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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
Here’s How to Turn First-Time Customers into Loyal Fans with Context-Rich Content
By pairing email with an effective retargeting effort, your brand can continually tailor, create, and deliver the right content for your audience.
Here’s How to Combine Storytelling and Data to Produce Persuasive Content
Ever thought about what really sticks out in your audience's minds? Hint: it's not the hard facts alone. Combining data and storytelling can make your brand's content stick out in a meaningful way; Nichole DeMeré shows you how in today's post.
5 YouTube Tools to Boost Your Content Marketing Efforts
Youtube is one the most powerful marketing channels at our disposal. Videos rank well in Google and often have rich snippets that attract more clicks and brand awareness. While it's a very effective platform to build readership and following, it can also be quite overwhelming. Ther...
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How to Use Six Google Analytics Reports to Complete a Website Content Audit
I'm a big believer that no good content marketing strategy should begin without a comprehensive audit of the website’s current performance. The simple reason is that you cannot plan ahead if you do not already have a great understanding of where you currently are. In this article, I will show you how a content audit with six important Google Analytics reports can help you make some sma...
Moz Content Launches New Tiers and Google Analytics Integration
We've got some cool new features in Moz Content to share with you! Your content analysis will be more in-depth than ever before with Google Analytics integration, and if you're an agency or a larger site, we've got expanded tier levels to accommodate your needs.
What's it Take to "Go Viral?" 11 Traits to Give Your Idea Wings
Online word-of-mouth can drive exponential traffic growth, attract broad media coverage, and result in tons of backlinks and social shares. Matt Round describes the 11 key traits you should include when devising interactive content that taps into the impulse to share things on Facebook and Twitter.
Manufacturing Serendipity: How to Create Content that Captivates Your Audience
Learn how to turn empathy, surprise, delight, and information into the kind of content your audience will connect with and remember.
3 Unusual Hacks to Dramatically Up Your LinkedIn Game
It's time to start paying more attention to what LinkedIn can do to broaden your reach. In this article, Larry Kim shows you how to drive engagement and qualified traffic to grow your business and brand using LinkedIn updates and Pulse.
Here’s How Meaningful Content Updates Increased Traffic by 57%
It’s no big secret that dwell time has grown as a vital SEO metric for content publishers across a wide spectrum of industries. For our site, one of the largest consumer health websites in the world, time on page is a top priority.In fact, we have a dedicated multi-department engagement team who is constantly testing and tweaking design, content...
Content Marketing Tips for B2B Organizations
B2B companies face different challenges than B2C companies. From which stages you target in the funnel to how you measure your success to the team you end up selling to, content marketing can be a horse of a different color when you're business-to-business. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares his tips for successful content marketing when you're a B2B.
Case Study: How We Gained More than 100 Links for a Travel Website via Content Marketing
Many small businesses see content marketing as something that you can only be successful with if you are a huge company with a big budget. After being in the same boat for a long time, Tom Mcloughlin shares his agency's experience with running a successful campaign from start to finish, with excellent results.
Here’s How Brands Execute Truly Awesome Tactics for Email Marketing
Effective email marketing campaigns begin with attention to detail and empathy for your customers.
Pruning Your eCommerce Site: How & Why
Learn how eCommerce catalog content pruning can increase your revenue in 2016. Everett Sizemore shows you how to prune responsibly, and why you should start doing it today.