Barry Feldman is the author of SEO Simplified for Short Attention Spans. Barry operates Feldman Creative and provides content marketing consulting, copywriting, and creative direction services. He contributes to many of the web's top marketing sites and was named one of 25 Social Media Marketing Experts You Need to Know by LinkedIn. If you would like a piece of his mind, visit his blog, The Point .
As a content marketer, you win the battle for engagement by making your headlines irresistible. Let’s make our way through the alphabet and spell out 26 nuggets bound to help you improve your headline-writing chops.
You also can print the A-to-Z infographic to have a visual reminder of these tips. Thank you to Infobrandz for the great infographic design. (Go directly to the end if you prefer the infographic version.)
SEO has hit the fan, man. Hmm. What?
I mean, if you think you have foolproof tactics up your sleeve and magic linking techniques in your back pocket for optimizing your content, I’m sorry to inform you that your sleeve and pocket are see-through.Continue Reading
Great blog posts rock. So do top-notch videos, eBooks, and a healthy list of other content types. What about infographics? They don’t just rock; they roll.
You see, when you knock one out of the park with other forms of content you’re apt to earn links, generate a heap of social media shares, and perhaps inspire an interesting commentary stream. But something unique happens with a killer infographic …Continue Reading
A couple of months ago, Joe Pulizzi published an epic post, Why Education is a Powerful Content Marketing Strategy: 17 Examples. Required reading, in my book (er, feed).
The lengthy show-and-tell style post featured a long roster of real-world examples of brands delivering on the promise of content marketing by creating content that’s useful and can unquestionably be deemed educational.
The article is not a rundown of metrics, but I’d venture to guess each of the brands-turned-publisher is enjoying the benefits of drawing customers and prospects closer to them by putting the power of utility before promotion.Continue Reading
The headlines read…
Content marketing usurps SEO…
Content marketing has killed SEO…
Content marketing overtakes SEO…
The word “versus” often appears between these two purported rivals.
Shoot me now.
Or, wait just a minute and shoot me after you’ve read (and have disagreed with) my strong point of view on the hyper-hyped topic du jour that’s come to be a showdown between content marketing and SEO. Continue Reading
When you land at NetBase.com, the online home of a company that sells serious software to major enterprises, a comic book character greets you — NetBase calls him “Captain Insight,” a super hero of “social intelligence.” The masked man has the super power needed to unlock the customer’s mind.Continue Reading
What’s VoIP kingpin Skype to do when it needs to promote its premium group video-calling feature to non-subscribers?
The content marketing minds at the company huddled up, then invented an e-greeting app that anyone can use, from anywhere, to compose a personalized video message and send it along to friends.Continue Reading
You’ve been spending some time here at Content Marketing Institute and making the rounds a bit to get schooled on what’s going on in online marketing. This article probably won’t offend you one bit.
Alas, when any floodgate opens, in an effort to protect the pure, we must identify and extract the impurities that gush forth. Content marketing is hardly immune from streams of crapola. In fact, it’s inevitable — the more skilled practitioners there are, the more the wannabes swarm in on their coattails.Continue Reading
Mice aren’t attracted to mousetraps. They’re attracted to what you put on it. The same goes for websites. What are you putting on yours?
When you run down to the hardware store to invest in a mousetrap, I’m quite sure you have a very clear idea of what you’re trying to accomplish. So start with the end in mind. (Ick. It’s not the prettiest metaphor I’ve ever created.)
