Content Research: The Ultimate Guide

Matt Janaway
11 min readOct 5, 2022

Invest in content research if you want your web pages to rank on the SERPs, generate organic traffic, and provide value to your readers. This is an A-Z guide to content research.

Invest in content research if you want your web pages to rank on the SERPs, generate organic traffic, and provide value to your readers. This is an A-Z guide to content research.

Welcome to my ultimate guide on how to conduct content research.

If you keep running out of content ideas and you’re tired of spending countless hours doing content research, then you’ll hopefully love this post.

I’ll cover proven strategies for conducting content research, creating content, and some best practices that you need to consider to produce a winning content marketing campaign.

But first, let’s talk about the basics.

What is content research?

From a birdseye view, content research is about analysing content ideas, brainstorming topics, and developing a winning content strategy for your content marketing campaign.

It sounds easy, but it isn’t.

After all, you can’t just come up with topics out of thin air.

You need to learn a slew of tools, techniques, and best practices to produce successful content.

You can’t rely on hunches or gut feelings. You need a data-driven approach to discover content ideas that will help achieve your content marketing goals.

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Matt Janaway
Matt Janaway

Written by Matt Janaway

Matt Janaway is a successful Digital Marketer and Entrepreneur. In the ’00s, he built & purchased 10+ successful eCommerce stores.

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