Mike Murray says, “Time-strapped, budget-conscious B2B and B2C marketers can’t afford to make unwise choices with SEO andcontent marketing. You won’t find a do-everything-for-me software product, but you can make excellent progress by continually asking these questions: Am I confident that my team and I understand SEO? Do we have the time to shape SEO strategies and put them into motion with content marketing? Are we using the right third-party SEO tools and resources to support our efforts?”. 68 SEO Content Tools, Trends, and Tips for B2B and B2C Brands Content Marketing Institute  [...]

Craig Hodges says, “About this time last year, I wrote about how to choose a content marketing agency. Revisiting the topic this time, a few things have changed. The seven points are still relevant, but the agency landscape has evolved greatly in the last 12 months. Spending in the sector has accelerated significantly as the skill set of content marketing seeps into mainstream marketing budgets. We’ve seen budgets transferred from search, PR, digital, and traditional publishers into our coffers, and now we are seeing agencies from those segments race to respond and reform to get their... [...]

Baer says, “We all know it’s essential to create great (and ubiquitous) content. But the time pressures are real. Most of us—even if we have a team backing us—can’t spend dozens of hours each week writing blog posts, engaging in witty real-time banter on Twitter, sharing insightful articles on LinkedIn, and building robust online communities. As I describe in my new book Stand Out, however, there is a solution: leveraging your investment in content creation. Even before you put the metaphorical pen to paper, think through your plan for content dissemination. As social media strategist... [...]

Mike Ramsay says, “Local content has been no different. I started out my career creating duplicate local doorway pages using “find and replace” with city names. After getting whacked by the figurative newspaper a few times, I decided there had to be a better way. To save others from the struggles I experienced, I hope that the hard lessons I have learned about local content strategy and marketing help to save you fearing a rolled newspaper the same way I do”. The Nifty Guide to Local Content Strategy and Marketing MOZ Blog  [...]

Arnie Kuenn says, “Search engines take a number of signals into consideration when serving results to provide the most relevant and useful content to searchers. Though many elements of a website affect where the site’s pages rank, a website’s authority – its digital reputation as a trusted, reliable source – is certainly something that contributes to how high or low it appears in the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). Because of this, improving your website’s authority can be beneficial to your search engine rankings. In addition to creating great content, consider the following... [...]

Joe Pulizzi says, “In this week’s episode, Robert and I discuss LinkedIn’s purchase of Lynda.com and what it means for LinkedIn and the content marketing industry. We also ponder the difference between content and advertising and ask if it really matters. We answer a listener question about measuring the impact of content programs. In addition, Robert and I explore the failure of social media as a community-building tool and discuss an alternative for brands that can be more effective but also harder to implement. Rants and raves include Walt Disney’s visionary mindset and how content... [...]

Tim Ash says, “A marriage made in heaven — Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) should be the perfect mate to content marketing. People rely on Internet self-service research for their scouting when making buying decisions about many products and services. In my experience with clients, 60-80 percent of the typical customer journey now takes place unaided and online. The old days of getting a “hot” lead to your salesperson and then having them hard-close are long gone. The expectation is that people will be able to get the information that they need, when they want it, on their terms.... [...]

MOZ team says, “Given Google’s recent changes to SERPs and their April 21 mobile deadline, does SEO still come first? In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Rand walks you through tactics you can use to build a loyal audience before you need to do SEO”. How Google’s Evolution is Forcing Marketers to Invest in Loyal Audiences MOZ Blog  [...]

Kristine Schachinger says, “Infinite scroll (or “endless scroll”) is a web design technique that automatically loads new content as a user scrolls down a webpage, presenting the user with a seemingly endless stream of content. (In some cases, websites will employ a “hybrid” version that displays a “load more” button once the bottom of the page is reached.) Some well-known sites that employ infinite scroll are Twitter, Facebook and Google Image Search. Why do sites use infinite scroll? The idea is that it is better to automatically load in new content when a page reaches the end... [...]

Kelsey Libert says, “In October 2013, Fractl published a study on viral emotions on the Harvard Business Review. The research was picked up by several high-authority publishers, catapulted our brand’s authority, increased our brand awareness, and drove dozens of qualified leads. To our expectation, we proved that our client-facing, research-driven content marketing strategy could have the same long-term impact on our own brand. Then, we were off to the races“. How Fractl Leveraged Content Marketing to Increase its Referral Traffic 6,718% MOZ Blog  [...]