Content Marketing
Content forms the foundation of SEO. If you want to rank, you first need content. If you want to rank well in a competitive environment, you likely need an exceptional content strategy. Content can take many forms: blog posts, product pages, pdfs, videos, forums, and more. Almost anything you put on your website for your audience counts as "content."
Content Marketing is the practice of creating and marketing content for the purpose of driving traffic, increasing awareness, and/or supporting a brand.
In SEO, good content can also drive links to your website, which in turn helps to increase your search traffic from Google.
The Beginner's Guide to Content Marketing : If you’re brand new to content marketing, start here. We’ll explain the basics from A-Z.
Content Marketing Learning Center : Our free content marketing learning hub. Here, we’ve gathered our top resources in one place.
Thought Leadership : Chima Mmeje shows you how to craft a thought leadership strategy that complements your content marketing efforts and positions your brand as the source of truth.
How to Create 10x Content : Wondering just how to go about creating that ten-times-better content? We have a Whiteboard Friday for that.
How to Do a Content Audit : A thorough content audit can reveal your site's opportunities and pitfalls while providing actionable ideas for improvement. This comprehensive guide shows you how.
21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic (Updated 2014)
It's easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic. Over the years, we've grown this blog to hundreds of thousands of visitors each month and helped lots of other blogs, too. I launched a personal blog late last year and was amazed to see how quickly it gained thousands of visits to each post. There's an art to increasing a blog's traffic, and given that we ...
Search Engine Algorithm Basics
A good search engine does not attempt to return the pages that best match the input query. A good search engine tries to answer the underlying question. If you become aware of this you'll understand why Google (and other search engines), use a complex algorithm to determine what results they should return.
SEO and Emotion
Emotions are a strong motivator of human behavior. This is even true on the web. The more that ranking signals continue to evolve, the more significant the role that emotion-motivated actions play in search engine optimization. After all, one of our primary focuses as SEOs is to develop content that makes everyone who sees it want to share it and say wow.
Why Does Great Content Fail?
Great content just magically creates traffic, wealth, and fame, right? Not always, sadly. Here are a few ways to put great content into motion and market your marketing.
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Post-Panda Content Strategy - Lessons from Magazine Editing
As a one-time editor the Panda update was a bit of a 'Hallelujah' moment. It was the point in time when past boardroom 'rants' actually came to fruition – that content is the ONLY thing of true value to an audience and that its time would come around again. Those 'half full' writers, fed up with watching helplessly as 'their' audiences migrated online...
Blog Design for Killer SEO - Infographic
Before SEOmoz was a business, it was a blog. In fact, blogging is at the heart of everything this company stands for. A blog is so much more than pageview generator. It speaks in your voice, provides a gateway to your community, acts as your moral center and facilitates communication with the rest of the world.
SEO 101 for Travel Bloggers
Several weekends ago, for the first time, I accompanied my wife, Geraldine (aka Everywhereist, whose blog was just placed on Time.com's Top 25 Blogs of 2011 and then on Forbes' Top 10 Lifestyle Sites; woo hoo!), to Vancouver, BC for a professional conference focused on her career rather than mine (TBEX - the Travel Bloggers Exchange). Given that she's attended countless sessions on SEO, analytics, tech startups and scalable SaaS models, I figured it was the least I could do.
An Analogy Filled Explanation Of SEO For Kids
Howdy Mozzers! I am a long time (ish) reader, but this is my first ever attempt at a post on here, my previous SEO blogging has all be targeted toward potential clients with little to no SEO knowledge at all, so stepping up to you guys is like going from Southport FC to Manchester United, or (insert similar analogy regarding Hockey/Basketball/Toe Wrestling - yes ...
Putting the "Experts" Back in Expert Authoring
Whether you call it "Panda", "Farmer" or the "Anti-Demand-Media" update, Google is clearly making a push to reward "better" content. So the question becomes, how do you acquire better content? Buy It One of the reasons that content farms were started in the first place is because quality writing is expensive. Good writing re...