Measuring Content Marketing - Branded3 & Sky at #FigDigConf

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Measuring Content Marketing Stephen Kenwright Director of Search at Branded3 Jack Cornwall Senior SEO Specialist at Sky

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Measuring Content MarketingStephen Kenwright Director of Search at Branded3

Jack Cornwall Senior SEO Specialist at Sky

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“~80% of B2C marketers plan to produce more content in 2016…regardless of effectiveness

[or] clarity of success.”

Source: Content Marketing Institute

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Export a crawl

Screaming Frog SEO Spider (£99/year)

screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide

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Export from Analytics

Behavior > Site Content > All Pages(Remember to change date range!)

Export to .csv and copy into workbook (new sheet)

=VLOOKUP

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Bounce Rate

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Page Views

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Bounce rate improved by 31%Average Time on Site

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Bounce rate improved by 31%Conversions

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It really doesn’t help you if old posts have social shares

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Twitter has turned off share counts in its buttons anyway

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It’s nearly impossible to earn links without link building

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Add columns to ExcelKeep Needs Rewrite Issues Actions

Y Y Poor copy Rewrite copy

Y Y Poor copy under tabs Rewrite copy under tabs

Y N

Y N No quotes from senior team Add 2 quotes

Y N

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Y Y Copy is shorter than other pages / no quotes from senior team Extend copy / Add 2 quotes

N N

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N N Add paragraph breaks

N N Similar page already exists 301

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Y Y Language too colloquial Formalise copy

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Y Y Thin content Provide additional information about the link

Y Y Irrelevant copy Move copy to relevant page / create new copy

Y N Copy is too dense Create additional paragraph breaks

N N Doorway page 301

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ColumnsMust have:• Title 1 (Title tag) Screaming Frog

• URL Screaming Frog

• Status Code Screaming Frog

• Canonical Link Element 1 Screaming Frog

• Pageviews Analytics

• Avg. Time on Page Analytics

• Bounce Rate Analytics

Nice to have:• Title 1 Length Screaming Frog

• Title 1 Pixel Width Screaming Frog

• Meta Description Screaming Frog

• Meta Robots Screaming Frog

• Word Count Screaming Frog

• Backlinks Open Site Explorer / Ahrefs / Webmaster Tools

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Indexation

How to find out:site:search

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Duplication

Duplicate meta data

Aggregated pages

Disclaimers

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Use 301 redirects to get rid of old content, not 404 response codes

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The fold

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Top heavy

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Cite your sources

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Trust signals

Contact information / address clearly displayed on the page

About Us (not just for conversions – Panda too)

Author name / photo

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Desktop click through rate

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Google Organic Est. Non-Brand Horizon Traffic Index

Non-brand keyword traffic

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UK Travel Insurance Industry: April 2015

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UK Travel Insurance Industry: May 2015

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How does this work

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How does this not work• A page ranking for too many keywords• The wrong pages ranking

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Thank [email protected] @stekenwright branded3.com

[email protected] @JackDCornwall sky.com