Are you writing web content? If so, your primary aim is to get your content read.
As you know competition is becoming heavy online, so you can no longer assume that readers will flock to your site automatically.
Let's look at four ways you can get your content read.
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Make Your Content Relevant to Your Audience Start by finding out exactly what your audience wants.
Your content must be relevant to them, and useful.
What are people searching for online in your industry? If you're promoting your own business, think about what your customers want to know about your industry in general, and about you in particular.
Make a list of the questions you're asked about your business.
Educating your customers leads to sales.
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Get It Found: Advertising Primes the Pump The easiest way to get your content found and read is to promote it via advertising.
You can use Pay Per Click, or other forms of advertising.
If money is tight, consider classified ads both online and off-line.
The price is reasonable, and your content will be read.
Set aside a portion of your marketing budget to advertise your content.
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Interact on the Social Media Sites to Win Followers Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are constantly in the news.
This means that their influence is expanding.
Once your customers expected you to have a website; now they expect you to be active on the social media sites.
Interacting on the social media sites is a great way to get a jump on your competition.
Set up alerts for your company name on these sites and make sure that you have your own pages there.
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Forget Tricks: Use Marketing Techniques For the past few years, search engine optimization (SEO) has been all the rage.
Unfortunately nowadays the first ten spots for competitive keywords are filled with companies which have million-dollar budgets, or which have considerable longevity online.
While search engine optimization is still important, there aren't any tricks which will easily get you to the front page of the search engine results for competitive queries.
These days you need to focus on straightforward marketing techniques, rather than search for nonexistent tricks.