Ann Smarty is the brand and community manager at Internet Marketing Ninjas, founder of MyBlogU.com and co-founder of Viral Content Buzz . Ann is the regular contributor at Entrepreneur, Small Biz Trends, and other huge publications. Ann blogs about search and social media industry trends and content marketing tools. Please follow Ann on Twitter @seosmarty.
Would you like your blog to generate more traffic from search engines? And would you like those new visitors to continue reading other content on your site instead of leaving?
A low-hanging fruit solution exists: Link more to your older content.Continue Reading
Would you like more sales?
Who wouldn’t?
To increase sales, many businesses invest more in marketing or hire more salespeople. But there’s a more affordable – and fundamental way: Create more effective sales-enablement content.Continue Reading
Email is still the most effective tool at any digital marketer’s disposal:
I could go on, but we all know what the data shows: Using emails in your marketing is almost always a good idea when done right.Continue Reading
Instagram is a great platform for influencer marketing and advertising, but it’s not easy to build organic clicks or conversions. That’s because it doesn’t allow clickable links in captions, which limits traffic-building capabilities.
Yet, hard doesn’t mean impossible.
It’s not easy to build organic clicks and conversions on #Instagram, but it’s not impossible, says @SEOSmarty via @CMIContent. #SocialMedia Click To TweetHere are a few definitive steps to start seeing higher converting traffic from your Instagram channel:Continue Reading
To survive the pandemic, research reveals, most small businesses were forced to change their operations or find new sources of revenue.
Lots of businesses that historically relied on local foot traffic were forced to completely or partially digitize their operations to allow online booking, buying, and even services.
That digital transformation brought a new challenge – how to get found online. The first fundamental step is verifying the business with Google Local as well as other local discovery platforms like Yelp and Tripadvisor. But then what?
This is when localized content marketing comes into play. Similar to what foot traffic was doing for your business, content marketing can attract people who never knew they were looking for you.Continue Reading
I see this time and again: Freelancers and in-house content creators never get to see how their efforts affect the company’s bottom line.
While it can work fine for those companies, they miss lots of opportunities:
Lead generation and nurturing generally are defined as collecting contact details and then developing relationships with potential customers.
I tend to treat lead generation more loosely. Regardless of your niche, leads are your current or potential customers who gave their contact details because they don’t mind hearing from your brand.
Google’s search engine result pages are ever changing and becoming more visual, informative, and interactive.
They now include featured snippets, interactive image and video carousels, local three-pack boxes, people-also-ask sections, and an array of so-called rich snippets with additional information, like customer reviews and price.
Have you seen a slow decline in organic search traffic?
You are not alone.
SEO has become more complicated, yet it remains the most effective and sought-after source of traffic and conversions.
Updated Aug. 25, 2020
Is getting clicks your ultimate marketing goal?
Of course not, you want your site visitors to perform an action instead of just landing and moving on.
