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Google Demystified: Here’s How A.R. Marketing House Creates Content that Aligns with Google’s Mission

Google Demystified: Here’s How A.R. Marketing House Creates Content that Aligns with Google’s Mission

Great Content = Great Google Ranking

Just as the caliber of your character matters for customer relationships, it matters to Google and here’s why… Google is continually evaluating website content based on relevance and quality, so too are the people using Google. What does that mean? It means that as we move closer and closer to a marketing structure that really caters to people’s needs, we train Google how to register those met needs, just the same. It’s safer to assume quality means EVERYTHING and increasingly so. However, here’s a quick reference guide to give you a better idea of what that looks like.

 

Key Points for Q.A. based on Google’s Mission

  •    High-quality, high-value content
  •    Great content formatting that is easy to interact with
  •    Superb user experience (UX)
  •    Eliminating any aggressive and/or deceptive advertising
  •    Fixing any and all on-site SEO issues

 

How does Google Judge Content?

A good rule of thumb is to improve quality content across the board and over the long run for your efforts to be realized by Google. You will want to have marketing staff and content professionals conduct a full content audit then update old blogs using your new high-quality, no more excuses rubric.

 

1.Content Formatting

According to Google, the best general formatting for your blog as well as other website content needs to include:

  •   Superb headlines and meaningful subheadlines
  •   Readable, well-formatted text (both for Google and your readers)
  •   Catchy and honest introduction with a lead-in question
  •   A body with rich information that is unique and valuable to viewers
  •   A bold, actionable, and helpful conclusion that empowers the reader with a propelled sense of knowledge toward a particular action.
  •   A place for leaving feedback to allow for extended discussions, unanswered questions, or handling rebuttals of your process or logic
  •   But wait! Don’t forget images, video, and gifs. You will need to make sure each has a purpose, place, and presence that matches the intention of your content and is correctly formatted

 

2.Length of Content

how long should your content be according to google? A.R. Marketing House

Not too short when it should be longer, not too long when the answer should be short and direct. In other words, maintaining integrity in the length of your content. When developing your content, treat it as if you are sharing the information with someone famous that you’ve always admired, just pick someone, whether dead or alive. Think about the conversation you would have with that ultra-important person. Would you overindulge on a topic that only requires direct answers? Would you be too brief on a matter that needs a little legwork to explain and get the breadth of your point across?

The point is, if you’re maintaining integrity with the length of your content, you will be maintaining integrity with people and with Google. When you do this, you won’t need to reassess your content every time there is an algorithmic change.

 

3.Duplicate Content

There are rules to the content game, my friends. Those rules include not making multiple copies of the same content and spreading it across various channels for the sole sake of increasing your presence. With that said, it’s also not sufficient to change up a bit of the headline, text, or a little unimportant something just to say it’s different. There are ways to funnel your content to various channels like LinkedIn or Medium without raising red flags, however, you will need a conscientious team to know how and when to execute this. Heed the correct methods for sharing content on multiple platforms according to Google standards, using the tools available on each of those platforms.

 

4.Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent

Does your content team have the journalism chops to compete with Forbes and The New Yorker? This may seem like the standards of a heaven-sent content creator but if you want to be competitive in the future online market, this will need to be the trajectory for the intellectual and creative output of your team. Are they savvy, well-read, up-to-date on a variety of topics that will influence your content like industry history, nuances, and public opinion?

Figuring out if you have the right content team will require that CMOs and Directors, 1) find the curious team with the intellectual capacity to think of topics in a newsworthy way, a group they can trust that will keep all company goals in mind while developing a creative edge for company content and 2) give your team the creative flexibility they will need to find new and innovative ways to make your brand shine with your content.

 

5. Bonus…

Involve policy and education in your educational content marketing | A.R. Marketing House

 

Involve Lobbyists in your Educational Content tactics!

One huge way to leap over the competition and help your industry as a whole is to connect with lobbyists in your field.  Become the go-to source and deliver content in the form of presentations, graphs, data-to-content, reports, and other helpful evidence. This can be used for lobbyists to do their job better while illustrating their key points for proliferation and protection of your industry in Congress.

