How to Drive More Conversion with a User-Focused Content with Carolyn Lyden (GMT091)

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Topic clusters have been a big trend in content marketing and SEO–and with good reason. However, the way the model is created doesn’t take the user into consideration. And there’s nothing more frustrating as a consumer than being forced down the funnel when you’re not ready or not finding the next step you need in your journey. In this episode, Carolyn Lyden, Founder of searchhermit.com, proposes a user-focused content matrix to remedy the inward-looking content generation method with the topic cluster model.

In episode 91, you’ll learn:

Why the topic cluster model is good for SEO but not always great for the website visitor
How to create a user-focused content matrix that lets you plan your brand content editorial calendar around both the user and the search results
The biggest misconceptions when it comes to SEO

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Invest in SEO early on. Paid and social advertising can benefit greatly from having an SEO foundation. – @carolynlyden from @GrowthToday podcast. Get the full podcast episode 👇 Click To Tweet Meaningful user engagement depends on your business model. Take a look at the micro-conversions along the way, whether that’s signing up for an email, filling out a form, or scheduling a phone call. – @carolynlyden from @GrowthToday… Click To Tweet

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My Takeaways from This Episode

Invest in SEO early on. Paid and social advertising can benefit greatly from having an SEO foundation.
Meaningful user engagement depends on your business model. Take a look at the micro-conversions along the way, whether that’s signing up for an email, filling out a form, or scheduling a phone call.
To increase your website’s user engagement, lead visitors to the next step in solving their problem, whether that’s another content or product pages.

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About Carolyn Lyden

Carolyn Lyden is the President and Lead SEO at Search Hermit grew up spending weekends helping the small family business. In her first real job as a writer for a marketing agency, she quickly learned that, if she wanted people to read what she created for clients, she needed to teach herself SEO. And so Carolyn has been in search ever since. This experience led her to love helping small businesses grow and learn. Carolyn loves to dive into unusual industries and has developed strategies for that work for anyone. No industry is too unique or “unmarketable.”

Key Discussion Points

2:29 – Carolyn Lyden’s career journey
5:08 – What is the content cluster SEO model and why it’s broken
11:37 – What are the metrics you need to be tracking to measure user engagement?
14:08 – How can you increase user engagement on your website?
17:57 – When should businesses gate or ungate their content?
23:08 – The impact of user-focused SEO
28:26 – The biggest misconceptions when it comes to SEO
32:24 – Carolyn’s one piece of advice to business owners about SEO