2. Good Content Marketing is…
Creating & distributing valuable,
relevant, timely and consistent content
to build an audience.
3. Most content gets few shares
and even fewer links
Content Sample Average Total
Shares
Median
Shares
Average
Referring
domain links
Median
Referring
domain links
Random sample
of posts (99,941)
257 8 0.75 0
4. Possible Reasons
• Research – not researching content that
resonates with the audience
• Amplification – no amplification strategy and
assuming people will find your content
• Monitoring - not monitoring trends and
adjusting content or acting quickly enough
5. Content Marketing Strategy
Research
What questions are being
asked
What content is resonating
Current trends
What formats are working
Popular authors
Use alerts to stay updated
What are competitors doing
Identifying content
opportunities
Generating content ideas
Monitoring
Trending content
Current issues
Content benchmarks
Use alerts to track
- New mentions
- New links
- New content published
Amplification
Links, shares & paid
Who is amplifying content
Influencers & outreach
Role of Facebook
11. Create A Competitive Edge
By knowing what content matters to your audience
right now you can:
– be the first to share viral content
– the first to comment and share viewpoints
– create content quickly around the stories that
matter most to your audience
In short, create a deeper level of engagement and build
credibility.
12. Which sites are winning?
Most shared
domains for
content on
Kitchens on
Facebook
13. Track the winning sites
• Review their most shared content
• Be alerted :
– every time they publish new content
– when one of their stories starts to trend
– get a daily digest of their new links
22. What is Working On Facebook?
Use BuzzSumo’s Facebook Analyzer Tool to see trends and top performing content
for any topic or popular Facebook page.
23. What is Working On Facebook?
Example top questions for Halloween
28. Content Marketing Strategy
Research
What questions are being
asked
What content is resonating
Current trends
What formats are working
Popular authors
Use alerts to stay updated
What are competitors doing
Identifying content
opportunities
Generating content ideas
Monitoring
Trending content & issues
Content benchmarks
Use alerts to track
- New mentions
- New links
- New content published
Amplification
Links, shares & paid
Who is amplifying content
Influencers & outreach
Role of Facebook
Shares happen quickly, people move on. Found recently that scheduled content performs far worse than immediate content. Maybe issue has passed or they already seen that article you scheduled for 2 days time.
Content marketing strategy needs these elements
Most shared content on Moz last month
Most shared ‘how to’ posts on content marketing, people sharing how to’s about optimising content in social media
Most shared content on Moz.
Once you have identified them
Most shared content on Moz.
Can turn to buzzsumo and see what is working socially, what is resonating and being shared. Filter by time etc.
Find sharers, build lists
Can also see what content length working, whether network users favor any particular length, as well as day of week published etc.
Create alerts using BuzzSumo to receive notifications to track competitors
Get alerted every time they are mentioned in content