Automated taxonomies and tagging with MatchBox
Categorizing your content allows you to get the right content in front of prospects and customers. More engagement. More leads.
Accurate Taxonomies, Easier
WHY MATCHBOX?
Most large websites have the same problem. You want to tag your pages with topics and industries, but your authors don’t do it. Or they don’t do it well. It’s not the authors’ fault. Tagging content accurately is not easy and humans aren’t particularly good at it.
Machines, on the other hand, can be tweaked, tuned, and adjusted so they become more and more accurate over time.
With MatchBox, you can finally identify the industry audience your content is targeted at, as well as the topic of your content. Accurately tagging your web content with industry and topic labels can unlock the value that you always hoped your taxonomy and your manual tagging would provide, but never did.
WHAT IT DOES
Driven by Your Own Content
MatchBox helps you identify your taxonomy categories for topics and industries by examining your own website and grouping similar pages. No more guessing at what the right categories are—let the content tell you what it’s about.
Eliminate Costly and Ineffective Human Tagging
Most B2B companies are paying their human authors to tag content--or they are foregoing the benefits of tagging content at all. The problem is that human tagging isn't just time-consuming and expensive--often it's flat-out wrong. For complex tasks, with more than a few categories, different humans often disagree with each other on what the right category is for a web page or other document. One study shows that, not only do different authors diverge on the right tag, but 35% of the time the same authors disagree with themselves when given the same document to tag within a few days. MatchBox keeps improving so that your tags are both consistent and accurate.
Update Your Taxonomy When You Need To
If you are like most B2B companies, your taxonomy hasn’t been updated in a while. That’s because updating it kicks off the wrenching process of humans having to re-tag all of your documents by hand. Most companies can’t afford it, so they plod on year after year with the same outdated taxonomy, even as the world that it describes changes. MatchBox allows you to re-run your analysis at any time, so whenever you think that the subjects you discuss have significantly changed, you can run the process all over again.
Use Your Taxonomy to Drive Real Value
Yes, you can import your automated tags into your Content Management System (CMS), but you can also see what kind of coverage you have on each topic so that you identify content gaps. You can also use your taxonomy categories as facets to drill down in site search results and as added information to drive personalized content recommendations. Because your content has been tagged consistently and accurately, using an up-to-date taxonomy, you’ll finally drive the value that taxonomies should have been driving all along.
HOW IT WORKS
Develop Your Taxonomy in One Day
It sounds impossible, but MatchBox allows you to create an up-to-date taxonomy in a single day in most cases. Our consultants work with you to show you what MatchBox has discovered on your site, and you give feedback to eliminate, combine, or change the categories into something that makes sense to you and to your customers. Your subject matter experts can interpret what MatchBox found to make it understandable to humans. By the end of the day, you’ve got an up-to-date taxonomy.
Topics Based on Your Content
MatchBox examines a sizable and representative sample of your content, using AI techniques such as Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to create clusters of documents that seem to be about the same subject. You won’t spend time arguing about what themes you cover on your website because MatchBox shows them to you. Your subject matter experts decide which clusters to combine, eliminate, or alter—MatchBox takes this feedback and re-runs its analysis to show you the next attempt, which gets more of your feedback. Usually it takes just two or three tries before you have a taxonomy you are pleased with. Your experts can name the topics anything they want, so you can use the names that your customers expect. Once you’ve decided your taxonomy, MatchBox automatically labels your content with the right topics, and it can re-label any new or changed content going forward.
Industries Based On Standards
Topics by necessity must be customized for each website, but industries can be more standardized. Standards exist, such as the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) that defines just about every industry that your content could be talking to. Our consultants work with you to identify the NAICS industries for your audiences, and to rename them so the industry labels make sense to your audience. Once you’ve settled on your industry taxonomy, MatchBox can label all your content with industries and can keep those labels up to date as the content changes over time.
software features
Works Automatically
MatchBox automatically labels new and changed content with accurate topics and industries. MatchBox can crawl your website automatically to discover updates to your web pages, or it can be integrated with your CMS to be alerted for changes.
Integrated with Your MarTech Stack
MatchBox can update topic and industry labels in your CMS for every document. It can also update your site search engine so that these labels can be employed as facts in search drilldowns. Other integrations can also be explored if necessary.
Works with Any Content
MatchBox not only handles HTML pages, but can process PDF files, Microsoft Office formats, and many other file formats that might be embedded on your website. If it has enough text, MatchBox can label it.
Simple Implementation
Our consultants use MatchBox to help you decide your taxonomy in a single day, and then MatchBox goes to work labeling your web pages every time they change.
Get the Right Content in Front of Customers
Start accurately tagging your web content with MatchBox today.
