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If you haven’t tried to optimize your writing habits, consider doing it now. It’s possible to double your productivity after some tweaks. Imagine being able to produce an article in half the time it currently takes you? Hopefully, by the end of this post, you’ll have picked up a few tips that you can apply right away to significantly decrease the amount of time you spend creating content. I’m going to share with you six tips, many of which are a bit unconventional but can work wonders....
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Friday Freebie! Today we bring you a checklist and spreadsheet to increase traffic to your website
In recent months a debate has been brewing around whether shortform or longform content is winning the race for people’s attention. No doubt there are merits to both sides, but there seems to be some confusion abound the subject.
For clarity, longform means articles, white papers and e-books of 2,000 words or more, while shortform refers to content of 500 to 1,000 words.
Is there really a difference in their overall performances? Science suggests there is.
What the Studies Are Suggesting
Many of today’s Internet marketers swear by shortform content, citing a number of independent studies that indicate audience attention spans are falling and as much as 32 percent of users will begin abandoning websites in as little as five seconds if they are slow to load.
This doesn’t speak to the effectiveness of the format in reaching its audience in terms of visibility and findability through search. This is one of the most important advantages that longform content has over its counterpart....
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Where can I find free images online?” is often the widely asked question by new bloggers (or seasoned bloggers). If you are one among them, this post is exclusively for you where I’m going to share few free stock photo websites to find HIGH quality images.
And the best part is, you don’t have to give any attribution or credit to the images you use. You can pretty much do anything you want with the images using these free stock photo websites.So are you interested in finding free images? Let’s get started....
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Have you ever taken a look at how you’re sharing content with other businesses that you want to market to?
The content you’ve got can make a difference in all of your B2B marketing plans. There are many things that you can do right now in order to make your B2B marketing content more enticing....
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Have you ever wondered how I’ve built a loyal audience with my sites? From Quick Sprout to KISSmetrics and now NeilPatel.com, I’ve been able to create a loyal following.
How? you may ask. Well, to explain how I’ve been able to do so and, more importantly, how you can achieve similar results, I’ve created an infographic that explains what it takes to create a loyal audience.
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Tumblr began rolling out a major update on Wednesday that makes it more appealing to serious writers.
While the blogging service remains hugely popular, with 420 million active users and 220 million blogs, many of its posts are only bits of text and media — abbreviated flotsam and jetsam — including celebrity quotes, animated GIFs, dog photos and so on.
But the latest Tumblr update cleans up its overall look, and introduces new tools, including a text editor that puts a heavy emphasis on writing. "Whatever you want to write — simple things, flashy things, handsome things, trashy things — now you can write the hell out of it," the company wrote in a post....
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Problem is, actually creating all these beautiful visuals isn't exactly every marketer's forte. Oh, another problem? Design software can cost an arm and a leg (plus all the classes you need to take to learn how to work the darn stuff).
But there's good news -- there are plenty of free and easy-to-use tools out there that can make you look like a master designer. This post will break down 21 of our favorites so you too can create visuals and images that'll make your marketing pop. Get ready to create visualizations, banners, infographics, and more like a total pro....
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If you've ever tried searching for free stock photos on the Internet, you probably know what a ridiculous hassle it can be.
As a general rule, free stock photos are extremely difficult to find. A huge portion of the stock photo market is owned by professional companies like Shutterstock and 123RF, who charge $20 or more for a single photo. Even when you can find free stock photos, most are low resolution, watermarked, blurry and, at best, uninspired.
Lucky for you, there are a few ways to access high-quality stock photos without any hassle or significant cost.
Here's a lovingly curated list of the world's best free stock photo websites for designers, business owners and anyone else...
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There are many bloggers in your field. Don't waste your readers' time by being interchangeable.
- Be yourself.
- It's ok if you are a slow writer -- I am! Take the time to edit your content.
- Make it easy for people to understand you. Don't use bombastic words and phrases.
- Imagine yourself writing for your ideal writer. When I blog, I always picture a friend or a reader whom I know. It helps tremendously.
- More tips in this great post by Henneke Duistermaat.
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...When it comes to organic search, Google and other search engines place a premium on backlinks. They interpret backlinks as “votes” for the content.Of course, to generate backlinks, you must create content that prompts other digital properties to share your content with their audiences.
For the type of content that grades out as shareable, it’s typically not product information or a personnel announcement or an industry award — information we characterize as company-centric. Instead, it’s the type of business storytelling that’s useful or informative and ultimately helps people in their jobs.In short, thought leadership plays at the industry level, not the company level, ideally offering takes that can’t be found elsewhere.
Such dot-connecting points to blogging as one of the best platforms for thought leadership....
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You already know that blogs are popular and that you should have one. But do you know what makes a great blog post?
Sure, you’ve heard of things like having great educational content, but there must be more to writing a winning blog post than that, right? There is. From your unique voice to the design of your blog or even the words you use within your post – many factors affect how well your blog post will do.
In order to show you how to create a powerful blog post, I’ve created an infographic that outlines what you need to do....
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Your blog is leaking cash and I'll show you how to plug the leaks. There are useless elements on your blog that are costing you money. Find out more here.
