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How’s Your Image SEO Game?

You’ve just written a post that exhaustively explores your topic and satisfies searcher intent.  It’s engaging and informative, and you know readers and search spiders alike are going to love it. Awesome! Now, how’s your image SEO for the post? After putting in the work of crafting a killer post, you need to make sure […]

How to Build a Brand Without Creating a Riot

One of the “easy” ways to get visibility for your brand online is to piggyback a trending topic. Online marketers often leverage trending hashtags on Twitter, repurpose news stories to cash in on audience attention or chime in on a current cultural question in a way that ties back to their products. All of that […]

Move Over, Mr. Patel — THIS Is How to Write an Introduction

Most blog introductions on the internet suck. They’re too long, don’t say anything valuable and waste what little time I don’t actually have. And the problem seems to be getting worse, with content marketers and bloggers emulating each other — and experts — in all the wrong ways, and no one really follows good advice […]

Who Are My Facebook Followers, and How Do I Engage Them?

With an average of 1.28 billion active daily users, Facebook is a content marketer’s dream. Having an active social media presence on Facebook is an efficient, economical way to draw attention to your blog, but sometimes posting there can feel like shouting into the void —even when you have thousands of Facebook followers. Step up […]

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 […]

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. […]

5 Tips to Revitalize a Lagging Content Marketing Strategy

Content marketers are getting better at the job every year. North American benchmarks posted by MarketingProfs note that almost two-thirds of B2B and B2C marketers said they were more successful this year than last with their content marketing efforts. While that’s great news, it also means enterprises must work harder to keep up with the […]

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 […]

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