3 Tips to Put a New Spin on Your Content Development Strategy

NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- As the percentage of consumers researching products online continues to rise, the first interaction you are likely to have with a potential customer will be through your website.  In order to rank well with search engines and entice your customer to come back for more, a well thought-out content development strategy is a small-business marketer's "must-have." It is crucial that you continuously create unique content that is relevant to your market niche. The following techniques can help breathe life into your existing strategy:

• Listen to your audience. Content creation should be a priority and topics that will resonate with your audience should be your primary focus. Gain insight by asking site visitors for feedback and then research topic ideas to determine an angle that hasn't been previously discussed.
• Create an expert point of view. The more accurate, engaging and reliable the content on your site is, the more your readers' confidence in your ability to provide value will increase. One such way is to link to quality websites that support the information found in your content.
• Focus on the readability of your content. The information presented on your website should be easy to find and understand. Best practices for content digestion include:
  • Breaking up long text with subheadings, bullet points or lists.
  • Keep sentences succinct
  • The use of multimedia assets to help tell the story that cannot be portrayed through words.

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For further discussion on content development techniques, view the latest blog post by Steve Lazuka, founder of Interact Media, PR Newswire's Small Business Toolkit: http://bit.ly/1x8WWjK

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