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30 Remarkable Content Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2013 (and 2014)

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In another study, 35% of marketing professionals worldwide cited content marketing as their leading focus in 2013, followed by social media (25%) and SEO (15%). The three content marketing tactics that deliver the highest ROI are featured articles (cited by 62% of marketers), video (52%) and white papers (46%). eMarketer ).

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What Exactly Do You Do?

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A common enough question, but it got me thinking: in more than five years and nearly 500 posts about web presence optimization, SEO, SEM, content marketing, social media, and inbound marketing on this blog, I’ve never actually answered that question here. click to enlarge). It happens.

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

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Nonetheless, as I was identifying their needs; talking about where they are now; and what they’re goals and challenges are, one of the partners was skeptical about search engine optimization (SEO). The nice thing about SEO, blogging and social media marketing, is that the results are cumulative and compounding.

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Seven Expert Social PR Guides and Tips

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But as the world has shifted from marketing brochures and printed trade publications to everything online, the connections between PR and marketing have become more apparent; that white paper may be a lead generation asset, but it can also be used to pitch a bylined article. So how exactly does PR support SEO efforts?

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Anyone with a New Idea is a Crank Until the Idea Succeeds

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Although the framework has been for the most part enthusiastically embraced (and dozens of people have downloaded the framework white paper ), a few people on Twitter questioned the need for a “new” marketing concept. Search Engine Optimization (SEO ). Image credit: Ajax Union.

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How Social Media, Content Transform Marketing from Expense to Investment

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But the larger factor is SEO: the longer a blog is actively contributed to, the more content there will be for search engines to index, the more links it will attract, and hence the more search-driven traffic it will enjoy. Well-written white papers can also serve as effective long-term lead-generation assets.

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20 Ways to Generate ROI from a Corporate Blog

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Promote white papers / eBooks / reports for lead generation. Use “ads&# in your blog sidebar, and in-post text links where appropriate, to drive visitors to your white paper or other gated content download pages. And as a side benefit, this is helpful for SEO. Here are 20 ideas. Gather market intelligence.

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