The rise of AI in the SERPs is a paradigm shift.
Agencies and content teams that adapt quickly, focus on actual user value, demonstrate expertise, and embrace these new AI-driven formats will thrive.
It's less about "ranking #1" in the traditional sense and more about being the most useful, authoritative, and accessible answer, wherever that answer is surfaced.
Human-first content marketing is the answer. Create useful material that connects with humans.
Every asset, product description, or category page should position your brand as the trusted topical leader. Whether users explore via AI Overviews or seek in-depth validation on your site.
It’s well-known that “content is king”, but ensuring your content deserves a crown is where we come in. Our data-driven storytellers combine creativity, logic and persuasion to help you meet your customers’ needs.
We believe in a human-first approach. Our content marketing is created for humans and by humans.
We’ve spent 15 years winning awards for building some of history's most successful content ecosystems.
Content strategy isn't about publishing more. It's about becoming the authority.
Through the Sleep Matters Club, we transformed Dreams from a bed retailer into the UK's sleep authority. Not with product descriptions or sales copy, but with genuine sleep science, expert advice, and content that actually helped people sleep better. They own the category. When someone Googles sleep problems, Dreams appears as the trusted source, not just another retailer.
If you want a slice of this category of authority pie, get in touch and challenge us.
Since 2009, we've preached "human-first search marketing" while everyone else stuffed keywords into thin content. Now Google's RankBrain and BERT understand context, intent, and semantic relationships. The algorithm rewards comprehensive topic coverage over isolated keyword targeting.
Take Dreams' Sleep Matters Club. Instead of chasing "best mattress" keywords, we built complete sleep expertise: sleep hygiene, disorders, bedroom optimisation, and circadian rhythms. Google's algorithms recognised this topical authority and rewarded Dreams with rankings across hundreds of related terms and complete category ownership.
This is semantic relevance in action. When thoroughly covering a topic ecosystem, Google understands you're the definitive source. E-E-A-T is about demonstrating consistent knowledge depth across related subjects, not a single piece of copy.
Modern algorithms mirror human behaviour. People want comprehensive answers from trusted sources, not keyword-optimised fragments. When your content ecosystem demonstrates genuine expertise, users and search engines recognise authentic authority.
Ready to build topical authority that both humans and algorithms recognise? Let's create your expertise ecosystem.
"The results we've achieved from Salience's content marketing efforts have exceeded my expectations. We knew content marketing was a viable route to ROI in general, but were unsure if it would apply to flooring. Thankfully, the results were well beyond viable and I'm excited to continue growing Factory Direct Flooring with content." Paul Hambidge, MD, Factory Direct Flooring
The challenge: Own sleep. The solution: A digital magazine in the form of 'The Sleep Matters Club', over 100,000 words of enhanced copy, Robust & interactive buying guides and a visual gallery. Sleep, owned.
FAQs, fitting & maintenance advice for some pretty wooden content, resulting in several content award wins & shortlists, including best content ROI.
News, guides and advice around one hell of a competitive & regulated market, short-term lending.
We brought permanence to celebrity engagement stories through a data-led digital PR asset, giving 77' a diamond-set backlink profile.
Our approach is built to deliver lasting impact, not just traffic.
We follow a strategic, structured process that creates content both search engines and humans trust. By building topical authority around your niche, we position your brand as the go-to source in your space. The result? Consistent commercial outcomes, a user experience your customers genuinely value, and long-term gains that compound over time.
I’m impressed with the knowledge and suggestions Salience have actioned to ensure our consistent improvement as a brand
Paul Hambidge
Owner
Our discovery process maps your users' nuanced intents and multi-step journeys.
This understanding is critical for crafting content that provides direct, comprehensive answers and satisfies conversational queries.
Working with Salience, we have developed a rich source of informative content around sleep and wellbeing for Dreams customers, which drives regular social engagement and web traffic to our site - contributing to our SEO success and underpinning the company’s genuine passion for sleep.
Dhiresh Hirani
Digital Marketing Manager
Great content isn’t just written for search engines - it’s built for people. That’s why we focus on Expertise, Experience, Authoritativeness, and Trust (E-E-A-T) in everything we create.
