Increasing first-page rankings and organic traffic has always involved guesswork. Experienced marketers know that deciding what content to produce and how to publish it can lead to wasted time, energy, and money. That can stop anyone dead in their tracks. But what would it look like if guesswork was no longer a factor in SEO and everything that goes into it? Join Ryan Brock, Chief Solutions Officer at DemandJump, for a first-ever look at how DemandJump eliminated guesswork to win 497 first-page rankings in mere weeks on one of the most competitive topics in the game -- "SaaS content" -- and how we’ve productized Pillar-Based Marketing to drive these kinds of results in a repeatable, transparent, and measurable way for dozens of brands and industries since then.
497 Page One Rankings in 7 Weeks - How Pillar-Based Marketing is Changing SEO - Ryan Brock, Demand Jump
1. MASTER
CLASS
Ryan Brock
CHIEF SOLUTION OFFICER
DEMAND JUMP
LAS VEGAS, NV ~ NOVEMBER 6 - 8, 2023
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497 Page One Rankings in
7 Weeks: How Pillar-Based
Marketing is Changing SEO
2. 497 PAGE ONE RANKINGS
IN SEVEN WEEKS
How Pillar-Based Marketing is Changing SEO
19. THE PLAN
Produced 27 pieces of content within the “SaaS Content” Pillar
Topic Network in 4 weeks:
● 1 Pillar Page of 3,000+ words
● 6 Sub-Pillar Pages of 2,000+ Words
● 20 Supporting Blogs of 750 + Words
Published all of it within 24 hours.
26. PILLAR-BASED MARKETING
1. Identify the mission-critical, short-tail keyword your business wants to be on Page One for
2. Examine the entire network of search behavior around this network
3. Build a Pillar Strategy following these best practices
4. Create content that's focused solely on answering questions and throw out old SEO tricks
5. Drop initial Pillar content pieces in three quick waves
6. Spend a small amount of money on driving qualified traffic to each piece immediately
7. Continue adding relevant Sub-Pillar and Supporting Blog articles and updating existing
content that is starting to rank
27. PILLAR-BASED MARKETING
3. Build a Pillar Strategy
following these best practices:
● Start with 16 pieces:
○ 1 Pillar Page of 3,000+
words
○ 3 Sub-Pillar Pages of 2,000+
words
○ 12 Supporting Blogs of 750+
words
28. PILLAR-BASED MARKETING
4. Create content that's focused
solely on answering questions and
throw out old SEO tricks
● Questions as H2s
● Pillar internal linking strategy
● No concerns about keyword density or
repeating; just writing human content
● No concerns about cannibalization or
repetitive content
● 20 keywords for Pillar Pages
● 16 keywords for Sub-Pillar Pages
● 8 keywords for Supporting Blogs
● Over 150 optimized keywords in initial 16-
piece Pillar Strategy
29. PILLAR-BASED MARKETING
5. Drop initial Pillar content pieces in three quick waves
● Publish Pillar first, confirm indexing
● Publish all Sub-Pillars, confirm indexing
● Publish all Supporting Blogs, confirm indexing
6. Spend a small amount of money on driving qualified traffic to each piece
immediately
● We’ve tested social media ads and syndication tools like Outbrain; the latter seems more cost-effective
● Budget can be very small; as little as $10 per article can have an immediate impact
○ We recommend $50 per article for best cost-to-speed ratio
30. PILLAR-BASED MARKETING
1. Identify the mission-critical, short-tail keyword your business wants to be on Page One for
2. Examine the entire network of search behavior around this network
3. Build a Pillar Strategy following these best practices
4. Create content that's focused solely on answering questions and throw out old SEO tricks
5. Drop initial Pillar content pieces in three quick waves
6. Spend a small amount of money on driving qualified traffic to each piece immediately
7. Continue adding relevant Sub-Pillar and Supporting Blog articles and updating existing
content that is starting to rank