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Publishing Frequency: Why (and How) We’re Changing Things Up

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Before I joined the CMI editorial team in September, the same was true for me. Attendees of Content Marketing World 2017 heard Jay Baer explain “how to get promoted by creating less content, not more.” (You can read about strategic changes made subsequently to the publishing schedule at Jay’s company, Convince and Convert.).

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How to Adopt a Customer-Centric Strategy for Your Content

Content Marketing Institute

This shared understanding of people’s challenges also helps teams align organization-wide messaging and optimization. At Red Hat, marketing focuses on quarterly editorial themes, most of which are derived from or directly related to the customer challenges. “By How’s that effort going? Tell us in the comments.

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The New Marketing: How to Manage a Media Arm Within Your Company

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2017 was the year brands buy media companies, according to Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose who made the declaration in a This Old Marketing podcast last May. While you want to re-architect your media teams at a high level so they fit together, there’s a counterpoint. All media teams need to get involved in those conversations.

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Content Syndication: More Than a Traffic Boost

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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. There are variations of this arrangement.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Audience Development

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In 2016, when Intel iQ boasted 2 million monthly readers who averaged more than two minutes per visit, the iQ team wondered what is the additional value of a returning reader versus a first timer? Consider how the team treated a series devoted to virtual reality. A lot, it turns out. Match tools to touchpoints. Primary stories.

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Slow Page Load Time Not Always the Culprit in Poor SEO Rankings

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2017 Local Search Ranking Factors (Moz). 2017 Local SEO Ranking Factors (Local SEO Guide). Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team. 17 SEO Misfires to Avoid With Website Content Marketing. Google’s 200 Ranking Factors: The Complete List (2018).

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What One Brand Did After It Created a Top 10 Blog

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On one fateful week in August 2017, after months of sweating, we published our findings on three tests. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Your Content Team Can Sprint With Agile Marketing. 7 Best Practices (and Tools) for Managing Your Remote Content Team. These scientists spent months setting up and running the tests.

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