What is Content Mapping? How it will Help your Business in 2024?

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Content mapping is a technique that helps you to understand and organize the content of a website. It plays a valuable part in your websiteโ€™s overall content marketing strategy.

Content mapping is focused on a siteโ€™s content, very similar to mind maps. It helps you to explore and visualize your websiteโ€™s content.

In easier words, we can say that content mapping allows you to spot gaps in your content development strategy and focus on the goals of your client and your websiteโ€™s users.

Content is important to Inbound Marketing. It supports all the functions from traffic generation to lead generation, to sales and till follow up. All these processes are based upon how you put on the content on your website. High quality content delivers good business results.

Amongst all, Content Mapping also focuses on the two main areas, i.e. Buyerโ€™s Persona and the Buyerโ€™s Journey.

A buyerโ€™s persona represents your target audience, whereas a buyerโ€™s Journey is the process through which your potential buyer goes before they makes their final purchase.

But, Why Should You Create Content Maps?

The main purpose of creating content maps is to help you begin with the content development of your site while focusing on your site goals and content. An effective content mapping is essential if you want your content to reach the right people.

Here are a few reasons to create content maps:

      1. It helps with Technology Decisions
      2. Creating a shared vision
      3. Spotting gaps in your content
      4. It helps you to grab the opportunity in content development
      5. Maintaining a good website structure

Here are the content mapping steps that will benefit your business in 2024:

      1. Websiteโ€™s theme, topics, content should be relevant to your industry
      2. Do Competitors analysis and see how their website is performing
      3. Define Userโ€™s/Buyerโ€™s personas
      4. Know the ideal content for every stage
      5. Audit your content
      6. Optimize your existing web pages
      7. Create a Plan to fill out the gaps and recreate content
      8. Finally, implement the Plan

Conclusion

Content mapping helps you to make your website about your customer, and not about your company. Once this happens, the users will start trusting your company because they know you make it according to them and their needs and answer their questions.

At last, it is your choice whether to do content mapping or not. You can still continue talking to your customers, boasting/shouting about your company/website on social media. Alternatively, you can start listening to your customers/users, making your website about them, and then converting them into your valuable customers.

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