Content Marketing Tips and Tricks - #SEOpodcast 240

Episode34 min2014-07-30

Content marketing success requires consistent visual branding, a tone true to core values, audience-focused value, strong headlines, and genuine gratitude, as framed through 13 lessons inspired by common motherly advice.

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Key takeaways
If your headline doesn't draw in readers, the next 1,700 words will never.

About this episode

Welcome to the most popular internet marketing podcast on iTunes, hosted by E-Webstyle! Join us this week as we talk aboutUsing Social Media Widgets to Increase EngagementContent Marketing Tips and TricksGroup Mentality and SEO Consequences

Questions this episode answers

How should content marketers handle writer's block?

The hosts recommend changing your environment, such as going to a park or coffee shop, switching your writing medium from typing to physically writing, using different ink colors to activate different parts of your brain, and recording voice memos to capture ideas when inspiration strikes away from your desk.

Why is visual design important for content marketing?

Even strong written content can fail if the graphics, layout, colors, and structure do not match the content's message. The hosts say the visual appearance must be consistent and speak the same language as the content, whether that is corporate and buttoned-up or playful and animated.

Should you follow every content marketing trend?

Not necessarily. The hosts use responsive design as an example, noting that a mobile app redirect might suit some businesses better than a fully responsive site. The advice is to understand your own business first and do what is right for it rather than copying what others are doing.

How do you keep your content audience engaged over time?

The hosts suggest directly asking your audience what they want to read, using Twitter followers, Facebook fans, or LinkedIn groups to gather real feedback before creating your next piece of content. Consistent tone, branding, and value across every format also help readers keep recognizing and returning to your content.

In their words

your content marketing should match your brand's core values 100% of the time

Host

don't spend time trying to just come up with something to say just for the sake of saying something

Host

Panda Update will target your thin content and it won't rank or do you any value anyway

Host
Terms defined in this episode
Payday Loan 3.0
A Google algorithm update targeting spammy search queries and results in high-spam industries like payday loans, insurance, and accident claims, as tweeted out by Matt Cutts.
Panda Update
A Google algorithm update that targets thin content, meaning content with little value, causing it not to rank.
CVO analysis
A search engine visitor optimization analysis offered by eWebStyle that covers conversion improvements, visitor optimization, and SEO strengths and weaknesses for a website.
thin content
Content published without real value or relevance, which the Panda Update targets, resulting in poor rankings.

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Matthew Bertram, host of The Best SEO Podcast
Matthew Bertram
AI keynote speaker · Owner & CEO, EWR Digital · President, ModalPoint

Matthew Bertram is an AI keynote speaker, creator of DIG™ (Digital Information Governance), and owner and CEO of EWR Digital. He helps energy and industrial leaders win visibility in AI search (GEO and AEO), is President of ModalPoint and CMO of the Oil & Gas Global Network, hosts The Best SEO Podcast, and has authored eight books including LLM Visibility. More about Matthew Bertram.

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