With the right content strategy in place, any B2B website can attract, engage, and delight customers – filling your sales pipeline with relevant opportunities.
During our latest webinar, How to make your website your most effective marketing asset, we explore the tactics in-house marketers can deploy to get their website delivering leads and driving business growth.
In this webinar, Senior Account Strategist, Sacha Gauthier and Senior Content Writer, Robert White explain how websites can be key marketing assets when supported by effective B2B content marketing. We explore:
Here's a recap of our key points.
In B2B, a website's primary goal should be growing the pipeline.
growing the pipeline – To contribute to pipeline growth, your website needs to engage leads of an appropriate quality that they create new sales opportunities.
The performance of a website can be measured using the following metrics:
These core metrics match the journey of inbound lead generation. Start at the bottom of the funnel, by first measuring how many qualified leads are turning into sales opportunities. While the other two metrics are critical to success, it's the bottom line that matters to your stakeholders.
Website traffic can come from many sources. But in our experience, organic search plays a huge part in website performance and long term business growth.
Most in-house marketers know that you need to target keywords and you need to create content to grow organic traffic. What many people don't realise is that the reason this isn't working as well as they'd like is because the structure of their content isn't optimised.
Well-linked, strategically structured content creates a positive customer experience and improves SEO results. Internal linking and effective calls to action play a key role in turning high visitor numbers into converting, qualified leads.
The question of whether or not to gate content is one that still plagues many marketers. Traditional inbound methodology teaches us to always gate your most valuable content, because acquiring the details of prospects is so important.
Gated content – a piece of content (commonly an ebook/whitepaper) that can only be accessed via a form. To get the content, you have to trade your contact information.
Our experience, however, doesn't support that approach. Valuable, informative content can do more for you if you un-gate it. Not only does it provide a wealth of SEO value and a pillar around which to organise supporting content, it also creates a friendlier customer experience.
Giving people the opportunity to download your content in .pdf form so they can read offline at their leisure is an effective strategy for many B2B businesses. So many people download eBooks and whitepapers for research, rather than as an indication of purchase. They're curious rather than committed. Forcing conversion points on visitors just leads to bad experiences and low quality leads.
Digital solutions are now integral to the marketing world. And marketers are increasingly expected to be responsible for the technical maintenance of their websites.
To manage this effectively, you need to know what's gone wrong and prioritise addressing problems based on your overall marketing goals. For example, if you want to increase conversion rates, prioritise fixing broken forms before worrying about improper Schema.
Create a traffic light system for any technical issues that arise and leverage automated tools, like SEMRush and ContentKing to manage the monitoring.
