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How a Minority of Business Bloggers Outperform the Majority [New Data]

Hubspot

When Orbit Media Studios decided to research how business bloggers go about doing their thing in 2014, it wasn’t intended to be a one-and-done project. For the past three years, Orbit's been focused on correlating blogging tactics with results. Take a look at how above average bloggers get above average results.

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To Allow Blog Comments or Not? Here’s What the Data Shows

Optinmonster

The Debate The reasons why you may want to allow blog comments or not is summarized nicely by popular bloggers Pat Flynn and Everett Bogue. What they found about the correlation between blog posts and views/links was fascinating. There is also no correlation between the number of comments and the number of views that post got.

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Blogging isn’t Sexy but Done Well It Drives B2B Marketing Results [Study]

Sword and the Script | B2B

Nearly 80% of the 1,279 bloggers in the 7 th annual Orbit Media blogger survey say blogging drives some marketing results – and 25% say it draws “strong marketing results.” But here’s the insight: bloggers who write longer posts are also more likely to report strong marketing results. click image for higher resolution) 3.

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What Can Social Media Do for SEO?

Oktopost

Only some links must be manually created by reaching out to bloggers and editors to collaborate on content. There’s a correlation between the number of Facebook shares of a piece of content and the backlinks it receives organically. There’s evidence that these things slightly correlate with ranking. Social signals.

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How to Keep Your Blog Relevant and Successful — an Interview With Andy Crestodina

ClearVoice

Five years ago, the majority of bloggers wrote short posts of 1000 words or less. Every year, a greater percentage of bloggers report routinely writing 2000+ words articles. Bloggers are using more video, more images, more research, more collaboration. Year after year, the length of the average blog post grows. Other changes?

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33 Business Blogging Statistics

Zoominfo

67 correlation with search rankings ( source ). Bloggers are increasing their use of promotional techniques that drive traffic to their posts – including paid ads, the use of which increased by 93% over the past year ( source ). In 2016, 36% of Fortune 500 companies had a public blog ( source ). Blogging and SEO Statistics: 10.

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4 Reasons You Should Act on Influencer Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Correlated sales lift. GWI defines influenced consumers as “those who say they discover new brands, products or services via celebrity endorsements , expert bloggers, or vloggers” and found that 55% of them posted an online review of a product, company, or service in the last month. Direct web traffic. Lift in online mentions.

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