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Use content marketing research to drive traffic, engagement and sales

1h 07min | 6 lessons | 7 downloadable resources

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Use research to develop content that resonates with your audience.
  • Identify high-performing topics that drive traffic and conversions.
  • Analyze competitor content to find gaps and opportunities.
  • Leverage SEO, social listening, and audience data for content decisions.
  • Build a content marketing strategy that delivers measurable business impact.

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Content that isn’t backed by research won’t drive results

Publishing more content won’t drive results if it’s not what your audience actually wants. Too many brands waste time and resources creating generic, low-impact content that doesn’t attract traffic or drive engagement. This course gives you a research-backed approach to content marketing, helping you develop content that stands out, ranks higher, and delivers real value to your audience.

Master content marketing research to drive targeted strategies and impactful campaigns

Course Length:
1h 07min. 6 lessons.

Guessing what your audience wants leads to wasted time and missed opportunities. This course is built for marketers who want to create content that drives real traffic, engagement, and conversions. Every framework is tested, and every strategy is designed to help you uncover high-impact topics, analyze competitors, and build a research-backed content strategy that fuels business growth. Learn how to stop creating content that gets ignored and start producing assets that rank and generate results.

After completing this online course on content marketing research, you will be able to assist your team and company with:

  • Develop a content strategy based on real audience and competitor research.
  • Identify the content formats and topics that drive the most engagement.
  • Use SEO data, social insights, and customer research to inform content decisions.
  • Optimize content for both search rankings and audience engagement.
  • Build a repeatable process for high-performing, research-backed content.

This course is for you if you are responsible for:

  • Content marketers looking to improve the impact of their content strategy.
  • SEO professionals who want to create content that ranks and drives traffic.
  • Growth marketers focused on content-driven customer acquisition.
  • Business owners who want to develop a data-backed content marketing plan.
  • Anyone responsible for content creation, strategy, or audience engagement.

Look no further than CXL, this is the best and most recommended course you will find on Content Marketing Research.

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Course Curriculum

Content marketing research

What should you cover?

There are millions of topics you could cover, but which makes the most sense for your brand? And what’s likely to deliver the highest ROI for your company? Topics Covered: Overcome the burden of historical content marketing “strategies.”Identify that o

How will you distribute the content?

Just because you publish it, doesn’t mean they’ll come. The earlier you think about distribution, the better. Learn to frame content to make it more searchable, shareable, and linkable. Topics Covered: Identify the content that people wish they could l

Audits and research

Traditional content research looks only at absolute numbers of links, shares, or traffic. But unearthing the best opportunities requires adding a bit of context. Discover how to fold that ultra-valuable analysis into your content audits. Topics Covered

Identifying themes and topics

What do you do with all that spreadsheet data? Learn how to distill data points into relevant themes, then translate those themes onto the highest-value content ideas for your site. Topics Covered: Know how to code your content.Distill your coded list

Translating topics into strategy

Great ideas poorly executed won’t get you anywhere. Learn the keys to ensure that you execute effectively on your great ideas—over and over again. Topics Covered: Learn to avoid the trap of derivative content.Keep from over-investing in content product

Derek Gleason

Content Lead @ Shopify

Derek is Content Lead for Shopify. He’s responsible for publishing about 90 long-form posts per year on data-driven marketing, while also maintaining and improving a library of nearly 700 posts.

Prior to joining Shopify, nearly four years were spent at a digital marketing agency, delivering content marketing strategies and managing SEO for organizations like Land O’Lakes, Twitter, and Virginia Tech.

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Completing this course earns you an official CXL Content Marketing Research Course Certificate to prove your achievement. CXL is recognized as an industry-leading qualification by employers worldwide, and it is an official qualification on Linkedin that can be added to your profile.

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What is the difference between the monthly, quarterly and annual plans?

We offer three types of billing lengths to choose from: Monthly, Quarterly, or Annual. The longer the billing length, the cheaper the monthly cost becomes.

Typically annual plans are 40% cheaper per year than paying month-to-month.

What is the difference between the individual and teams plans?

Personal or Individual plans are meant for one person where teams have 2 or more people.

A team account has a few extras:
– Invite and manage people learning on your team.
– Create roadmaps for each individual.
– Access team learning engagement reports.
– Assign members to your team as managers to assign content and view reports.

What is included in the all-access plan?

You’ll get:
– Access to 90+ online courses.
– Earn certificates and add them to LinkedIn.
– Thousands of playbooks and resources.
– All minidegrees
– Roadmapping and progress tracking
– Premium Support

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