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You want authority, qualified traffic, relevant links, motivated leads and sales in your business. Well, guest blogging can give you all of these and so much more.
I’ve tried many different inbound marketing strategies, but guest blogging has remained my most treasured tool. QuickSprout wouldn’t have been as successful as it’s become if I’d neglected guest blogging.
You could say it’s the heartbeat of my digital business.
According to HubSpot, inbound marketing tactics (e.g., guest blogging) don’t just help you drive traffic to your site, but can also increase your revenue.
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Many influencers talk about the 80/20 rule: you should spend 20% of your time creating content and 80% of your time promoting it. Although I think this ratio really depends on your job, needs and company, it does capture one thing: if you write amazing content but don’t shout out your did so, no one will hear you.
And as far as promoting your blog goes, you can pick and choose on the list above the items that make most sense to your company. If for instance you work for a very technical B2B company and your target audience is above 50 years old, you might want to consider investing in LinkedIn rather than Facebook, leverage influencers and invest time in guest blogging. It all really depends on your audience, where they are and what they care about.
There is one very important point I’d like to add to this infographic: it’s not content repurposing (which I thing is one of the leanest way to do content marketing, it saves an incredible amount of time), it’s content recycling....
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The posts on this blog are typically 2,000 words long. Would you honestly read them if they were nothing but text? Sure, some of you would (and that’s amazing, thank you), but I could never blame anyone for not wanting to read a giant block of text.
This is why articles that include images get 94% more total views than articles that don’t.
Remember though, that stat is just an average. If you use images well, your traffic could increase even more.
It’s a win-win: you get more pageviews, and your readers get to enjoy reading more digestible content.
While social media isn’t the same as your blog posts, it illustrates the power of great images.
Posts on Facebook that include an image get 53% more likes than posts without an image. Additionally, they also make up 93% of the most engaging posts....
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A good ‘about’-page is more about your visitors than about youThat might sound strange, but by writing a good ‘about’- page you actually respond to all visitors need: what’s in it for me?’ They might not realize that they browse the internet with that need, and for that reason visit your page, but that is what it is all about: filling needs....
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So what can you do to make sure you feel good about every blog post you publish? Well, many things.
Content creators have a lot of control over whether or not their content is seen and shared. There are several variables, like how frequently you post and what SEO methods you’re using, that controls how much traction your posts get.
To learn 10 tried-and-true ways to get more eyeballs on your blog posts, check out today’s featured infographic from the tech blog Bit Rebels below....
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Which is why we invited Irina Weber from SERanking.com to enlighten us as to which tools are the most productive and best organized to help you succeed as a blogger.
Irina and her team have tested many tools of top productivity and blogging experts and have a good idea of what top performers in the blogging world are using to get through the day in a highly productive manner.
Here’s an awesome list of SEO tools that can simplify and supercharge your blogging efforts…
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As a marketer, you may find yourself struggling when it comes to formulating the perfect social media post.To make things easier for you, I’ve decided to create a cheat sheet you can use when trying to create the perfect social media post. Just follow the advice in the infographic below....
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As a blogger, you have an unending list of things to do in a day. Be it coming up with article ideas, curating content, researching keywords or writing a blog post; it seems like bloggers are always super-busy and some are rather burnt out with the process.
Thankfully, there are tools that come to your rescue and ease the process, making it a breeze without costing you a fortune....
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I'm just quoting an extract from Natalie Burg's article:
Of those 100 or so fully composed daily stories, only about 15 will make it to the blog. The curators gnaw the contender list down by testing each with unpublished paid posts on Facebook. Rather than simply posting a link to their audience, PetFlow pays to distribute them to a certain segment of Facebook users who aren’t fans. If a post meets a certain criteria—a classified combo of likes, clicks, shares, or comments—it graduates to the blog and is shared with the PetFlow Facebook pack.
A fascinating look at the Upworthy-like curation system!
Read at http://contently.com/strategist/2014/10/13/how-this-brand-blog-grew-to-50-million-monthly-readers-in-just-10-months/
Social media advice seems to come in two flavors: what to do and how to do it.
Take, for instance, the advice to reshare content from your blog’s archives. This strategy seems to pay big dividends for the accounts who’ve embraced it. They’ve seen more traffic, more reshares, and more engagement even though the content itself isn’t brand new.
Sharing old content is awesome social media advice.So how exactly does one go about it?...
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Is your brand telling visual stories? Are you empowering your fans to create and share visual content for you?
Brands who create and curate visual content are seeing wider reach, more shares and traffic to their real or virtual doorstep.
We asked 19 Visual Social Media Experts to give us their Top Visual Content Secrets - here is what they shared with us (featuring a cool SlideShare)....
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Visuals are now the most important element of content marketing, but this can be terrifying if you’re “artistically challenged.” Here are three ways to create compelling visuals regardless of your artistic talent.
The good news: Even someone who made that can create effective visual marketing. Without a graphic designer. And if I can, so can you....
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How much content have you written in the past month? Are you happy with that amount? Most marketers answer no and Neil Patel offers tips to create content faster.