1. Content Marketing: The Basics

The new king of Digital Marketing is content marketing. Non-interruptive inbound marketing is gaining popularity among marketers of all stripes. Why? Because it allows them to naturally create relationships with their prospects and consumers. The power of content marketing to connect with and grow engaged audiences is enormous for one reason: people like it. It prioritises customers. Instead of annoying people with advertisements, it provides them with genuinely useful, amusing, and intriguing content.

2. Why Are Headlines Important?

Because your headline or title is frequently a reader's first online engagement with your business, it is perhaps the most important component of your content marketing plan.It's your first, and possibly only, chance to capture the attention of your target audience.

3. Traffic Goals & Clickthrough Rate (CTR), the First Measure of Success

Let's face it: clicks are important. Whatever your Content Marketing strategic goals are, without that initial click, you have nothing. As a result, in this part, we'll look at clickthrough rate (CTR) as a measure of reach. If you want to increase your traffic, CTR is the measure you should be looking at.

4. Beyond the Click: Engagement

So, you received the click. What happens next? After successfully attracting visitors to your site, the next goal is frequently engagement. That basically means you want your readers to stay and consume more of your stuff. Pageviews per session, or how many extra pages of content each individual reader views following the first click, are used to gauge engagement.

5. Beyond the Click: Conversions

In its purest form, content marketing should not be overly commercial. The emphasis on offering value to the reader or spectator distinguishes it from other marketing approaches. However, producing conversions is an important goal of content marketing (and one that is gaining prominence).

6. Length of the Headline

When determining the optimal headline length, there are numerous aspects to consider. According to our research, a lot depends on your aims and where the headline appears. For example, if you want social shares, you don't want to go beyond 140 characters so that the headline is tweetable.

7. Finding Your Content: How Social and Organic Work Together

Should your headlines be optimised for search or for social? Which is more important in terms of driving traffic? Obviously, the answer will vary depending on your blog or website's search rating, social outreach, readers, and other things. But we wanted to know if an initial increase in views will help build an environment for more social sharing, or if an increase in social sharing will help foster an environment for more views. To find out, we went to the data.

8. Final Thought: Your Audience, Your Data

We hope that diving in to all of this data has given you a starting place for optimizing your content marketing headlines. Whether you’re looking for clicks, engagement, conversions, or all three, a content marketing campaign starts with great headlines, or ends with bad ones.