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Optimizing Your Content to Match User Keyword Search Intent

Although Google hasn’t revealed exactly how its algorithm works, the company’s employees often provide insight into how website owners can improve their page rankings. Hundreds of factors go into determining how one-page ranks compared to all the pages competing for the same keyword, but Google’s recent updates indicate it’s important for the content on a […]

Content Outsourcing: Ways to Avoid Common Quality Problems

Content marketing is the process of planning, creating and sharing content with the people in your target audience. Sharing content with others can help you drive organic traffic to your website, convert leads into customers and keep long-term customers engaged with your brand. Although content marketing has many benefits, it can be difficult to find […]

Is Pinterest Good for SEO? How to Use Pinterest to Drive Traffic

When Pinterest launched in 2010, it quickly gained popularity as a place to share recipes, craft ideas and decorating tips. Since then, the site has been transformed from a digital bulletin board to a visual search engine, making it an important component of search engine optimization. With a few tweaks, your Pinterest profile can help […]

Writer Spotlight: Elizabeth Michael — And Now, A Musical Interlude

It’s not often that writers are in the limelight. Some may achieve fame by hitting the bestseller lists, but most practice their craft quietly behind the scenes, especially if creating content like we do around here. These blog posts, articles and product descriptions go out into the world without bylines, but they’re highly impactful for […]

How Often Should Website Content Be Updated?

While there is currently no industry standard, updating or refreshing website content every 3-6 months is an excellent best practice. This general guideline helps ensure accuracy, recency, and helpfulness. Ideally, content updates will be tied to performance, meaning pages should be constantly updated based on how they are performing. The most important things are to: […]

How Freelancers Support In-house Teams

When you work with freelance writers, you get the benefits of accurate, well-written content without having to hire a full-time writer or assign extra tasks to busy in-house team members. As for finding freelancers, it’s easier than ever. According to CNBC, the gig economy has grown over 15% from 2010 to 2020 as more Americans […]

How to Scale Content Creation

Creating a single piece of well-written, effective content isn’t an easy task, but dozens? Hundreds? It’s an enormous project that requires a solid strategy for scaling.  When done correctly, scaling your content creation can: Scaling can’t be done by just hiring a couple of writers and editors and pointing them at a content calendar.  To […]

A Look at Content Optimization Tools

It’s hardly a secret that content marketing is an incredibly effective strategy for growing your blog or business. Compared to outbound marketing, it generates three times as many leads at less than half the cost. It’s no wonder so many blogs and companies are leveraging it to improve search rankings, increase website traffic and keep the leads […]

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