Biznology

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Whether you call it SEO or organic search, I’ve sure published a lot of articles on the subject here at Biznology. Below you can find a few of my favorite articles on organic search that still hold up today: Are you using social media for search keyword research? Do you use your website search to help your SEO? Like this post?

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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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Biznology

JUNE 6, 2016

2% is their Facebook organic reach and it’s declining (source: DMR ). Why is Facebook organic reach declining so fast? Here’s the trend: LARGER THE FAN BASE, LOWER THE REACH ( OGILVY ): According to a Social@Ogilvy analysis of more than 100 brand pages, they also concluded Facebook organic reach hovered at 6%. Like this post?

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Biznology

AUGUST 13, 2020

When you are thinking about your content strategy, what is one of the first thoughts that comes to mind? Then, you might realize your product or service might be attractive to different audiences for different reasons, so you might write content to target that audience differently. This is where content segmentation comes into play.

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Biznology

MAY 14, 2018

As you’ve no doubt guessed, I’m a huge fan of content marketing. But unless you’re a content marketing “fanboy” who’s blind to reality, you have to recognize the practice’s limitations. Those limitations were real even before content marketing’s ubiquity created a whole new set of problems. Content Overload.

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Biznology

APRIL 21, 2017

I had the great fortune to speak twice at the Intelligent Content Conference in Las Vegas on March 30. Other common words included “outside-in” “big data” and “content marketing.” Data-driven content marketing is the future. Data-driven content marketing is the future. AI is hard.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Just about every content/data management tool you might use provides some measure of granular control for access, sharing, and editing and other tasks based on role or department or other user criteria. At the outset and for your reviews, be sure to include representatives from divisions across the organization.

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Biznology

MARCH 31, 2014

Observing this type of predatory behavior reminded me of the power grabs I have seen in organizations. On an intellectual level they seem to recognize that they must work with their cross-functional peers to succeed, but in reality there is more jostling for control than is good for the organization.

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Biznology

MARCH 31, 2014

Observing this type of predatory behavior reminded me of the power grabs I have seen in organizations. On an intellectual level they seem to recognize that they must work with their cross-functional peers to succeed, but in reality there is more jostling for control than is good for the organization.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Input is needed from everyone within the organization in order to ensure that the SEO campaign addresses every aspect of the business. While small businesses typically do this well, it’s the large organizations that sometimes struggle and find that SEO work is getting lost somewhere in the shuffle.

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Biznology

APRIL 14, 2017

So now that you are on board with the benefits of online B2B marketing videos, what does video content marketing really mean? Video content marketing means creating engaging video content that is thoughtful, planned and integrated into the different parts of your marketing process and sales process. Like this post?

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Biznology

AUGUST 23, 2018

But they aren’t sure how to get all the folks who create the content all over their organization to do it right. There is a simple organizational method to improvement–one that you’ve probably applied other places–that you can use to get an organization to work together to make website search work.

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Biznology

JULY 13, 2018

All content is not created equal. That’s why it’s critical to create content that appeal to the different buyer needs. This will be your broadest content, the content that would fit nicely in an introductory “101” level course on the subject. No marketer can succeed at that. Comparison.

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Biznology

JUNE 27, 2017

Fully, generously, and even a little verbosely populating your website, your blog, your social media profiles, and your social media content is 100x more important to your success than “optimizing for search.” What content to blog for Google search success. The more the messier for content marketing SEO success.

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Biznology

MAY 6, 2019

You get many likes, and people respond well to your content. Quality content – from views to sales. Let’s not forget – CONTENT IS KING. But, at the end of the day, if your content is rubbish – you won’t get anywhere. Meanwhile, with high-quality content, you can gain loyalty. Sure, they like you.

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Biznology

JUNE 7, 2017

When creating content for your blog, social media profiles, email subscribers, and other purposes, you don’t want to irritate your readers. Unfortunately, some types of content can send readers running in the other direction, especially if you haven’t yet earned their loyalty. Insensitive Content.

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Biznology

JUNE 22, 2016

Because of the importance consumers and business decision makers are putting on content, many marketers and business owners are challenged with how to create the ongoing flow of quality business content that they need to drive their marketing objectives. Why a Video First content marketing strategy makes sense.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

However, the most effective content marketers understand how to link their various efforts to form one, cohesive strategy. Indeed, the more focused your content is –– across channels –– the better chance you have of garnering leads and increasing your digital footprint. Strengthen Brand Identity. Improved SEO. Better Timing.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 11, 2015

That doesn’t mean, though, that the only success metric for content marketing is its contribution to successful and profitable sales. Despite the overwhelming focus on sales support, content marketing can contribute to the bottom line without being focused on the top line. Here are a few areas to consider beyond the sales funnel.

