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  1. Content marketing is a core facet of the digital marketing industry, yet there are still some facts about this strategy that may surprise or even shock you. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  2. With the big push in content marketing and the use of social media as a commonplace tactic for brands, rising above the noise is a challenge. With a little creativity, any brand can steal some inspiration from shows like "Orange is the New Black". Source: Search Engine Watch

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  3. Back when we first published a 10 step guide on how to top Google search, the world of organic and paid search was a vastly different place. Sure it was only three years ago (almost to the day), but my how the landscape has changed. In 2013, to get to the top of Google it was merely a manner of doing some killer keyword research, ensuring your site had a good and clear structure and making sure you had a ton of high authority backlinks coming your way. And although these are all still very relevant practices today, we also now have to contend with these brand new factors too… Disclaimer: there are hundreds of things you need to do to improve search visibility,…

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  4. SEO News · Started by Newsie,

    Researching a new market, customer or channel can be wildly inefficient. The web has abundant information, but finding just the right information you need is time consuming if you don�t know some of the tricks. Read on to discover 10 of the best! Source: Search Engine Watch

  5. Almost 93% of all online experiences begin with a search engine and 70% of the links that people click are organic.* Do you need more evidence that SEO is the way to go when it comes to boosting the popularity of your website and your brand? When it comes to inbound marketing, no other technique can deliver the same results. Writing SEO content is the heart and soul of effective optimization but it’s far from an easy task. Various tools can be used to simplify the process and make it more effective. If you’re just getting started with SEO content, you’ll find the following 10 tools to be quite useful. 1. Google Search Console This one is an absolute essential…

  6. Editorial links, just like editorial coverage can't be guaranteed. However, follow these suggestions and you'll maximize your chances of success. Source: Search Engine Watch

  7. If you’ve just started your WordPress blog and want everybody to read your content, then you should promote your blog on multiple online platforms. Creating and launching an appealing and informative blog is not enough. For better results, you need to get serious about its promotion. Marketing has always been a great way to drive the targeted audience towards your brand or product. You can convey your organization’s message to a large number of people by making the use of effective marketing techniques. Similarly, a blogger optimizes their posts with the aim to better represent them across various web platforms, where they can generate traffic to the site. Bu…

  8. SEO News · Started by Newsie,

    You may be surprised at how common some SEO myths still are in 2016, so it’s definitely time to leave them behind. Whether you’re an expert or a beginner at SEO, it’s always useful to compile all the myths you read about, so you can work out for yourself the ones you actually need to be worried about. What would you add to this list of the most common SEO myths? 1. SEO is dead This is certainly the most popular SEO-related myth and it ended up an urban legend, widely spread among sites and communities. If you happen to believe that SEO is indeed dead, or if you’re just a pessimist, I assume the rest of the myths won’t be much useful to you. If you want to kee…

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  9. Why do you blog? You want your content to be discovered and read by as many people as possible, right? But often your reach is limited. You’re limited by the size of your existing audience. Every day, people are bombarded with more content than they will ever have time to read. Most people are both incredibly busy and have the attention span of a goldfish (guilty on both counts!). So how do you make your content go further and make sure lots of people read your stuff? http://www.wordstream.com/images/unicorn-using-linkedin.jpg Image via Reid Hoffman LinkedIn Pulse can help you do just that. What Is LinkedIn Pulse? LinkedIn Pulse is LinkedIn’s version…

  10. It’s easy to overlook your organic click-through rates on Google. After all, you’ve probably been lulled into believing over most of your marketing life that they’re not as important as other SEO metrics, such as inbound links. However, there are a lot of really great reasons you should work on improving your organic CTRs, not the least of which is its impact on your rankings. In fact, we’ve found evidence that if you want to move up a spot in the rankings, improving your organic CTR by 3% will do it. But even if you don’t believe that organic CTR can affect your SEO rankings, it’s a really good idea to work on increasing your click-through rate. A high organic C…

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  11. Just in case you’re ever tempted to try a few black-hat practices to manipulate your search positions in Google, here are 12 tales to persuade you otherwise. Whether using cloaking, unnatural paid-for links, doorway pages, spam or hidden links, Google is swift and brutal with a manual penalty. Even if the transgression isn’t necessarily your own fault. In fact for some of the following well-known brands, they’re merely guilty of not paying enough attention or not being educated enough when it comes to what Google cracks down on. There’s some great advice here about what to do when hit with a manual penalty, but for now, let’s check out the circumstances of 12 hig…

  12. How can you create content marketing which works for search, right from the start? Many of us probably think of SEO as something which is done after the fact: you create your copy, then you think about how to optimise it. But at the Content Marketing Association’s Digital Breakfast last week, Kevin Gibbons from BlueGlass proposed a radically different approach. To make your content work for SEO, Gibbons’ advice is to “start with the end in mind”. You need to be thinking about promotion from the word go, he said; so that when it comes to publishing your content, you already have a distribution and promotion strategy in mind, and have crafted your content towards that…

  13. Evergreen content, or content that is updated regularly and won't quickly become out of date or totally incorrect within a short time period, is a smart way to attracts links. Here are 12 examples of evergreen content you can add to your website. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  14. Video content has skyrocketed over the past few years, and therefore it’s time to examine how adding SEO to your videos can impact rankings. Video is everywhere and this is both a blessing and a curse, especially if you’re trying to stand out from the rest of the crowd at the top of search engine results pages. So consider the following video SEO tips to help put you ahead of the competition… 1) Add value As common as it may sound, your content should be relevant to your audience, adding value that will convince the users to dedicate the right time to watch your video. The more quality videos, the bigger the chances to serve as an authority, build a trusting relat…

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  15. Whether you are a devoted resolution-maker or just want to know how you can be a better marketer, here are 13 changes every marketing professional should make in 2013. Source: Search Engine Watch

  16. Back in 2013 John Gagnon wrote a very popular post detailing some of his favourite Excel tips and tricks. We thought we’d update the list of classic shortcuts with a few that reflect some new functionality in Excel 2016. New Excel tips for 2016: 1. Navigate ‘The Ribbon’ with ALT In Excel 2016 the ribbon refers to the menu of tabs (File, Home, etc.) at the top of your workbook. Simply hitting ALT will quickly highlight the related keys then used to jump to certain ribbon tabs. For instance, ALT followed by M will take you to the ‘Formulas’ tab. You can easily move between tabs by pressing ALT and using the left and right arrow keys, while CTRL + F1 toggle…

  17. It's becoming increasingly expensive to drive traffic to your website. The only way to maintain or improve results is to increase your conversion rate. Study up on these expert conversion rate optimization guides and tutorials to get up to speed. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  18. Reputation management expert Andy Beal, CEO of Trackur and author of "Repped: 30 Days to a Better Online Reputation", kicked off Day 2 of ClickZ Live New York by sharing 15 examples of reputation disasters, and what we can learn from these mistakes. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  19. Short on cash but big on ideas? Here are a few ideas to help you formulate a quality content led digital marketing plan, and a list of cost effective tips that every business can action to maximize the ROI of any content investment made. Source: Search Engine Watch

  20. Online writing has its own style and it’s even more challenging when you consider its impact on SEO. Here are 15 tips to keep in mind when writing for the web. There’s no need to think of Google every time you’re writing a new post, but it’s still useful to understand what makes a piece of content effective, both in social and search results. Here are some quick tips to consider when writing your next post. Feel free to copy-paste them, write them down, bookmark the page, or memorise them. 1. Title A title has to be descriptive, but also concise. Google only displays the first 55-60 characters of a title tag, which means that an ideal length is approximately…

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