Content Marketing
Content forms the foundation of SEO. If you want to rank, you first need content. If you want to rank well in a competitive environment, you likely need an exceptional content strategy. Content can take many forms: blog posts, product pages, pdfs, videos, forums, and more. Almost anything you put on your website for your audience counts as "content."
Content Marketing is the practice of creating and marketing content for the purpose of driving traffic, increasing awareness, and/or supporting a brand.
In SEO, good content can also drive links to your website, which in turn helps to increase your search traffic from Google.
The Beginner's Guide to Content Marketing : If you’re brand new to content marketing, start here. We’ll explain the basics from A-Z.
Content Marketing Learning Center : Our free content marketing learning hub. Here, we’ve gathered our top resources in one place.
Thought Leadership : Chima Mmeje shows you how to craft a thought leadership strategy that complements your content marketing efforts and positions your brand as the source of truth.
How to Create 10x Content : Wondering just how to go about creating that ten-times-better content? We have a Whiteboard Friday for that.
How to Do a Content Audit : A thorough content audit can reveal your site's opportunities and pitfalls while providing actionable ideas for improvement. This comprehensive guide shows you how.
How to Create a Content Marketing System Using Podio
As SEO and Social Media evolves into Content Marketing, agencies and companies are faced with the challenge of setting up effective processes for their content marketing efforts. From keyword research, to managing writers and the editing process, content marketing can be a complicated and extensive process, with lots of moving parts. Establishing an effective system to manage your content...
Transcribe ALL The Things! Benefits, Strategies, and More
It's an SEO's duty to try to utilise and leverage as many opportunities as possible for clients and employers in order to drive relevant traffic to their websites. One technique that I sometimes feel is overlooked — or at least not given the attention it deserves — is transcription, i.e. turning audio or other media into text.
Content Strategy: You're Doing it Wrong!
We’ve all seen graphics like the one below telling us that we need to have a “content strategy” that leverages social, keyword research, voice definition, blah blah blah! What I hear very little about is how to use content to help drive sales (is that a dirty word?) Many people do not realize that there are ways to use content to help give us information about those...
Why You Should Spend Less On Advertising and More On Content
As brands engage in more two-way conversations with consumers, marketers need to recognize customers are expecting more from them than a product and its packaging. Consumers want brands that understand them and help them with questions they find difficult to answer. One-way advertising struggles to deliver on that front.
Content Isn't King. Trust Is King.
From enterprise to small businesses, content marketing is one of the best ways to build trust with prospective customers. It's safe to say that trust building has replaced content as "king" when it comes to content marketing success. Here are ten stellar tips to help you succeed in boosting your customers' trust through content.Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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The Definitive Guide to Conceptualizing, Designing and Promoting Your Own Infographic
Infographics became immensely popular in 2009 and Internet marketers rode the waves of the popularity of this medium to grab countless eyeballs and links. For the early adopters, infographics proved to be a gold mine, but magic of this medium faded as soon as the gold rush began.
Measuring and Increasing the ROI of Your Content Resources
Do you want to know the value of your content? In today's post, Mike Pantoliano shares his tips for calculating the real ROI of your content strategy and marketing efforts.
How to Build a Content Marketing Strategy
As successful link building tactics change, companies and clients alike are seeking to understand how certain forms of link building can be translated into long-term content marketing campaigns. But when you're creating a content marketing strategy from scratch, where do you start? Stephanie Chang's content marketing strategy framework is an action-packed, insightful place to start!
Attract Customers to Your Community with Content
Content is a powerful tool that can be used to grow your business and your community, but it can't be all about you. Consider using foundational and community building content to add value and draw customers to your business.
7 Content Archetypes that Generate Natural Links
If you're struggling to get natural links you may think that your stuff simply isn't "good enough". Or that you have to resort to lame link bait articles. In my experience, content quality is only a small part of the story...and link bait hardly ever works. So what does? The right content archetypes.