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Are Blogs Dead in 2021? We Asked 10 Marketing Experts

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In 2012, we feared the world would end and we would all just poof. Lisa Toner , director of content at HubSpot, says it's not enough to just have a blog nowadays. That's not true for podcasts," says Matthew Brown , senior podcast producer at HubSpot. "A It seems we all have an obsession with killing things off.

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How to Use Internal Linking to Improve Your Website's SEO

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If it is a page related to a topic you frequently blog about, make sure each of your new blog posts about that topic reference that page and link into it. You can see this in how HubSpot ranks for the term ' how to use facebook for business.'. 2012, but was updated in March of 2020 for comprehensiveness and freshness.

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Answers to Your Top 7 Questions About the State of SEO in 2012

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SEOmoz CEO Rand Fishkin and HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah held a captive audience (and cracked a few jokes) talking about the SEO industry in 2012 -- and boy has it come a long way. 6) What best practices do you have for pay-it-forward link building? Link building is like relationship building.

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16 Smart Resolutions for Better Marketing in 2013

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Do you have a particular goal in mind that you weren't quite able to hit in 2012? If you’re not sure where to begin, for starters, HubSpot would love to help! We’re offering our marketing community members a free consultation to chat with a HubSpot expert about 2013 goal planning. What marketing resolutions do you want to make?

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How a Tiny Finance Startup Dethroned Fortune 500 Giants in Google Search

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By looking at the Archive.org view of Nerwallet's pages over time, we can see that Tim stuck to his plan, producing up to 500 pieces of content per month between 2011-2012, and then ramping up his volume and peaking at as many as a few thousand new pieces of content per month in 2014 and 2015.

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What To Do If Your Website Traffic Is Down

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Keep in mind that Google updates its algorithm between 500 and 600 times per year — and that doesn’t even include the major updates such as Panda (2011's emphasis on strong content) and Penguin (2012's crack down on over-optimizing and keyword-based anchor text). Step 4: Analyze for toxic backlinks.

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Facebook Works on Incorporating the Hashtag, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week

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Not only will lead gen be easier, but marketers can track that particular channel specifically by using tracking tokens within the links. Read the full article at HubSpot. We know this is difficult, because at HubSpot, we face the same challenges. Portent analyzed 100,000 links from the top 50 sites on the Inc.