CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- HubSpot, a leading provider of inbound marketing and sales software, announced today the launch of Content Strategy, a new tool that helps marketers discover and validate topics to write about that match the way people now search and buy.
Google receives more than 3.5 billion search queries per day. For years, the best way to solidify a spot at the top of the results was to focus on creating multiple pieces of content focused on niche, long-tail keywords. Search engines have gotten much better at serving up results that provide value to the searcher, making it much harder to build authority solely based on those specific keywords. A new topic-based model on creating content, called topic clustering, can help adapt and provide better results for people searching, and for marketers creating content. This approach helps marketers drive more traffic and also serves the search engine with better information architecture and more content the crawler can index.
"SEO best practices have changed drastically in the past five years. Unfortunately, many marketers are still using the same old tactics that worked a decade ago, but now only serve to clog up search results with irrelevant content and keep teams from hitting their goals," said Kipp Bodnar, Chief Marketing Officer at HubSpot. "Content Strategy was born out of our own realization that the way we approach SEO had to change. By combining machine learning and hard data, Content Strategy empowers marketers to deliver better results and more traffic with more high-quality, targeted content."
Most SEO tools today focus on the technical aspects of SEO, but don't give marketers the tools to discover new topics to write about and build and structure that content. Content Strategy is the first tool to integrate the methodology right into the tool so marketers can not only learn what works for SEO, but easily apply it without an SEO consultant. The tool uses machine learning to help surface recommendations that are relevant to a user's business, and content that will perform well in search.
Using Content Strategy, marketers can:
- Discover topics to write about that are surfaced by HubSpot's machine learning technology, then easily organize them into a topic cluster.
- Optimize existing content and build clusters that help increase authority and organic traffic.
- Track the views and clicks on each piece of content, as well as the contacts and customers being generated by each topic cluster, to clearly determine what works and what doesn't.
"The Content Strategy tool has been great for helping us map out the content that we will be making," said Ken Mafli, Demand Generation Manager at Townsend Security. "It has insights into the metrics we need to make decisions about which content to create, and maximize the time we spend creating content." Three months after adopting the Content Strategy tool, Townsend Security has seen a 55% jump in organic search traffic, and in March they set a new record for organic search traffic with an 80% growth in leads.
Content Strategy is currently available to all HubSpot Marketing customers. To learn more about the tool and see how it can help your own marketing efforts, please visit www.hubspot.com/products/content-strategy.
About HubSpot
HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading inbound marketing, sales, and CRM growth stack. Since 2006, HubSpot has been on a mission to make the world more inbound. Today, over 34,000 customers in more than 90 countries use HubSpot's award-winning software, services, and support to transform the way they attract, engage, and delight customers. HubSpot Marketing includes social media publishing and monitoring, blogging, SEO, website content management, email marketing, marketing automation, and reporting and analytics. HubSpot Sales enables sales and service teams to have more effective conversations with leads, prospects, and customers. HubSpot CRM helps sales teams organize, track, and grow their pipeline. All three platforms integrate right out of the box and are available for free to start. HubSpot has been named a top place to work by Glassdoor, Fortune, The Boston Globe, and The Boston Business Journal.
The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA with offices in Dublin, Ireland (EMEA HQ); Singapore; Sydney, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; Berlin, Germany; and Portsmouth, NH.
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