Ad Targeting & Paid Audience Data For SEO Personas
So the title is a mess of things and hopefully covers really what we talked about, or is as close as we could get! Once a year or so we both are in the same place, have time, and record a few episodes together. This is one of those rare episodes!
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* 1st Screenshot - This is the screenshot that was mentioned about the audience data from Facebook.
So what paid tools can you leverage (at least to start with?):
Twitter Audiences
Facebook Audiences - see your ad preferences
Google Audiences
Pinterest
Display Marketing - what sites are conversions coming from?
What can you use the data for? You can certainly use it for SEO campaigns but also Product Marketing and Product Features.
Content Marketing
Targeting complementary audiences
Expanding your audiences
Expand upon or improve your Personas
Content ideation
Look for uses or ways to help answer questions with your product/content with new audiences
Product Marketing and Product Ideas
Think of the two examples given - suitcases with batteries/chargers for phones. The other was coolers that also have power sources to fuel phones while out camping, support lights or have radios and speakers integrated so you have one less thing to carry.
* 2nd Screenshot - this is an audience screenshot from the Twitter example that was mentioned during the show.
The goal for a marketer is to get in front of people and solve problems. Using the audience and interest data is a great way to dig into problems and possible
product uses (or features) that you can leverage to help people but also your sales.
Episodes 89 Mentioned Tools & Resources
Google Ad Settings
How does Facebook decide which ads to show me and how can I control the ads I see?
Here’s how to see, edit and delete the topics that Facebook advertisers use to target you