Email messages and landing pages are popular marketing tactics, but they must be customized and carefully targeted to be effective. Here are some tips to make sure your efforts get noticed and that your audience finds what it was looking for in your content.

Title tags are the most important onsite ingredients for SEO because they explain to Google and other search engines what each page is about. They contain a small mass, but pack a big punch. Here are the essentials on how title tags work and how you can best use them to get results for your content.

Working with the concept of a "digital ocean" can help you stay on track with your targeted audience. Use this model to help chart your course in the pursuit of "fishers" and "swimmers."

The cute, cuddly Panda bear has struck again. In the midst of Google’s latest algorithm change, many marketers are in a tizzy over how their search engine presence — and ranking — will be impacted. The SEO game keeps changing, and as a content marketer it’s important to understand what the changes are...

More and more marketers are taking up the challenge of content marketing and they are taking on a brand new function in their organizations: It is that of a publisher. The challenges and the new roles do not end there, however. As media publishers have evolved in the digital era, they have found that...

When it comes to content production, you never have to wait too long for the next high-profile gaffe to occur. One that grabbed my attention recently was when the Daily Mail website published the wrong story after the Amanda Knox appeal verdict. It’s very common in the news business for journalists...

As a writer, if you have easy, real-time access to intelligence on topics of interest to your readers based on the words and phrases they use while searching or sharing, can you create online content that is easier to discover and more compelling to read? Perhaps even more fundamentally, does such access...

In this post-Panda world, shallow content written for keywords rather than people won’t just leave you with a website no one wants to read but could actually cause a decline in your rankings.  You won’t just see a decline for those pages with poor content but for your entire site! Proper...

I’d like to see a show of hands: How many of you have Google Analytics installed on your websites? Most of you? Great! How many of you have at least one “goal” set up within your account to track your conversions? Ok, I probably just lost about half of you. Final question: How many of you have a monetary...

With the latest figures showing that WordPress now powers around 22 percent of new active websites in the U.S. according to this TechCrunch article, it’s a good time to take a look at some tricks for using this CMS to optimize your site content  with a little help from you, the savvy content marketer.Continue...

Social networks and search engines have changed the behavior of Intel’s business marketing audience of IT managers who are  constantly searching for information and evaluating new technologies even when they are not purchasing them. As marketers, we need to engage with them on topics they care about...

“The best part? It’s beatable.” – Kevin Spacey’s character, describing blackjack in the film, 21 A while back, those skilled in the art of counting cards were able to walk into a casino, mosey up to a table, and take the house for all it was worth. Eventually, as we know, the house caught on, and state-of-the-art...