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The Unfinished Manuscript In an ideal world, all of the content on your website is going to be high quality, Pulitzer winning prose. However, in the real world, this might not be the case. You might have inherited a blog with poorly written content. Or a website with numerous pages that were written a long …
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The Fifth Column Building consistent content is tough. Sometimes it’s good to get a refresher on what you’re doing and why you’re doing it, so when we saw that Google has outlined the 5 pillars of success needed to make a good app we were interested. But how can these pillars be applied to making …
Building a style guide is an important part of content marketing. You need both a company style guide as well as a more tactical, blog style guide. This post provides several tips of what to include when creating a brand manual to ensure consistency both online and offline across multiple platforms. Why do you need a …
Five Stars Customer reviews are an are part of building your business online reputation. When you first find a company online you often won’t know anything about them, and reviews from Google, Facebook, or third-party websites can be a good way to get an idea of what to expect. However, customer reviews have long been …
98% of Marketers Create Content According to a recent study 93% of Marketers now carry out some kind of content marketing. But only 42% of those marketers actually think that they do it well. As we create our own content, and help clients create their content, we see numerous places where marketers can improve the …
Following on from our recent blog post on gated content, today we’re going to look at the types of downloadable content you might want to put behind a gate.
We’ve all heard not to judge a book by its cover and, while that’s great for people and pets, it doesn’t necessarily apply to choosing a wedding dress or even a dozen eggs. I’m pretty sure that the outside of a greenish-black egg will give you impressions of what is inside. The same goes for driving views to your website. A flat, text-heavy page is about as inviting as a toaster instruction manual. Despite how much you know, people will resist reading it without a visual break, so why not try to make things a bit more visually pleasing with an infographic.
Making Old Content New Again for SEO Creating and posting regular content is one way of building an SEO presence for your company. But creating new content is not the only way to help improve your SEO ranking. Another way is repurposing content in a way that doesn’t risk duplicate content penalties and content fatigue. …
Cornerstone content is core information your prospects need in order to buy from you. It’s often described as in-depth content, and it supports the main areas of your business’ services or products. Using ourselves as an example, a piece of cornerstone content is a recent AdWords ebook we created. Fixing, creating and managing AdWords account is a service we offer. Our ebook contains advice related to running SEM as well as how to solve the many problems we solve for our clients.
Content Marketing is hard. It takes resources to consistently publish new and fresh information that resonates with your audience. Google and other search engines don’t like duplicate writing. The search engines see it as basically re-publishing the same content at different times or other places on the Web. So, when does repurposing your content make sense, and how can you avoid duplication? Here are a few ideas to remix and revitalize content you’ve already written.
