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3 Powerful Content Marketing Metrics You Have to Be Monitoring

Spend a bit of time getting friendly with Google Analytics, and you’ll see how easy it is to lose yourself in content marketing metrics. From Analytics to Twitter reports, measuring content marketing performance can be accomplished many ways. Ironically, this means many companies don’t truly measure much at all. Even if you collect all the […]

How Not to Fail at Content Marketing

Content marketing is the top inbound marketing priority for 53 percent of marketers in 2017, and for good reason. In fact, companies who publish new content three to four times per week typically get 3.5X the traffic of  those who only publish new content once per week. It’s been said that content marketing is the […]

3 Reasons Your Blog May Not Get the Traffic You Want

Blogging offers an effective way to get your content in front of your target market. A regularly updated blog can increase brand awareness, drive sales and let you or your business engage with customers. However, it doesn’t always help you increase website traffic. A blog doesn’t do you any good without traffic. It’s like giving a speech […]

6 Expert Secrets to Make Your Social Media Posts Pop

There are lots of factors that come into play when it comes to your site’s search engine rankings, but social media is becoming increasingly important for SEO. Audience engagement is a big indicator of how well your posts are performing, and search engines take this into account when deciding how authoritative your site is. Shares, […]

5 Reasons Content Marketing Fails

You might have crowned content as king in your marketing organization, but that doesn’t mean the kingdom will be successful. Many factors contribute to a content marketing strategy that wins, and an equal number of things can cause your content to fall flat with audiences. Here are five common reasons for content marketing fails. 1. […]

Is Long-Form Content the Way to Go?

When it comes to blog content, size really does matter. Long articles keep people on your page for a longer period of time, and search engines tend to rank them higher than short posts. In fact, according to the Orbit Media Studios third annual survey of bloggers, the length of the average blog post has risen […]

Headlines that Engage Readers and Encourage Click-Throughs

It’s estimated that around five times more people read a headline than the content itself. Headlines are easy to share via social media and other links, which puts them in front of a wider audience than your blog or website can draw on it’s own. Understanding which titles perform best is critical to driving higher […]

7 Best Tools for Your WordPress Blog

WordPress is often seen as the premier DIY website builder, and that’s for good reason. It’s the most-used content management system and powers over a quarter of the web. The platform of choice for everyone from one-person startups to blogs with international appeal, WordPress has a lot to offer any digital marketer. Having a WordPress blog and […]

What’s the Latest on Keyword Ratios, and How Do You Calculate Them?

It’s pretty difficult to stay on top of the latest updates to the ever-changing world of SEO, but one issue has really garnered some particular confusion: keyword ratios. With the issue of keyword ratios as variable as it has been in the world of SEO, it’s often difficult to keep track of the current state […]

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