The document discusses what makes content linkworthy and shares on social media. It notes that while shares do not always equal links, links remain an important ranking factor for search engines. It identifies several types of content that tend to be more linkworthy, including strong opinion posts, original research, regularly updated content, answers to common questions, and reference guides. The document encourages creating authoritative content that answers customer questions, offers a strong opinion or counter viewpoint, shares original insights, or provides practical how-to guides. It suggests regularly updated content also tends to perform well for links and shares.
How to Be the Best Answer: Lee Odden and Steve RaysonBuzzSumo
Content Marketing Webinar presented by Steve Rayson of BuzzSumo and Lee Odden of Top Rank Marketing, a thorough discussion of how to create high performing content marketing
Influencer Marketing and Outreach with BuzzSumoBuzzSumo
Overview of influencer marketing and oureach with BuzzSumo including 8 ways to find influencers, how to create outreach lists and build relationships with influencers.
How to Be the Best Answer: Lee Odden and Steve RaysonBuzzSumo
Content Marketing Webinar presented by Steve Rayson of BuzzSumo and Lee Odden of Top Rank Marketing, a thorough discussion of how to create high performing content marketing
Influencer Marketing and Outreach with BuzzSumoBuzzSumo
Overview of influencer marketing and oureach with BuzzSumo including 8 ways to find influencers, how to create outreach lists and build relationships with influencers.
http://blog.Alaskarama.com Blogging 101 for small business. See why you should blog as a small business, conduct keyword research. Offers tips on what to blog about and how to optimize content in social media. Ends with the importance of analysis.
You’ve heard about content marketing. Maybe you’re already investing in it. But have you taken the first critical step that can make all the difference to your success?
This session answers the top questions and addresses the top objections:
• What’s content marketing? Why invest in content?
• What topics does your audience really care about?
• What if we’re not writers? We don’t have time to create marketing content
This session puts marketing in a fresh context, showing how everyone in a sales or leadership role is already a content marketer although many don’t even know it yet.
This session is ideal for the marketers and business leaders responsible for driving growth within your organization, regardless of the size of your marketing department or budget.
It started in 2001, but it didn't start all that well. In 2002, I made about $900. Today we are a 38-person $5 million company. Here's how content marketing got us there, and how to make it work for you.
Presented by Andy Crestodina at Content Jam in Chicago, Aug 2016.
The New Little Bird Influencer Marketing Platform Little Bird
The new Little Bird platform is faster and more powerful than ever. It delivers targeted information about social influence more efficiently and effectively so you can build smarter marketing around who and what is influencing conversations on Twitter.
Advanced Content Marketing & SEO: How to Publish More and Rank HigherAndy Crestodina
The art of delegation, collaboration and repurposing. These are advanced content marketing tactics for search engine optimization (SEO) for people who want to publish more content and rank higher in search. Learn how to...
• Turn your sent mail into high ranking articles
• Delegate repeatable tasks to virtual assistants
• Update older content for higher rankings and more traffic
• Support the URLs that need it most with targeted links in roundup contributions
Recommended for bloggers and marketers with 5+ years of experience, or anyone who wants to level up their content marketing and SEO skills.
Content Marketing Research & Planning with BuzzSumoBuzzSumo
How to use BuzzSumo for content research and planning including:
Content research
-what content is resonating
-current trends
-what competitors are doing
-what formats are working
-popular authors
Generating content Ideas
-identifying content opportunities
-generating content ideas with BuzzSumo
Distribution & Amplification
-outreach opportunities, most shared sites
-who is amplifying content
Curating content
-using alerts to curate content and RSS feeds
Setting content benchmarks
How To Improve Facebook Engagement: Insights from 1bn PostsBuzzSumo
BuzzSumo analyzed over 1bn posts from 30m brand pages. These slides summarise the key findings and insights for content marketing and social media marketers.
http://blog.Alaskarama.com Blogging 101 for small business. See why you should blog as a small business, conduct keyword research. Offers tips on what to blog about and how to optimize content in social media. Ends with the importance of analysis.
You’ve heard about content marketing. Maybe you’re already investing in it. But have you taken the first critical step that can make all the difference to your success?
This session answers the top questions and addresses the top objections:
• What’s content marketing? Why invest in content?
• What topics does your audience really care about?
• What if we’re not writers? We don’t have time to create marketing content
This session puts marketing in a fresh context, showing how everyone in a sales or leadership role is already a content marketer although many don’t even know it yet.
This session is ideal for the marketers and business leaders responsible for driving growth within your organization, regardless of the size of your marketing department or budget.
