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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. First and foremost, content marketing IS marketing. So as a content marketer, what do you do with that information?

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

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But what about the B2B marketer? If the sales team has a cycle time of 90 days from opportunity create date to close, then they'd better be getting leads from marketing TODAY to impact Q1 of 2016. Do you know how marketing is going to accomplish that mission? Sales needs more than Marketing’s branding and awareness initiatives.

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2 Content Strategies That Are Destined to Fail

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Content marketing is the way to go, right? But most successful content marketers know that there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes—which is why less than 30 percent of companies that execute content marketing strategies are happy with the results. This is where content marketing becomes a process and not an event.

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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. Consider for a moment what that means—people are talking about your market 24/7.

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Need Better Content? Become a Sales Groupie

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As the head of marketing and editor-in-chief of Fundera.com , Meredith Wood calls herself a “sales groupie.” “I’m I’m obsessed with the team at our company that operates as the first line of defense for our customers,” she says.

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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 It took awhile, but ultimately algorithmic changes allowed Google to start recognizing what the content actually was and how it related to other content.

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