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Content marketing: feeling ripped off?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Your content marketing program is taking off. Someone has taken your original content and is using it online as if it were their own. Official Creative Commons logo. You’ll get a notification direct to your inbox if some scrapes or copies your content. Good for you. How frustrating! It happens all the time.

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15 Metrics You Should Measure in Content Marketing

Waxing UnLyrical

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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Getty Images vs Creative Commons and Privacy: What Bloggers Need to Know

ProBlogger

This rather remarkable change in policy by Getty Images shows that it’s ready to work with content creators and adapt to the times we live in. “You may only use embedded Getty Images Content for editorial purposes (meaning relating to events that are newsworthy or of public interest).”

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10 Content Marketing Tricks That Will Help Your Brand Stand Out

Waxing UnLyrical

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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Three Most Important Content Marketing Lessons of 2012

Firebelly

This year has been one of major upheaval after another for content marketers. Here are three things that every content marketer should have learned from the past 12 months. Google isn’t letting us get away with putting out schlocky content and cramming it full of keywords to trick the search engine spiders.

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Content Marketing is More Than Just Blogging

Firebelly

Content marketing is about more than just blogging. While that’s the first thing that people think of — at least me, as a professional blogger — content is anything that can be read, watched, seen, or heard. I like this kind of content best, because it tells the entire story. Basically anything you can read.

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Content Creation? Curation? Focus on Publishing Instead

Firebelly

I’ve been talking a lot lately about content curation lately, and our contributor, Erik Deckers, is all about content creation, which has led to some “Tastes great! But the one thing that we’ve both agreed on is the importance of publishing of our content, regardless of where it came from. Less filling!”

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