It started in 2001, but it didn't start all that well. In 2002, I made about $900. Today we are a 38-person $5 million company. Here's how content marketing got us there, and how to make it work for you.
Presented by Andy Crestodina at Content Jam in Chicago, Aug 2016.
The New Little Bird Influencer Marketing Platform Little Bird
The new Little Bird platform is faster and more powerful than ever. It delivers targeted information about social influence more efficiently and effectively so you can build smarter marketing around who and what is influencing conversations on Twitter.
Advanced Content Marketing & SEO: How to Publish More and Rank HigherAndy Crestodina
The art of delegation, collaboration and repurposing. These are advanced content marketing tactics for search engine optimization (SEO) for people who want to publish more content and rank higher in search. Learn how to...
• Turn your sent mail into high ranking articles
• Delegate repeatable tasks to virtual assistants
• Update older content for higher rankings and more traffic
• Support the URLs that need it most with targeted links in roundup contributions
Recommended for bloggers and marketers with 5+ years of experience, or anyone who wants to level up their content marketing and SEO skills.
Content Marketing Research & Planning with BuzzSumoBuzzSumo
How to use BuzzSumo for content research and planning including:
Content research
-what content is resonating
-current trends
-what competitors are doing
-what formats are working
-popular authors
Generating content Ideas
-identifying content opportunities
-generating content ideas with BuzzSumo
Distribution & Amplification
-outreach opportunities, most shared sites
-who is amplifying content
Curating content
-using alerts to curate content and RSS feeds
Setting content benchmarks
How To Improve Facebook Engagement: Insights from 1bn PostsBuzzSumo
BuzzSumo analyzed over 1bn posts from 30m brand pages. These slides summarise the key findings and insights for content marketing and social media marketers.
Overview of competitor tracking with BuzzSumo including how to:
- Review your competitor’s most shared content
- Analyze competitor content performance & compare
- Analyze what is working for your competitor
- See who is amplifying your competitor’s content
- who is sharing their content
- who is linking to their content
- Follow and engage with competitor amplifiers
- Create competitor content alerts (keyword, domain & links)
What we learnt from analyzing 1m posts. Implications for content marketing from understanding why people share and link to content.
Slides from joint webinar with Moz.
10 Ways To Manage Facebook Algorithm Changes. An expert panel of 17 experts share their top tips with BuzzSumo on how to ensure your social media marketing remains effective.
To improve your content marketing you need data. What content is resonating with your audience, what are they sharing, what are they passionate about, what formats and networks work for your topics. We look at six ways to use data to improve your content marketing.
Boost Your Traffic With The Social Skyscraper TechniqueBuzzSumo
Slides from webinar with PlayBuzz on how to identify content opportunities, be the best there is and amplify your content marketing using the Social Skyscraper Technique.
How To Go Viral: Lessons From The Most Shared Content 2015BuzzSumo
A look at what we can learn from the most shared posts of 2015. Viral posts may be outliers but there are lessons fro how we can improve our own content marketing.
Dixon heads up the marketing at Majestic and has been at the forefront of the SEO industry since 1999. He will share insights on why links still play such a large role in online marketing and look at some evidence based strategies for maximizing the impact of your link building efforts.
Leverage LinkedIn to build brand awareness and generate new leadsYumi Wilson
This is a great overview of LinkedIn's best practices on optimizing your profile, building out your Company Page and engaging through Groups and LinkedIn's newest product, the Publishing Platform. Taught by a member of the Corp Comms team at LinkedIn and professor of journalism.
Digital Enterprise Festival Birmingham 13/04/17 - Dixon Jones Marketing Direc...CIO Edge
Recent primary research has looked at why some web content earns “shares” and other content earns “links”. But why does this difference matter? With customers in 100 countries, Majestic are a Birmingham based specialist search engine that have recently won the Queens Award for innovation.
Dixon Jones will reveal some of its findings to show why links to web content are still so important for search algorithms such as Google’s and how marketers can develop content strategies that properly harness the power of links on the Internet
If any of you would like a trial or have more questions on Majestic please email support@majestic.com and one of their Customer Advisors would be more than happy to explain how your website could be ranked a little higher and offer support.
You can also book a walk through with their helpful support team via this link - bit.ly/2ooMAyY
The 2011 Content Marketing Strategies Conference (contentmarketing2011.com) had some amazing speakers and lively conversation. This is one great example. Continue the conversation at twitter.com/content2011.
LinkedIn has become an essential marketing and sales tool to be found, remembered and chosen by your ideal clients and target market. In this overview session Jo Saunders demonstrated how LinkedIn can be used to build your brand, and turn connections into potential clients, through content and conversation.
