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Are you consulting your database of intentions?

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Internet luminary John Battelle is famous for describing Google as a “ database of intentions.” But did you know that you probably have your own database of intentions? They enter keywords that describe content that they think you have on your site. Content that they want to find from you. One that you own?

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4 Ways Startups Can Use Search Intent to Improve their SEO Game

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In the digital world, this means that you need to understand the intentions of your customers at every stage of their shopping or browsing journey, in order to improve their overall experience, and ultimately inspire them to put trust in your brand. Optimizing your content for informational intent.

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Website Content Audits — Less Really is More

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It may sound counterintuitive at first, but less content can actually improve your website’s content marketing effectiveness. That’s true for content marketing, as well. Why Content Audits are Critical. Google and the other search engines seek to give their users relevant, up-to-date content.

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Content with Intent: Content for Content's Sake

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This last look into content with intent will take a look at a "strategy" that I see as more of a "strategery." (Do I call it creating content for content's sake or the "throw everything against the wall and see what sticks" approach. Content does need to have some forethought, though. Content is the same way.

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Content with Intent: Educate Your Audience

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In my last post, I gave an overview of this series about creating content with intent. It's the same with content. When it is created, there must be intent behind it in order for it to make sense and to find its home amongst the other content offerings you have. Use your content to impact your customer's business.

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Content with Intent: Inform Your Audience

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I have been thinking about content in a more serious way as of late. Communication in every possible way it occurs is about content. If there was no content, what would we be communicating? So, content drives everything. What I will be concentrating on over the next few posts has to do with the intent of your content.

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On the limited value of branded content

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Those who have read our book Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data to Guide Your Content Marketing know we approach the problem of content marketing head on. Here is my definition of the problem of content marketing: Systematically overwhelming your audience by pushing brand messages on them faster than they are willing to keep up.