We combine unique insights, first-hand knowledge, and credible sources to produce content that connects with real users and earns the trust of algorithms. The result? A stronger user experience and improved visibility where it matters most.
We’ve been amazed at the success of this campaign in driving engagement with customers and prospects we never would have imagined
Scott Greever
UK Managing Director
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Most content marketing dies in the vanity metrics graveyard. Page views, shares, time on site, all meaningless if they don’t translate to revenue. The real question isn’t whether people read your content. It’s whether reading your content makes them more likely to buy from you. When guides boost your category pages from page 2 to position 1 for high-volume terms, that’s measurable commercial impact through traffic and sessions. Plus, conversion journeys improve, increasing conversion rates. We connect content directly to business outcomes and the bottom line.
Generic content strategies are like generic diet plans. They might work for someone, but not for you. Your business has unique challenges, customer behaviours, and dynamics that generic best practices can’t address. We start with competitor analysis and your existing data before writing a single word.
Our strategies emerge from understanding your customer journey stages, not industry templates. We analyse what’s ranking for your key terms, identify user intent patterns, and build content that serves your business model. Every piece connects to measurable commercial objectives, not abstract engagement metrics that make reports look impressive but bank accounts empty.
Most content audits reveal the exact same cause of death: random content creation without purpose. Our audits expose where competitors are capturing search visibility you’re missing and identify content gaps at critical conversion stages. We analyse topical authority distribution, semantic relevance clusters, and user intent fulfilment across your funnel. The audit reveals which content types your competitors use to dominate specific keywords while mapping opportunities for systematic content network building. Because knowing what’s broken is only valuable if you also know how to fix it.
Keyword strategies built on search volume alone are not necessarily the ones that get you where you’re going. High search volume means nothing if those searchers aren’t your customers. We map keywords to genuine user behaviour patterns rather than search volume alone. Our approach analyses what content types actually rank for target terms. Are they product pages, informational guides, or comparison content? We then align your content architecture to match proven user intent, ensuring each piece serves the right stage of your customer journey while building semantic relevance.
Most content calendars are just publishing schedules in disguise. Post three times a week, hit publish, and hope something works. But hope isn’t a content strategy. Our calendars prioritise content that builds commercial authority over publishing frequency. We sequence content to establish topical dominance systematically, starting with foundational guides that boost category performance, then supporting blog content that strengthens the ecosystem’s semantic relevance. Quality beats quantity when quality has a clear commercial purpose.
The best SEO advice sounds like common sense: help people solve their problems. But common sense isn’t common practice in content marketing. Too many brands create content for search engines first, humans second. Then wonder why their perfectly optimised articles don’t convert. We focus on solving real customer problems first, then optimising for search second. Our research process mines Amazon reviews, forums, and competitor gaps to identify genuine user concerns. Content succeeds when it serves user intent authentically. Guide content supports category rankings precisely because it helps users make better purchasing decisions without aggressive selling.
Link building often feels desperate because it usually is. Begging strangers to link to mediocre content doesn’t build authority. It builds resentment. High-quality content naturally attracts links when it solves genuine problems and provides unique value. Our approach creates linkable assets through original research, comprehensive guides, and industry insights that become reference points for others. We focus on building content that journalists, industry experts, and potential customers want to cite and share.
We provide transparent, actionable reporting on business outcomes rather than data dumps. Our communication highlights content performance against commercial objectives, upcoming priorities, and specific wins like ranking improvements or revenue attribution. Updates focus on what you need to know to make informed decisions, not overwhelming technical details that obscure meaningful progress. Good reporting answers the question “So what?” before you have to ask it.
We show up as a strategic partner by starting with your North Star business objectives and working backward from revenue targets rather than forward from keyword lists. We conduct commercial audits that identify defender categories you need to protect and challenger opportunities where you can steal market share. Our QBR’s focus on how organic search contributes to your bottom line not just traffic and other vanity metrics. Every content brief connects to commercial intent and conversion journeys so our work drives measurable sales increases. We build content clusters that establish topical authority while supporting your full marketing funnel from awareness through consideration to conversion.
