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How to Detect, Repair & Profit From Underperforming Content

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According to HubSpot's annual State of Inbound report , 60% of marketers reported "blog content creation" as one of their top priorities -- with interactive content creation (41%), long-form content creation (33%), and visual content creation (33%) not far behind. New to keyword research? Or, steal tips from this article. ).

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4 Smart Ways to Keep Up With Google in 2017

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Check it out below -- if you Google the term “blog,” a large portion of the page is taken up by Google Ads, news stories, and an Answer Box: Because Google’s real estate is this competitive, it’s harder to get onto page one of the search engine results page, which is proven to have higher clickthrough rates than other results. The solution?

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How to Find and Target High-Value Keywords for Your Business

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Despite the ever-present advice that long-tail keywords are king, many businesses still struggle to strategically use them to get content to the top of organic and paid search results. The truth is, tackling these long-tail keywords feels hard when you know you're up against the giants. Trickery is a fool’s game!

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"Why Did My SEO Ranking Drop?" How to Find and Fix Falling Blog Posts Before It's Too Late

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In late September, clickthrough rate (CTR) started falling. (The valleys are the weekends, when far fewer people are searching for professional/educational content.). Impressions are fairly stable. Here's the issue. Now scroll down and look at the most common queries leading people to your page.

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Why Your Keyword Strategy Is Incomplete Without User Intent

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Keyword research has long been heralded as a pillar of a proper SEO strategy. Understanding and measuring user intent is not just a way to increase conversions, trust, or clickthroughs; it’s also a consideration you need to make to get better at SEO and provide more value to your visitors.

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How to Run a Last-Minute Holiday Campaign Using PPC

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Second, the more relevant your content is to a user's search query, the more likely it will appeal to that user, thus increasing your ad's clickthrough rate (CTR) -- which every search advertiser wants! So instead, look for long-tail keywords that are less popular, more relevant to your ad, and easier to nab.

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Want to Dominate Organic Search? How Blogging Can Help

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Since we haven''t explained the connection between blogging and SEO in-depth for a long time, we figured it''s high time we get to it. Because examining important topics from multiple angles allows you to naturally target a variety long tail search terms. 3) Optimize your blog posts for topics. and keywords.