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Biznology

JULY 20, 2016

Does your current content marketing strategy stand alone? Have you wondered why your best content isn’t bringing the organic traffic you expected? Content marketing has an innate relationship with SEO. Tyler covers the following: A contextual history of content marketing and its ever-evolving state of flux.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

This is a figure that continues to grow as mobile usage skyrockets and customers are looking for faster, more entertaining content to consume. If, right now, your website only features written content, you might want to consider sprucing things up. According to Syndacast , 74% of all internet traffic in 2017 will be video-based.

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Biznology

MAY 23, 2016

If you can engage your audience, you have a much greater opportunity to build your brand organically. That organic growth means you can build a brand around client stories rather than Super Bowl ads, and still be effective. The post The real value of engaging your audience in content marketing appeared first on Biznology.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Structured content is the most important trend in digital marketing that you’ve probably never heard of. Of all the stories and advice in our book Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data to Guide Your Content Marketing , the one that has attracted the most questions from my colleagues is the section on structured content.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Like Reece’s, link-builders and content marketers need to combine forces because they’re two great tastes that taste great together. Link Builders are from Mars, Content Marketers are from Venus. Without the content marketers and copywriters, there’s no there there. And self-promotion. And shamelessness.

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Biznology

MARCH 8, 2018

I recently commented on a LinkedIn post about the power of LinkedIn as a content marketing platform. The gist of the post was that it is rapidly becoming the go-to platform for branded content marketing. My problem with LinkedIn is I can’t find content in the platform. I disagreed with the very premise of the post.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Research Director Peter O’Neill is blunt about describing the current content marketing landscape. But maybe not surprising, given the consistently poor grades buyers have awarded marketers in surveys about content marketing. However, most B2B content marketing I’ve seen focuses on features and comparisons. Like this post?

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Biznology

AUGUST 3, 2016

Content marketing has often been conflated with link building. In fact, numerous SEOs have declared content marketing to be the new link building. But there’s one problem: Content marketing doesn’t actually secure links without promotion. Content Marketing and Link Building Aren’t Interchangeable.

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Biznology

JUNE 13, 2013

Content marketing can only be effective if the content you’re producing is relevant and informative enough to attract your target audience and hold their attention. Relevance will most certainly depend on the specifics of your audience, which is why smart content marketers think in terms of audience segments.

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Biznology

JANUARY 13, 2022

What’s an event organizer to do? Organized by Demandbase. All about sales enablement, and organized by Seismic, a producer of sales enablement software. On ecommerce and digital marketing for manufacturers and distributors, organized by WB Research, the same company as runs B2B Connect, below. And soldier on. Mostly B2B.

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Biznology

JULY 17, 2015

But they aren’t sure how to get all the folks who create the content all over their organization to do it right. There is a simple organizational method to improvement–one that you’ve probably applied other places–that you can use to get an organization to work together to make website search work.

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Biznology

JANUARY 5, 2018

The three reasons to avoid AMPs boil down to one: you need JavaScript to track and measure marketing effectiveness, and to build more personalized content experiences. So for a lot of marketing content, AMPs are a nonstarter. So organic search users in the UK would get US pages. AMPs don’t allow JavaScript.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 14, 2016

So, why aren’t business, sales, and marketing leaders focused on providing specific thought leadership content that’s relevant to extremely targeted, specific audience? Why are we going for reach and pushing out content (in many cases other people’s content) just to get the like, share, comment and exposure? Don’t get me wrong.

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Biznology

APRIL 17, 2015

We all know how that one ends, and we all hope that there’s always someone around to hear and see our great content when we push it out into the digital forest. One of our goals as content marketers is increasing the chances that the right people see and hear our content by expanding the audience that sees our message.

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Biznology

AUGUST 10, 2015

In addition to your buyers’ love for video, it is easy to understand why business video content marketing has been gaining momentum – the impact that video gives to every day sales and marketing results. The study proved how powerful video content marketing is to core marketing objectives. Two of the stats revealed.

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Biznology

AUGUST 27, 2014

Quality content includes many ingredients. It’s crucial to make sure that they are all included in every content piece you generate, and in your content strategy. Copywriting is, after all, the art of persuasion, and you need to demonstrate this in every content piece you create. SEO copywriting.

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Biznology

JULY 13, 2012

Scared off by that blank white page you’re supposed to fill with content again and again and again? Generating content ideas is easier than you think if you follow a few basic ideas and work your way up from easier to more demanding – but rewarding! Generating content isn’t like that at all. Don’t be.

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Biznology

APRIL 19, 2013

It doesn’t change the fact that social media can be – and is – a great business tool, both for B2B and B2C organizations. It kind of sounds like I’m talking about content marketing. ” And for content marketing to work, you have to make use of as many channels as you can to reach your target audience. .”

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