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sifatahmed
Jan 19, 2022
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Search marketing strategy is undoubtedly vital for most B2B brands today, yet there are several elements that play important roles in its ultimate success that may surprise you. Leading the search engine optimization (SEO) program for a major brand is a vital role that’s only taken on greater importance over the years, as even the rise of social media marketing hasn’t eliminated the need for B2B marketers to have a strong search marketing strategy. With search marketing influencers at top brands facing a nearly constant barrage of new SEO challenges, how do smart search industry leaders build successful campaigns? Non-paid organic search efforts have some of the lowest website visitor traffic bounce rates for B2B and B2C campaigns alike, which is why SEO practitioners at major firms continue to play such an important role in successful marketing efforts. Organic Search Traffic Chart Having a sound search marketing strategy comes not only from long-standing traditional on-page technical elements, but more than ever before three additional tactics working together help to build a new type of cohesive SEO success: Building a Best-Answer Content Strategy Utilizing Knowledgeable Industry Experts for Influencer Marketing Tracking & Adjusting to Search Industry Changes Let’s take a look at each of these three key areas that combine to form the type of strong search strategy that top B2B marketing leaders rely on, and then we’ll look at 14 search innovators working at major brands. Building a Best-Answer Content Strategy Part of building a successful best-answer content strategy is learning the questions that your audience is asking: What is your audience looking for? How is your audience searching for answers? Where are they looking? Getting to the heart of the questions that are most important to your audience is a powerful way to provide what we like to call best-answer solutions. Learning what your audience is searching for, where they’re looking, and how they are going about their searches is an entire branch of search marketing, and a number of dedicated tools exist to help in this area, as I cover in “10 Smart Question Research Tools for B2B Marketers,” including offerings such as SEMrush’s helpful empathy map. SEMrush empathy map image. “How can you be the best answer for your audience if you don’t understand what questions they’re asking or what problems they’re trying to solve?” — Lane R. Ellis @lanerellisCLICK TO TWEET To help you create or expand you own best-answer content strategy, we’ve gathered together four resource articles our team has written about the various aspects of building great content that instills trust: The Science and Art of Best Answer B2B Marketing Content Trust Factors: How Best Answer Content Fuels Brand Credibility How B2B Marketers Can Win at Search with Best Answer Content How A Best Answer Content Strategy Drives B2B Marketing Results Utilizing Knowledgeable Industry Experts for Influencer Marketing Influencer marketing may not initially spring to mind when looking for areas important to search efforts, yet it can have tremendous impact on both paid and 工作职能邮件数据库 organic efforts. Brands that haven’t yet utilized B2B influencer marketing have the most to gain. B2B influencer marketing is at the core of the services we’re known for at TopRank Marketing, providing successful programs and campaigns to major firms from LinkedIn and Adobe to Dell and 3M. Such successes led Forrester to list us as the only B2B marketing agency offering influencer marketing as a top capability in its “B2B Marketing Agencies, North America, Q1 2019” report.” Successful B2B influencer marketing uses knowledgeable industry experts to increase trust, create best-answer content, and offer customer experiences that are tailor-made for increasing search findability. You can dig in and explore some of our top recent influencer marketing articles, including the factors that go into making a great B2B influencer, here: 5 Key Traits of the Best B2B Influencers 25 B2B Influencer Marketing Campaign & Engagement Ideas for 2020 Optimizing ABM with Influencer Marketing “Influencer marketing may not initially spring to mind when looking for areas important to search efforts, yet it can have tremendous impact on both paid and organic efforts.” @lanerellisCLICK TO TWEET Tracking & Adjusting to Search Industry Changes The search marketing industry has been one of rapid changes since the days of Alta Vista, and keeping up-to-date with the ever-shifting machinations and technical intricacies can be a full-time job for top B2B SEO leaders. I remember in the late 1990s when my old friend Brett Tabke — who used to call my 300-baud computer bulletin board system back in the 1980s — first started holding informal gatherings of webmasters and search industry professionals, a move that led to forming Pubcon, now one of the longest-running search-related conferences. In-person networking events are hard to beat for not on
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