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How to Optimize Your Site for Google Carousel Results

Google’s search results are becoming richer and more interactive. Here’s a guide to one of its newest and fastest developing elements – carousels.
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8 Tools to Optimize Your Old Content for New Conversions

Great traffic to an article is nice but not if those visitors don’t convert and help you achieve your business goals. Walk through this five-step process and explore eight tools to help your old content deliver better results.
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3 Keyword Research Trends to Get Your Content Seen

Keyword research is different from what it was even a couple of years ago. Search engines are becoming smarter and keyword research tools are getting more advanced. Here are three SEO trends reshaping the keyword research concept.
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3 Types of Backlinks You Want Your Content to Get (and How to Get Them)

Let’s forget about the SEO value of backlinks for now. Let’s focus on building links that really deliver traffic to your site. Here are three ways to do that.
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How to Make Your Google Mobile Search Results More Clickable

Are you neglecting a valuable way to drive more traffic from search? You are if you aren’t making your mobile search results more clickable in Google. Here’s how to change that.
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How to Use Images to Increase Search Visibility and Get More Clicks

Visuals are increasingly becoming an organic search competitive advantage on Google. Follow these three tips to ensure that your site is ready and eager to deliver visuals that attract searchers and improve your click-through rate.
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How to Structure Your Content to Make It Accessible

Your audience includes people with hearing, vision, cognitive, learning difficulties, or physical disabilities. Can they easily consume your content? Here are seven ways to make that happen.
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7 Tools to Optimize Your Old Content for New Conversions

An article gets a lot of clicks but few-to-no conversions (opt-ins, clicks-through to your product page, etc.). What’s a content marketer to do? Take these steps to improve the in-content calls to action.
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3 Tools to Energize Your Content Planning and Execution

If you love planning, you should love action even more. To create a successful content marketing program, you need to have both. Yet too few companies do both well. Here are three tools that make any content plan actionable.
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Why You Shouldn't Ignore Search Intent Optimization

Too often, marketers speak about search intent from an e-commerce perspective. But where does it fit in content marketing? It’s critical if you want an audience to find your content through search.
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Step-by-Step Planning for Well-Timed Content Marketing Campaigns

Timing content marketing to a special day often is a good idea. You catch the peak of the interest in a topic and amplify your content assets in a more effective way. But how do you organize and scale the process? Use these five tools.
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3 Tools to Make Your Editorial Calendar More Effective

It’s no longer enough to document your planned content assets. Today’s editorial calendar must involve team collaboration and advanced analytics steps to make higher-level content management possible. Here are three tools to help.