Jo Saunders was named #2 LinkedIn Expert in Asia Pacific for 2018, is co-host of #TheLinkedInCouch and the co-author of Get Good or Get Off - A guide to getting it right on social media.
Get help with your LinkedIn Strategy.
Book a Profile Review for just $247.
If you decide to upgrade to a Reboot, get the price deducted.
https://wildfiresocialmarketing.com/linkedinreview/
Learn fundamentals of Social SEO: Social Media Optimization case studies.
Includes an overview of social media marketing and search engine optimization with examples and case studies. Presentation topics include:
- Planning Social SEO
- Practical Tactics for Optimizing Blogs, LinkedIn Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
- Social SEO Tools
Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank Online Marketing
Content Marketing to Power your Brand StrategyLinkedIn
View the presentation that was given at FinanceConnect Sydney on Thursday May 1 by Valter Sciarrillo and Ben Russell. This presentation demonstrates how LinkedIn's content marketing tools; Content Marketing Score and Trending Content can be used by marketers to measure the effectiveness of their content to power a more effective brand strategy.
Ethical Search Engine Optimization | White Hat SEO Tips and TechniquesNathan Ketsdever
Ethical search engine optimization is critical for increasing Google ranking and web traffic to your website or blog. This is a how to tutorial for white hat search engine optimization.
Government of Canada Digital Advertising Day 2015 - LinkedIn Keynote AddressJennifer Urbanski
It's an exciting time in Canadian Government. With the new Liberal party in power aiming to deliver economic opportunity to Canadians and a stronger middle class, Prime Minister Trudeau's expectations are high. Now, having publicly released his mandate letters to his newly appointed Cabinet, Canadians can hold our new government accountable on their promise to bring "Real Change". But the missing piece is LinkedIn. Today, only 13/30 Cabinet Ministers have a profile page on LinkedIn and only 3 ministries are posting content on their company page. This presentation will help you discover how the Government of Canada can leverage LinkedIn's platform - by establishing a professional identity, collaborating through a network of colleagues and Canadians, and creating constructive dialogue around the issues that matter most to Canadians.
Brett Wallace - How Top Sales Teams Leverage LinkedIn for Social Media Engage...InsideSales.com
Sales Acceleration Summit - This session is now available on demand: http://www.insidesales.com/events/2014/sales-acceleration-summit/brett-wallace
Session Overview
Research by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) shows that social media engagement is the number one driver of B2B sales rep performance, and a changing buyer landscape ensures that social selling is here to stay.
In this session, Brett Wallace, Director of North American Sales for LinkedIn Sales Solutions, will demonstrate how top sales performers are utilizing networking sites such as LinkedIn to increase pipeline and shift away from the dreaded cold call.
Find out how your company’s Social Selling Index is calculated—and how your team’s social activity stacks up against your competitors’.
How to Create Quality Web Content and Why it is ImportantHall_
Keeping your website fresh with new content is important for both SEO and maintaining a loyal audience. It can be hard enough to consistently provide current information, let alone the quality information that your visitors are looking for. This webinar will explain the importance of fresh content and will give tips on how you can create it in a way that will keep visitors coming back for more.
Valerie De La Rosa, Director Digital Marketing, CNÉ, ContentSEO 2017BuzzSumo
Valerie De La Rosa is a seasoned digital video strategy and marketing executive. Currently, she is the Director of Digital Video Marketing for Condé Nast Entertainment. Condé Nast Entertainment (CNÉ) is an award-winning next generation studio developing and producing projects across film, television, social and premium digital video, and virtual reality.
Shafqat Islam, Co-founder and CEO, News Cred ContentSeo2017BuzzSumo
Shafqat Islam founded NewsCred, a leading content marketing platform. He manages the strategic growth of the company, pioneering a new content ecosystem for brands and publishers. Shafqat will share how NewsCred uses content marketing to drive brand awareness, deliver qualified buyers and achieve higher conversion rates.
It's another new era of digital and marketers are faced with making big bets on their digital strategy. If you are looking at modernizing your tech stack to support your digital evolution, there are a few can't miss (often overlooked) areas that should be part of every conversation. We'll cover setting your vision, avoiding siloes, adding a democratized approach to data strategy, localization, creating critical governance requirements and more. Attendees will walk away with actions they can take into initiatives they are running today and consider for the future.
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
Everyone knows the power of stories, but when asked to come up with them, we struggle. Either we second guess ourselves as to the story's relevance, or we just come up blank and can't think of any. Unlocking Everyday Narratives: The Power of Storytelling in Marketing will teach you how to recognize stories in the moment and to recall forgotten moments that your audience needs to hear.
