Contently

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Content marketing is like cooking. In its State of Content Marketing 2022 Global Report , keyword research tool company Semrush surveyed 1,500 content marketers worldwide. In its State of Content Marketing 2022 Global Report , keyword research tool company Semrush surveyed 1,500 content marketers worldwide.

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Contently

APRIL 5, 2022

Have any companies shaped the digital era more than Google and Facebook? Since its foundation in 1998, Menlo Park-headquartered Google has won the search engine war so consummately that it’s now a verb. Of course, one could argue that Google hasn’t always lived up to its core “don’t be evil” message.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 1, 2021

Content marketing has the potential to do great things for your brand. However, like any marketing initiative, you need to understand how it’s impacting your organization and the ROI (return on investment) it’s delivering. Quantifying content marketing is a standard part of determining its performance.

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Optinmonster

JANUARY 29, 2024

Do you want to know the key content marketing metrics to measure your content marketing ROI (return on investment)? To effectively measure the success of your content marketing campaigns, it’s crucial to understand the relevant content marketing metrics.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 6, 2023

Now is the time to become an expert on creating video content. Not only are 91% of businesses already using video as a marketing tool in 2023, but 96% of marketers are placing ad spend on video. If you haven’t already, this is your sign to hop on the video content bandwagon. But what exactly qualifies as video content?

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 16, 2021

When it comes to driving value, content marketing beats advertising (almost) every time. They can coexist and support each other, but there’s no better ROI for your efforts than what you’ll experience with content marketing. Content marketing has a consistently higher ROI than advertising.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 28, 2021

If you were to step back in time into a marketing conference from a decade or so ago, content marketing SEO would be the buzzword you’d hear on everyone’s lips. But back then, content was only a vehicle for injecting keywords into blog posts and other website content. Lots of them. Because, you know, SEO.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 13, 2023

In spirit of 2023’s Oscar Awards, we’re naming 10 small businesses that we believe deserve recognition for the best content marketing. Every great business owner knows that committing to the best content marketing practices can take your profits to the next level. But what exactly are the best content marketing practices?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2023

It’s no secret that artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of content marketing and search engine optimization. While AI tools can make the content creation process more efficient and less time-consuming, businesses still need to be aware of the potential risks and pitfalls of using AI-generated content.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Careless content marketing mistakes are costing businesses more than their monthly budget. Blindly navigating your marketing strategy can cause your content to capsize. Turn your mistakes into mastery and learn how to build an effective content marketing strategy that guarantees smooth sailing.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2021

Content marketing is one of the fastest-growing professions in the business world today. This beginners’ course in content marketing will take you from the bare basics to having marketable skills that can help you command a better salary or grow your business. Why Should I Learn Content Marketing?

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For years now, the internet has created a massive platform for brands to share content with their target audiences. If web analytics aren’t integrated into every part of your content marketing strategy, the answer is no. You can target your content more effectively by using web analytics to understand your audience.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At this point, there’s no denying that content marketing is being used by most companies. In this post, we’ll be looking at how to tell if content marketing saturation has hit your industry. Content marketing is highly prevalent in just about every industry, making it hard to cut through the noise.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 13, 2021

While it’s impossible to control everything related to your brand online, you can manage your online reputation with content marketing. With content marketing , you control the story. Your blogs, videos, social media posts, and every other aspect of content marketing are all within your realm to dictate.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

B2B content marketing is an indispensable strategy for businesses looking to establish their brand, engage their target audience, and drive conversions. What is B2B content marketing? B2B content marketing is the creation and distribution of content, in all its forms, related to your business and relevant to customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Content Marketing ROI is probably the biggest question I get from marketers who are struggling to build their own business case internally. It’s why I wrote my first book The Content Formula. The second challenge is that marketing is just about sticking your logo on a stadium or a golfers hat. Utilization.

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Martech

MARCH 22, 2024

AI tools and large language models (LLMs) are changing the content marketing process, impacting how we conceive, produce and distribute content. Below, I delve into the content marketing lifecycle to show how content teams are incorporating generative AI at different stages.