The best-performing copy does two things: it connects with people, and it ranks. But it only works when you write for humans first. Google’s getting smarter – it’s no longer just about keywords, it’s about intent. If your content answers a real question, solves a problem, or simply makes someone feel understood, you’ll earn their trust and improve your rankings at the same time. That’s why we focus on writing content that puts people first because that’s what drives conversions and long-term visibility.
Over the past six months, we’ve noticed that brand is becoming the #1 trust signal. Paid ads own the lion’s share of the SERP, meaning people can’t trust the first blue link anymore. Instead, they scroll until they see a brand they know. That’s why it’s so important to weave your brand’s tone of voice and unique expertise throughout copy.
This is about multiplying what works. Search algorithms value topical authority over everything. A web of internally linked semantically relevant content (offsite too!) signals expertise and authority to Google like nothing else. We leverage your best content for visibility everywhere.
Most clients come to us burnt out by a content strategy that was too outward-looking. The danger of keyword research is pinning every task, content brief, and strategy based on what’s trending. Often, the most damage is done by the content you’ve already made. How valuable is it for the humans reading it? Does it honour intent? Is it properly internally linked? You can’t build your house right without knowing what foundations it’s sitting on.
The content creation hamster wheel exhausts everyone. Ten mediocre pieces competing for attention, budget, and time. Here’s a better approach: create one exceptional piece, then transform it into five targeted formats that serve different audiences, everywhere (social, search engines, forums). Comprehensive guides become video scripts. Research becomes infographics. Case studies become retargeting paid social campaigns. One piece, multiple sources of traffic.
Paying for clicks and losing visitors to poor landing pages is like filling a bucket with holes in the bottom. Every visitor represents real money spent on advertising. Poor conversion journeys don’t make money, but also actively lose you money. When someone clicks your ad, they should find exactly what was promised, presented in a way that makes saying yes feel inevitable.
Today’s SERPs are filled with quick tips and surface-level advice, meaning comprehensive guides stand out like skyscrapers in a field of tents. The goal is to become a go-to resource people bookmark, share, and return to when they need real answers. (Click here to see how we’ve done that with the Sleep Matters club for Dreams). We create content that drives sustained organic traffic while establishing your expertise in spaces where everyone else is competing on volume, not value.
Publishing for the sake of publishing, hoping something sticks, wondering why nothing builds on itself. We develop awareness content that builds genuine authority, consideration guides that nurture real decisions and create a content ecosystem that builds topical authority.
Stop Creating Content That Gets Ignored.
We manage every stage of content marketing – from strategy to production. You’ll receive a tailored content plan designed to build topical authority in your niche, improve search visibility, and create a website experience your customers will love.
Our services include:
Content marketing is a long-term game. You shouldn’t expect instant results.
In the first 12 months, focus on laying foundations and scoring early wins that support your goals. You’ll still see strategy and production kick off from day one.
We offer flexible models with custom packages that scale with your needs.
This can be a one-off project or a monthly retainer package – transparent invoicing with no hidden costs. Contact us for a quote.
We run biweekly checkpoint calls with all clients. Our real-time dashboard shows live metrics on search visibility, traffic and revenue impact. You choose how often to dive in.
We’re testing the waters. Real humans in northern England produce 90% of our content.
But we can’t ignore what AI can offer. Ultimately, we want to pass those gains on to our clients. We’re still working it out.
– Ecommerce
– B2B
– Finance
– Charities
You’ll have a dedicated account manager and a direct Slack or phone line to our experts. We have weekly checkpoints, share calendars and fit seamlessly into your workflow. We’re always just a call away.
We optimise for the evolving search landscape – whether it’s traditional organic search, AI-powered search engines, or LLM-generated results. While the technology behind discovery is changing, the core principle remains the same: great content wins.
Our approach focuses on creating high-quality, intent-led content that’s structured, well-researched, and genuinely useful.
By aligning with what users are searching for – and how algorithms interpret relevance – we ensure your content can be surfaced by any type of search engine, human or machine. It’s about meeting intent, building topical authority, and delivering value that stands the test of algorithm shifts.