First up, content strategy.
Investing Reviews asked us to research new relevant article ideas around the likes of trading and investing for their in house content team to produce.
Our first port of call was a keyword gap analysis; this involves analysing topics that competitors are ranking for, that investing reviews weren’t.
We also manually analysed the top performing articles for specific competitors, to try and spot missed opportunities. This technique also gave us insights into which particular article types and topics generate significant search traffic, but most importantly, which of these attract search traffic that is more likely to convert.
We soon discovered that publications like Forbes ranked for keywords that were relevant to investing reviews, so we would look within their relevant subfolders to try spot opportunities.
An example of the subfolder would be: forbes.com/uk/advisor/investing/
We took this information and from there built out a content strategy that combined a perfect mix of relevant topics, high search volume keywords, achievable rankings (from looking at keyword difficulty and manually analysing the SERPs), and high search intent.