How To Battle Organic Search Analytics in the AI Era
November 18, 2024
Dennis Shiao
Organic search traffic has never been an easy metric to demystify. AI’s growing role and audiences’ changing search behavior make it even harder. Here’s how one organization is attacking the data and winning.
How To Optimize Content Organization for 2025: Think Context, Not Hierarchy
November 12, 2024
Robert Rose
Your brand's content should be more than an information resource. It should be a path to further exploration and “best next” experiences. To achieve that goal, try organizing your content based on intent, authority, internal context, and external context. Here's how.
Will SearchGPT Whack Google Where It Counts?
November 8, 2024
Content Marketing Institute Team
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?
AI-Assisted Search Will Change the Pay-To-Play Games for Content Marketers
August 30, 2024
Content Marketing Institute Team
Only one answer appears in an AI-assisted search. How can a brand be the one advertiser in it? What would the cost be? And what are AI platforms like Perplexity doing partnering with third-party publishers? Read on for some answers.
How To Reboot Your Old Content (and Create Future Treasures)
July 16, 2024
Robert Rose
The most ingenious content strategies reshape what you’ve said in the past — and give you new perspectives for the future. Yes, that means you need a content audit. But it should also bring you closer to your biggest fans.
Surprising Search Behavior Teaches This Important Lesson
July 12, 2024
Content Marketing Institute Team
How’s 2024 going for organic search? From new algorithms to false starts and AI-generated overviews, it’s a jumbled mess. But SparkToro’s new Zero-Click Search Study may help you understand a good path for the rest of the year.
Pack a Bigger Punch Writing Character-Limited Descriptions and Posts
July 10, 2024
Ann Gynn
Brief content reigns on Google, YouTube, and other social media platforms. But how do you write great meta descriptions, excerpts, and episode descriptions within their character-limiting requirements? Read on.
You Can Build a Better Racetrack Without Chasing SEO
July 9, 2024
Robert Rose
Everything you know about SEO may or may not be wrong. But so what? The smartest content programs never relied wholly on search. Optimize for content discovery – and your audience’s unasked questions — instead. Here’s why.
Google Papers: Leaked Documents Reveal Search Algorithm Secrets
May 31, 2024
Content Marketing Institute Team
Has Google been lying for years about how to optimize for search? The explosive release of internal documents contains interesting revelations. But what should marketers do about it?
3 Contextual Link-Building Strategies That Actually Work
May 15, 2024
Aaron Anderson
Context matters in your content. Contextual links matter in your SEO strategy. Discover three strategies to acquire contextual links to boost your content in the eyes of Google and the linking sites’ audiences.
How To Adapt Your SEO and Content Strategies for SGE and AI Experiences
April 10, 2024
Jim Yu
Google’s rolling out its Search Generative Experience to the public. And that’s not the only AI-influenced impact on search results pages. It’s time to update your content strategy to better reflect these new search experiences.
Want More Referral Traffic? Don’t Overlook These Generous Sites
April 3, 2024
Ann Gynn
A new study reveals which sites send generous referral traffic (and which don’t). Google tops the list, but don’t overlook other search engines and social sites where you might face less competition. Here’s how to grab your share of referrals from non-Google sources.
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