Content Marketing Articles
Are Titles for Your Content Effective As They Could Be?
When it comes to writing content, most of us spend a lot of time making sure that the internal structure of it is up to par. We check our spelling and grammar. We make sure our thoughts are well organized and that our writing is engaging. While these are certainly important to the process, they aren...
Content Helps Build Audience Transparency
When doing business, customers want you to be as open and honest with them as possible. Your content is the perfect opportunity to let people know the details of your business and help them get to know you. It's true that people do business with those they like, know, and trust. This applies to ...
Content Doesn’t Need to Be Creative to Serve Your Audience
When creating content for your business's website, it is only natural to feel as if you need to get people to see it. One of the impulses you might have is to wrack your brain for ways to get people's attention. You may even feel as if you need to be creative so that you can maybe have some content ...
Blog Readers Are More Sophisticated Than You Think
One of the main purposes of a blog is to keep your readers engaged. That’s why you should always strive to provide content that’s relevant, interesting, and up to date. However, simply having a blog is not enough for a business. Today’s readers are sophisticated, which means that you need to p...
Create Brand Trust with Your Content
Your brand relies on customers to succeed, which means that your brand must be trustworthy. Some brands try to artificially create this trust through their advertising campaigns or other marketing methods. While these may work to some extent, this isn't necessarily the best approach. Customers and p...
Do Internal Content Links Make Sense for Your Brand?
When you have a website, it make sense that you want to create opportunities for people to stay on it for a longer time. In other word, people need to be given opportunities to discover the content on your website in a natural way. Sure, you will certainly have a navigational bar in order to help pe...
Don’t Write a College Essay on Your Company’s Blog
Content on your company's blog needs to be accessible to your audience. In other words, its chief purpose should be to please those who will read it, while also conveying your expertise. There are all kinds of strategies that you can do in order to accomplish this. All you need is to come up with a ...
How Good Does Your Content Need To Be?
When it comes to carving an effective space for your business online, content marketing remains at the top of the list. It enhances nearly every other strategy that exists in the digital space. Excellent content gives the search engines more chances to rank your pages well in the search results. Gre...
Why You Should Avoid Duplicate Content
It's true that the more content you write, the better off your website will be. The problem is, not all content is created equally. You should never post a lot of content if that means that the quality of what you're churning out is poor. Most of the time, low quality content is fairly obvious. H...
It’s True That Content Matters in SEO
It's true that content marketing and SEO go hand in hand. In fact, these days, it's almost impossible to execute an SEO campaign without also having a solid content marketing plan. Although SEO does take into account other things, such as the link portfolio and technical items such as the URL struct...
Are You Making the Most of Your Content?
A solid SEO program requires ongoing content creation, something that our clients are often hesitant about. We’ll certainly agree that deciding on topics, dedicating resources to content creation, and promotion of this content isn’t always easy and takes time. But what’s important to understan...
Your Audience Needs to Enjoy Your Content
When putting together a business website, much consideration is taken to determine it is well developed, has an excellent layouts and that the content achieves its desired purpose. Each page on your website has a specific function, and it is important to make sure the objective is being met. The ...
Elevate SEO Content for Better Engagement
When it comes to creating content for your website, it is true that the purpose of the content needs to be considered while composing it. While it may be true that SEO content needs to be crafted in a certain way in order to attract the search engines, this is a lot more complex than it first may ap...
Content Can Help Increase Brand Awareness
There are many benefits to regularly posting new content to your business website. Besides helping with your SEO program, making your audience happy, and giving you original items to share on social media, content can also help increase brand awareness. It is true that when people are repeatedly exp...
Use Content to Keep Customers Engaged With Your Brand
Once a potential customer finds your brand, they don't necessarily make a purchase right away. Unless you find a way to keep them engaged, you might lose them. It's your content that will help them stick with you. When you publish content geared towards their needs, they will keep coming back for mo...
How Much Content is Enough
It's a well known fact that content forms the base of a good digital marketing plan. Visitors love to see great content on your site, and this will draw visitors in from all over the internet, including the search engines, from advertising efforts, and from social media. We do know that not havin...
Should You Keep Dates On Evergreen Content?
When it comes to writing content for digital marketing and SEO, there is a lot that goes into it. Not only do you need to have the right content mix for your audience, but there are also other, smaller details that can make a significant difference. Some of these details may not need to matter much ...
