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- 1. kaizen.co.uk@kaizen_agency What We Learnt from Analysing 2000 Pieces of Travel Content Bobbi Brant - Kaizen
- 2. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Introduction to the Study Most Successful Content Formats Title Analysis Top Performing Content Coming Up...
- 3. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Introduction to the Study
- 5. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Content Types Included InfluencerInfographicInteractive Video Article Other
- 6. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant How we Measured Success URL Rating Number of Referring Domains Social Shares
- 8. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Who’s Creating the Best Content?
- 9. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Top Performing Content
- 10. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Fall Foliage Map Referring Domains 956 URL Rating 56 Social Shares 148,436
- 11. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant 11 Untranslatable Words From Other Cultures Referring Domains 324 URL Rating 43 Social Shares 48,843
- 12. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant 7 Ancient Ruins Around the World, Reconstructed Referring Domains 305 URL Rating 42 Social Shares 902
- 13. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Most Successful Content Formats
- 14. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Best Performance for Referring Domains On average, interactive content pieces gain 17.5 links from referring domains, 7.5 more than the next best content type
- 15. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Best Performance for Social Shares On average, interactive content pieces have nearly 3000 more social shares than the next best performing content type
- 16. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Interactive Content ◆ On average 40% stronger overall than the next most effective content type ◆ Greater chance for users to engage with the content ◆ More stories to pull out for journalists
- 17. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Infographics ◆ Second best content for social shares ◆ Good quality of pick-up based on standard of URL rating ◆ Equally consistent for referring domains as interactives
- 18. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant To Influencer or Not to Influencer... ◆ Lowest score on referring domains ◆ Below average score on social shares ◆ Has its place but very little SEO value
- 19. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant “We would recommend going down the route of content collaboration, where both parties contribute to create something more authentic, meaningful and, ultimately, shareable. “ - Colin Carter, Director at weather2travel.com “Partnering with travel bloggers can be effective if you approach it holistically and take referral traffic and the halo effect of their social media reach into account beyond just the link.” - Jamie Starr, Head of Marketing, Day Out With The Kids
- 22. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Question Words? is the most common and effective question word to have in a title - mostly thanks to ‘how to’ guides Surprisingly for travel, ‘where’ titles don’t add a huge amount apart from social shares titles are more prominent and perform slightly better than where - mostly instructional
- 23. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Number Headlines 123 A common marketer’s ‘hack’, for travel pieces numbers don’t make a huge difference even on social.
- 24. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Location, Location, Location ◆ Titles with locations get nearly twice as many social shares ◆ City names perform better than countries ◆ Rome content performs better than any other!
- 27. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Not Just for Travel... “While this project was travel focused, I noticed a lot of similarities with the research we conducted on content in the FinTech sector - particularly in terms of interactives and titles with question words performing well.” - @roblnewnham, Lead Researcher
- 28. http://bit.ly/kaizen-travel@bobbibrant Key Takeaways ◆ Interactive content is the most successful and reliable for all metrics ◆ The interactivity must be central to telling the story of the content ◆ Influencers and videos may work well for brand awareness & other metrics but have less SEO value ◆ Question words in titles marginally improve performance - particularly ‘how to’ or ‘why you should’ ◆ If you’re using a location in the title make it specific