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The Jig is Up—SEO Starts With Good Content.

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It used to be about “tricking” Google with things like keyword stuffing, meta tags and link building through some very ugly means ( such as setting up a server halfway around the world and creating all sorts of back links to your site, making Google think you’re a more popular site than you were.) SEO today only rewards good content.

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Content Marketing: Now Serving Freshly Squeezed SEO Juice

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Because the search engines like Google have changed their algorithms in the last few years, the role that search engine optimization (SEO) plays in content marketing is causing a lot of confusion. This sort of thinking is where we get into trouble when it comes to our content development strategy.

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Content is the new currency—and your invitation to the dance.

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Everyone’s talking about content marketing , and companies are investing big dollars to jump on the bandwagon—but most are still thinking about it from yesterday’s marketing perspective where marketing’s primary role is branding and positioning. They’re talking to Google in the comfort of their offices, homes, and mobile devices.

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From Baseball to SEO: Transforming your content into an organic search machine

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When starting a rant blog about the Anaheim Angels, Noah Lemas had no idea that it would fundamentally alter his career path into content marketing and search engine optimization. “We Lemas: When I first started in the industry eight years ago, it was all about building links and creating content.

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It’s Q4—do you know where your 2016 revenue will come from?

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That means starting digital conversations through email, social, and search with tons of content. 38% of B2B companies said that their content marketing was effective. 47% of B2B companies have a DEDICATED content marketing group. 38% of B2B companies said that their content marketing was effective. And it starts now.

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The B2B Content Marketing ROI You Should Care About.

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Measuring content marketing’s return on investment in B2B companies can be a complex calculation, especially if your solution is expensive, requires committee-based decisions, and has long and unpredictable sales cycles. Those conversations now have to take place digitally —by people consuming your content and responding with interest.

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Can you repurpose content?

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Perhaps the most amazing "secret" of content marketers is the way in which they repurpose content, whether they call it atomizing (Jay Baer) or reimagining content (Ann Handley). The trick is to see each piece of content as made of easily transferable puzzle pieces.

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