All posts written by James Parsons

Our Review of Quality and Pricing from Constant Content Published by James Parsons • Content Marketing • Published June 7, 2016

There are many options available if you want to buy articles online. We’ve reviewed some of them before. Today, the one I’m going to talk about is Constant Content.
Not to be confused with the email service provider Constant Contact, Constant Content is a marketplace for content. Writ…

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A Comparison of Contently vs Textbroker vs iWriter Published by James Parsons • Content Marketing • Published May 28, 2016

The life of a blogger is one filled with work. Imagine if you’re posting one blog post per day, five days per week. That’s 260 blog posts. Each post is, say, 2,500 words. That’s 650,000 words of writing. If it takes you an hour to write 1,000 words, that’s 27 solid days worth of…

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25+ Ways to Reduce The Bounce Rate on Your Blog Published by James Parsons • Content Marketing • Published April 13, 2016

Bounce rate is a measurement of the number of people who enter your site and then leave almost immediately. There are a lot of reasons for a bounce, some good, and some bad. Regardless of the reason, though, bounces aren’t benefitting you as much as you would like. Reducing your bounce rate is al…

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How to Find an Effective Blog Management Company Published by James Parsons • Content Marketing • Published April 7, 2016

There’s no doubt about it; managing a blog is a lot of work. On the surface of it you have the actual blog content production, which can involved hiring and managing writers, or it can include creating content yourself. On top of that, you have site maintenance, keeping plugins up to date, makin…

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A Comprehensive Review on Textbroker and Article Quality Published by James Parsons • Content Marketing • Published March 16, 2016

Textbroker is the prototypical content mill marketplace these days, and it’s a hub for middling and low quality content for a pretty cheap price. It has a lot of flaws, and it really only survives because its rates allow it to gather bulk clients for extremely basic content which is, at best, pa…

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How Does Content Marketing Affect Your SEO? Published by James Parsons • Content Marketing • Published March 2, 2016

SEO, content marketing, and social media marketing are all parts of the same overall heading of Internet Marketing. They’re all facets of the same gem, and they all work together. If you’re ignoring one of the three, you’re missing out on a lot of potential traffic.
What is SEO? I…

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5 Plugins to Split Your Blog Posts into Multiple Pages Published by James Parsons • Content Marketing • Published February 17, 2016

Paginating a blog post is a contentious subject, believe it or not. Some people hate it; they feel like it disrupts the user experience. They find that users skip the “next page” button and feel like the post ends abruptly. This isn’t helped by the fact that many sites for years hav…

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Can Short Articles Rank Well on Google? Published by James Parsons • Content Marketing • Published February 11, 2016

About six years ago, before Google Panda, the world was filled with millions upon millions of tiny, low-value articles that has virtually nothing of use in them. You would see dozens of blogs in the top 100 Google results, all of which had 1-2 paragraph pages that couldn’t answer a question wel…

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How to Come up with Ideas of What to Blog About Published by James Parsons • Content Marketing • Published January 27, 2016

Writing an active blog is hard work. One good, solid blog post can take 2-3 hours to put together, assuming you know your stuff and have references on hand. If you’re doing your own research and need to harvest and analyze data, it can be even worse.
Now say you’re running blogs for three di…

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50+ WordPress Plugins That Will Increase Your Blog’s Rankings Published by James Parsons • Search Engine Optimization • Published January 26, 2016

There are thousands of WordPress plugins out there, many of which do valuable thing. Many more of them are redundant, out of date, overly expensive, or otherwise valueless to someone running a serious blog. That’s why I’ve compiled this list.
The plugins listed below are carefully ch…

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