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2 Content Strategies That Are Destined to Fail

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Write some blogs and drive traffic to your site—then just convert them into leads. The problem is that ever since the Affordable Care Act, there has been so much content created about how to bend the cost curve that getting on the coveted first pageof Google results is impossible. Content marketing is the way to go, right?

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

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I was in effect stealing their traffic, so they came to me and asked me to start writing for them. It was during that process that I realized somewhere along the way that I had unlocked the door to organic traffic in that space,” said Lemas. Content was king, and any content worked. Otherwise we move away from it very quickly.

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The B2B Content Marketing ROI You Should Care About.

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Deal attribution can be measured , however, but you can’t use the same metrics that a B2C company does, which mostly measuring increased traffic to your website and what percentage converted. Increased web traffic. And it’s not just conversions from web traffic either. Are they even qualified to buy from you in the first place?

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Can you repurpose content?

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It's best to approach this option with caution, however, to avoid search penalties such as getting less referral traffic. One way to not get a penalty is to use a rel=canonical in the URL source code; this helps Google understand how to handle the duplicate post. Another version of a rinse and recycle is to add some shine.

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Can you repurpose content?

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It's best to approach this option with caution, however, to avoid search penalties such as getting less referral traffic. One way to not get a penalty is to use a rel=canonical in the URL source code; this helps Google understand how to handle the duplicate post. Another version of a rinse and recycle is to add some shine.

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When Should You Put Content Behind a Form?

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If you’re talking to a search engine optimization firm (SEO) that measures their performance only on traffic (number of unique visitors to your site every month), they would tell you not to gate anything because the Google bot can’t fill out the form, hit the submit button, and read the information that lives behind the curtain.

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The 7 Attributes of Highly Effective Lead Generation

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Attribute Number 2: Top of Funnel Content usually lives in a blog and is used to drive traffic. The more people interact with the content, that’s going to tip your hand to Google that this is valuable content. I’m not saying that posting to your website won’t help drive traffic.