Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n\n- Take a fearless inventory of existing content and review its ability to provide a satisfactory answer for searchers. At larger companies with established volumes of content, it\u2019s helpful to do this by category.<\/li>\n
- Identify topics that are opportunity areas.<\/li>\n
- Brainstorm pain points and problems that need to be solved. Ask your experts what should be used to create a list of new articles.<\/li>\n
- Leverage SEO data for People Also Ask (PAAs), featured snippets, and relevant groupings of keywords. This can be used to fuel new articles or revise existing content.<\/li>\n
- Utilize your content analysis tool for deeper insights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
[Start analyzing your content & win] Instantly access the webinar \u2192<\/a><\/p>\nHow To Craft A Winning Content Strategy<\/h2>\n
Crafting content that wins involves:<\/p>\n
\n- Identifying content that works for you.<\/li>\n
- Quantifying the quality of your current content.<\/li>\n
- Determining if your content is authoritative as well as relevant.<\/li>\n
- Identifying winning competitor content topics.<\/li>\n
- Organizing a content strategy to audit\/clean up existing content.<\/li>\n
- Prioritizing and scheduling new, high-quality, authoritative content based on findings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
As you prepare for next year with your overall content strategies, you\u2019ll want to start with goals.<\/p>\n
So, let\u2019s dive in!<\/p>\n
Step 1: Gather Your Own Ranking Data<\/h3>\n
Start by performing a gap analysis of your own content.<\/p>\n
Doing a practical gap analysis that gives you true insights requires different data sources.<\/p>\n
So, begin by gathering data from:<\/p>\n
\n- Google Analytics.<\/li>\n
- Search Console.<\/li>\n
- Your 3rd-party SEO data tool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Use the outcomes of this data for step 2.<\/p>\n
[Get detailed instructions] Instantly access the webinar \u2192<\/a><\/p>\nStep 2: Qualify Your Content & Ranking Data<\/h3>\n
Now, to expand your strategies beyond the data, you\u2019ll need to look at two different sides of your outcome:<\/p>\n
\n- Your valuable content.<\/li>\n
- Sections of your site that people navigate to most often.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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CopyPress, November 2022<\/span><\/div>\nThese numbers can help inform your strategies, but first, you\u2019ll need to take the next step.<\/p>\n
Step 3: Quantify Your Content Quality<\/h3>\n
Take a moment to critically read your content.<\/p>\n
Then, instead of creating additional using the same techniques that may be harming you, such as walls of text, consider the questions people are searching for and the answers they want.<\/p>\n
To create higher-quality content, stop and ask what is the question you\u2019re trying to answer \u2013 and did you respond to it effectively?<\/p>\n
The intent of that query is going to inform your content.<\/p>\n
[Learn how swapping walls of text for search intent can boost your content quality] Instantly access the webinar \u2192<\/a><\/p>\nStep 4: Identify Competitors<\/h3>\n
Next, it\u2019s time to see what your competitors are ranking for that you aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Is there anything you\u2019re writing about that\u2019s not hitting the mark?<\/p>\n
Start by looking at your three kinds of competitors:<\/p>\n
\n- Direct competitors.<\/li>\n
- Indirect competitors.<\/li>\n
- Search competitors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Once you know who your competitors are, it\u2019s time to perform a keyword gap analysis.<\/p>\n
[Get the keyword gap analysis process steps, now] Instantly access the webinar \u2192<\/a><\/p>\nStep 5: Group Your Gap Keywords Into Topics<\/h3>\n
Focus on search visibility through a competitor keyword gap analysis<\/strong>.<\/p>\nList the words and phrases that multiple competitor sites currently rank for and that your site underperforms for.<\/p>\n
Note that gap analysis is different from competitive analysis.<\/p>\n
[Start analyzing your content & win] Instantly access the webinar \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n Crafting content that wins involves:<\/p>\n As you prepare for next year with your overall content strategies, you\u2019ll want to start with goals.<\/p>\n So, let\u2019s dive in!<\/p>\n Start by performing a gap analysis of your own content.<\/p>\n Doing a practical gap analysis that gives you true insights requires different data sources.<\/p>\n So, begin by gathering data from:<\/p>\n Use the outcomes of this data for step 2.<\/p>\n [Get detailed instructions] Instantly access the webinar \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n Now, to expand your strategies beyond the data, you\u2019ll need to look at two different sides of your outcome:<\/p>\n These numbers can help inform your strategies, but first, you\u2019ll need to take the next step.<\/p>\n Take a moment to critically read your content.<\/p>\n Then, instead of creating additional using the same techniques that may be harming you, such as walls of text, consider the questions people are searching for and the answers they want.<\/p>\n To create higher-quality content, stop and ask what is the question you\u2019re trying to answer \u2013 and did you respond to it effectively?<\/p>\n The intent of that query is going to inform your content.<\/p>\n [Learn how swapping walls of text for search intent can boost your content quality] Instantly access the webinar \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n Next, it\u2019s time to see what your competitors are ranking for that you aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n Is there anything you\u2019re writing about that\u2019s not hitting the mark?<\/p>\n Start by looking at your three kinds of competitors:<\/p>\n Once you know who your competitors are, it\u2019s time to perform a keyword gap analysis.<\/p>\n [Get the keyword gap analysis process steps, now] Instantly access the webinar \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n Focus on search visibility through a competitor keyword gap analysis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n List the words and phrases that multiple competitor sites currently rank for and that your site underperforms for.<\/p>\n Note that gap analysis is different from competitive analysis.<\/p>\nHow To Craft A Winning Content Strategy<\/h2>\n
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Step 1: Gather Your Own Ranking Data<\/h3>\n
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Step 2: Qualify Your Content & Ranking Data<\/h3>\n
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CopyPress, November 2022<\/span><\/div>\nStep 3: Quantify Your Content Quality<\/h3>\n
Step 4: Identify Competitors<\/h3>\n
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Step 5: Group Your Gap Keywords Into Topics<\/h3>\n
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