Need a Blog Topic? Here’s Where to Look
Blogging is an important component of an SEO campaign. Updating a blog with high-quality content on a regular basis keeps the website “fresh” which ensures that the search spiders continue to come back and crawl it, provides opportunities to target long-tail keywords or questions that people are...
Keep Your Blog With New Content
It's true that a blog is one of your greatest tools for digital marketing because it is one of those activities that has countless benefits. Businesses should maintain a blog, or a regular channel for publishing new articles, for a variety of reasons. These include giving your audience reasons to ...
Deliver Content Your Audience Wants to Read
When it comes to creating content for your business, it is only natural that you will want to create content that your audience will be eager to read. There is a lot that goes into this, especially if you also consider that content needs to also serve the purpose of enhancing your brand and even hel...
Create Content for Every Phase of the Buying Cycle
When it comes to creating content for your business website, there are a few approaches that can be taken. First of all, the copy on your pages may read a little bit differently than the articles you may place on the blog. You also might have different pages on the site, such as FAQ content, videos,...
One Size Doesn’t Fit All For Content Marketing
When it comes to content marketing, it is all too easy to get lulled into a sense of false security. We know that there are certain strategies that seem to work for every business, and we tend to think that what works well for one will also work for another. While this is true on some level, it does...
But What Should I Blog About?
Blogging is an important component of an SEO program. Blog posts serve multiple purposes. They establish a company/website as an authority in a specific niche. They keep a website updated and fresh, giving the search spiders reason to come back and crawl the site. They provide opportunities to targe...
5 Tips to Improve Blog Conversion Rate
It's true that all business can benefit from having a blog. It can help boost SEO efforts, fuel a social media strategy, and help a business establish itself as a trusted thought leader in a particular niche. Just getting someone to visit your blog is important, but ultimately you want that person t...
Do I Really Need a Blog?
One of the first things we recommend to full service or consulting SEO clients is to add a blog to their website if they don’t already have one and to start publishing posts regularly. It’s not uncommon to get pushback from clients since blogging is time consuming. Another deterrent is that ther...
Your Content Strategy Should Evolve With Your Business
When your business website was first established, chances are pretty good that you came up with a content marketing strategy that met your needs at the time. Even though the elements of a content marketing plan will always be the same, the way these steps are executed will change as your business ev...
Where to Go for SEO Content Inspiration
If you know anything about SEO you know that fresh content is an extremely important component of an SEO campaign. However, creating fresh content on a regular basis can be anything but easy, especially if you don’t have much writing experience. Perhaps the hardest part of producing quality conten...
Add These to Your Blog Posts Today
If you’re consistently blogging and incorporating SEO elements into your blog posts (incorporating keywords naturally, writing optimized titles and descriptions, etc.), you’re already way ahead of many websites. But there’s a good chance that you can still be doing better. We’re avid blog re...
Know Your Customer Journey Before You Create Content
It's true that content creation is a big part of marketing for a variety of reasons. It can help with search engine optimization, builds trust with your audience, can help generate leads, helps with search engines, and more. Great content also gives customers a chance to interact with your brand in ...
Seasonality Can Be Important for Content Marketing
When consumers make decisions, they often follow certain patterns of behavior. These patterns are closely tied to people's lifestyles, which are often driven by the idea of seasonality. The biggest example of this is during the Christmas season, especially for e-commerce businesses. However, there a...
Writing Naturally and What it Means for SEO
There was a time when it was standard practice to obsessively optimize content for the search engines. Before writing an article or other piece of online content, keyword research was performed. The goal was to find the best keywords that matched the article. Everything changed after Google implemen...
Do Keywords Still Matter for Content?
When it comes to writing content, you might be wondering if keywords still matter for SEO. There was a time when keyword stuffing was the general rule of thumb when it came to ranking higher in the search engines. Keywords and phrases were used throughout pages whether or not they flowed with the co...
Consistency is Important in Content Marketing
Successful content marketing strategies are an essential part of every business because they serve a variety of purposes. Good content is something that is engaging and informative that captures your audience's attention and helps build brand awareness, can generate traffic, and is also a vital part...
