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.
On August 25, 2022, Google started rolling out the Helpful Content Update. Our resident search scientist and MozCast wrangler, Dr. Pete, looks at the results by comparing data two weeks on either side of the latest Google algorithm update.
Keeping your content fresh and updated is more than overcoming the unfairness of your past work fading away — it's also a legit marketing tactic that saves money and makes your users’ on-site experience smoother. In today’s blog, Ann outlines how to get started.
In today’s Whiteboard Friday, MozCon speaker and content marketing expert Ross Simmonds walks you through his method for creating a content marketing engine that will ultimately make you money, rooted in four simple steps: research, create, distribute, and optimize.
In this post, Rebecca shares the framework that her team at JBH uses to create hyper-niche and relevant digital PR campaigns that earn links on sites where your competitors aren’t found, and highlights the strategic importance of creating these gaps for SEO success.
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One benefit of content syndication that marketers frequently overlook is the potential to improve a site’s SEO performance. But it’s difficult to test and implement a comprehensive syndication strategy, so there aren’t many resources about its SEO impact. In this case study, Amanda outlines the processes used by Stacker to syndicate content, and discusses the results of those efforts.
After working with a news organization and testing the learnings from that work on other sites, Chris and his team started to see the immense power that freshness updates could produce in SEO. In this post, he explains why the entire SEO community has underrated the concept of “freshness”, and how to start optimizing for it.
Relevance is talked about a lot in the context of link building, yet none of us know exactly how Google measures it. When it comes to link building, and specifically the part that relevance plays, the potential answers are a lot more complex than we think. Let’s start by splitting out link relevance and content relevance.
When writing for search engines, should you create content for the algorithm or for your human readers? The answer is both. Here’s how you can do it.
Inclusivity is about understanding diversity and ensuring everyone can be involved to the greatest extent possible. It's an important consideration for every business owner and content creator, and should be at the heart of your ongoing design efforts — not something you look at after a website or content goes live.
You know it’s important to keep your content up to date, but exactly how much does it matter? Lauren shows you the actual ROI she and her team at Brafton have seen from regularly re-optimizing blog posts over the last several years.
Rebecca explains how a relevant digital PR campaign can lead to commercial gain, and takes you through the steps to get there.
The team at Stacker has mastered how to create newsworthy, data-driven stories for their newswire. Contextualizing topics, statistics, and events serves as a core part of their content ideation process. Today, Amanda shares their winning strategy so you can create content that has real news value.
SERPs are becoming more diverse and interactive, making any CTR study out there much less reliable, because no two sets of search results are ever the same. So, how much control do content creators have over how their work is represented in search? As it turns out, quite a bit!
For those in the B2B world, you’ve probably heard B2B referred to as “Boring 2 Boring.” It’s time to end that perception and spice things up a bit by exploring marketing storytelling techniques that can take your B2B marketing strategy to the next level.