Why Moz’s Whiteboard Friday Is Such Effective Content Creation

We love Moz’s Whiteboard Friday, which features Rand Fishkin or someone from the Moz team presenting a short video that answers a specific question about content creation, SEO or digital marketing. The gimmick (and by gimmick, we mean “brilliant concept”) is the use of an actual white board. Here’s a look at why Moz’s Whiteboard […]

Make the Most of Shrewd Back-to-School Content Marketing This Year

It’s no secret that the holiday season drives retail year-over-year, and that’s true online or off. Amazon might boost its summer numbers with Prime Day, but even the Goliath of eCommerce is most hopping come October or November. Just check out this Statista graph that shows Amazon net revenue by quarter: those stair-step peaks all […]

3 Powerful Content Marketing Metrics You Have to Be Monitoring

Spend a bit of time getting friendly with Google Analytics, and you’ll see how easy it is to lose yourself in content marketing metrics. From Analytics to Twitter reports, measuring content marketing performance can be accomplished many ways. Ironically, this means many companies don’t truly measure much at all. Even if you collect all the […]

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How Not to Fail at Content Marketing

Content marketing is the top inbound marketing priority for 53 percent of marketers in 2017, and for good reason. In fact, companies who publish new content three to four times per week typically get 3.5X the traffic of  those who only publish new content once per week. It’s been said that content marketing is the […]

5 Reasons Content Marketing Fails

You might have crowned content as king in your marketing organization, but that doesn’t mean the kingdom will be successful. Many factors contribute to a content marketing strategy that wins, and an equal number of things can cause your content to fall flat with audiences. Here are five common reasons for content marketing fails. 1. […]

Web Design Decisions that Drive SEO – For Better or Worse

Search engine optimization, or SEO, doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and your web development and design decisions can have a big impact on whether pages get seen. Dev decisions can drive SEO up or down, so it’s important to follow best practices when it comes to incorporating images, creating walls, linking internally and building site […]

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Forrester Says Outsourcing Content Creation is the Way to Go, and We Agree

Only about 9 percent of business-to-consumer marketers plan on bringing content generation in-house in 2017, even though almost everyone is boosting content marketing budgets this year. According to Forrester Research, using third-parties for content creation services is a smart move because outside agencies are better judges when it comes to content marketing performance. Outsourcing content […]

Avoid Online Obsolescence With Evergreen Content

While you’re probably excited about capturing your share of traffic related to trending or newfangled developments, there’s a lot to be said for evergreen content. Pieces that hold up well over time will keep drawing readers to your site long after your more timely posts and pages have fallen into obscurity. Evergreen Content Explanation Unlike […]

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