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The Seven Deadly Sins of Guest Blogging Outreach

Webbiquity

Blogger outreach is one key tactic within a broader influencer marketing strategy. If you’d like to share your brand content on prominent industry blogs, avoid the sins below. Don’t use blogger outreach purely for creating backlinks. Don’t use blogger outreach purely for creating backlinks.

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Is ecommerce blogging still worth the investment?

ClickZ

Ecommerce websites are more about engaging their traffic in direct sales, creating an outreach list, and making sure to reach and connect with potential customers. Additionally, no one ever pays attention to whether that blog is driving any clicks, or whether that traffic is doing the site any good.

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Guest Blogging is NOT Dead (And Matt Cutts Didn’t Say It Is)

Webbiquity

The post was widely misinterpreted to mean “stop doing guest blogging,” as even Matt acknowledged in a later addition to his original post: “I’m not trying to throw the baby out with the bath water. There are still many good reasons to do some guest blogging (exposure, branding, increased reach, community, etc.).

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Staying Ahead of the Game: How to Create a Winning SaaS Content Strategy

Directive Agency

Without eye-catching headlines and graphics, modes of consumer-business interaction, and a good website page layout, you will waste great content no matter how essential. An effective business blog is essential for attracting new readers to your website looking for information and solutions to their questions.

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Content Marketing Results: 18 Ways to NOT Get Blog Traffic

Writing on the Web

Formatting: Not enough links to sources, no references to other posts on the topic, not even links to your own website and to your products and services (you are in business, ya remember?). Outreach: Blog authors spend far too little time on other blogs in their field and don’t use commenting to spark interest with other audiences.

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Are Blogs Dead in 2021? We Asked 10 Marketing Experts

Hubspot

I reached out to marketers with backgrounds in product marketing, SEO, YouTube, podcasting, and more and asked them, " Are Blogs dead? In all fairness, this question surrounding blogs is not without reason. Google Trends shows that in the last five years, the interest in blogs has steadily declined worldwide. In the U.S.

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Three Types of Blog Posts That Will Bring You More Traffic

Webbiquity

However… Image credit: Fikret tozak on Unsplash After writing hundreds of posts, I’ve identified three types of content that consistently bring in hundreds of visitors within a week of it getting published (no waiting until Google ranks it #1—you’ll know right away). When you include the outreach component (i.e.

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