Key Takeaways:
Understand Why Personal Stories Connect Better
How To Remember Forgotten Stories
How To Use Customer Experiences As Stories For Your Brand
Come learn how YOU can Animate and Illuminate the World with Generative AI's Explosive Power. Come sit in the driver's seat and learn to harness this great technology.
10 Video Ideas Any Business Can Make RIGHT NOW!
You'll never draw a blank again on what kind of video to make for your business. Go beyond the basic categories and truly reimagine a brand new advanced way to brainstorm video content creation. During this masterclass you'll be challenged to think creatively and outside of the box and view your videos through lenses you may have never thought of previously. It's guaranteed that you'll leave with more than 10 video ideas, but I like to under-promise and over-deliver. Don't miss this session.
Key Takeaways:
How to use the Video Matrix
How to use additional "Lenses"
Where to source original video ideas
Top 3 Ways to Align Sales and Marketing Teams for Rapid GrowthDemandbase
In this session, Demandbase’s Stephanie Quinn, Sr. Director of Integrated and Digital Marketing, Devin Rosenberg, Director of Sales, and Kevin Rooney, Senior Director of Sales Development will share how sales and marketing shapes their day-to-day and what key areas are needed for true alignment.
For too many years marketing and sales have operated in silos...while in some forward thinking companies, the two organizations work together to drive new opportunity development and revenue. This session will explore the lessons learned in that beautiful dance that can occur when marketing and sales work together...to drive new opportunity development, account expansion and customer satisfaction.
No, this is not a conversation about MQLs and SQLs. Instead we will focus on a framework that allows the two organizations to drive company success together.
Mastering Multi-Touchpoint Content Strategy: Navigate Fragmented User JourneysSearch Engine Journal
Digital platforms are constantly multiplying, and with that, user engagement is becoming more intricate and fragmented.
So how do you effectively navigate distributing and tailoring your content across these various touchpoints?
Watch this webinar as we dive into the evolving landscape of content strategy tailored for today's fragmented user journeys. Understanding how to deliver your content to your users is more crucial than ever, and we’ll provide actionable tips for navigating these intricate challenges.
You’ll learn:
- How today’s users engage with content across various channels and devices.
- The latest methodologies for identifying and addressing content gaps to keep your content strategy proactive and relevant.
- What digital shelf space is and how your content strategy needs to pivot.
With Wayne Cichanski, we’ll explore innovative strategies to map out and meet the diverse needs of your audience, ensuring every piece of content resonates and connects, regardless of where or how it is consumed.
Digital Commerce Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at UCLA...Valters Lauzums
E-commerce in 2024 is characterized by a dynamic blend of opportunities and significant challenges. Supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages are critical issues, leading to increased shipping delays and rising costs, which impact timely delivery and squeeze profit margins. Efficient logistics management is essential, yet it is often hampered by these external factors. Payment processing, while needing to ensure security and user convenience, grapples with preventing fraud and integrating diverse payment methods, adding another layer of complexity. Furthermore, fulfillment operations require a streamlined approach to handle volume spikes and maintain accuracy in order picking, packing, and shipping, all while meeting customers' heightened expectations for faster delivery times.
Amid these operational challenges, customer data has emerged as an important strategy. By focusing on personalization and enhancing customer experience from historical behavior, businesses can deliver improved website and brand experienced, better product recommendations, optimal promotions, and content to meet individual preferences. Better data analytics can also help in effectively creating marketing campaigns, improving customer retention, and driving product development and inventory management.
Innovative formats such as social commerce and live shopping are beginning to impact the digital commerce landscape, offering new ways to engage with customers and drive sales, and may provide opportunity for brands that have been priced out or seen a downturn with post-pandemic shopping behavior. Social commerce integrates shopping experiences directly into social media platforms, tapping into the massive user bases of these networks to increase reach and engagement. Live shopping, on the other hand, combines entertainment and real-time interaction, providing a dynamic platform for showcasing products and encouraging immediate purchases. These innovations not only enhance customer engagement but also provide valuable data for businesses to refine their strategies and deliver superior shopping experiences.
The e-commerce sector is evolving rapidly, and businesses that effectively manage operational challenges and implement innovative strategies are best positioned for long-term success.
SEO as the Backbone of Digital MarketingFelipe Bazon
In this talk Felipe Bazon will share how him and his team at Hedgehog Digital share our journey of making C-Levels alike, specially CMOS realize that SEO is the backbone of digital marketing by showing how SEO can contribute to brand awareness, reputation and authority and above all how to use SEO to create more robust global marketing strategies.
