Unweaving A Tangle of Legalese Is your website privacy policy up to date? If you’re using any kind of analytics — like Google Analytics — or specialty software on your website, then you must post a policy. With privacy issues making headlines and consumers feeling paranoid, you want to make sure your business is covered. Privacy …
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Software-Generated Content
Content marketing is now a commodity. I’ve seen prices as low as $1.90 an article. Yup, you read that right. Less than 2 bucks for a blog post. Now that Google rewards websites with in-depth content, the race is on to create as many blog posts and web pages as possible in order to get search attention. Recently a prospect told us they use a service to write their web articles; it turns out to be a service that delivers software-generated content.
SMB Marketing in 2018 – Time to Ask For Help?
Size Does Matter Small and Medium-sized businesses are under many pressures but the biggest are typically time and resources. There are only so many hours in the day, and unlike bigger companies, you have to be very careful about hiring too many members of staff. Much content written online about marketing is focused on …
How Topic Clusters Work: From Successful Content to Website Structure
It’s trivia night and a friend invites you to join them. Surprisingly, when the first round starts the category isn’t about pop culture (e.g. 90s music, movies, or popular Oscar hosts). Instead, let’s pretend the trivia host throws the crowd a curveball with SEO history and the future of content marketing.
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Facebook Fighting Fake News
A Friend Request We’ve spoken a lot about fake news over the last year or so and it continues to be a hot topic. Because of this Facebook has recently been in the news again, with the president discussing their fact-checking process. So, how does Facebook sift through all the mud to find the gold? …
Content Marketing in 2018 – How to Get an Edge
Generally in marketing when everybody is doing one thing, you should be doing something else. But in the case of Content Marketing, you don’t really have a choice of opting in or opting out. So let’s take a look at the content marketing trends in 2018 and see what opportunities are being missed.
Content Ideation Guide
Content marketing fuels SEO. It’s enables search engines to index your business. It’s energizes link building. More than ever, there’s pressure on businesses to publish quality content frequently. If you’re a managing editor or writer, then this content ideation guide is for you.
Writing Web Content
Creativity on Demand If you’re responsible for writing web content, you’ve no doubt stared at a blank page… stuck with writer’s block. In this post I’ll share a few words of wisdom that I’ve learned over the years. These tips were shaped by consistently writing for a thrice-weekly blog as well as for on-demand client content. Advice for Writing Web …
When Is Content Considered Thin?
There’s a saying… you can’t be too rich or too thin. Well, when it comes to content it can be too thin, according to Google quality guidelines. Is there a magic number to not be considered thin content?
Are PDFs Mobile Friendly?
Making sure your content marketing is friendly for the small screen is now an essential element. For those businesses who use pdfs to share details like product specifications, you should be asking “are pdfs mobile friendly?” In this post, we’ll answer that question plus cover some tips to ensure that what you share is ready (and appropriate) for mobile users.