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If you publish at least two articles, e.g. blog posts on your website per week and thus your sitemap grows piece by piece, this shows Google and other search engines that you continuously provide up-to-date information that potentially has a higher benefit for users. In the best case, you will benefit from a better, i.e. higher, search engine ranking - ideally on the first page - and thus receive more free search engine traffic, so-called organic traffic.
As is true everywhere, staying on the ball pays off
In the short term, the effect may seem small to you. But consider how quickly two articles a week and 52 weeks a year can add up to a triple-digit number of articles or blogposts. 100 opportunities per year to find and engage relevant prospects with entertaining copy on your topic and products. You often leave your competitors far behind in this regard.
Already after a few years you have considered and described your topic from all possible angles, pointed out all typical mistakes, created FAQs and How-To's for beginners, always discussed the latest innovations and thus created over time an article catalog and archive, from which you can benefit in the long term and that will help you in the long run to more visitors, prospects and customers (so-called long tail content).
This evergreen content forms the basis, the foundation for your future business success. So it's worth investing in content creation.
There are various sources and strategies for generating leads (both as a B2B and as a provider in the end customer business). Basically, a distinction can be made between unpaid (so-called organic) and paid sources of leads, e.g. in the form of Google Ads.
The situation for most companies and providers in the B2B sector is as follows: There is strong competition/stiff competition in the respective niche, high click prices, escalating marketing budgets as well as ad campaigns that do not work. The downward spiral of ever increasing costs with ever poorer conversion rates is supposed to be stopped with a further increase in the marketing budget - which often enough fails.
But what is the alternative to expensive online marketing?
With the help of so-called content marketing, you provide potential prospects and customers with free knowledge with added value and thus create trust. The goal is that the customers in spé deal longer with your offer and do not leave your website after a few seconds, but click through your website. The more articles, i.e. content, you provide on your website, the more this testifies to competence in your respective field and will increase the likelihood of a purchase.
In the best case, you manage to get interested parties to sign up for your newsletter, for example, to be informed about future discount promotions, make an inquiry via contact form or phone. It is important to obtain their consent to be contacted in order to be able to contact them in the future in the so-called follow-up process and to convert them into customers in the long term. After all, the majority of B2B customers only buy after the second, third or fourth contact. Here, it is also important to understand the so-called sales cycle in the business-to-business business.
If you have managed to direct interested parties to your site through thematically relevant articles or blogpots, the first hurdle has been cleared. Therefore, think about how you can maximize the number of visitors who come to your site for free (so-called organic traffic). These can be, for example, articles with titles that consist of specific questions as potential customers enter them in Google or other search engines, articles about current news in your industry or niche, product news or reviews.
As already discussed here, the costs for online marketing in the B2B sector are dizzyingly high and the number of actual clicks is vanishingly small due to ad blockers and & co.
With given completion rate, English conversion rate, of 1-3% of ad clicks on average, it usually cannot pay off to generate B2B customers via search engine advertising.
An alternative customer acquisition strategy is the so-called content marketing. Here the production of articles and texts is meant, which of potential customers googgelte topics and terms and/or keywords beeinhaltet.
Content is King.
With the content strategy you have the opportunity - provided you can regularly create and provide relevant content for your target audience - to get organic traffic via the search engines for free, i.e. at least without any further advertising budget.
For this purpose, a blog area has been established on the website itself, where new content, how to's, definitions of terms or the like are posted or posted. Another advantage is that all content, with which you provide free added value and insights for your potential customers, can also be subscribed to via rss feed.
Become a customer magnet with the right content strategy
In order for the search engines to reward your efforts for creating, optimally high-quality content, in the form of a better search engine ranking and associated higher traffic, it is necessary that they regularly publish new content and entertaining texts on your website.
Make yourself a concrete plan, when and how often you want to post blogposts or articles on your website and which topics (also: in which order) should be kept. As is true everywhere, you can only expect results if you stay on the ball. Consider exactly who you want to address with your content.
In the first part we have discussed the paid measures in the online marketing area.
Another way to attract traffic, i.e. website visitors - and hopefully enough potential customers - to your website is the so-called content marketing.
Content marketing is all about knowledge, in the form of entertaining and informative articles that you provide to your visitors for free on your website. On the one hand, articles serve as a confidence-building measure, on the other hand, you save the previously mentioned high PPC click prices and can ideally, in addition, through the content and the thematic focus, i.e. also through the selection and use of certain keywords and words, target your desired target group or desired customers better than with the possibilities in Google Ads, for example.
Many B2B companies, agencies and service providers wonder how you can achieve more customer inquiries, leads and sales without increasing your online marketing budget - i.e. Google Ads budget, for example.
One viable way is so-called content marketing. The goal of content marketing is to attract interested parties and potential buyers or customers for your products and services by means of texts (content) like a magnet. This is done with short informative texts, with the help of which you provide your future clientele with a free sample of your competence and expertise. In this way you establish trust and the customer an initial relationship with your offer.
It is important to optimize the texts or your content directly with regard to search engine findability, i.e. they should be created directly search engine optimized (SEO optimized). All thematically relevant keywords must be included in the text. In addition, it is a good idea to use the search queries in question form (Ex. "How to create a press release?"), which potential customers might enter in the search engines such as Google, as headings or subheadings in order to achieve more organic search hits and thus website visitors.
If the texts you create or have written as part of content marketing are thematically relevant, entertaining as well as search engine optimized, there is a good chance that you will receive relevant search queries in the search engines such as Google or Bing - and thus free website visitors - in the future.
You do not have time to create texts for your website, advertising texts (so-called copywriting) or product descriptions? Contact us for a no-obligation quote.