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Content marketing for SEO professionals

Content crucial for quality websites

Content informs, teaches, and builds relationships with an audience; it is crucial for a good website.  White label seo services professionals at the SEMNE event on Sept. 15, 2010, listened as Dianna Huff of DHCommunications spoke on how quality content increases a website’s search engine popularity.

Content marketing primer for SEO professionals

 

Follow along with Dianna Huff’s slideshow.

“We are all publishers now”

  • DIY PR
  • WordPress
  • Social Media
  • User reviews

What drives content?

  • Social Media
  • Recommendations
  • Universal search
  • People looking for products/services

Website visitors have questions

  • Does this company offer what I’m looking for?
  • Can it solve my problem?
  • Who else has the company done business with?
  • Is there something I can show my team/boos?
  • What should I do next?

How do you help clients come up with content?

  • Think like a reporter; develop a beat.
  • Where do I get story ideas
  • Ask customers what they want and cater to them.
  • Create FAQs, How-to guides, product comparisons, blog posts
  • Look for themes that could be built from one-off variations on keywords
  • Study web analytics
  • Survey people
  • Study social media trends

Create reports, comparison charts, articles, how-to guides to convert people to your products and services.

Search Marketing Careers with Tim Dineen of OnwardSearch at SEMNE


Search Marketing Careers with Tim Dineen, VP of Internet Marketing, OnwardSearch at SEMNE

The upside

  • SEM spending projected to double by 2011
  • In 2012 Interactive marketing will reach $61 billion, SEM will triple over next 5 years

The upside for candidates, downside for employers

  • Lack of feeder programs to meet demand
  • Education is lacking outside of trade shows
  • 64% of companies say finding SEO specialist is harder than other specialists


Average salaries

  • SEO $71K
  • SEM $68K
  • Social Media Marketing $61K


Useful sites

  • Indeed.com
  • Simplyhired.com
  • Craigslist not included in job search engine


Even if salary not specified, Indeed.com will try to estimate the salary

LinkedIn job search will also show you who you may be linked with in that company