How to Write a Great Blog Post in Under an Hour Published by Drew HendricksContent Marketing • Posted May 5, 2016

Blogging doesn’t have to be a time consuming experience. It doesn’t have to take up hours every time you write a post. A lot of the work, really, comes down to proper preparation. Take the time now to invest in a strong foundation, and you’ll benefit in the long run.
Practice is goin…

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Why Automating Your Blog Content is a Terrible Idea Published by Drew HendricksContent Marketing • Posted April 26, 2016

Automation is a tool that, much like most tools, can be used for great benefit or great detriment to your blog. Used properly and in moderation, it can save you a lot of time and energy. Used poorly, it can tank your search ranking and consequently your sales, with very little recourse short of a major si…

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How to Write a Good Blog Post Meta Description Published by Kenny NovakSearch Engine Optimization • Posted April 19, 2016

Think back to the last time you ran a Google search. When you saw that list of the top 10 websites related to your query, what made you decide which to pick?

The title. This is often neglected; a lot of websites allow their titles to run over the character limit and have their ends cut off, which is frequent…

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25+ Ways to Reduce The Bounce Rate on Your Blog Published by James ParsonsContent Marketing • Posted 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 ParsonsContent Marketing • Posted 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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How to Create Legal and Ethical Curated Content Published by Drew HendricksContent Marketing • Posted April 4, 2016

Content curation seems like a simple concept. All you have to do is find content around the web that you think your users will like, and share that content with them. So what’s the problem?
The problem, as it turns out, is the laws and ethics surrounding how content is treated online. There are a l…

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10 Reliable Websites to Host Your Blog Images for Free Published by Drew HendricksContent Marketing • Posted March 31, 2016

Blog posts need images. The problem is, images can use up a lot of bandwidth and space on a web server. These days it’s nowhere near as big a problem as it used to be, but some people still prefer using ancient, low-cost, low-resources servers to host their blogs. It’s not something I would…

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A Comprehensive Review on Textbroker and Article Quality Published by James ParsonsContent Marketing • Posted 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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Calculating the ROI of Your Blog Content Published by Drew HendricksContent Marketing • Posted March 9, 2016

Blogging and content marketing are the #1 strategy to growing a site today. The problem is, it’s difficult to convince site owners that it’s worth the money. After all, it’s a lot of up-front expense to run a blog, but it has very little in the way of tangible rewards. It’s no…

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How Does Content Marketing Affect Your SEO? Published by James ParsonsContent Marketing • Posted 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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