Content Flow: The "Melodic" Fix for Your "Broken" Content Marketing Strategy
Building out a content strategy fit for your audience is a difficult process. Content flow is the metric you've been waiting for to make that much easier.
Copywriting can be an under-appreciated success factor in SEO. The content you write must not only target the keywords and topics your audience is searching for, but it must also satisfy their intent better than other pages, as well as being formatted and friendly to search engines.
SEO copywriting is a mix of keyword research, on-page SEO, formatting, and creativity. We've listed some of our favorite resources here, and below find the latest, most relevant posts.
Keyword Research: The Beginner's Guide to SEO : Copywriting starts with research. Understanding what your users are searching for is the key to success.
What Does it Mean to Write For SEO? : People sometimes mistakenly assume that writing for SEO means writing like a robot. Rand shows us this isn't the case at all!
Optimizing for Searcher Intent Explained in 7 Visuals : SEO copywriting means satisfying searcher intent, but how do you accomplish this? Never fear, loyal reader. Rand has you covered here too.
Illustrated Guide to Advanced On-Page Topic Targeting for SEO : Laying out your content in a clear, logical manner can greatly boost your efforts to communicate and rank higher.
10 Super Easy SEO Copywriting Tips for Improved Link Building : Cyrus Shepard's first post on the Moz Blog, this post delivers some super-simple tips on SEO Copywriting.
Building out a content strategy fit for your audience is a difficult process. Content flow is the metric you've been waiting for to make that much easier.
Experts agree: you blogging is the answer to winning content marketing. But is it really right for you? Learn about a few times blogging isn't necessary and what you're missing out on if you don't have a blog.
Outsourcing your company's web copywriting can be a painful endeavor, especially when you're working with an agency that may not be aware of the processes and personalities at your business. At the end of the day, however, everyone wants the same thing: a quality product.
Creating a content strategy can be a complex process, especially when you throw multi-device consumption into the mix. Here we look at how you can create the perfect process for getting it right every time.
Are you Getting Things Done? Supporting the E-Mail Charter? Prioritizing correctly? If you answered yes, then congratulations, you are effective with your working time. But what about your team? Are you as effective in managing your team?
If you're working on the behalf of a client, or as an in house SEO, like any area of business it's vital to get your relationship off to a great start. After all it is a lot easier to keep a good relationship if you get off to the right start, compared to the difficulty of getting it back on track should things begin to get a little bit sour.
Here's another post that drifts away from the usual SEOmoz blog posts, and instead offers a rich perspective into our culture and management. Read on to find out how Kate Matsudaira effectively and regularly conducts one-on-one's, and how her approach to these team meetings can improve attitude and productivity at work, all-the-while maintaining positive work relationships between manager and employee.
I hope you all don't mind me straying from the usual a bit here today. Instead of a specifically SEO-related post, I instead want to tackle a related science, the art of "acquiring" and what that means in marketing.
And now for a little departure from your regularly scheduled SEO posts - for a foray into hiring and recruiting. We have been doing a lot of hiring recently at SEOmoz and lots of people have inquired what we look for in candidates. The truth is, we really try to give everyone a chance, but this blog covers some of the tips and tricks we use to make the process as efficient as possible. If you are hiring, this blog will give you some ideas to add to your screening process, and if you are looking for a job, then you will also find some dos and don'ts to help you secure you next big opportunity. To infinity and beyond!
I caught a post this week from Peter Shankman entitled "I Will Never Hire a Social Media Expert and Neither Should You." It's not the first of its kind, nor was it the best argued, but it struck a nerve and has made a number of waves around the web. Needless to say, as someone who employs...
Want to know the secrets of SEO copywriting? Compare the two posts below, both written by the exact same SEO expert and each containing around the same number of words. Without knowing the subject, can you guess which post earned more links?
When you work on a large site that sees frequent development updates or if your website is your product, it is easy for mistakes to happen that can have a significant impact on your SEO. Sometimes page titles will contain only the company name, the noindex tag gets carried over from the test environment, or you might find that all internal links within a specific category are nofollowed. Mistak...