Building a robust SEO content plan for SaaS businesses

Sophia Inga Tyson, Senior Content Manager at Truro, discusses building a robust SEO content plan for a SaaS business. She emphasizes the importance of addressing multiple touchpoints throughout the buyer journey, creating granular content, and leveraging sales call data to inform content strategy. Sofia highlights the need for long-form guides and the significance of topical authority, even for low-intent, high-volume keywords. She also addresses the challenge of catering to multiple personas and the impact of generative AI on SEO, suggesting a focus on long-tail keywords and brand SEO. The conversation underscores the importance of interconnected content and data-driven prioritization.
About the speaker

Sofia Inga Tyson

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Sofia is Senior Content Manager at Truro

Show Notes

  • 00:21
    Building a Robust SEO Content Plan for a SaaS Business
    Explains the unique challenges of creating an SEO content plan for a SaaS business, emphasizing the long-term nature of SaaS products and the need for addressing multiple touchpoints throughout the buyer journey.
  • 05:25
    Leveraging Sales Insights for Content Strategy
    Discusses the benefits of using sales call recordings to identify common questions and topics that can inform content creation, such as integration questions and pricing inquiries.
  • 17:32
    Challenges in Creating a Content Plan for a SaaS Business
    Identifies the challenge of addressing multiple personas and delivering content that speaks to each stage of their buyer journey, noting the difficulty in using keyword research tools to identify low-volume keywords.
  • 22:06
    Impact of Generative AI on SEO Strategy
    Emphasizes the need for brand SEO to land in those drop-down boxes and the importance of building topical authority and association with the brand.

Quotes

  • “The biggest difference between SaaS and other businesses in terms of content strategy and the SEO [...] is that SAS is often bought for a long term period.” - Sofia Ingen Tyson

  • “SAS is something that you invest in with the intention to keep using that software for a long time. And I think that actually shaped the buyer journey quite a lot.” - Sofia Ingen Tyson

  • “Software can, for some people, and especially in some industries, be quite boring.” - Sofia Ingen Tyson

  • “One of the unique points about SaaS is that you do have the privilege of having all of those calls that your sales team makes.” - Sofia Ingen Tyson

  • “There's just so much that we don't know right now, which makes it, especially from the UK, incredibly difficult to predict what this can look like in the future. But I think it presents us with something we should have been facing anyway, which is the SERPs are continuously changing.” - Sofia Ingen Tyson

About the speaker

Sofia Inga Tyson

Juro

 - Juro

Sofia is Senior Content Manager at Truro

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