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Content AuditAn Essential Weapon in Content Strategy & Marketing

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What is a Content Audit? A content audit is the

process of taking inventory and evaluating the quality and effectiveness of the content your company has created for a specific purpose within a certain set of content mediums. Often, content audits are restricted to online mediums, but content audits are useful across all mediums.

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Online Content AuditQuantitative audit: We take stock of your entire site’s content inventory and analyze the hierarchical structure of your content to ensure that you have enough content about your topics.

Qualitative audit: We analyze your content’s relevance and the quality of the content that is provided, while identifying your key content as well as highlighting any issues such as duplicate, out-dated or stale content.

Gap analysis: We benchmark your content against your top competitors for target search terms and provide a graded report demonstrating areas for improvement.

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What is the Purpose of a Content Audit?

Content inventories and audits are essential weapons in the content strategist’s eternal fight against purposeless and neglected content.

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Content Audit Goals:1. Catalog the content your

company has and where it lives, so it can easily be repurposed, resurrected, and updated for future needs.

2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of each piece of content, so you can determine which content is important and should be kept, and what content can be removed and archived. This identifies which content tactics have been the most effective and which have not been so we can incorporate this into planning out your content marketing strategy.

3. Track the repurposing process to ensure that content is being adequately repurposed and to make it easier to update this content over time.

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What is a Content Matrix?

A content matrix is a tool that prioritizes content production on the content production activities that matter.

Additionally, it helps keep the marketing strategy properly targeted on the few factors that matter to a given buyer at a given stage in their buyer journey, thus maximizing the return on your company’s content creation investment.

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Trends & Patterns Revealed

What comes out of an audit is evidence of what works and what doesn’t.

Analysis gives us an idea about which sections and content users have been accessing. We can also see what’s being avoided. Which content is being used? Can it be expanded? What needs to go? What patterns are developing? Are there content-types that should be nixed or integrated more? Once patterns become clear, we can make copy and graphic design choices based on real facts.

In some cases, a content audit will reveal that users have never accessed entire sections of the website or even bothered to read a particular blog. Perhaps your target audience didn’t need that content. On the other hand, maybe they can’t find it, it wasn’t promoted well enough or it was published on Christmas day and no one saw it.

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What an Audit Gets You: Inbound leads. This is done by building awareness of a problem

and aligning this problem with products or services that can help, while at the same time making a buyer aware of your company and how it can help resolve each of these issues.

Speeds up the buying process and increases the conversion rates between each stage of it. Targeted content helps each buyer through each stage of their buying journey and ensures that they have learned the key factors about your product that resolves their problem.

A tool that tells us which pieces of content should be shared with specific buyers at a given point in the buying journey. This increases the effectiveness of online marketing and creates an audit trail to determine if different pieces of content are not very effective in the process.

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Accountability & Direction

There’s really not a better way to show all the company owners the scope of a marketing “problem” than with a content audit. The audit itself creates accountability and fact based understanding to be sure, but it also provides a spring board for new campaign direction.

The content audit helps us develop a plan to move forward, and give everyone an idea about how much time, money, and effort a complete content strategy is going to require.

Without it, everyone is just guessing.

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