Earlier this month, Mai wrote an article about why you should put content marketing at the heart of your brand strategy, in which she gives a summary of the importance of content marketing for your brand. However, she also mentions that even though 90% of marketers think content marketing will become more important over the next year, more than 60% still haven’t invented a content marketing strategy at place.

With the following blog post, I would like to present SEKARI Research and Social Optimization Agency’s infographic which introduces an additional aspect of the importance of content marketing – its contribution to brands’ SEO strategies.

 

 

Some interesting key facts from the infographic are:

• The most popular types of content that marketers spend time on producing are blog posts, social media updates (Facebook posts, tweets, etc.) and articles/guides, whereas audio content and podcasts are the least popular
• Search engine providers are increasingly recognizing quality creation and social sharing as significant ranking factors
• 27 million pieces of content are shared via the web each and every day in 2012
• More than 50 % of consumers say that blogs have influenced their purchase decisions
• 94 % of marketers believe that the users  analysis of the site’s perceived value will increase in importance as a ranking factor

I would greatly recommend that you pay special attention to the bottom of the infographic, where you will find a valuable list with ten suggestions on how to produce highly sharable content.

 

 

 

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