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9 Content Metrics to Keep an Eye On

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Content marketing sometimes gets a bad rep because its benefits are not exactly the most measurable of any marketing activity around. Most of its advantages are believed to be intangible, like the building of brand recognition and increased exposure.

Don’t get me wrong — those benefits are great and doubtlessly essential to successful online marketing, but we marketers often like to be able to get specific, measured benefits out of something. Never fear, for such benefits are certainly available with content marketing. Here are 9 content metrics that will help you determine tangible ROI from your content production.

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15 Blog Design Hacks to Maximize Social Sharing

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Generally, when online marketers discuss social media marketing, we straightaway start thinking about headlines, content quality, and content marketing strategy. While those three are definitely all very important factors of a successful social media marketing strategy, there’s still one important component we often forget to consider – blog design.

Yes, believe it or not, your blog design does have an impact on how many social shares your posts will get — and a rather significant one at that. Here are 15 ways to ensure that your design is as social media friendly as possible.

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15 Ways to Get More Customers from Your Blog

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If you’ve jumped onto the content marketing bandwagon and kick-started a blog on your business website, you may have discovered that generating customers from your blog isn’t all as easy as you originally might have thought.

But never fear — just because your blog isn’t attract customers now doesn’t mean that it won’t in the future — all your blog needs is probably just a quick boost. So, here are 15 ways to boost your blog’s customer-generation.

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11 Buzzwords to Use in Your Blog Posts

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Creating share worthy blog content is an art that many bloggers seem to struggle with. Instead of following a well-defined content marketing strategy, they rely on luck for their posts to get some social love.

That, obviously, is the wrong to go about it.

Over the years, successful bloggers have converted this art into science, and have closely studied every factor that leads to creating viral blog content. While there are a number of things that contribute to a blog post’s social potential, using high impact buzzwords comes close to the top of the list of factors that make people share blog content.

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27 Must-Use SEO Tools to Do Content Marketing

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Content marketing is about creating, optimizing, and distributing valuable content to grow your web presence and steer the actions of consumers. It involves driving traffic, generating leads, and building authority. Not too hard if you have the right skills and strategy, but without an arsenal of SEO tools at your disposal, you are bound to waste time and money.

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SEO & Blogging = a Match Made in Heaven?

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SEO and blogging form the backbone of content marketing, something that every serious business and marketer should be doing today to grow their online presence. Have you heard the term? Learn it well. Unless you are satisfied with your current cyber status.

Having a good-looking website is not enough. It’s hard to attract business with a few static web pages; those won’t bring you traffic, leads, and sales, or develop your brand.

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11 Reasons to Focus on Quality Content

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If you’re an online business and quality content development isn’t part of your digital content strategy, you’re a step behind. That’s what search engines want in 2014 – that is what consumers want. If you plan to “ride the gravy train,” you had best follow suit.

The truth is that content has always been king on the Internet. However, whereas the focus was always on quantity in the past, quality now holds the trump card and determines the success of marketing campaigns. A somewhat logical progression, it seems like.

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17 Content Marketing Trends to Keep an Eye On

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Content marketing — like any other type of online marketing — is continually changing and evolving. Meaning, if your content campaign today looks just like it did in ‘07, then it isn’t as effective as it was in 2007.

Example: one of my Internet marketing buddies’ content marketing campaign was built heavily around article directory submissions (think Ezine Articles). His traffic continues to decrease daily.

Another fellow marketeer heavily invests in an up-to-date, regularly updated blog and complementary social media; and his traffic and brand authority are skyrocketing.

If you’re behind the content marketing curve, now’s the time to get caught up — here are 17 content marketing trends relevant to 2014.

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