A good content strategy will help bring in a few more website visitors to your site each month

But introducing a great content strategy to your marketing strategies will more than double your current monthly traffic.

Sound too good to be true? Well, we have the results to prove it — as we have averaged an 80% increase in monthly traffic for our clients after implementing our content strategy into their marketing initiatives – in just the first year.

But how do we get there? How does merely writing blogs and publishing new content on your site bring more users to your website?

Let’s break it down.

3 Ways Our Content Strategy Will Drive Leads For You

Google Likes It

When it comes to content marketing, Google is one of your best friends.

Google likes — no, Google LOVES when you consistently roll out new content each week or so.

New, well-written content is a compelling indicator for Google’s algorithm. This type of content shows that your website is both active and is adding new content.

As a reward for publishing new content, Google will also boost your search result rankings over time for your service pages and homepage.

So, let’s say that you’re a home remodeler that has been posting new blogs every week for the past year. Because of your consistency publishing and the quality of the writing, when people are Googling “Home Remodeling Services,” your service pages will get a boost in terms of where they rank.

The Osmosis Effect

We love the power that extensive, deep guide pieces of content can have on your website.

Not only do these broad, in-depth and detailed blogs position you as an expert on the topic, but it also drives up your website’s average “time on site” (or how long the average visitor stays on your site before leaving).

Time on site is an essential metric for search engines when it comes to determining which websites are valuable and which are not.

Search engines like Google see websites that have low time on site averages as being bare-boned and not containing much substance — causing users to leave the website quickly.

However, sites that have more substantial time on site statistics are seen as much more valuable, authoritative, and helpful for Google search users. Therefore, Google will reward your site by increasing rankings for pages similar to those of the in-depth guides you’ve created.

For example, let’s say a pet grooming business created an in-depth blog on all the different styles of cuts you can give a dog. All-in-all, the blog totaled 5,000 words and had some quality images and even a few videos.

After a few months, the page started ranking well for “dog haircut styles” and more and more people found the post and read through it. Google noticed this and subsequently categorized their website as being a quality one that users can trust.

As a result, when people Googled similar keywords — such as “dog grooming services” — their website was rewarded and placed higher up on the search results page.

These deep guides — or moonshot pieces of content as well like to call them — are a great way to lend some credibility to your site, as well as boost your SEO.

Our Content Strategy Process

To achieve results for your business, we have created a tried and true content strategy process. Here is how we do it.

Initial Kick-Off and Understanding Your Ideal Customers

We’ll start things off with the initial kick-off meeting where we’ll get a chance to learn more about your business, as well as your business goals. At this point, we will also discuss your tone and brand voice that you want for your content.

We’ll then work our way towards discussing three of the top ideal customers that you currently have. The purpose of this part of the meeting is to get a better understanding of the customers you serve. Particularly, what their problems were that led them to seek out your business and why they eventually ended up choosing to go with your services or product.

This is similar to the “customer personas” you may have heard of or used in the past. But here at Hook, we like to use actual customers rather than anecdotal, imaginary ones. This ensures accuracy and legitimacy behind our content strategy.

Creative Title Ideation

After documenting your three ideal current customers, we’ll get to work on the creative portion of the content strategy process — which is content title ideation.

Based off of the problems your ideal customers have and the reasons they ultimately came to you, we will create titles for blogs that go from ‘awareness,’ ‘consideration,’ ‘decision,’ to the ‘final push’ stages of the conversion funnel:

Backed With Keyword Research

Of course, we also have to back up our ideation with cold hard stats. That’s where we bring in the keyword research.

Using keyword research, we will find specific keywords that correspond with our creative titles, as well as look for any other opportunities for content.

We specifically look for keywords with high intent, high search volume, and low keyword difficulty (the lower the difficulty, the easier it will be to get you to rank for that specific keyword).

We believe that having both a creative and data-driven mindset with the content strategy.

Once every funnel is filled out for all three ideal customers, we’ll start placing them within our content calendar:

Presentation of Content Calendar

We’ll then present our content calendar to you.

We treat this meeting as a workshop, where we will go through each month and alter any titles than need to be changed.

Reworking to Make Any Adjustments

Once we receive your feedback, we’ll make the necessary adjustments and send the content calendar back for review.

Once you sign-off, we’ll get started on crafting high-quality, high intent content for your site.

Content Strategy: The Ultimate Guide