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

How to Build a Killer Content → Keyword Map for SEO
Rand Fishkin

How to Build a Killer Content → Keyword Map for SEO

You've got content on your site that doesn't intentionally target any keyword. But how do you identify those opportunities and, most importantly, capitalize on them? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand illustrates the process of creating your own content-to-keyword map to discover where to optimize, what content to build, and how to intelligently target keywords when you're auditing a site.

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What We Can Learn From Heat Map Studies to Improve Our Calls-to-Action
Ann Smarty

What We Can Learn From Heat Map Studies to Improve Our Calls-to-Action

Most of those reading this probably already know about heat maps. But stay with me while I give a quick explanation to those who don't. A heat map is a visual graph delivered in a unique style. Rather than showing straight statistics, it works by using different colors to show things like... Mouse movement: Where the mouse was moving (my means of mouse-tracki...