Core Web Vitals SEO Workshop - improve your performance [pdf]Peter Mead
Core Web Vitals to improve your website performance for better SEO results with CWV.
CWV Topics include:
- Understanding the latest Core Web Vitals including the significance of LCP, INP and CLS + their impact on SEO
- Optimisation techniques from our experts on how to improve your CWV on platforms like WordPress and WP Engine
- The impact of user experience and SEO
The session includes a brief history of the evolution of search before diving into the roles technology, content, and links play in developing a powerful SEO strategy in a world of Generative AI and social search. Discover how to optimize for TikTok searches, Google's Gemini, and Search Generative Experience while developing a powerful arsenal of tools and templates to help maximize the effectiveness of your SEO initiatives.
Key Takeaways:
Understand how search engines work
Be able to find out where your users search
Know what is required for each discipline of SEO
Feel confident creating an SEO Plan
Confidently measure SEO performance
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
Mastering Local SEO for Service Businesses in the AI Era is tailored specifically for local service providers like plumbers, dentists, and others seeking to dominate their local search landscape. This session delves into leveraging AI advancements to enhance your online visibility and search rankings through the Content Factory model, designed for creating high-impact, SEO-driven content. Discover the Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy, a cost-effective approach to boost your local SEO efforts and attract more customers with minimal investment. Gain practical insights on optimizing your online presence to meet the specific needs of local service seekers, ensuring your business not only appears but stands out in local searches. This concise, action-oriented workshop is your roadmap to navigating the complexities of digital marketing in the AI age, driving more leads, conversions, and ultimately, success for your local service business.
Key Takeaways:
Embrace AI for Local SEO: Learn to harness the power of AI technologies to optimize your website and content for local search. Understand the pivotal role AI plays in analyzing search trends and consumer behavior, enabling you to tailor your SEO strategies to meet the specific demands of your target local audience. Leverage the Content Factory Model: Discover the step-by-step process of creating SEO-optimized content at scale. This approach ensures a steady stream of high-quality content that engages local customers and boosts your search rankings. Get an action guide on implementing this model, complete with templates and scheduling strategies to maintain a consistent online presence. Maximize ROI with Dollar-a-Day Advertising: Dive into the cost-effective Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy that amplifies your visibility in local searches without breaking the bank. Learn how to strategically allocate your budget across platforms to target potential local customers effectively. The session includes an action guide on setting up, monitoring, and optimizing your ad campaigns to ensure maximum impact with minimal investment.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
11. People share and link for different reasons
Sources: Content Marketing Institute, CMO council, Content 2012
Why People
Share Content
Why People
Link To Content
To share entertaining content
To nourish relationships
To get the word out about
causes they care for
To share helpful and valuable
content
To be part of a tribe and
define themselves
As reference to support an
article
To share authoritative content
including research and facts
To share valuable content
such as guides
To share evergreen content
that is less likely to change
42. Will your next post be linkworthy?
• Authoritative content that answers a question
customers are asking, such as ‘what is ..?’
• Strong opinion post, controversial or counter
viewpoint
• Original research and insights
• Practical ‘how to’ content or guide
• Regularly updated content
Shares happen quickly, people move on. Found recently that scheduled content performs far worse than immediate content. Maybe issue has passed or they already seen that article you scheduled for 2 days time.
Shares happen quickly, people move on. Found recently that scheduled content performs far worse than immediate content. Maybe issue has passed or they already seen that article you scheduled for 2 days time.
Shares happen quickly, people move on. Found recently that scheduled content performs far worse than immediate content. Maybe issue has passed or they already seen that article you scheduled for 2 days time.
Shares happen quickly, people move on. Found recently that scheduled content performs far worse than immediate content. Maybe issue has passed or they already seen that article you scheduled for 2 days time.
Another example of updated data
Another example of updated data
Shares happen quickly, people move on. Found recently that scheduled content performs far worse than immediate content. Maybe issue has passed or they already seen that article you scheduled for 2 days time.
Shares happen quickly, people move on. Found recently that scheduled content performs far worse than immediate content. Maybe issue has passed or they already seen that article you scheduled for 2 days time.
Shares happen quickly, people move on. Found recently that scheduled content performs far worse than immediate content. Maybe issue has passed or they already seen that article you scheduled for 2 days time.
Shares happen quickly, people move on. Found recently that scheduled content performs far worse than immediate content. Maybe issue has passed or they already seen that article you scheduled for 2 days time.
Shares happen quickly, people move on. Found recently that scheduled content performs far worse than immediate content. Maybe issue has passed or they already seen that article you scheduled for 2 days time.