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Monday Roundup: SEO Tips

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On today’s roundup, we’re talking SEO (search engine optimization). Enduring Questions on Press Releases and SEO. Why: In this guest post for WUL, Jessica Torres shares how she made her blog Cavy Savvy a success using smart SEO. vs. Black Hat SEO. Writing Effective Alt Text For SEO.

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15 Metrics You Should Measure in Content Marketing

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Did you know that 47% of B2B marketers and 34% of B2C marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI? Another reason why marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI is that they simply don’t know how to do it. Following is a list of 15 content marketing metrics that you should measure: 1. Unique Visits. Inbound Links.

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Creating Insanely Effective Content Marketing

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Content marketing is all the rage, and for good reason: it works. With 70% of internet users saying they’d prefer to learn through content rather than ads , content marketing makes perfect sense. Still, there’s a lot more that goes into content marketing than simply writing a blog about a new product.

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10 Content Marketing Tricks That Will Help Your Brand Stand Out

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The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. Share the right content on the right social media network. Offer consumable content …. And long-form content.

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How Distributed Content Can Help Control Social Messaging

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What is distributed content and why should you know about it? Perhaps you’re familiar with the term “distributed content” ( content that is published to third-party platforms rather than to an owned website). Distributed content is an effective way to have more control over your social messaging.

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Content Marketing: Without Community, It’s Only Half the Equation

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If there’s one thing you take away from today’s post on content marketing, please let it be this: just because you build it, doesn’t mean they’ll come. Content Marketing: a scenario. You’re super-excited too – content, new client, money… what’s not to love? So you put it together.

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Finding Keywords: The First Step to Blogging Success

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Having built my first web site ( DVD Verdict ) in April 1999 and managed one of the larger SEO teams in the country from 2006 to 2009, it’s safe to say I’ve seen many changes in web marketing over time. While that phrase is in decline, SEO still is about 40X as used as either of those two phrases. Guest post by Sean McGinnis.

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