Content Marketing
What is content marketing? How to start your first content marketing campaign? How can content and SEO work together? Here you’ll find all the answers you need to improve your content strategy: ideas for lead-generating content, tool overviews, content writing tips, on-page SEO checklists and a lot more.
How do you currently come up with ideas for articles and content? Most content creators take one of two approaches: they either brainstorm a whole list of topics at one time and then take a couple of months to work through the list, or they write articles as they think of topics one-by-one. Let me suggest a more efficient method: topic clustering.
It seems like the lines between marketing departments blur a little more each day.There’s always a new development that weaves the best practices here with the strategies over there, or the developments in one area with the established tactics in another…Modern marketers must understand these overlaps and how they affect their daily tasks. In my experience, SEO professionals and content marketers deal with this the most.
A podcast and theme week would hardly be complete without a podcast on podcasting. I ask webinar host, educator and actor Peter Starr Northrop all about podcasting best practices in our latest SearchCast episode.
Regardless of how effective we all know content marketing is, creating consistent, high-quality content is a struggle. You have to think up ideas, find the time actually produce the piece, and then invest more time in promoting that piece.But, the main reason most content creators struggle is because they fall into the trap of thinking “content = blog post.” Which is so not the case.
You can’t write quality content in a vacuum. You have to know who you’re writing for.And to do that, you need to have fully-developed buyer personas — profiles of the basic types of individuals you are targeting. Your buyer personas tell you: Who is your audience? What are their needs, problems and values? And how best can you reach them?Simply developing buyer personas is not enough, of course. Once you create them, you use them as reference points for your content writing.
SEO has changed dramatically in the past few years, resulting in drastic changes to SEO strategies. One of the biggest changes to emerge is the shift to high-quality content.Content has become crucial to a website or business’s credibility. The main focus is to create helpful and useful resources that will grab your audience’s attention and establish yourself as a credible source of information.
In part I of my four-part series about creating high-traffic, data-driven content, I discussed determining customer life-cycle stages, curating content, identifying voice and creating the right content for your audience. In this segment, we'll take a look at creating content surrounding trends and events.
Writing great content can be like playing a game of golf. (Really!)Just as you would approach any round of golf using the game's tried and true rules, you likewise can apply a reliable set of standards to writing content. When you want to enjoy the same success with writing that you have on the green, you can approach your content game with these important writing rules in mind.
Content is king! Content is king! Content is king!That cheer has arisen from every quarter of the Internet community like an army in a Game of Thrones episode greeting their Khaleesi.Content marketing has proven to be one of the most effective methods of reaching consumers and connecting brands with potential customers. We all love content marketing and content is the best thing since sliced bread and apple pie.Until you have to manage and schedule that content.