How to-create-and-optimize-content-for-higher-google-rankings

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About Presenters
Ajay Rama
SVP, Products, iQuanti
Notable Work: Built ALPS – Patented, Award winning
enterprise SEO platform that makes SEO predictable
Experience: 20+ years of experience in Marketing
Analytics, Data Science and Data warehousing.
Companies: Currently with iQuanti, earlier had
developed products for iFlex, Oracle, and AOL
Apoorv Gadwal
Director, Products, ALPS
Notable Work: Key- member spearheading the development of
ALPS Platform. Responsible to envision and develop cutting-
edge features in ALPS.
Experience: 14+ years of experience in Digital Marketing,
SEO, and Product Management.
Companies: Has been with iQuanti for 7+ years. Earlier, as a
marketer Apoorv helped in scaling e-commerce business.

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What is this Webinar About?
• Factors that make up optimized content
• Keyword and Intent targeting
• Content comprehensiveness and Structure
• Content Optimization
• Content Experience
• SEO Optimization and challenges
• Monitor page performance and maintain ranks
• Key Takeaways
… and What its Not?
• SEO and Content strategy building

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Factors that Make an Optimized Content

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Primary Organic Search Factors and The Role of Content
Content
Weightage Content Relevancy Match
~ 40%
Content focused intent, match
demand query
Authority
Weightage Topically Authoritative
~45%
Inbound links, clean profile, negative
removed
Technical
Weightage Technical Parameters
~15%
Page speed, crawl readability, error
free
Organic Search
Factors
Insights into Google
Algorithm using ALPS
On an average, content
parameters carry 40-45%
weightage in search
algorithm rankings

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What Goes into a Highly Optimized Content?
Keyword and Intent
Targeting
Content
Comprehensiveness
and Structure
Content
Experience
Content
Optimization

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What Goes into a Highly Optimized Content?
Keyword and Intent
Targeting
Content
Comprehensiveness
and Structure
Content
Experience
Content
Optimization

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Keyword Selection
STEP 2 : Qualify
Qualify keywords with demand metrics like search
volume
STEP 3 : Classify
Classify into the primary and secondary keywords for
the topic
STEP 4 : Define Type
Define the type of page that is needed for the topic –
core page, supporting page, and related page.
STEP 1 : Identify
Identify keywords related to a topic using tools like
Google keyword planner

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Example of Good Keyword Selection
Core Page
Online Savings
Account
SV – 12.1 K
PAGE: HIGH INTEREST SAVINGS ACCOUNT
KEYWORD: ONLINE HIGH INTEREST SAVINGS
ACCOUNT
SEARCH VOLUME: 1.6K
Supporting
Page
PAGE: RATES AND FEES
PRIMARY KEYWORD:
ONLINE SAVINGS ACCOUNT RATES
ONLINE BANK SAVINGS ACCOUNT RATES
ONLINE BANK SAVINGS ACCOUNT INTEREST RATES
SECONDARY KEYWORD:
CURRENT ONLINE SAVINGS ACCOUNT RATES
TYPICAL INTEREST RATES ONLINE SAVINGS ACCOUNT
SEARCH VOLUME: 5.2K
Supporting
Page
PAGES: HOW TO OPEN SAVINGS BANK ACCOUNT ONLINE
CONTENT FORM: BLOG
KEYWORD: HOW TO OPEN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT ONLINE
SEARCH VOLUME: 210
PAGE: BEST ONLINE SAVINGS ACCOUNT
KEYWORD: BEST ONLINE SAVINGS ACCOUNT
SEARCH VOLUME: 14.8K
Supporting
Page
Related
Page
PAGES: WHAT IS ONLINE SAVINGS BANK ACCOUNT
CONTENT FORM: BLOG
KEYWORD: WHAT IS ONLINE SAVINGS ACCOUNT
SEARCH VOLUME: 170

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What Goes into a Highly Optimized Content?
Keyword and Intent
Targeting
Content
Comprehensiveness
and Structure
Content
Experience
Content
Optimization

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Comprehensiveness, Structure, and In-Topic Research
▪ Semantically relevant sub-topics
▪ A defined hierarchy for your content
▪ Context specific visuals
▪ Statistics to quote along with sources
▪ Identify the intent(s) the page should address
▪ Content Depth: The depth in which the content
should address the subject
▪ Content Diversity: The sub-topics that needs to be
covered by the content.
▪ Content Type: Core, Supporting and Related etc.
Considerations for Comprehensiveness
Considerations for Structure
▪ Types of ranking competitors
▪ H2’s/H3’s used by competitors
▪ Users’ questions around the topic
▪ Phrase Usage
▪ Readability level
▪ Article length
▪ Explanation of concepts
▪ Visual aids
▪ Statistics
In-Topic Research

