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Most web marketers will tell you that these days, long-form content for SEO is king. Long gone are the days when agencies cranked out threadbare, 500-word posts crammed with keywords designed to increase their clients’ search engine rankings. Today, it’s all about information-rich, keyword-savvy copy that fully satisfies searcher intent. According to Orbit Media’s 2021 […]
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The early days of SEO might be called the Wild West days of SEO. The fastest guns might have ruled the towns of the old west, but the fastest and most prolific keyword stuffers ruled digital marketing once upon a time. But those days are gone, and while there’s no new sheriff in town, Google […]
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If you’ve seen celebrity tell-alls on the shelves at your local bookstore, you’ve probably seen the results of ghostwriting jobs firsthand. In fact, according to Joe Queenan’s essay, which was published by The New York Times, public figures such as Nancy Reagan, Charles Barkley, Lee Iacocca, and the Mayflower Madam have all hired professional ghostwriters to […]
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Producing great content is a necessary part of digital marketing, but staying competitive takes a lot of work. Here’s how outsourcing can help. Content marketing is constantly evolving, and it’s not going away. It’s now one of the pillars of a business’s overall digital marketing efforts. If you want to be found online, you need […]
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Keyword research is an integral component of any content marketing strategy; it ensures your content is relevant to your audience and acts as the foundation of your SEO efforts by providing insights into which phrases have the most search volume. That in turn guides you to in creating effective SEO content that will rank highly and […]
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Reinventing the wheel is a waste of time, and most people agree with that sentiment. But what about improving the wheel? There’s a reason the owners of show cars and collectible vehicles put the time and elbow grease into making wheels shine. That little bit of sparkle can mean the difference between a blue ribbon or an […]
Meghan McKenzie | Posted on
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Never clean your kitchen again! Germs begone! Make it all sparkle! Clean once and you’re done with this hated household chore when you buy the Magic Mop and Sop Kit. You know what doesn’t convert today? Bad ad copy. And that doesn’t mean poorly written copy — the ad above is grammatically correct and even […]
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Connecting with your audience is hard. Building relationships is even harder. Converting those readers into loyal customers can seem so daunting it makes a career change or at least an indefinite sabbatical in the Antarctic look downright reasonable. Running is for the weak, though, and you’re the kind of ambitious and determined go-getter that’s ready […]
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Technically, copywriting occurs whenever you create content for promotional, advertising or marketing materials. Your blog posts, social media posts and Google text ads are all copy. So is the content in marketing emails, case studies, catalogs and website landing pages, because these are all tools meant to market or sell your products or brand. But […]
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