Content Marketing
Looking to advance you content marketing output? Here you'll find expert advice on how to improve your content strategy: ideas for lead-generating content, tool overviews, content writing tips, on-page SEO checklists and a whole lot more.
Learn what adaptive content is and how to use it to improve your e-commerce site. We share multiple examples of ways you can use adaptive content to help personalize your site for each of your visitors. Using adaptive content can help improve customer experience as they interact with your website. Just this little difference can convert visitors to paying customers.
What is the best way to write a subject line for digital PR outreach? How should you close a pitch email? Is it really worth it to follow-up? In an analysis of 150 successful pitches, we answer all of these questions and more. We looked at the minutiae of each pitch, from the type of subject line we used to the closing to determine the most effective way to pitch top-tier publishers.
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SEMrush has analyzed more than 22,000 articles to determine the most common practices of content gurus. The research helps you to take a look at the best practices in the world of content writers, not from the theoretical side, but in how people are actually creating and optimizing their content.
Following our integrated research into the key issues faced by content professionals, we would like to introduce the SEMrush Content Marketing Platform, which helps to make effective decisions quickly at every stage of a content marketer’s workflow.
Long-form content works. However, many content marketers fail to get results from their efforts. They put in sweat equity to create super lengthy 5,000-word articles. Then, press the publish button hoping to attract thousands of visitors. To their surprise, they fail to go beyond a few hundred visitors. The reason is their content creation strategies are fundamentally flawed.
Topic hubs and topic clusters have been around at the intersect of SEO and content marketing for a long time. However, with the increasing information overload and PR noise, topic hubs have once more become important in the scheme of things, especially for brand differentiation and establishing authority. We invited Dan Shure to shed some light on the purpose, nature, and effectiveness of topic hubs.
Do you sometimes quietly question your content team’s work? In spite of all the “good” stats they show you, there is still a nagging feeling that you might be throwing your money away? You should never be in the dark about your content’s performance. With that in mind, we decided to show you how to evaluate your content team’s work and assess the quality of their output.
Over the last few years, the increasing shift towards digital marketing has led marketers to focus more on growth and results, rather than advertising reach or an over-emphasis on sales. That is why we invited Christoph Trappe to discuss how effective content marketing can jumpstart customer acquisition, user engagement and increase brand loyalty.
On last Wednesday’s #SEMrushchat, 20-year digital marketing veteran Sherry Bonelli discussed how brands can build a reputation with well-researched content, and in the process increase their visibility on search engines. Here is what she (and a whole lot of other smart marketers) had to say on #SEMrushchat: