Here’s How Personalized Emails Helped Turn Our Brand Around
If you're looking to build a lasting connection with your customers, becoming a personal, human brand is a great place to start.
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.
Most Recent Articles on Content Marketing
3 Tactics That'll Make Writing Tighter as Easy as 1-2-3
If you're serious about readers seeing the strength of your ideas, writing shorter content must become a part of your repertoire.
Great Content ≠ Long-Form Content
"Great" content and long-form content are not the same thing. In this post, Rand explains the difference, the reasons for the correlations, and an alternative path to making content that accomplishes your goals and those of your audience.
How to Steal from Your Favorite Writers to Make Your Copy Sing
How often do you sit down to read a book and find yourself hooked within the first few sentences? Or even the first few words? I would venture to bet the answer is "not often."In fact, I find that the books which turn out to be my favorite in the end typically take at least 50-100 pages to “pick up pace.” But we expect that when we read a good book. We come to the table knowing what...
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How Google May Analyze and Evaluate the Quality, Value, & Rank-Worthiness of Your Content
Your content has quality links and your keyword targeting is an SEO's dream. Yet for some mysterious reason, that content still isn't ranking. What's missing? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains some of the advanced tactics Google may be using to evaluate and analyze your content and what you should be looking out for to help resolve your ranking woes.
The Brand as Publisher Masterplan - Reinventing Content Marketing for the Next Decade
Content marketing is big business, but are brands taking it far enough? Here Simon Penson argues that Brand as Publisher is the next step.
How to Create Content That Earns Engagement, Trust, and Loyalty for Your Brand
Content is meant to support your marketing efforts; it shouldn't define them. Ronell Smith talks about the goals you shouldn't be setting for your content marketing efforts, the ones you should focus on, and the best ways to get started on the road to brand loyalty.
10 Simple Steps for Creating a Blog Your Readers Will Adore
The keys to making your blog a success is knowing who'll be reading it and what they desire in the way of content.
Here’s How to Turn First-Time Customers into Loyal Fans with Context-Rich Content
By pairing email with an effective retargeting effort, your brand can continually tailor, create, and deliver the right content for your audience.
Here’s How to Combine Storytelling and Data to Produce Persuasive Content
Ever thought about what really sticks out in your audience's minds? Hint: it's not the hard facts alone. Combining data and storytelling can make your brand's content stick out in a meaningful way; Nichole DeMeré shows you how in today's post.
5 YouTube Tools to Boost Your Content Marketing Efforts
Youtube is one the most powerful marketing channels at our disposal. Videos rank well in Google and often have rich snippets that attract more clicks and brand awareness. While it's a very effective platform to build readership and following, it can also be quite overwhelming. Ther...
How to Use Six Google Analytics Reports to Complete a Website Content Audit
I'm a big believer that no good content marketing strategy should begin without a comprehensive audit of the website’s current performance. The simple reason is that you cannot plan ahead if you do not already have a great understanding of where you currently are. In this article, I will show you how a content audit with six important Google Analytics reports can help you make some sma...
Moz Content Launches New Tiers and Google Analytics Integration
We've got some cool new features in Moz Content to share with you! Your content analysis will be more in-depth than ever before with Google Analytics integration, and if you're an agency or a larger site, we've got expanded tier levels to accommodate your needs.
What's it Take to "Go Viral?" 11 Traits to Give Your Idea Wings
Online word-of-mouth can drive exponential traffic growth, attract broad media coverage, and result in tons of backlinks and social shares. Matt Round describes the 11 key traits you should include when devising interactive content that taps into the impulse to share things on Facebook and Twitter.