2019 promises to be a year of customer-driven marketing techniques that will make for great SEO content marketing should you be ready to rise to the challenge.

You need to ensure that your content is ranked highly in SEO and brings traffic and leads. The best way to do this is to always bring it back to the reader. Remember that they are the most important people in your business and your aim should be to establish a long-term relationship with them.

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Don’t listen to wannabe trendsetters who claim that Facebook is dying. Statistics tell us that it is quite the contrary. In fact, 93.7% of businesses are active on Facebook and we can all learn a thing or two from the data that this provides us with.

We have compiled a few actionable and useful tips that will help you in creating your best SEO content for 2019. Make 2019 a momentous year and step up to the challenge by keeping a few of these promises to yourself:

1. Targeted keywords​

We hear ‘targeted keywords’ thrown around a lot, but do you really know what they mean?

By researching your audience and discovering where they go online, you can talk to them and find statistics on personal habits and preferences.

Research your keywords and discover if they overlap with your audience’s preferences.

And finally, research your topic so that you can provide your audience with the knowledge that they want to know.

By doing these three research tasks, you are effectively answering the following key questions and creating targeted keywords:

-Who is my audience?

-What do they want to know?

-Why do they need to know?

-Which words are they using to ask for this information online?​

2. Delete Useless Content​

By deleting content that is too short, irrelevant, outdated, and unpopular and redirecting followers to your new and updated content will not only allow a more cohesive user experience for you and your customers, but it will also boost ranks.

Sometimes it is not important to constantly create content if the content is not relevant. Remember that the audience’s response is more important as engagement and feedback provides you with more positive results than anything else.

Have struggled with decluttering your content? Check out this awesome blog post published in Foundation: ​What Marie Kondo Can Teach B2B Companies About Content Creation

Source: foundationinc.co

3. A Picture Says 1000 Words​

Video and imagery aren’t going to lose its appeal in 2019 and if you want to engage with your followers and boost your rankings, then you are going to need to jump on the bandwagon and entertain through visuals. Content is viewed a whopping 94% more times when coupled with an image.

However, keep in mind that most shoppers will not wait more than 3 seconds to access a page, so don’t clog up your pages with lengthy and long-winded videos that slow down your page speed.

4. Cite your facts​

People are all becoming more aware of the fact that the Internet is full of opinions and people can say whatever they want, back it up with falsified research and claim it as true. Make sure you do your homework and cite your research properly. Give credit where credit is due and ensure that where you get your information from is also a reputable source.

With this in mind, make sure that you know that you are the expert in your field, or else, why would anyone want to follow you or buy from you? Believe in yourself and provide as much knowledge as you can about what you know.

Original research with your own statistics, documentation, and studies will provide an incredible amount of additional information to your audience and the industry that you work in.

5. The 20/80 Rule​

20% of your content will drive 80% of your traffic

Remember that the top 20% of your content will account for 80% of your traffic. So focus on this if you want to see results rather than spending a lot of time on the straggling content that brings you no results.

Update old content to make it fresh and relevant as you do not want to have your name expressing a view that is outdated and perhaps now downright wrong.  By doing this, you will see a jump in traffic from old posts and bring in old, valuable customers who had long forgotten their pleasant experiences with you.

Final thoughts​

Our tips for creating the best SEO content for 2019 are mainly geared towards being more focused on creating a relationship with your audience and keeping them engaged with your old and new content. By introducing visual imagery to your content, you are catering to the attention of the fast-paced buyer, still showing that personable and human side of you that we all crave in the market today.

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