Whether you have plans to repurpose your content, or you simply wish to re-evaluate your approach to content marketing, performing regular content audits is an essential part of any successful digital marketing strategy. Here are a few ways in which regular content audits can help to improve your business and your online marketing efforts in general.
-
Enhance Your Website’s SEO
If you would like to see a positive change when it comes to your SEO rankings, a content audit is always a great idea. This is because an audit will help you to:
- Identify those web pages with high SEO potential,
- Update these web pages according to the latest SEO best practice guidelines,
- identify content that hasn’t performed very well from an SEO perspective,
- Remove or change the content,
- you will also have an opportunity to evaluate internal linking, and
- Lastly, add more useful links to your content as you see fit.
-
Enhance Audience Engagement
The whole point of content marketing is to encourage engagement from your target market. So, by performing a content audit, you will be able to maximise the engagement potential of each and every piece that you have published on your website. It will also provide you with insight into the topics and types of content that generate the best response from followers, thus enabling you to continue creating the right types of content in this regard.
-
Enhance Your Website’s Conversion Rate
The most successful content marketing efforts will lead to more people actually buying what you’re selling. By conducting a content audit, you’ll be able to discover the following:
- which pages on your website offer up the best user experience,
- which pages on your website have generated the most leads for your business, and
- It will also allow you to identify the most important pieces of content for each stage of the buyer’s journey.
If you need assistance when it comes to mastering the art of the content audit, and content marketing in general, the WSI OMS team is here to lend a hand. Contact us today to learn more.