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What are paid articles?

Paid Articles are articles that are paid for by a publisher, website, or company to write about a specific topic. These articles are usually used to promote a specific product, advertise a specific company, or promote a specific brand. It can also be used to drive traffic to a specific website.

What is search engine marketing?

Search engine marketing (also referred to as search engine advertising or SEM) is a form of Internet advertising that focuses on increasing a website's visibility in organic or paid search engine results. The main tools of search engine marketing include search engine optimization (SEO), paid search advertising (also referred to as pay-per-click marketing or PPC), and other techniques that can be used to increase a website's visibility and generate web traffic.

Why you should publish at least two articles per week

If you publish at least two articles, e.g. blog posts on your website per week and thus your sitemap grows piece by piece, this shows Google and other search engines that you continuously provide up-to-date information that potentially has a higher benefit for users. In the best case, you will benefit from a better, i.e. higher, search engine ranking - ideally on the first page - and thus receive more free search engine traffic, so-called organic traffic.

As is true everywhere, staying on the ball pays off

In the short term, the effect may seem small to you. But consider how quickly two articles a week and 52 weeks a year can add up to a triple-digit number of articles or blogposts. 100 opportunities per year to find and engage relevant prospects with entertaining copy on your topic and products. You often leave your competitors far behind in this regard.

Already after a few years you have considered and described your topic from all possible angles, pointed out all typical mistakes, created FAQs and How-To's for beginners, always discussed the latest innovations and thus created over time an article catalog and archive, from which you can benefit in the long term and that will help you in the long run to more visitors, prospects and customers (so-called long tail content).

This evergreen content forms the basis, the foundation for your future business success. So it's worth investing in content creation.

Attract dream customers with the right content strategy - without any ad costs at all

As already discussed here, the costs for online marketing in the B2B sector are dizzyingly high and the number of actual clicks is vanishingly small due to ad blockers and & co.

With given completion rate, English conversion rate, of 1-3% of ad clicks on average, it usually cannot pay off to generate B2B customers via search engine advertising.

An alternative customer acquisition strategy is the so-called content marketing. Here the production of articles and texts is meant, which of potential customers googgelte topics and terms and/or keywords beeinhaltet.

Content is King.

With the content strategy you have the opportunity - provided you can regularly create and provide relevant content for your target audience - to get organic traffic via the search engines for free, i.e. at least without any further advertising budget.

For this purpose, a blog area has been established on the website itself, where new content, how to's, definitions of terms or the like are posted or posted. Another advantage is that all content, with which you provide free added value and insights for your potential customers, can also be subscribed to via rss feed.

Become a customer magnet with the right content strategy

In order for the search engines to reward your efforts for creating, optimally high-quality content, in the form of a better search engine ranking and associated higher traffic, it is necessary that they regularly publish new content and entertaining texts on your website.

Make yourself a concrete plan, when and how often you want to post blogposts or articles on your website and which topics (also: in which order) should be kept. As is true everywhere, you can only expect results if you stay on the ball. Consider exactly who you want to address with your content.

Bezahlte Werbung vs. Content Marketing

In the first part we have discussed the paid measures in the online marketing area.

Another way to attract traffic, i.e. website visitors - and hopefully enough potential customers - to your website is the so-called content marketing.

Content marketing is all about knowledge, in the form of entertaining and informative articles that you provide to your visitors for free on your website. On the one hand, articles serve as a confidence-building measure, on the other hand, you save the previously mentioned high PPC click prices and can ideally, in addition, through the content and the thematic focus, i.e. also through the selection and use of certain keywords and words, target your desired target group or desired customers better than with the possibilities in Google Ads, for example.