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Check Your SEO Strategy Vitals With These 5 Questions

The recent precipitous drop in search traffic at HubSpot prompted a lot of squawking. While you don’t need to care about HubSpot, use the hullabaloo as a reminder to check in with your own SEO base. Is it still valid for your audience?
5+ Best Practices for Award-Winning Brand Newsletters

5+ Best Practices for Award-Winning Brand Newsletters

Most marketers distribute newsletters. Fewer marketers deliver newsletters that work for their subscribers and their brands. Discover best practices with examples of those doing it best.
How To Decide the Ideal Publishing Frequency for Social Media, Blogs, Emails, and More

How To Decide the Ideal Publishing Frequency for Social Media, Blogs, Emails, and More

Benchmark publishing frequency charts are nice, but they shouldn’t be your only research. After all, audiences aren’t homogenous. To help decide how often to publish on multiple channels, develop a strategy with this expert advice.
AI Shakes Up Search Landscape: What Marketers Need To Know Now

AI Shakes Up Search Landscape: What Marketers Need To Know Now

Your audience won’t tolerate scrolling through search result rankings when they have an easier AI-led alternative. Marketers must refocus their search strategies to surface their content in Gemini, ChatGPT, and other AI-generated answers.
What’s Lost When AI-Generated Characters Lie and Misrepresent?

What’s Lost When AI-Generated Characters Lie and Misrepresent?

Meta finally learned human people don’t like fake friends who lie. But that news doesn’t signal the end of AI-generated online personas. What should marketers think about when considering digital characters for their brands?
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How To Promote Your Original Research Report To Get Maximum Press Coverage

Original research is one-of-a-kind content. But if you don’t promote it, that uniqueness won’t help your business. To help attract an audience, follow one or more of these five research promotion ideas.
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What Does Instagram’s Hashtag Move Mean for Marketers?

Instagram recently removed the ability to follow hashtags. Some experts say it’s time to rethink your brand’s hashtag strategy — and share some ideas for other ways to get your content discovered.
Should TikTok Ruling Take a Bite Out of Your Marketing?

Should TikTok Ruling Take a Bite Out of Your Marketing?

TikTok popped back in the news last week with a U.S. appellate court ruling on requiring China-owned ByteDance to divest itself of the app or face a ban. Will U.S. users lose access on Jan. 19? Should that change your content and marketing plans?
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Will the X Avalanche Lead to a New Social Media Landscape for Marketers?

On Nov. 6, X saw its biggest one-day exodus in the Elon Musk era. In contrast, Bluesky grew to over 15 million users and Threads surpassed 275 million. What’s a marketer to do? Does this activity indicate a new age of microblogging?
Will SearchGPT Whack Google Where it Counts?

Will SearchGPT Whack Google Where It Counts?

OpenAI officially brought an AI-powered search engine to ChatGPT. What does it mean for marketers? Should you be asking how your content becomes THE answer? Or should you pose a different question?
How To Catch Content Lightning in a Bottle

How To Catch Content Lightning in a Bottle

Media consumption isn’t like it used to be. Online videos beat TV viewing, and YouTube bests Netflix in market share. People spend a big chunk of time on user-generated content on social. In this terrain, what’s a marketer to do?
20+ Tips and Ideas That Make Paid Social Media Content Pay Off

20+ Tips and Ideas That Make Paid Social Media Content Pay Off

Is paid social media a smart move these days? We asked Content Marketing World speakers and heard a resounding “Yes, but …” They walk you through the strategy, audience, and ROI factors to consider.