that encourages your audience to interact with your brand is trending for brands in 2023. That looks like users commenting on your social media posts, sharing your content with their friends and followers, or leaving reviews on your website or Google business profile.
Some tips to help improve customer engagement with your content include understanding your audience’s preferences, interests, and pain points. The goal here is to create content you know will resonate with your target audience.
Another thing you might want to ask yourself is whether the content you are publishing is valuable to your audience: Is it
- Informative?
- Educational?
- Actionable?
Further, using various media to engage your audience can help keep viewers immersed and responsive.
Better Search Engine Rankings
Content refined for search engines like Google rewards your website’s search engine rankings, increasing your site’s visibility and attracting more traffic. Google’s complex algorithm influences the rankings of websites in search engine results pages (SERPs). While the particulars of their algorithm are not publicized, we know there are specific content aspects to pay attention to, including relevance, quality, user experience, backlinks, freshness, and multimedia.
Stay tuned for a detailed blog post about search engine optimization (SEO) best practices soon, or learn more now with Google’s SEO Starter Guide.
Increased Conversions
Regularly putting out content that resonates with your audience and acknowledges their pain points makes you more likely to convert them into customers. Why? Because such content is valuable in a digital landscape that is inundated with noise, helping audiences better make informed purchasing decisions. Moreover, trust and credibility come hand in hand with consistent content output.
Build Trust and Credibility
Being consistent is critical if you want to establish your business’s voice and presence in your industry within the digital arena. Consistency in messaging as well as the time and date of your posts, will impact how your preferred audience perceives your business. Potential customers and those returning will be more likely to do business with you because they’ll trust that you will be there to provide a service or product they need when they need it.
