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

The Anatomy of the Perfect Pitch Email
Amanda Milligan

The Anatomy of the Perfect Pitch Email

Whiteboard Friday | Content Marketing | Link Building

If you need to get backlinks and generate brand awareness for clients, a great way to start is by creating original research and then pitching that research to writers. But the promotion of your work is probably the trickiest part, and a lot of it comes down to the pitch email you send to a writer. To make this task a bit less daunting, in this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Amanda Milligan of Fractl walks you through a real pitch email that resulted in coverage of one of their stories.

3 Creative Ways to Give Your Content Efforts a Boost — Best of Whiteboard Friday
Rand Fishkin

3 Creative Ways to Give Your Content Efforts a Boost — Best of Whiteboard Friday

Content Marketing | Whiteboard Friday | SEO Basics

We know that content is our doorway to earning countless SEO benefits for our sites. Admittedly, though, it’s too easy to get stuck in a rut after one too many content marketing campaigns. In this 2017 holiday edition of Whitebeard Friday (see what we did there?), Rand offers three novel ways to add sparkle to your content creation efforts.

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10 Google SEO Tips to Index + Rank New Content Faster
Cyrus Shepard

10 Google SEO Tips to Index + Rank New Content Faster

Whiteboard Friday | Content Marketing | SEO Basics

When you publish new content, you want users to find it ranking in search results as fast as possible. Fortunately, there are a number of tips and tricks in the SEO toolbox to help you accomplish this goal. Sit back, turn up your volume, and let Cyrus Shepard show you exactly how in this popular and informative episode of Whiteboard Friday. [Note: #3 isn't covered in...

How to Detect and Improve Underperforming Content: A Guide to Optimization
Samuel Mangialavori

How to Detect and Improve Underperforming Content: A Guide to Optimization

Content Marketing | On-page SEO

Today, content is consistently one of the most popular topics covered at digital marketing conferences, there are way more tools that focus on content analysis and optimization, and overall it seems to dominate most of SEO news. So, how can you be content with your site’s content? Puns aside, this post aims to help you figure out potential causes of your underperforming content and how to improve it. Don’t believe...

How to Turn One Piece of Content into Multiple for SEO
Liam Barnes

How to Turn One Piece of Content into Multiple for SEO

Blogging | Content Marketing | Social Media

As people consume more and more content each day, they become less receptive to basic content that doesn't provide a new perspective. To counter this issue, you must make sure that your content is native to each platform you publish on. However, that doesn’t mean that you need to start from scratch. There's a way to take one content idea and turn it into multiple, which can scale across multiple platforms and improve your brand awareness.