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Contently

APRIL 4, 2023

But here’s the reality: A smaller budget doesn’t have to negatively impact success with content marketing. Instead, use this time to take a fresh look at the impact of your content marketing resources. Identify Which Content Marketing Resources Are Pure Gold Not all content is created equal.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 5, 2021

SEO is something content marketers have to tweak and refine continuously. In this post, we’ll break down the two concepts and examine how they impact SEO and content marketing. In this post, we’ll break down the two concepts and examine how they impact SEO and content marketing. Image: Google.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 1, 2022

The way B2B buyers consume content has changed significantly in the past two years. But fascinating new research quantifies those changes, and points the way forward for B2B content marketers. Buyers are spending more time with content. Known visitors spent on average twice as long viewing content as unknown visitors.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 6, 2021

With content marketing. Fuel the momentum needed to retain your customers by offering your followers relevant and engaging content at every stage of the buyer’s journey. You can continue to build brand loyalty by engaging with your audience, personalizing your content, telling real stories, and listening to customer feedback.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 1, 2021

With businesses conducting more of their communication online even before the pandemic’s onset, content marketing has taken on a greater role. If content marketers can leverage the gains we’ve made over the past year to boost those numbers even more, certainly, the best days of content marketing are still ahead.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 7, 2020

According to Google, searches for the term “infographic” have increased over 800% in the last two years. To date, there are 79,000,000 search results on Google for “infographic.”. Why wouldn’t you want to use infographics in your content marketing? Why, that would be content marketing masters GE.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 2020

‘Tis the season to believe in the holiday spirit AND the power of content marketing. If you’re new here, content marketing is a business opportunity to reach and convert new customers. Chances are, you believe in content marketing. You’re ready to hop on the Content Marketing Express.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A research study found that over 80% of people searching for a product on Google chose to click on websites they were already familiar with, regardless of their position in the results. Content marketing can be a highly effective way to build brand awareness. Content can help to build your brand in several different ways.

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Contently

JULY 7, 2022

B2B content marketers may groan at the thought of optimizing their brilliantly written, carefully crafted copy for search engines. Appealing to Google’s spider is necessary, but it doesn’t always top the list of favorite things to do. Google Analytics. Let’s start with the most obvious, Google Analytics.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of the content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content. Quick Takeaways.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 8, 2021

Is anybody successful with content marketing? Content marketing with a thoughtful strategy and plan doesn’t usually provide the ROI (return on investment) expected. For anybody to be successful with content marketing, you must define success. There are certain must-haves for success in content marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 25, 2023

Their intent was to first rank highly in Google search, and then monetize that traffic with affiliate links – which plays out to be a massively lucrative strategy , if effective. Not to mention, using AI to write content (instead of humans) would also cut CNET’s expenses significantly, really maximizing their ROI. Good question.

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Content marketing can often times feel like you’re just riding waves of trends. By now, you’ve probably used Facebook and Instagram stories to publish your business content. Did you know there’s a way to reach more potential buyers with vertical video and written content outside of your basic social media strategy?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2021

Every year, I have tons of prospects who ask me, “Is content marketing right for my industry?”. Either they think they don’t need content marketing because everyone knows they’re there – or they don’t quite know how to explain what they do and why people need their product. And sadly, they’re wrong on both counts.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For B2B brands, having a content marketing program tends to be a given. But one of the challenges of having a baseline assumption is that it can be easy to lose sight of why content marketing became such a cornerstone of B2B marketing in the first place. But that initial goodwill only goes so far.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Catch those stories and one more from Google this week. Continue reading → The post This Week in Content Marketing: Lessons from Home Depot, KFC, and Google appeared first on Content Marketing Institute. Elsewhere in the world, a man combines 11 herbs and spices while romancing an heiress.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 14, 2023

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are the metrics that determine your content marketing success, but not all KPIs are equally important. In this article, we’ll explore the metrics that matter most for content marketing in 2023. What KPIs are important for content marketing? What are KPIs?

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Search Engine Journal

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Learn how to use Google Trends to discover hidden layers of keyword research data to superpower your SEO strategy. The post 7 Ways to Use Google Trends for SEO & Content Marketing appeared first on Search Engine Journal. Read about it here.

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Search Engine Journal

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Learn how to use Google Trends to discover hidden layers of keyword research data to superpower your SEO strategy. The post 7 Ways to Use Google Trends for SEO & Content Marketing appeared first on Search Engine Journal. Read about it here.

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ClearVoice

MAY 31, 2023

Let’s face it: Running a successful content marketing campaign isn’t cheap. You need to invest a significant amount of resources and time to see meaningful results from your content marketing efforts. Tracking content ROI allows you to evaluate the effectiveness of your campaigns.

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