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• Complete overview of the topic
• Answer all the broad queries that do not need in-depth explanation
• Include brief answers to queries that need details & pass a link to the supporting page
• List similar or related articles, based on logical next step for the user
Considerations for Core Content

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• Detailed explanation for the user query
• “What/Who/Where is [X]?” is immediately answered
• Supporting Data and Details
• Provide very specific steps if it’s an action-oriented query
• Include plenty of examples close to real life scenarios that users can relate to
Considerations for Supporting and Related Content

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Content Research Example
Sample Content Brief from ALPS
All elements
needed for an
optimized
content structure
Relevance scores
to benchmark
and maximize
performance

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What Goes into a Highly Optimized Content?
Keyword and Intent
Targeting
Content
Comprehensiveness
and Structure
Content
Experience
Content
Optimization

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Optimization: Best Practice for Each Element
Attribute Best Practices
URL • Optimized for primary keyword
Page Title • Optimized for primary keyword
Meta Description
• Capture all important sub-topics.
• Usage of product benefits to improve CTR.
H1 • Include a literal portion of the primary keyword
H2
• Cover all semantically related subtopics discovered in topic research
• Need not include the literal primary keyword
H3
• Primarily used to build progressive movement through the piece
• Bullets to improve scannability of the page
Body Copy
• Write, directly and clearly, to respond to the topics your h2s provide
• Consider every sentence as valuable on its own, it has a better chance of answering some of the long-tail queries that we
can’t really optimize content for
• Avoiding redundancies increases the strength of your original concepts.
Image Alt • Ensure Alt Tags explains the content and matches user intent
Internal Links
• Leverage existing content to reference

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What Goes into a Highly Optimized Content?
Keyword and Intent
Targeting
Content
Comprehensiveness
and Structure
Content
Experience
Content
Optimization

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Optimization: Content Experience
Accessibility
UX and
Trust
CTA
Building Blocks of
Optimized Content
Experience
• Positioning
• Clarity
Call to Action
• Include relevant widgets
• Author details to build trust
• References and sources for
statistics
User Experience and Trust
• In-page navigation for
detailed articles
• Visuals that help engage the
user
• Include tables and formatted
comparisons
• Display related content
Accessibility

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Optimization Challenges and ALPS Advantage

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Audience Poll
What is your most pressing optimization challenge?
A. Understanding gaps in my content
B. Figuring out why competition is ranking higher
C. Optimizing a page for multiple keywords
D. It takes too long to understand the ranking impact of content changes

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Optimization Challenges and Advantage with ALPS
• How do we know if our content is
optimized enough?
• How do you ensure that the page
is optimized for all target
keywords?
• How can we know that we have
outperformed competitors?
• Which variation of text could
perform well?
• Have we covered the various sub-
topics with sufficient depth?
• Are there still gaps/opportunities
for my content?
Challenges
• Understand how comprehensive is
your content for the targeted topic
• Benchmark against competitive
scores
• Predict your content’s performance
on the SERP
• Make content optimization as an
integral part of your writing process
ALPS Advantage

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Example of ALPS Content Simulation - Benchmarking
Source: ALPS

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Example of ALPS Content Simulation – Performance Prediction
By optimizing content and on-page elements - title, meta description, H1 and
H2, we see positive impact in relevance (on page scores)
ALPS Simulation Benefits:
˃ Removes Guesswork
˃ Prioritizes Initiatives
˃ Protects Content Mistakes

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Monitor Page Performance and Maintain Ranks

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Performance Monitoring
What to Track ?
• Visibility on SERP
• Competitor footprint
• Change in keyword landscape
• Impact of trends on your topic
• New/updated statistics
• Presence of new competition
Action Items
• Monitor content gaps with existing and
new competitors
• Keep track of competitor’s content
• Identify new keywords that
competitors rank for
• Repeat keyword research for the topic
at frequent intervals
• Refresh your content to keep it up to
date, helpful, and relevant

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Key Takeaways

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Key Takeaways
• Target primary and secondary keywords to ensure you don’t end up with gaps in your content
• Comprehensive in-topic research is necessary to achieve intent, depth and diversity
• A good content structure ensures optimized content from the beginning, not as an afterthought
• Benchmark with top ranking pages to understand if you stand a chance to rank
• In-Depth and exhaustive topic research
• Scores to measure and benchmark Content
• Simulate to maximize ranks
• Monitoring of content, links, and ranks
• Automated and Comprehensive Content Brief to create right content *
Platform Features to Help you Win Higher Ranks
* In Beta Stage

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