Lesson:What is content marketing?/ExerciseL1

Listening Exercise

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Listen and fill in the blanks. Every day more and more people are using and social media to search for and socialize on the web. You already know that for your business to succeed in this , you need to draw these people to your , but how? With content marketing you can build a of traffic, leads and sales. And best of all, with the right you can do it for cost of other forms of marketing. What is content marketing? It's the creation, publishing and promotion of custom content, placed on and tested landing pages. All done on a regular basis. How does it work? It all starts with creating content, but not just any old content. In order to draw people to your website, you need to create , content that helps people solve their problems and answers their questions. Each content you create should have a catchy title or headline that people's attention and finally, your content must also be keyword optimized to rank high in the search engines. Once you've created your content, it's time to to your website and to other popular sites on the web. Content for your website can be in the form of articles, blog posts, white papers, e-books, how-to videos and more. All placed on carefully landing pages. Each page of new content you've published is another opportunity to draw more people into your site from search engines and sites. And as an added bonus, adding all this great content to your site on a regular basis will build your site into a in your industry. Keep your visitors coming back often and staying longer and increase your conversion rates.