Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 22, 2018

In early 2017, the iQ team borrowed a page from the traditional media playbook – focusing on sustaining loyal readers rather than a “more eyeballs” approach. Creating content is not the difficult part of content marketing. Distribution of your content, particularly with paid media, is also not that hard to do initially.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

I built my website for people as well, so it looks like this: This polish is what marketing is all about. In this blog post, we will explore meta tags and see how they affect your overall digital marketing efforts. Here are the top meta titles in the SERPs for “How to make content marketing effective.”.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Website developers and marketers buzz about page load time, especially because Google announced beginning this past July that speed is a keyword ranking factor for some mobile versions of websites. For a closer look at SEO ranking tactics and factors, I recommend these resources: SEO Marketing Strategy: Tips for Success in 2018.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 1, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process. Conducting content experiments. During this time, we had nothing to show the public so it was a matter of waiting until we had posts about the experiment to push live. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Confused About Agile Marketing?

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The MainStreet editorial team was a fun, scrappy group, which was good because we were functioning as a startup within the company. Now I’ve started my own company helping businesses of all types develop editorial and content strategies that make sense. Content syndication shouldn’t be all about link building.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The topic cluster methodology, also known as the “pillar-and-cluster” technique, was first detailed by HubSpot Research in 2017. It’s used by both B2B and B2C organizations to streamline their content marketing strategy. Pillar-cluster #content technique is #SEO strategy focused on topics, not keywords, says @EliseDopson.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Bridget Burns, community manager for Tom’s of Maine, explains in this Q&A how micro-influencer marketing works for a brand that values substance over sizzle. Bridget left Tom’s of Maine in September 2017 after this interview was complete.). CCO: What is micro-influencer marketing? Subscribe for your free print copy today.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 3, 2018

Do I understand what’s available in the content part of our martech stack? You may have seen this image , which shows the ever-growing landscape of marketing technology. Here’s a close-up of the 2017 Martech 5000 chart , which shows over 5,000 logos grouped into categories. Take control of content-tech decisions.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 24, 2018

TIP: Choose a head term with a monthly search volume of at least 2,500 that aligns well with your content marketing strategy. Identify a head term for your pillar content w/ a monthly search volume of at least 2,500. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How Topic Modeling Can Strengthen Your SEO and Content Marketing Strategy.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Only after I heard Paul Roetzer’s Content Marketing World talk did I realize that my experience represented exactly that: artificial intelligence at work. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Cognitive Content Marketing: The Path to a More (Artificially) Intelligent Future. Analyzing content. Check it out!

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Buffer

JULY 27, 2017

sessions in May 2017. Before thinking of blog post ideas, it’s helpful to understand what your readers want from you. After several iterations of our content and through studying our blog posts data , we uncovered that our audience enjoys our long-form, educational blog posts.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

The key phrases behind content-writing robots you’ll see a lot – intelligent narratives, natural language generation (NLG), and automated storytelling technology. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Cognitive Content Marketing: The Path to a More (Artificially) Intelligent Future. Other content was complete stories.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

If you’re a chief content officer , copywriter, designer, or programmer searching for ways to create more and better content in less time, you’ll find fresh ideas for improving your creativity, productivity, and writing skills with these best books from 2017. A search of Amazon.com for “marketing books” returns 324,225 titles.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 25, 2016

This week I’ll be exploring five of the most popular posts in the areas of content, monetisation, social media, and finding readers, so make sure you check back each day to see what has made the cut! If you want to see what were the biggest posts of 2015 were, you can see them all here , and 2014’s group is here.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Each year, CMI founder Joe Pulizzi covers the essential roles you need on your content marketing team. It’s one of those posts that is consistently well received because it hits a nerve: Whom do you need on your team to make content marketing work in your organization? Editorial planning. Maturity level.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 12, 2018

If you need proof of how true his observation is, look no further than the Capital Group, a conservative, trusted financial services company that – until recently ­– lagged far behind its competitors in thought leadership and digital marketing. “We Our marketing was immature ,” Will says. Recognize that paid content promotion pays off.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2018

