You’ve created content for real shoppers to discover your store, but do you know if your hard work has been paying off?
Is your expensive, time-consuming long content and link building creating conversions and generating sales?
Most content is not driving conversions because it does not address how people search, their buying questions, nor what motivates those real people to buy.
On September 21, I moderated a webinar by Duane Sprague, Chief Marketing Officer of Shopper Approved, and James Arnold, Co-Founder of Answerbase.
They showed how to easily understand real-world shoppers’ search intents and create measurable, high-converting content that truly increases revenue.
Here is a summary of the webinar. To access the entire presentation, complete the form.
To understand real-world shopper intent and create high-converting content, you should:
All three of Google’s latest updates (Helpful Content Update, September’s Core Update, and Product Review Update) are all saying the same thing:
Google wants to provide content that is useful and helpful to the consumer.
So if you are not answering a question, providing a solution, nor providing quality content, neither Google nor consumers will care. And it certainly isn’t going to drive conversions.
Think about putting yourself in the mind of your target audience.
If you can answer those with quality, thoughtful, and accurate answers, then Google will care greatly about it.
Traditionally, you would ask your sales or customer service team what questions customers are asking, but sometimes, that can be hard to scale.
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To best answer customers’ questions, it’s essential to understand what they’re looking for.
Typically, your potential customers aren’t searching for your products directly.
Instead, they’re searching for questions that they want to be answered.
So your goal is to figure out these questions and create content that answers them.
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Begin to identify your customers’ high purchase-intent questions. These will be questions about your brand, category, and products that your future customers have throughout their buyer journey.
You can discover these questions by researching your customers, various search engines, and your competitors.
This approach gives you the proper phrases and questions people ask about your brand, product, or keywords, which naturally increases your chances of appearing in organic search results.
A Google study found that this mind map is how people search when they’re starting to shop.
They use search modifiers to find the right fit, answer, product, and solution.
People don’t necessarily start high level and then end up with a price. Instead, they bounce back and forth here and there, but ultimately they will cover most search modifiers.
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Content and SEO efforts should start with providing helpful answers to real customer questions.
Here’s what people want to know in each part of their journey:
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You can create valuable, helpful content when you know what your current customers are asking and what your potential customers are looking for.
The sweet spot is in between, and technology makes it much easier to quickly identify what these questions are.
Where do you start?
Step 1: Identify your current customer’s questions.
Step 2: Fill in any “Customer Content Demand” gaps.
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Effectively answering your customer’s questions and leveraging that helpful content leads to new visitors and conversions to your site.
By matching specific Q&A information to conversions, you’re also better informed on when investing in expanded content is profitable.
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Here’s the presentation:
Shaubhik Ray, Senior Director of Digital Analytics at iQuanti, explains how you can improve your ability to predict the success of your marketing programs.
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Featured Image: Paulo Bobita/Search Engine Journal
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