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Three ways you can be using content for a comprehensive audience development strategy

Audience development is challenging. Your content has to align with the searches conducted by audience members, and present great information. Helping your audience members find your content through the noise throughout the Internet is the toughest part.

Fortunately, we have some tried and true

Three ways you can be using content for a comprehensive audience development strategy

Audience development is challenging. Your content has to align with the searches conducted by audience members, and present great information. Helping your audience members find your content through the noise throughout the Internet is the toughest part.

Fortunately, we have some tried and true techniques for building your online audience organically. Even after algorithm changes these techniques have remained valuable.

Organic Audience Development Strategy #1: Social Media – Crowds of people throughout basically every demographic have turned to social media in some form. Finding your audience members through social media makes it easier for them to spread your content to even more people.

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Organic Audience Development Strategy #2: Search Engine Optimization – Blogs, press releases, and website copy should all be optimized so your audience members can find the content they seek. After driving them to your website, your conversion architecture should be in place to convert them into registered members.

Organic Audience Development Strategy #3: Link Building – This strategy is can be troublesome if you link to low-quality websites. Doing so can get your penalized by Google. However, maintaining links to high-quality sources and internally linking to other aligned content can help you build a strong link profile. Receiving links from other reputable websites is another way to generate new audience members.

For more tips on these strategies, download our free Organic Audience Development Strategy report. If you are looking for more in-depth tutorial, join us in New York City for the Digital Publishing Bootcamp. Multiple sessions are dedicated to building an organic audience.

By Amanda MacArthur

Research Director & Managing Editor

Amanda is responsible for all the articles you read on the Mequoda Daily portal and every email newsletter delivered to your inbox from us. She is also our in-house social media expert and would love to chat with you over on @Mequoda. She has worked with Mequoda for almost a decade, helping to evolve the Mequoda Method through research, testing and developing new best practices in digital publishing, editorial strategy, email marketing and audience development. Amanda is a co-author of our four digital publishing handbooks.

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