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In general, content creation is an intensely time-consuming process. It’s also quite manual. Yet after all the hours of in-depth keyword research, writing, editing, publishing, and promoting, how confident can you actually be that this one piece of content will succeed? In a world overflowing with digital content, the unfortunate reality of content marketing is: few rise above the noise.
“The sunk cost associated with content generation—manual research, editorial meetings, drafting and reviewing articles—is enormous. If a piece of content doesn’t perform, that’s significant opportunity cost wasted.” – Andrew Ramm, President, Alexa.com
Luckily, marketers have another tool they can use to their advantage: content analysis.
Simply put, content analysis is the process of evaluating content in your competitive space to understand what is successful and what is not. The goal of content analysis is to know, based on a variety of signals (like engagement metrics and SERP results), what topics and content types are most engaging for your audience. Identifying high-performing content and what gives it a competitive edge helps marketers create more tailored content of their own, optimized to resonate with their audience across various channels, including search and social media.
Insights from a thorough content analysis help focus and expedite the marketer’s content creation process because it provides a clearer signal about what content opportunities will likely yield the best results.
Content Exploration, Alexa’s new content analysis tool, gives marketers visibility into what topics, articles, and sites an audience is most engaged with, so they can optimize their own content for success. It’s a data-driven tool that helps identify the most successful content for a topic or website based on social engagement.
Top articles by total engagement across Twitter and Reddit for the topic “social media marketing” in the past year
With the Content Exploration tool, marketers can:
Find low competition areas of opportunity. How to do this using Content Exploration:
Gain intel on competitors’ content strategy. How to do this using Content Exploration:
Reach more of their target audience. How to do this using Content Exploration:
The following video shows how to use Content Exploration, including our newest features that are still in beta. To learn more about how to join the beta, please see below.
Content Exploration is an empowering tool in the marketer’s workflow. It helps save time and money by surfacing the most viable topics for your qualified audience. It uncovers new conversations and topics you aren’t yet a part of. And it reveals authoritative content that can serve as a model for success. In all, content analysis helps improve the efficiency of your content creation process and the effectiveness of your overall marketing strategy.
Are you part of an agency? Content Exploration makes topic analysis easy so you can become a subject-matter expert in no time. Understand what content commands the highest engagement so you can present informed, strategic marketing plans when pitching clients.
“Content Exploration makes a lot of what we traditionally do manually much more efficient. We can see content that is clearly resonating with an audience, allowing us to generate new ideas with our clients’ unique angle.” – Jimmy Daly, Marketing Director, Animalz
We are constantly seeking to improve our new and existing tools. Right now, we’re seeking a limited number of Alexa.com Advanced Plan customers to beta test the newest changes to Content Exploration, and give us feedback on new functionality of this tool, including some features shown in the video.
To join, navigate to the Content Exploration tool in your Alexa Advanced account, or start a free 14-day trial of our Advanced Plan to get started.
We set out to help marketers grow and convert their audience by capitalizing on competitive opportunities in content, SEO, and SEM. Content Exploration is the newest addition to our suite of tools created to help you do just that. Learn what it takes to rise above the noise with data-driven content ideation and analysis.
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