Content Marketing Research Course
Use content marketing research to drive traffic, engagement and sales
1h 07min | 5 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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Master content marketing research to drive targeted strategies and impactful campaigns
Course Length:
1h 07min. 5 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?
How will you distribute the content?
Audits and research
Identifying themes and topics
Translating topics into strategy
Senior Lead, SEO and Content at Shopify, scaling content production with AI across a library of nearly 700 posts. Ran the CXL blog for two and a half years, publishing hundreds of posts and maintaining over 1,000. Previously four years of content and SEO at an agency, for brands like Land O’Lakes, Twitter, and Virginia Tech.
This online course
comes with a
Certificate
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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