Content Strategy Should Be Aligned With Branding
It's true that content is an important component of digital marketing. A few years ago, the common mantra was that "Content is King". However, that only tells part of the story. Content is important, but these days, care needs to be taken to develop the best strategy for your brand. Otherwise, your ...
Write Content with an SEO Mindset
One of the most important components of a web marketing campaign today is to have a content marketing strategy in place. However, not just any content will due. To make the most out of content efforts and ensure that content not only provides website visitors with the information they need, but also...
3 Quick Tips for Improving SEO Content
The problem with the whole “content is king” mantra is that it has resulted in a lot of not so great content out there on the web. Website owners feel pressured to be publishing content regularly and they don’t always have the resources necessary in order to do it well. There’s a lot of cont...
4 Qualities of Impactful SEO Content
Yes, content is a huge component of an SEO campaign because it’s what generates natural inbound links to a website and helps a website rank for relevant keyword terms in the search engines. However, we’re seeing far too many website owners simply creating content to reach quotas, without taking ...
Why You Should Perform a Content Audit
Before you can successfully create new content on your website, it's a good idea to take stock of how effective your existing content really is. You also want to make sure that you've covered your topic thoroughly. As a full service SEO firm, we create content for our B2B clients. However, in order...
How to Get Your Website Content to Rank
As we know, it’s certainly not easy to get your website to #1. In fact, for many website owners it’s pretty much impossible. No matter what industry you are in or what your website has to offer, there are competitors out there that are also trying to work their way up the search engine results p...
How to Write SEO Content that Matters
There are millions upon millions of pages of web content out there. While that might seem a little intimidating, the truth of the matter is that a small percentage of it is actually any good. And if you’re going to embark on an SEO campaign and begin writing and publishing content, the only way it...
Don’t Hold Your Content Back by Making These 5 Mistakes
At a very basic level, SEO is all about content. If you have great, well-optimized content, you have a better chance of ranking in the search engines for important keywords, driving targeted traffic to your website, and converting that traffic into paying customers or clients. Most website owners th...
How to Know Which Content to Create for SEO
We all know that creating excellent content is a vital part of today's SEO strategies. When we create an SEO plan for all of our full service B2B SEO clients, coming up with a plan for content marketing is always a vital part of our initial planning strategies. We also understand that you can't just...
Blog Best Practices You Might Be Missing
Blogging is an important part of SEO for many reasons. Blog posts keep a website “fresh”, provide opportunities to target long tail keywords, keep social media profiles active with great content, and generate natural inbound links to a website. Lots has been written about SEO blogging best pract...
3 SEO Reasons to Have a Business Blog
There are many benefits of operating a business blog and updating it with quality content on a regular basis. Writing, publishing, and sharing blog post content is a great way to share expertise and insights about the industry in addition to sharing company updates and news. Over time, a blog can be...
Reasons to Add FAQ Pages to Your Content Marketing Strategy
Do you have a frequently asked questions section of your website? If not, it’s worthwhile to consider adding one. Not only is it helpful from a user-experience and customer service perspective (answers to commonly asked questions can quickly and easily be found on the website, reducing time spent ...
3 Ways to Make Old Content New Again
Content writing is an integral part of an SEO campaign, but it’s also often considered to be one of the most difficult parts of a campaign. In addition to requiring writing skills (which not everybody has), it also requires time and research skills. That’s why, for SEO purposes especially, it’...
How to Increase Traffic to Your Blog (and Website)
A blog is a crucial component of a business website. There are many reasons to blog but ultimately what it comes down to is that a blog can help generate traffic to your website and those website visitors can then in turn learn more about your business and products and consider buying from you. By i...
The Top Reasons to Maintain an Active Business Blog
One of the most important components of SEO is content. After all, it’s what the search engines crawl in order to determine what a site is all about and how/where it should rank. Any decent website is going to have the basic content in place: what services are offered, what products are sold, who�...
3 Ways to Reuse Your SEO Content
One of the most important parts of an SEO campaign is ongoing content creation. Every new page of informative, high-quality web content is an additional opportunity to rank organically for targeted keywords and generate natural inbound links. Of course, it takes time to create SEO content that’s w...
4 Content Marketing Best Practices for SEO
Content marketing is a cornerstone of an SEO campaign today. Without well-optimized, high quality content a website will have a hard time earning natural inbound links and ranking prominently for targeted keywords. While most website owners understand the importance of content, there’s more that c...