It’s not enough to offer solutions, sometimes you have to realize the historical underpinnings of your industry in order to deliver relevant insight to people. Then, you have to apply your efforts collectively to push the movement in your industry, forward. Double down on educational content and political action for a winning combination that addresses both the long-term and short-term goals of your company as well as your industry as a whole.

 

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Factory Seconds: Easy Data, Unique Stories

Factory Seconds: Easy Data, Unique Stories

Waste not, want not — Big Marketing Plans with Leftover Factory Seconds Data.

Dredging up unique, shareable content to keep your audience engaged is a constant struggle for many companies and non-profits. Using factory seconds can solve your content crisis and boost your uniqueness factor.

What are Factory Seconds? Factory Seconds is a retail term used to describe imperfect products that cannot be sold at full price to the primary buyer, so a second buyer’s stream is created to sell these imperfect items at a lower cost through a secondary channel (think Marshall’s, Ross, or any other discount store).

What are Factory Seconds Data? Taking the idea of Factory Seconds and applying it to data means any data that you collect as a by-product of doing business. You can then repurpose this data and develop it into very unique, highly shareable stories that can improve your reach and ROI. For example, let’s look at an ice cream shop. As a by-product of data collected in sales receipts for the ice cream shop you know what ice cream flavors are popular for what seasons and on special holidays.  Yes, you can use this information to make better business decisions (Factory First Data), however, you can also turn this data into Factory Seconds by creating interesting content for marketing your ice cream shop. You can do this by answering questions like: is there anything interesting about people’s choices? Is there a spike in particular flavors or patterns on particular days that you can relate to weather, politics, or something else funny or interesting? Turn this into your unique content, you will be known for the compelling stories that you develop around your own Factory Seconds Data!

Where to find your factory seconds – In order to use these nuggets of awesome content, you will need to start a catalog of the various types of data you collect, knowingly and unknowingly, and see what other types of data you have access to (facebook page demographics, other social media that you are followed on, almanacs, weather). Go beyond the demographics of your audience to see what trends are occurring. Here is a list of some places to start:

  • Patient or Client Database, CRM (Customer Relationship Management), etc.
  • Geographical Location Trends
  • Sales Receipts and Invoices
  • Events and Tradeshows in your Industry
  • Product Sales Trends
  • Services Sales Trends

Become the scientist of your Industry. Start to hypothesize some occurrences that you witness and have always had a hunch about and see if you have the data to possibly answer some of these questions and then, SHARE IT! People want to know trends, if they are already in the realm of wanting to know your business they will eat this information up and they will appreciate your special insight into your small or huge piece of the world and what that means to them. Make your information relatable, always relate it back to your audience in some way.

Example: Holistic Healthcare. Here is an industry-specific example of where you can start to harvest your Factory Seconds Data:

Your Patient Database. Whoah, whoah now. I am absolutely not implying that you break any kind of Privacy Laws. There are many ways to “de-identify” your patient list prior to any kind of data analysis. Here’s a link to the HIPPA Compliant De-identify Process before you get started.

Okay, now that you feel safe again, after you de-identify your patient database, sift through some measurements and see if you can find trends or any story in your data set based on local geography, a specific demographic, a particular ailment, specific treatments, etc. Once you have listed out the various stories your data can tell, develop that data into content (articles, stories, infographics, etc.) You can share this information with local or national news sources and develop yourself as a true Industry Leader.

The holistic healthcare industry is ripe for these types of Factory Seconds. Mainstream healthcare has so many widely shared studies, and research facilities validating health processes and procedures, but what about holistic practitioners? There is a huge lack of evidence-based information available to the droves of people who wish to learn more about natural paths to health and healing.

Factory Seconds are our favorite types of content to develop!  You never know what kind of amazingly unique stories you will discover from your data. Inspired to geek out now? Click the link below to start the process of developing your Factory Seconds Data into content. Or, you can always enlist our help!

 

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