Editor’s note: You may have missed the original version of this post a couple years ago. We’re sharing Aaron’s updated version today, as more efficient teamwork is a constant need for content marketers. As content marketers, we have our work cut out for us. Content curation is the only way to go.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 1, 2018

When you look at the library of content you publish, is it a string of somewhat-related blog posts, videos and more — or do all the pieces work together to tell a better, broader story? Of course (to poorly paraphrase Robert Rose), you want your editorial to tell one story instead of each piece being disconnected from the rest.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 27, 2018

Influencer marketing is a well-known, and perhaps, mature channel for many content marketers. Unfortunately, though, a significant swath of marketers is not leveraging influencers in the marketing mix. This is ill-advised because studies show that every dollar invested in influencer marketing returns $6.50

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

But while your Google Home pods, face ID-enabled iPhones, wearable fitness trackers, 3D printers, and the like might be fun and games now, there’s serious power behind those tools – power that enhances the performance of your content marketing efforts, makes them easier to produce, and makes them more enticing to your audiences.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 16, 2018

No matter what your content marketing strategy is, keyword research is the fuel. Keywords inform marketers as to what their audience strives to know, let them monitor their competition, and offer a constant source of content ideas. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 7 Powerful Tools to Automate Tedious Content Marketing Tasks.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 26, 2018

Want a shortcut to creating content that will convert, resonate with your customers, and save you time? For content marketers, reviews are like an unending recipe book. They are your golden ticket to efficient content that converts. (A Spark content ideas. Craft celebratory blog posts. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Those marketers who regularly listen to This Old Marketing are CMI’s true fans … they are more likely to come to Content Marketing World , attend one of our master classes , purchase training , attend our webinars , engage in our content, and talk about us on social media.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you’re like most content marketers I speak to, the strategies and tactics you use to grow an audience and get attention just aren’t working as they once were. In other words, research as content marketing. The results were published in a blog post called 10 Best Practices on the Top 50 Websites.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Yet, anyone who manages an organization’s blog likely has run into guest bloggers (or wannabe guest bloggers) who focus too much on the “blog” part and not enough on the “guest” part. Writers focus too much on the “blog” part and not enough on the “guest” part, says @AnnGynn. How frequently does it publish blog posts?

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2017

TIP: For a more detailed view of inventories and audits, read Marcia Riefer Johnston’s post How to Stop Worrying and Love Inventories and Audits. Identify which of the assets in your at-a-glance review have the best potential to further your content marketing goals. Mine your analytics for performance/conversion leaders.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about conducting original research to use the data for your content marketing, there are important questions to ask before you get started. I’m talking about collecting data to produce various types of content (e.g., blog posts, e-books, webinars, videos) for content marketing purposes.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 19, 2018

Well, instead of watching a mocking cursor, take a tip (or 27) from your fellow marketers on how they get out of a creative content marketing slump. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Out of Ideas? 13+ Tools to Spark Content Creation. Dig in the content archives. Katie Derrick, content marketer, Anglo Liners.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Like their peers in North America, Australian content marketers say their organizations are concentrating more on building audiences than they were a year ago. That’s a 23% year-over-year increase, which is higher than the 18% year-over-year increase reported by North American B2B content marketers. cmicontent #research.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Practically everyone understands the importance of “doing content marketing,” but many – even those with documented content marketing strategies – don’t know how to align the types of content they create with their desired content marketing goals. Data/research. Create a video series.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 1, 2018

As the former head of editorial at CMI I’ve read thousands of articles, written hundreds of posts, and had countless conversations about content marketing. Still, I continue to have aha moments that impact how I approach content marketing. In short, create quality content consistently. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How many times have you pondered over which images to use in a paragraph, blog post, web page, etc.? I struggle choosing a visual for my content. Yet, it’s important, as frequently cited research shows that images attract more people to the content and help people retain the content they consume longer.

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